This book illustrates and explains the consequences of neoliberal reform on rural economies. Based on an ethnographic case study of coastal fisheries in Iceland, it poses the following questions: How are rural fishers navigating liberal capitalism? And how are new markets, property-rights and digital technologies transforming rural economies? By drawing on an extensive body of literature on economic sociology and science and technology studies, the book offers a novel understanding of the role of market-based reform for rural development.

Autorentext

Alexander Dobeson is a researcher at the Department of Sociology at Uppsala University, Sweden, and member of the Uppsala Lab of Economic Sociology. His research interests include economic sociology and science and technology studies with particular emphasis on the intersection of markets, property rights, technology and culture in contemporary capitalism.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Fishing in market-based resource management.- Chapter 3. Economising rural independence.- Chapter 4. The practice of fishing.- Chapter 5. Enframing the sea.- Chapter 6. When the fish ignore the market.- Chapter 7. Fishing for quality.- Chapter 8. The fishery panopticon.- Chapter 9. A new culture of liberal rural capitalism.- Appendix.- Bibliography.- Index.