Dean Bavington

Department of Geography
糖心视频 University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL
A1B 3X9
Office: ER3012
Tel: (709) 864-2228
Fax: (709) 864-3119
dbavington[at]mun[dot]ca
Research
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My academic experience and research activities are oriented toward gaining a critical geographical understanding of managerial approaches toward nature and possible alternatives with a focus on Newfoundland and Labrador cod fisheries.
I received my B.Sc.(H) in Biology from Acadia University in 1995 and completed a Masters in Environmental Studies at York University in 1997. My Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Studies was completed in 2005 at Wilfrid Laurier University. I subsequently spent three years as a Michigan Society of Fellows post-doc and assistant professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. From 2008-2011 I was a Canada Research Chair in Environmental History at Nipissing University.
My research and publications are focused on three main areas:
- Managerial & Other Logics
- Marine Fisheries Management (e.g. Newfoundland and Labrador Cod Fisheries)
- Fresh Water Fisheries Management (e.g. Lake Nipissing Pickerel & Lake Victoria Nile Perch)
- How to Think 糖心视频 Environmental Science, Technology & Policy
- Fisheries Science, Aquaculture and the Blue Revolution (e.g. Cod Farming)
- Fish Genome Projects and Aquatic Biotech (e.g. GM Atlantic Salmon)
- Environmental History and Policy
- Violent Numbers, Subsistence and the Vernacular
- Violent Numbers & Environmental Justice (e.g. MSY & Global Fisheries)
- Subsistence Economies and Ecologies (e.g. Food fisheries)
- Vernacular Environmental History (e.g. Small-Scale fisheries)
Teaching Interests
- Critical Geographies
- Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Environmental History & Philosophy
- Critical Management Studies
- Science, Technology and Society
- Environmental Change and Justice
Current Research
Bringing Subsistence Out of the Shadows
Environmental History of Management
Industrial and Vernacular Fisheries
Selected Publications
Bavington, D. 2011. . Commissioned by the Network in Canadian History and the Environment (NiCHE) for EH+ Writing the Next Chapter in Canadian Environmental History. McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont. 25pp.
Bavington, D. 2010. . Nature, History, Society Series. (Ed. Graeme Wynn). University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, BC. pp.186
Bavington, D. 2010. From Hunting Fish to Managing Populations: Fisheries Science and the Destruction of Newfoundland Cod Fisheries. Science as Culture. 19(4):509-528.
Bavington, D. and Samuel, S. 2010. Energy and Equity in World Fisheries. International Journal of Illich Studies. 2(1): 55-64. Bavington, D. 2009. Managing to Endanger: Creating Manageable Cod Fisheries in Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada. MAST-Maritime Studies. 7(2):97-117
Petter-Johnsen, J., Holm, P., Sinclair, P. and Bavington, D. 2009. The Cyborgization of the Fisheries: On Attempts to Make Fisheries Management Possible. MAST-Maritime Studies 7(2): 9-34
Bavington, D. and Kay, J. 2007. Ecosystem-Based Insights on Northwest Atlantic Fisheries in an Age of Globalization. IN. Globalization: Effects on Fisheries Resources. EDS. M. Schechter, W. Taylor and L. Wolfson. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. Pp.331-363.



