Blue justice: A review of emerging scholarship and resistance movements

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dc.contributor.authorBlythe, Jessica
dc.contributor.authorGill, David A.
dc.contributor.authorClaudet, Joachim
dc.contributor.authorBennett, Nathan
dc.contributor.authorGurney, Georgina G.
dc.contributor.authorBaggio, Jacopo A.
dc.contributor.authorBan, Natalie C.
dc.contributor.authorBernard, Miranda L.
dc.contributor.authorBrun, Victor
dc.contributor.authorDarling, Emily S.
dc.contributor.authorDi Franco, Antonio
dc.contributor.authorEpstein, Graham
dc.contributor.authorFranks, Phil
dc.contributor.authorHoran, Rebecca
dc.contributor.authorJupiter, Stacy
dc.contributor.authorLau, Jacqueline
dc.contributor.authorLazzari, Natali
dc.contributor.authorMahajan, Shauna L.
dc.contributor.authorMangubhai, Sangeeta
dc.contributor.authorNaggea, Josheena
dc.contributor.authorTurner, Rachel A.
dc.contributor.authorZafra-Calvo, Noelia
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-22T15:22:28Z
dc.date.available2024-03-22T15:22:28Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe term “blue justice” was coined in 2018 during the 3rd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress. Since then, academic engagement with the concept has grown rapidly. This article reviews 5 years of blue justice scholarship and synthesizes some of the key perspectives, developments, and gaps. We then connect this literature to wider relevant debates by reviewing two key areas of research – first on blue injustices and second on grassroots resistance to these injustices. Much of the early scholarship on blue justice focused on injustices experienced by small-scale fishers in the context of the blue economy. In contrast, more recent writing and the empirical cases reviewed here suggest that intersecting forms of oppression render certain coastal individuals and groups vulnerable to blue injustices. These developments signal an expansion of the blue justice literature to a broader set of affected groups and underlying causes of injustice. Our review also suggests that while grassroots resistance efforts led by coastal communities have successfully stopped unfair exposure to environmental harms, preserved their livelihoods and ways of life, defended their culture and customary rights, renegotiated power distributions, and proposed alternative futures, these efforts have been underemphasized in the blue justice scholarship, and from marine and coastal literature more broadly. We conclude with some suggestions for understanding and supporting blue justice now and into the future.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work is supported by the Blue Justice group funded by the synthesis center CESAB of the French Foundation for Research on Biodiversity (FRB; www.fondationbiodiversite.fr).
dc.identifier.citationBlythe, J., Gill, D., Claudet, J., Bennett, N., Gurney, G. G., Baggio, J. A., Ban, N. C., Bernard, M., Brun, V., Darling, E. S., Franco, A., Epstein, G., Franks, P., Horan, R., Jupiter, S. D., Lau, J., Natali, L., Mahajan, S. L., Mangubhai, S., . . . Zafra‐Calvo, N. (2023). Blue justice: A review of emerging scholarship and resistance movements. Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures, 1. https://doi.org/10.1017/cft.2023.4
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1017/cft.2023.4
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/16266
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectenvironmental justice
dc.subjectsmall-scale fisheries
dc.subjectblue economy
dc.subjectblue growth
dc.subjectcoastal futures
dc.subject.departmentSchool of Environmental Studies
dc.titleBlue justice: A review of emerging scholarship and resistance movements
dc.typeArticle

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