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Ehnologist
Posted: Dec / 2014
Lecture on "Fishermen and ethnologists in the North – the story about how a fishing community tries to avoid being stripped of access to its resources" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Thomas Højrup is professor at the Saxo-institute, department of Ethnology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The last 30 years he has explored cultural life modes and state forms in Europe and beyond. The life mode analysis is a critical kind of investigation exploring the structures and contradictions in societies and between states.
A part of Højrup’s work focuses on the actual enclosure processes undermining coastal communities and monopolizing the access to the marine resources in the hands of big capitalist companies. He is inspiring popular movements of fishing families who are trying to find alternative ways to maintain their fishing rights and a sustainable fishery. A concrete example is the cooperative quota company The Guild of Thorupstrand coastal fishermen created by the fishing families of Thorupstrand in Northern Jutland. Another example is the cooperative boatyard Han Herred Havbåde in The Bay of Jammerbugt, Skagerrak, where young people learn the local art of building clinker crafts to the fishermen – in opposition to the industrial monopolization of boatbuilding in fibreglass.
Links:
thorupstrandkystfiskerlaug.dk | havbaade.dk | havbaade.dk/fiskeriet | saxoinstitute.ku.dk/staff/profile | saxo.ku.dk/ansatte/profil
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