In the South Pacific region, marine territories and resources play a crucial role for local communities. Children engage with these territories and resources from an early age onwards. As the next ocean stewards, they are a stakeholder group whose understandings of ocean connectivity and fisheries should be given serious consideration in decision-making processes towards the sustainable use and management of coastal seas. This paper analyses 290 children’s drawings from Fiji and New Caledonia, created in 2019 in spontaneous response to the instruction: “Draw the sea and what you and others do in the sea”. Exploring the webs of connections with and within the sea revealed by these children’s drawings and their own interpretations leads us to discuss children’s representations of the sea: (1) beyond a land-sea compartmentation, (2) as a locus of both exploitation and conservation of marine life, and (3) as a ‘place-full’ space connecting human and more-than-human realms.
Fache E., Piovano S., Soderberg A., Tuiono M., Riera L., David G., Kowasch M., Pauwels S., Breckwoldt A., Carrière S.M. and Sabinot C. (2022) “Draw the sea…”: Children’s representations of ocean connectivity in Fiji and New Caledonia. AMBIO. 10.1007/s13280-022-01777-1
@article{Fache2022,
Title = {“Draw the sea…”: Children’s representations of ocean connectivity in Fiji and New Caledonia},
Author = {Fache, Elodie and Piovano, Susanna and Soderberg, Alisi and Tuiono, Malakai and Riera, Léa and David, Gilbert and Kowasch, Matthias and Pauwels, Simonne and Breckwoldt, Annette and Carrière, Stéphanie M. and Sabinot, Catherine},
Editor = {},
Journal = {AMBIO},
Year = {2022},
Doi = {10.1007/s13280-022-01777-1},
Abstract = {In the South Pacific region, marine territories and resources play a crucial role for local communities. Children engage with these territories and resources from an early age onwards. As the next ocean stewards, they are a stakeholder group whose understandings of ocean connectivity and fisheries should be given serious consideration in decision-making processes towards the sustainable use and management of coastal seas. This paper analyses 290 children’s drawings from Fiji and New Caledonia, created in 2019 in spontaneous response to the instruction: “Draw the sea and what you and others do in the sea”. Exploring the webs of connections with and within the sea revealed by these children’s drawings and their own interpretations leads us to discuss children’s representations of the sea: (1) beyond a land-sea compartmentation, (2) as a locus of both exploitation and conservation of marine life, and (3) as a ‘place-full’ space connecting human and more-than-human realms.},
}
TY - JOUR
AU - Fache, Elodie
AU - Piovano, Susanna
AU - Soderberg, Alisi
AU - Tuiono, Malakai
AU - Riera, Léa
AU - David, Gilbert
AU - Kowasch, Matthias
AU - Pauwels, Simonne
AU - Breckwoldt, Annette
AU - Carrière, Stéphanie M.
AU - Sabinot, Catherine
TI - “Draw the sea…”: Children’s representations of ocean connectivity in Fiji and New Caledonia
T2 - AMBIO
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1007/s13280-022-01777-1
AB - In the South Pacific region, marine territories and resources play a crucial role for local communities. Children engage with these territories and resources from an early age onwards. As the next ocean stewards, they are a stakeholder group whose understandings of ocean connectivity and fisheries should be given serious consideration in decision-making processes towards the sustainable use and management of coastal seas. This paper analyses 290 children’s drawings from Fiji and New Caledonia, created in 2019 in spontaneous response to the instruction: “Draw the sea and what you and others do in the sea”. Exploring the webs of connections with and within the sea revealed by these children’s drawings and their own interpretations leads us to discuss children’s representations of the sea: (1) beyond a land-sea compartmentation, (2) as a locus of both exploitation and conservation of marine life, and (3) as a ‘place-full’ space connecting human and more-than-human realms.
ER -
