ABSTRACT
The eco-social worlds of Fish and Fishers are undergoing complex transitions and disturbances in the context of climate change and the way capitalism works with Nature. However, this chapter argues that when one disturbance happens, it is co-opted into yet another commodity frontier. Further, most adaptation strategies and interventions in climate change are also translated as potential commodity frontiers. Taking the case of rising sea levels and coastal erosion, this chapter examines how climate change adaptation has emerged as a prospective commodity frontier. Seawalls, breakwaters, and harbours are all imageries and mediators for the widening and deepening of the adaptation frontier. Reclamation has become a prominent strategy for the expansion of commodity frontiers. Present-day climate adaptation also does not consider the cumulative impact of adaptation interventions (and their maladaptation) on allied sectors and eco-social worlds. The interventions are planned and implemented in silos. Fish and Fishers remain dispossessed and displaced due to these interventions. The interlinkages between climate change adaptation and sustainable development are also discussed in the aforementioned contexts.
