Northern Fishing and Manuel DeLanda’s Flat Ontology
[Severnaia rybalka i ploskaia ontologiia Manuelia Delanda]
Type of publication: Research Article
Submitted: 10.08.2024
Accepted: 05.11.2024
About author(s)
Sergei Sokolovskiy | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0112-0739 | sokolovskiserg@gmail.com | Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (32-a Leninsky prospect, Moscow, 119991, Russia)
Nikolai Goncharov | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0755-4877 | nikola.gon4arov@yandex.ru | Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences (3 University Emb., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia)
Andrei Kuznetsov | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0249-5890 | andrey.kuznetsov.29@gmail.com | Yerevan Center for Internation Education (YCIE) (31/4 Charents Str., Yerevan, 0003, Armenia) | European University at St. Petersburg (6/1a Gagarinskaya Str., St. Petersburg, 191187, Russia)
Konstantin Kotkin | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3281-3036 | kostyakotkin@rambler.ru | Murmansk Arctic University (15 Kapitana Yegorova Str., Murmansk, 183038, Russia) | Murmansk Regional Museum (1A Akademika Pavlova St., Murmansk, 183038, Russia) | Centre of Arctic and Siberian Exploration of the Sociological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences – A Branch of Federal Center for Theoretical and Applied Sociology (25/14 7-Krasnoarmeyskaya St., St. Petersburg, 190005, Russia)
Andrey Sergeev | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1553-4238 | asergeev8@yandex.ru | Murmansk Arctic University (15 Kapitana Yegorova Str., Murmansk, 183038, Russia) | St. Petersburg State University (7/9 Universitetskaya Emb., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia)
Vasiliy Voronov | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3109-3655 | voronov.mspu@rambler.ru | Murmansk Arctic University (15 Kapitana Yegorova St., Murmansk, 183038, Russia)
Veronika Simonova | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1167-7589 | v.simonova@socinst.ru | Murmansk Arctic University (15 Kapitana Yegorova Str., Murmansk, 183038, Russia) | Sociological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences – A Branch of Federal Center for Theoretical and Applied Sociology (25/14 7-Krasnoarmeyskaya Str., St. Petersburg, 190005, Russia) | Academy of Sciences, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (33 Lenina Av., Yakutsk, 677007, Russia) | National Research University Higher School of Economics – St. Petersburg (16 Soyuza Pechatnikov Str., St. Petersburg, 190121, Russia)
Keywords
informal fishing, Murmansk region, assemblage, M. DeLanda, solidarity, norms, pink salmon, humpback salmon, Atlantic salmon, salmon
Abstract
This publication presents a discussion of the article “Elements of Assemblage in Northern Informal Fisheries: Solidarity, Norms, Pink Salmon, Atlantic Salmon”, in which the authors (K.Y. Kotkin, A.M. Sergeev, V.M. Voronov, and V.V. Simonova) approach informal fisheries in the Murmansk region, employing Manuel DeLanda’s concept of horizontal ontology as an alternative to the traditional vertical structures that advocate a hierarchical understanding of the world and the exclusivity of humans. The authors argue that DeLanda’s horizontal ontology allows considering different-level components of fishing in two interdependent axes (“material – expressive” and “synthetic – variable”), and that the analysis of these axes lets us analyze the problem of the lack of positive attitude of local population toward the abundance of pink salmon, which is one of the most significant material components of the assemblage of informal fisheries in the Murmansk region. The discussion includes critical contributions: “Academic Fashion as a Conceptual Bricolage” (S.V. Sokolovskiy), “On Fish and Assemblages in the Murmansk Region” (N.S. Goncharov), and “DeLanda ‘Eats’ Salmon: The Kidnapping of Anthropology by a Supposedly ‘New’ Social Ontology” (A.G. Kuznetsov), as well as the response of the authors of the original article (“Figures and Background, or on the Logic of the Growth of Reviews”).
Funding Information
Russian Science Foundation, https://doi.org/10.13039/501100006769 [grant no. 22-28-20435] (recipients K.Y. Kotkin, A.M. Sergeev, V.M. Voronov, and V.V. Simonova)
Citation
Sokolovskiy, S.V., N.S. Goncharov, A.G. Kuznetsov, K.Y. Kotkin, A.M. Sergeev, V.M. Voronov, and V.V. Simonova. 2024. Severnaia rybalka i ploskaia ontologiia Manuelia Delanda [Northern Fishing and Manuel DeLanda’s Flat Ontology]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 6: 175–199. https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869541524060092 EDN: VTDLSO
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