[OANNES Foro] Place-based communities and neoliberalism: A study of the artisanal fishing community of Chorrillos, Lima, Peru

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Mar Ene 10 07:23:17 PST 2017


Place-based communities and neoliberalism: A study of the artisanal fishing
community of Chorrillos, Peru

By Héctor Andrés Bombiella Medina <bombiella en gmail.com>

Iowa State University, 2016

 

ABSTRACT

This dissertation is about artisanal fishers in Chorrillos, a small bay near
the southern edge of Lima, Peru, and how they use place as an instrument to
defend their access to fishing resources on Peru’s central coast. The
context of this research work includes global neoliberal influences on the
Peruvian state and the negotiation of global and local economics, politics,
and social issues. Over the last decade, depletion in fish stocks has led to
tensions between industrial and artisanal fishers, and demands from the
industrial sector to reduce Peruvian state protections for artisanal
fishers. Not only are Chorrillos’s fishers dealing with these problems, but
they also face pressures from urban elites and tourism developers who see
the fishing dock, located in a highly desirable area of Lima, as a space
that could be put to lucrative use for urban development projects. This
study adds to the current literature on place-based activism by providing an
ethnographically grounded account of the struggles of an urban community of
artisanal fishers.

 

The research looks at how artisanal fishers of Chorrillos construct and
develop in their everyday life sustainable strategies for maintaining their
cultural and socioeconomic status. Alternative policy pathways and
guidelines useful to public officers and non-government actors to better
interpret fishing regulations and to issue norms more in accord with the
artisanal fishers’ situation are provided. This dissertation will resonate
broadly with scholars aiming to study marginal local communities in
less-developed countries using interdisciplinary and creative frameworks.
More specifically, while introducing fishers based in an urban setting as
environmental and political activists, this research brings new elements to
the Peruvian and Latin American scholarship on artisanal fishing.



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