Spawning modern fish : transnational comparison in the making of Japanese salmon / Heather Anne Swanson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swanson, Heather Anne, 1979- author.

Series:

Culture, Place, and Nature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salmon fisheries--History--Japan--Hokkaido.

Salmon fisheries.

Japan--Hokkaido.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages)

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington State : University of Washington Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Since the mid-nineteenth century, agricultural development and fisheries management in northern Japan have been profoundly shaped by how people within and beyond Japan have compared Hokkaido's landscapes to those of other places, as part of efforts to make the new Japanese nation-state more legibly "modern." In doing so, they engaged in heterodox modes of analogic thinking that reached out to diverse places, including the American West and southern Chile. Today, the comparisons made by Hokkaido fishing industry professionals, scientists, and Ainu indigenous groups between the island's forests, fields, and waters and those of others around the world continue to dramatically affect the region's approaches to environmental management and its physical landscapes. In this far-ranging ethnography, Heather Swanson shows how this traffic shapes the course of Hokkaido's development, its fish, and the lives of people on and beyond the island. Resulting encounters restructure not only trade dynamics and political economy but also multispecies relations in watersheds around the globe"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction: Material Comparisons

Chapter One. Situating Comparisons: From the Columbia River to Modern Japan

Chapter Two. Landscapes, by Comparison: Hokkaido and the American West

Chapter Three. Of Dreams and Comparisons: Making Japanese Salmon Abroad

Chapter Four. The Success of Failed Comparisons: JICA and the Development of the Chilean Salmon Industry

Interlude. In the Shadow of Chilean Comparisons: Hokkaido Salmon Worlds Transformed

Chapter Five. Stuck with Salmon: Making Modern Comparisons with Fish

Chapter Six. When Comparisons Encounter Concrete: Wild Salmon in Hokkaido

Chapter Seven. Other Comparisons: Ainu, Salmon, and Indigenous Rights

Coda: Embodied Comparisons beyond Japan

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780295750408

0295750405

OCLC:

1309034618