Blue Justice

Svein Jentoft is Professor Emeritus at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. His long career as a social scientist specializing on fisheries management and fisheries communities has yielded numerous articles and books. He has been involved in and led many international projects in both the Global South and North. Jentoft is a founding member of TBTI, and has been leading a working group on ¿Governing the Governance' and a research cluster related to the ¿SSF Guidelines'. He has edited and authored several TBTI books including ¿Life Above Water' (published 2019).Ratana Chuenpagdee is a university research professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Canada. Her research emphasizes transdisciplinary approaches to coastal fisheries and ocean governance, focusing particularly on small-scale fisheries, marine protected areas, community-based management, and food security. Dr. Chuenpagdee leads Too Big To Ignore (TBTI), a global partnership for small-scale fisheries, and a research module on informing governance responses in a changing ocean for the Canadian-based Ocean Frontier Institute. Her most recent book 'Transdisciplinarity for Small-Scale Fisheries Governance: Analysis and Practice', co-edited with Svein Jentoft, was published by Springer in 2019.Alicia Bugeja Said is a Fisheries Advisor within the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Animal Rights, where she is responsible for implementing Fisheries Strategy through research and policy. Alicia holds a PhD in Anthropology and Conservation (University of Kent, UK), and has written about the socio-ecological resilience of fisheries systems, advocating for equitable and sustainable livelihoods of island communities. She has also held post-doctoral fellowships with Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada), and IFREMER in France. She has published in high-impact journals and participated in several regional and international fora, and acted as the Maltese delegate for several COST Action programmes, focusing on Ocean Governance (OceanGov) and Marine Conservation (MARCONS).Moenieba Isaacs is a Professor with the Institute for Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of Western Cape. She focuses on the social and political processes of fisheries reform in South Africa and southern Africa, mainly through the lenses of small-scale fishers. She is an engaged and reflective scholar interested in Blue Justice, rethinking conservation, and governmentality of natural resources. She is a founding member of the TBTI network, and coined the term Blue Justice for small-scale fisheries at the 3rd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress in 2018, Chiang Mai, Thailand, based on her work with fishers' movements in South Africa for over 25 years.