Title Spawning modern fish : transnational comparison in the making of Japanese salmon / Heather Anne Swanson

Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations, maps Series Culture, place, and nature Culture, place, and nature. Contents Introduction: Material Comparisons -- Chapter One. Situating Comparisons: From the Columbia River to Modern Japan -- Chapter Two. Landscapes, by Comparison: Hokkaido and the American West -- Chapter Three. Of Dreams and Comparisons: Making Japanese Salmon Abroad -- Chapter Four. The Success of Failed Comparisons: JICA and the Development of the Chilean Salmon Industry -- Interlude. In the Shadow of Chilean Comparisons: Hokkaido Salmon Worlds Transformed -- Chapter Five. Stuck with Salmon: Making Modern Comparisons with Fish -- Chapter Six. When Comparisons Encounter Concrete: Wild Salmon in Hokkaido -- Chapter Seven. Other Comparisons: Ainu, Salmon, and Indigenous Rights -- Coda: Embodied Comparisons beyond Japan Summary "Since the mid-nineteenth century, agricultural development and fisheries management in northern Japan have been profoundly shaped by how people within and beyond Japan have compared Hokkaido's landscapes to those of other places, as part of efforts to make the new Japanese nation-state more legibly "modern." In doing so, they engaged in heterodox modes of analogic thinking that reached out to diverse places, including the American West and southern Chile. Today, the comparisons made by Hokkaido fishing industry professionals, scientists, and Ainu indigenous groups between the island's forests, fields, and waters and those of others around the world continue to dramatically affect the region's approaches to environmental management and its physical landscapes. In this far-ranging ethnography, Heather Swanson shows how this traffic shapes the course of Hokkaido's development, its fish, and the lives of people on and beyond the island. Resulting encounters restructure not only trade dynamics and political economy but also multispecies relations in watersheds around the globe"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 17, 2022) Subject Salmon fisheries -- Japan -- Hokkaido -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural Salmon fisheries Japan -- Hokkaido Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021057681 ISBN 9780295750408 0295750405

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