Neoliberal Aleutians: Seeing Like a fishing company, Seeing Like a coastal community

摘要

This article explores trends and effects of economic enclaving in the Bering Sea and North Pacific relative to high value commercial fisheries and the roles of coastal indigenous communities. Federal schemes designed to manage fisheries for their sustainable use have both facilitated this trend and attempted to protect communities. Resident, coastal Aleut (Unangan) communities are increasingly observing capital investments that bypass their involvement. In the older communities, they have experienced an erosion of the "social thickness" and processor industries trimming inefficiencies over time. In a newer civilian community of Adak, the residents have tried to start out in a largely neoliberal frame, starting in "social thinness" with insecure investments in the local residents. These developments in Adak demonstrate the weaknesses of modern economic policy and the federal government. They also demonstrate Adak residents' resolve to overcome these barriers.