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Values at sea, value of the sea: mapping issues and divides

Serge Collet

Institute of Ethnology of the University of Hamburg; CIES/MAJISE (Fallows), University of Calabria; High School of Majise (Centro di Ingegneria Economica e Sociale), Universitá della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Ponte Bucci 87036, Italy ravenswordfish{at}gmx.de

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In the framework of the Ecost project (www.ecostproject.org), this article seeks to lay the foundations of an interdisciplinary and integrative perspective on the true value of marine nature, which is exposed to a global alteration process that is qualitatively new. The article critically sets up the inherent limits and dead-ends of the dominant utilitarian neoclassic economic paradigm in the understanding of the human–marine entities nexus. Mapping the conceptual oppositions, the paradigm divides and scans the lines of possible convergences (biology, philosophy, anthropology) and propounds a re-elaboration of the concept of intrinsic value. The latter is based on a Spinozist-Jonassian approach enlarged by the concepts of non-linearity, uncertainty, irreversibility and trophic dynamics, which ground the growing ecosystemic approach to the res halieutica. 1 Based on a broad anthropological-ethical vision of the historical forms of appropriation of marine entities, which include symbolic and spiritual dimensions, the article questions the construction processes used in constructing timeframe horizons (dispositions, valuing schemes) since, within the diversity of institutional forms of access, these timeframe horizons in the last analysis govern the extraction of these wild entities cast as resources. In contrast to the regressive destructive enterprise of the highly integrated feudalities of industrial fisheries based on a high discount rate of fishing resources, the author once again underscores the urgent need to dismantle not only criminal forms of plundering, but those that are organized and legitimized, too. This would be possible through the rehabilitation of strong democratic public policies that gave priority to the wellbeing of inshore coastal fishing communities and the society, which are sustained in their social reproduction by that of nested ecosystems, where volens nolens they continue to be embedded.

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Dans le cadre du projet Ecost (www.ecostproject.org) cet article cherche à jeter les bases d'une perspective interdisciplinaire et intégrative de la vraie valeur de la nature marine, en butte à un profond processus d'altération globale, qualitativement nouveau. Il établit de façon critique les limites inhérentes, les impasses du paradigme utilitariste dominant de l'économie néoclassique dans la compréhension du nexus humains–entités marines. Dans le cadre d'une cartographie des oppositions conceptuelles, des divisions paradigmatiques, mais aussi de possibles lignes de convergence (biologie, philosophie, anthropologie) il propose une ré-élaboration du concept de valeur intrinsèque construit sur la base d'une approche Spinoziste- Jonassienne renouvelée à la lumière des concepts de non-linéarité, d'incertitude, d'irréversibilité et de dynamiques trophiques mise en oeuvre dans l'approche écosystémique croissante de la res halieutica. Dans une vision large, anthropologique et éthique des formes historiques d'appropriation des entités marines mettant en oeuvre une dimension symbolique ou spirituelle du monde marin, il interroge les processus de construction des horizons de temps (dispositions schèmes d'appréciation) dans le cadre de la diversité des formes institutionnelles d'accès qui, en dernière instance, règlent l'extraction de ces entités sauvages constituées comme ressources. Contre l'entreprise de destruction involutive des féodalités hautement intégrées de la pêche industrielle dans le monde, basée sur de hauts taux d'escompte, l'auteur à nouveau établit l'urgente nécessité de démanteler, en deçà des formes criminelles, celles organisées et légitimées de pillage et cela au moyen de la réhabilitation de fortes politiques publiques démocratiques faisant droit au bien-être des communautés de pêcheurs côtiers et de la société qui demeurent soutenues dans leur reproduction sociale par celle de l'emboîtement des écosystèmes dans lesquelles volens nolens elles continuent de s'insérer.

Key Words: Common natural heritage • Conatus • Ethics of the commons • "Existential conservatism" • Halieusophy • Intrinsic values • "Natura naturans" • Ontological vulnerabilization • Res halieutica • Timeframe horizons • Value of marine ecosystems • Valuing approach • Values at sea • Virtue

Social Science Information, Vol. 46, No. 1, 35-66 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0539018407073655


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