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Peter Vandergeest
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Research
Latest papers
Seafarers in fishing: A year into the COVID-19 pandemic.
Marine policy · 2021 · first author
COVID-19, instability and migrant fish workers in Asia.
Maritime studies : MAST · 2021
Industrial seafood systems in the immobilizing COVID-19 moment.
Agriculture and human values · 2020 · senior author
Latest funding
- $45,463
Digital Terror: The September 11th, 2001 Attacks Online
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $77,276
Changing Work at Sea: Reassembling labour governance in Atlantic fisheries
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $22,743
Work at Sea: Explaining Labour Relations in the Global Fishing Industry
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
3 publications.
Seafarers in fishing: A year into the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vandergeest P, Marschke M, MacDonnell M
COVID-19, instability and migrant fish workers in Asia.
Marschke M, Vandergeest P, Havice E, Kadfak A, Duker P, Isopescu I, MacDonnell M
Industrial seafood systems in the immobilizing COVID-19 moment.
Havice E, Marschke M, Vandergeest P
Digital Terror: The September 11th, 2001 Attacks Online
Principal investigators: Milligan, Ian E.
Keywords: digital memory; digital preservation; web archives; social history; cultural history; web history
Changing Work at Sea: Reassembling labour governance in Atlantic fisheries
Principal investigators: Marschke, Melissa J.
Keywords: Industrial fisheries; Migrant workers; Precarity; Labour governance; Racial capitalism; Terraqueous assemblages; Critical ocean studies; Migration and sociolegal status; Ports; Atlantic Ocean
Work at Sea: Explaining Labour Relations in the Global Fishing Industry
Principal investigators: Vandergeest, Peter
Keywords: fisheries; labour; political ecology; migration; Asia; seafood; global production networks
Work at Sea: Explaining Labour Relations in the Global Fishing Industry
Principal investigators: Vandergeest, Peter
Keywords: fisheries; labour; political ecology; migration; Asia; seafood; global production networks
New directions in environmental governance: remaking public and private authority in Southeast Asian resource frontiers
Principal investigators: Vandergeest, Peter
Keywords: environmental governance; Southeast Asia; forestry; fisheries; aquaculture; private; public; sovereignty
Changing Frontiers of Ecological Knowledge's: A Critical Dialogue on Asian Ecologies on the Edge
Principal investigators: Vandergeest, Peter
Keywords: ecological knowledge; environmental justice; environmental governance; Asian studies
Privatizing environmental regulation: a global analysis of the effects and effectiveness of environmental certification for farmed shrimp and salmon
Principal investigators: Vandergeest, Peter
Keywords: environmental regulation; agrofood systems; certification; communities; privatization; global networks
The challenges of the agrarian transition in Southeast Asia
Principal investigators: De Koninck, Rodolphe
Keywords: agrarian transition; industrialization; urbanization; agro-food systems; state intervention; globalization; environmental degradation; ethnic minorities
Globalization, rural restructuring and local welfare: a comparative analysis of shrimp aquaculture and the transformation of environment and society in Thailand and India
Principal investigators: Flaherty, Mark
Keywords: shrimp aquaculture; environment; rural development; globalization; Thailand; India
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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