Awards

• Winner of Clio Prize for Canadian History - Atlantic, Canadian Historical Association 2011 (Canada)
• Winner of Outstanding Jacket Design, 2011 AAUP Book, Jacket and Journal Show (Canada).

Overview

The commercial cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador was once the most successful fishery in the world. When it collapsed in 1992 – causing the largest single-day layoff in Canadian history and irrevocable ecological damage – fishermen, scholars, and scientists pointed to failures in management such as uncontrolled harvesting as likely culprits. Examining the history of commercial cod fisheries in the region from the mid-nineteenth century, Managed Annihilation makes the case that the very idea of natural resource management caused the death of the cod. The collapse occurred when the fisheries were ostensibly managed by the state, and the fishery has still not recovered nearly two decades later. Although the collapse raised doubts among policy-makers about their ability to understand, predict, and control nature, their ultimate goal of control through management has not wavered – it has simply been transferred onto new targets.

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Unlike other efforts to make sense of the tragedy of the commons of the northern cod fishery and its halting recovery, Bavington calls into question the very premise of management and managerial ecology and offers a critical explanation that seeks to uncover alternatives obscured by this dominant way of relating to nature.<br>- Bonnie McCay, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University <br><p>Managed Annihilation pleads for renunciation of the holy grail of manageability, the belief that all problems ... can be solved merely by exerting more effort, and obtaining greater efficiency, within the status quo order of advanced industrial societies. In the end, this book urges a new view of human-environment relations, one that would replace Western society's long-standing drive to manage nature.<br>- from the Foreword by Graeme Wynn

Unlike other efforts to make sense of the tragedy of the commons of the northern cod fishery and its halting recovery, Bavington calls into question the very premise of management and managerial ecology and offers a critical explanation that seeks to uncover alternatives obscured by this dominant way of relating to nature.<br>- Bonnie McCay, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University<br><br><p>Managed Annihilation pleads for renunciation of the holy grail of manageability, the belief that all problems ... can be solved merely by exerting more effort, and obtaining greater efficiency, within the status quo order of advanced industrial societies. In the end, this book urges a new view of human-environment relations, one that would replace Western society's long-standing drive to manage nature.<br>- from the Foreword by Graeme Wynn

Author Information

Dean L.Y. Bavington is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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