Sockeye at the Boundary: Controversial and Contested Salmon in the Cohen Commission, 2009-2012

• Main Author: Sutherland, Callum Christopher James
• Other Authors: Alsop, Steven John
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Fisheries and aquatic sciences; Actor-network theory; Agnotology; Animal studies; Aquaculture; Boundary objects; Boundary work; British Columbia; Broughton Archipelago; Cohen Commission; Colonialism; Commission of inquiry; Controversial fish; Controversy studies; Counter-mapping; DFO; Expertise; Feminist STS; First Nations; Fish controversies; Fish pluralities; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Fisheries biology; Fraser River; Fraser River fishery; Human-fish relations; Indigenous knowledge; Neoliberalism; Oncorhynchus nerka; Pacific salmon; Postcolonial technoscience; Salmon farming; Salmon studies; Science studies; Science technology and society; Science and technology studies; Social life of things; Sociology of scientific knowledge; Sockeye salmon; Traditional ecological knowledge; Canada; Pacific; Sockeye
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/38492

In this STS dissertation, I build on the controversy studies literature by opening the black box that is the Cohen Report, thereby illuminating the various forms taken by, and contestations associated with, controversial salmon in the Cohen Commission, 2009-2012, a federal inquiry into the decline o...