Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This publication presents a discussion of the article “Elements of Assemblage in Northern Informal Fisheries: Solidarity, Norms, Pink Salmon, Atlantic Salmon”, in which the authors (K.Y. Kotkin, A.M. Sergeev, V.M. Voronov, and V.V. Simonova) approach informal fisheries in the Murmansk region, employing Manuel DeLanda’s concept of horizontal ontology as an alternative to the traditional vertical structures that advocate a hierarchical understanding of the world and the exclusivity of humans. The authors argue that DeLanda’s horizontal ontology allows considering different-level components of fishing in two interdependent axes (“material – expressive” and “synthetic – variable”), and that the analysis of these axes lets us analyze the problem of the lack of positive attitude of local population toward the abundance of pink salmon, which is one of the most significant material components of the assemblage of informal fisheries in the Murmansk region. The discussion includes critical contributions: “Academic Fashion as a Conceptual Bricolage” (S.V. Sokolovskiy), “On Fish and Assemblages in the Murmansk Region” (N.S. Goncharov), and “DeLanda ‘Eats’ Salmon: The Kidnapping of Anthropology by a Supposedly ‘New’ Social Ontology” (A.G. Kuznetsov), as well as the response of the authors of the original article (“Figures and Background, or on the Logic of the Growth of Reviews”).
Source: Etnograficheskoe obozrenie
Authors: Sergey V. Sokolovsky, Nikolay S. Goncharov, Andrey G. Kuznetsov, Konstantin Ya. Kotkin, Andrey M. Sergeev, Vasily V. Voronov, Veronika V. Simonova
Institutions: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography, Peter the Great's Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, European University at Saint Petersburg, Institute of Sociology, Murmansk Arctic State University, St Petersburg University, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4406177448