GGR223H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Westernization, Aea, Political Ecology
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Where man is not the measure of all things"" (wwf 2010) In place of top-down models, international non-governmental organizations (ngos) and government agencies directed attention to the local or community level and helped to promote. Fiji in the global imagination as an example of marine management at this scale. We argue that community, ecoregional, and ecosystem scales are not just descriptors of spatial extent and/or location, but also tools of a scalar politics invoked in negotiations over what marine management should be. We develop the concept of the scalar narrative"" to shed light on how management scales are established and contested in fiji. Who should be in charge of marine management is intertwined with what we should do the scales. It is not about pro-people vs. pro-nature, but more about a preference over the appropriate scale to plan and manage. Political ecology of scale to argue that scale is co-produced by social and biophysical processes.