Island Voices: Fisheries And Community Survival in Northern Norway

by Kennedy, John C.

• ISBN13: 9789059721036
• ISBN10: 9059721039
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Like their counterparts in developing countries, rural people living on the periphery of developed nations are increasingly vulnerable to forces beyond their control. Farmers, miners, and fishermen must cope with periodic resource scarcities, fluctuating global markets, and neoliberal trade pacts. Island Voices explores this struggle through the perspective of people living on Arnoya, an island off northern Norway. John C. Kennedy spent years collecting their stories, each of which offers resounding proof of how change, both local and global, has unevenly benefited the island's four villages.

Author Biography

John C. Kennedy is the author of Holding the Line: Ethnic Boundaries in a Northern Labrador Community, People of the Bays and Headlands: Anthropological History and the Fate of Communities in the Unknown Labrador, and Labrador Village. He is professor emeritus at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Preface Voices	xi
Historical Context	1	(32)
Country, County, and Kommune	1	(2)
Natural Environment	3	(4)
Prehistory and Early History	7	(3)
Nineteenth Century Aronya: Seasonality and Inheritance	10	(5)
Early Twentieth Century Adaptations	15	(3)
Historic Socio-economic differentiation	18	(1)
Making a Living	19	(2)
The Historic Fishery	21	(4)
Merchants, Credit, and Cash	25	(2)
Religion	27	(6)
The Beginnings of Change	33	(12)
The Inter-war Years	33	(2)
The Second World War	35	(4)
Etter Krigen	39	(1)
The Rise and Fall of Akkarvik	40	(5)
Transitions	45	(16)
Local Government and Voluntary Associations	45	(4)
Fish Plants	49	(2)
Leinebø and Larsen	51	(3)
From Stockfish and Fresh Fish	54	(2)
The Demise of the Fiskarbonde Economy	56	(5)
Crises on the Sea and on the Land	61	(18)
Crisis on the Sea: Seals, Caplin, and Cod	62	(1)
Crisis on the Land: Oil Prices and Banking	63	(3)
Consequences of the Crises: Loss of the Fishing Fleet	66	(6)
Fish Plant Turnovers	72	(1)
Arviksand	72	(3)
Akkarvik	75	(1)
Lauksletta	76	(3)
A Voyage to Finnmark: The Contemporary Fishery	79	(36)
Fishing	83	(4)
Other Large Vessels	87	(1)
The Threatened Small Boat Fishery	88	(6)
Fishplants in 1995	94	(11)
Russian Fish for Norwegian Plants	105	(3)
Salmon and Aquaculture	108	(7)
Unity and Competition: Changing Transportation Policies	115	(8)
The Class of 1974-75	123	(20)
Where did the Class of 1974-75 Go?	125	(2)
Why did they leave?	127	(3)
Contemporary Out-Migration	130	(1)
Global Pulls	131	(6)
Reducing Out-Migration	137	(6)
Conclusions	143	(6)
Epilogue 2003	149	(4)
Appendix 1: Methodology	153	(4)
Voices of Arnøya	153	(4)
Appendix 2: The Cod Crisis in Atlantic Canada	157	(8)
Out-migration	159	(1)
Fishing communities without cod	160	(5)
References	165	(12)
Index	177