Glorifying fishing, damaging Nature: ambivalent ethnographies in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago (North America, France)

• Main Author: Danto, Anatole
• Other Authors: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UFR Géographie (UP1 UFR08), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1), Arènes: politique, santé publique, environnement, médias (ARENES), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut d'Études Politiques IEP - Rennes-École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique EHESP (EHESP)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), La Rochelle Université (ULR), LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés (LIENSs), La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Franco-Italienne, Università di Torino, Centro "Luigi Bobbio" per la Ricerca Sociale Pubblica e Applicata, Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società, Arcipelago Europa - Centro di Ricerca su Società, Culture e Ambienti nell’Europa d’Oltremare
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: Saint-Pierre and Miquelon; Archipelago; Island; ICH; Heritage; Controversies; Man-Nature relationship; Saint-Pierre et Miquelon; Archipel; Îles; PCI; Controverses; Relations Homme-Nature; [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology; [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environment and Society; [SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science; [SHS.MUSEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Cultural heritage and museology; [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography; [SHS.HISPHILSO]Humanities and Social Sciences/History; Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences; [SHS.ENVIR]Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental studies; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; Eldorado; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03670803

International audience Saint-Pierre and Miquelon is an archipelago in North America, south of the island of Newfoundland, the last remnant of the French presence on this continent. Considered as an "extractive periphery" (Daheur, 2022), the major activity of the inhabitants (6000 in 2020) has long been fishing. The "cod crisis", in 1992, led to a moratorium from which the archipelago has never recovered socio-economically. Today, while new species are now exploited (and seen as a kind of new Eldorado of "blue growth"), a "patrimonialization" of fishing is engaged. The fishing activities, especially industrial, are glorified in the objective of a classification as World heritage by UNESCO. A "cold" political anthropology analyzing the "hot" data collected and observed during three in-depth fieldworks will give an account of these local ambivalences regarding the relationship between the local communities and Nature.