MODULE 1 ■ Social analysis of the coast
Suggested reading Jentoft, S. (2004) Institutions in fisheries: what they are, what they do and how they change. Marine Policy 28: 137-149. Jentoft provides a good discussion of the concept of ‘institution’, the multiple meanings given to it and the underlying assumptions about human society that are found behind these meanings and conceptualizations.
Bavinck, M. (1998) ‘A matter of maintaining peace’ State accommodation to subordinate legal systems: the case of fisheries along the Coromandel coast of Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Legal Pluralism 40: 151-170. Bavinck’s paper describes a clear case of legally plural fisheries’ regulation. He shows that the state keeps at a distance where routine issues of resource management are involved, and only actively intervenes in cases where law and order are under threat because local fishing communities cannot solve their own conflicts with the help of local rules. The suggested reading selected here focuses on institutions and the role of law. The texts give sufficient opportunity to introduce the concept of governance in class. An additional text on governance and the use of governance systems analysis applied to Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is the following:
Jentoft, S., Son van, T.C., Bjorkan, M. (2007) Marine Protected Areas: A governance systems analysis. Human Ecology. For a ‘classical’ text on organizations, institutions and institutional development, see Uphoff (1986).
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