"The sea is our bread": Interrupting green neoliberalism in Mexico. (June 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Altamirano-Jiménez, Isabel
• Is Part Of: Marine policy. Volume 80(2017)
• Page Start: 28
• Page End: 34
• Publication Date: 2017-06
• Subjects: Green neoliberalism -- Resource management -- Neoliberal governance assemblage -- Indigenous peoples -- Development -- Resistance; Marine resources -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals; Fisheries -- Periodicals; Ressources marines -- Aspect économique -- Périodiques; Pêches -- Périodiques; Fisheries; Marine resources -- Economic aspects; Periodicals; 333.916405
• DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2017.01.015
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0308-597X

Abstract

Abstract: This article analyzes how the intensification of neoliberal policies and the use of privatization to govern access to the ocean and its resources are producing the conditions for the dispossession of Indigenous fishing customary rights as well as resistance practices that interrupt neoliberal policies. This article highlights the role of actors beyond the state in producing the specific junctures at which the vocation of the Indigenous peoples in the Tehuantepec Isthmus in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, is changed to become a "center of sustainable development." Highlights: "Green" neoliberalism adversely affects people and resources. Neoliberal policies have increasingly severe impacts on Indigenous fishing. Neoliberal visions of development are contested and resisted.