Coastal Transformations

Throughout history, people have depended on oceans and inland waters for food. Fishing is, therefore, one of the world’s oldest occupations.

The life histories presented here are all soaked with the sea. Small stories, coloured with seemingly unimportant memories of fishers…

By following fish from the sea to fishers’ nets, and then to markets and kitchens, the aim is to unpack the spatial, and socio-economic configurations underlying fish’s journey.

Women have been central to the small-scale, household-based fishing enterprise throughout the world.

The ethnographic films presented here touch, directly or indirectly, on questions of vulnerability to environmental, social, and economic shocks and changes

This part of the exhibition builds on archive materials and compares fisheries development efforts of the Norwegian government in two very different parts of the world.

Using remote sensing images and GIS software with animations, this section of the on-line exhibition draws upon animated images of land-use change in coastal areas