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  • CLIMAVORE: Divesting from fish farms towards the tidal commons

Fernandez Pascual, Daniel and Schwabe, Alon, 2024, Journal Article, CLIMAVORE: Divesting from fish farms towards the tidal commons Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 37 (2). pp. 1-22. ISSN 1187-7863

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In Scotland, residents have fought open-net salmon farms and their toll on human and nonhuman bodies for decades. This paper recollects seven years of work in Skye and Raasay, two islands off the northwest coast of the country, developing strategies to divest away from salmon aquaculture. Addressing the contemporary wave of underwater clearances created by UK’s top food export industry, it unpacks the implementation of a transition into alternative horizons by embracing the legacies of toxicity inherited from salmon extractivist industries. CLIMAVORE, a framework developed as a research-led artistic practice by the authors, investigates how to eat in the new seasons of the climate crisis. In a season of marine dead zones, it facilitates new approaches to aquaecology and coastal care that cultivate coastal livelihoods. CLIMAVORE began with a new public forum, shaped as a multispecies intertidal table, established in Skye in 2017 to envision environmentally regenerative and socially reparative forms of food production based on metabolic interactions between humans and depleted landscapes that benefit a plethora of species. CLIMAVORE’s site responsive methodology relies on a socially-engaged art practice, consisting of fieldwork, interviews, working groups, oral histories, performative meals, cooking and building apprenticeships, tidal gardening, material testing and public art installations. Ongoing collaboration with residents, scientists, and policymakers critically explores ways of living not only on but with the coast. This new holistic approach to coastal nourishment provides methodologies for ecological praxis as well as a platform for researchers and the general public to imagine an alternative ecological future: the tidal commons.

Official URL: https://link.springer.com/journal/10806
Subjects: Architecture > K100 Architecture
School or Centre: School of Architecture
Identification Number or DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-024-09923-3
Uncontrolled Keywords: climavore; metabolism; aquaculture; salmon feedlot; extractivism; dead zones; tidal commons
Date Deposited: 03 Apr 2024 14:38
Last Modified: 03 Apr 2024 14:38
URI: https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/5787
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