Love-iathan, the meat-whale and hidden people : ordering Faroese pilot whaling
A key question in any environmental dispute is the nature of what is under discussion. 'Cosmopolitics' – political battles over the form of reality – are a feature of many environmental clashes. This article focuses on one such clash: during the summer of 2014, grindadráp – the iconic prac...
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ftoerebrouniv:oai:DiVA.org:oru-49328 2024-01-07T09:43:07+01:00 Love-iathan, the meat-whale and hidden people : ordering Faroese pilot whaling Singleton, Benedict 2016 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-49328 https://doi.org/10.2458/v23i1.20178 eng eng Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap Tucson, USA : University of Arizona Libraries Journal of Political Ecology, 2016, 23, s. 26-48 orcid:0000-0003-1038-2412 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-49328 doi:10.2458/v23i1.20178 ISI:000381699200006 Scopus 2-s2.0-85011949034 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Faroe Islands whaling political ontology cosmopolitics Îles Féroé chasse à la baleine l'ontologie politique cosmopolitique Islas Feroe caza de ballenas ontología política cosmopolítica Social Anthropology Socialantropologi Environmental Sciences Miljövetenskap Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2016 ftoerebrouniv https://doi.org/10.2458/v23i1.20178 2023-12-13T23:33:28Z A key question in any environmental dispute is the nature of what is under discussion. 'Cosmopolitics' – political battles over the form of reality – are a feature of many environmental clashes. This article focuses on one such clash: during the summer of 2014, grindadráp – the iconic practice of driving pilot whales for meat – was the big news item in the Faroe Islands. More accurately, a conservation campaign by the controversial group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS), Operation Grindstop 2014, garnered most attention. Aiming to stop or at least disrupt the 'barbaric' and 'sadistic' grindadráp, SSCS were involved in several confrontations with Faroese authorities and publicly engaged with Faroese pro-whaling advocates in several discussions that were seemingly fruitless. Based on 3 months fieldwork during the campaign, this article describes a 'political ontology' of Grindstop 2014. What emerged was a 'hybrid' born of a clash between two fundamentally dissonant systems of ordering, which structured and were reinforced by various practices, both discursive and material. Activists on both sides were engaged in a cosmopolitical struggle to decisively enact their orderings, creating alternative stories of whales, Faroese whaling, the ocean environment and modernity. The aim is to understand what happened when these orderings met. This article argues that throughout the summer these two orderings moved apart, consequently hiding the diversity of opinion and discussion within Faroese society around grindadráp. As such, alternative orderings of grindadráp were suppressed, notably those voiced by Faroese activists arguing that the practice should cease because of the high levels of toxins in pilot whale meat. Article in Journal/Newspaper Faroe Islands Îles Féroé Islas Feroe Örebro University: Publications (DiVA) Baleine ENVELOPE(140.012,140.012,-66.649,-66.649) Ballenas ENVELOPE(-64.167,-64.167,-65.183,-65.183) Faroe Islands la Baleine ENVELOPE(140.012,140.012,-66.649,-66.649) Journal of Political Ecology 23 1 |
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Faroe Islands whaling political ontology cosmopolitics Îles Féroé chasse à la baleine l'ontologie politique cosmopolitique Islas Feroe caza de ballenas ontología política cosmopolítica Social Anthropology Socialantropologi Environmental Sciences Miljövetenskap |
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A key question in any environmental dispute is the nature of what is under discussion. 'Cosmopolitics' – political battles over the form of reality – are a feature of many environmental clashes. This article focuses on one such clash: during the summer of 2014, grindadráp – the iconic practice of driving pilot whales for meat – was the big news item in the Faroe Islands. More accurately, a conservation campaign by the controversial group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS), Operation Grindstop 2014, garnered most attention. Aiming to stop or at least disrupt the 'barbaric' and 'sadistic' grindadráp, SSCS were involved in several confrontations with Faroese authorities and publicly engaged with Faroese pro-whaling advocates in several discussions that were seemingly fruitless. Based on 3 months fieldwork during the campaign, this article describes a 'political ontology' of Grindstop 2014. What emerged was a 'hybrid' born of a clash between two fundamentally dissonant systems of ordering, which structured and were reinforced by various practices, both discursive and material. Activists on both sides were engaged in a cosmopolitical struggle to decisively enact their orderings, creating alternative stories of whales, Faroese whaling, the ocean environment and modernity. The aim is to understand what happened when these orderings met. This article argues that throughout the summer these two orderings moved apart, consequently hiding the diversity of opinion and discussion within Faroese society around grindadráp. As such, alternative orderings of grindadráp were suppressed, notably those voiced by Faroese activists arguing that the practice should cease because of the high levels of toxins in pilot whale meat. |
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