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Balancing the Tides - Marine Practices in American Samoa (Hardcover)
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Balancing the Tides - Marine Practices in American Samoa (Hardcover)
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Balancing the Tides highlights the influence of marine practices
and policies in the unincorporated territory of American Samoa on
the local indigenous group, the American fishing industry,
international seafood consumption, U.S. environmental programs, as
well as global ecological and native concerns. Poblete explains how
U.S. federal fishing programs in the post-World War II period
encouraged labor based out of American Samoa to catch and can
one-third of all tuna for United States consumption until 2009.
Labeled "Made in the USA," this commodity was sometimes caught by
non-U.S. regulated ships, produced under labor standards far below
continental U.S. minimum wage and maximum work hours, and entered
U.S. jurisdiction tax free. The second half of the book explores
the tensions between indigenous and U.S. federal government
environmental goals and ecology programs. Whether creating the
largest National Marine Sanctuary under U.S. jurisdiction or
collecting basic data on local fishing, initiatives that balanced
western-based and native expectations for respectful community
relationships and appropriate government programs fared better than
those that did not acknowledge the positionality of all groups
involved. Despite being under the direct authority of the United
States, American Samoans have maintained a degree of local autonomy
due to the Deeds of Cession signed with the U.S. Navy at the turn
of the twentieth century that created shared indigenous and federal
governance in the region. Balancing the Tides demonstrates how
western-style economics, policy-making, and knowledge building
imposed by the U.S. federal government have been infused into the
daily lives of American Samoans. American colonial efforts to
protect natural resources based on western approaches intersect
with indigenous insistence on adhering to customary principles of
respect, reciprocity, and native rights in complicated ways.
Experiences and lessons learned from these case studies provide
insight into other tensions between colonial governments and
indigenous peoples engaging in environmental and marine-based
policy-making across the Pacific and the globe. This study connects
the U.S.-American Samoa colonial relationship to global
overfishing, world consumption patterns, the for-profit fishing
industry, international environmental movements and studies, as
well as native experiences and indigenous rights. Open Access
publication of this book was made possible by the Sustainable
History Monograph Pilot, an initiative sponsored by the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation.
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