
@article {1423,
	title = {{\textquoteright}Gear conflicts{\textquoteright} and changing seascapes in Batanes},
	journal = {AghamTao},
	volume = {25},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {174-200},
	abstract = {Documents reveal that, in recent times, some of the most prominent conflicts in fishing on Batan Island in Batanes in northern Philippines stem from interest in new {\textquoteleft}driftnet{\textquoteright} technology for catching flying fish. On closer investigation, these in essence consist of challenges to the fishing calendar that is traditionally enforced by collectivities of fishers belonging to particular {\textquoteleft}ports{\textquoteright} or vanua. A vanua denotes a particular landing spot, as well as a port-polity, which is a group of fishers that is organized, and has laws and a leader, that is assembled by means of ritual at the beginning of the summer fishing season. If one sees {\textquoteleft}vanua making{\textquoteright} as a ritual technology for collective success, what is really at issue in the conflicts between {\textquoteleft}traditional{\textquoteright} and new or {\textquoteleft}modern{\textquoteright} technologies are distinct common property regimes and opposed landscapes: a traditional notion of community and a cooperative framework for the commons, on the one hand, coming into conflict with a modern view of atomized fishers and an {\textquoteleft}open{\textquoteright} sea, on the other.},
	author = {Mangahas, Maria}
}
