'Global Fishers: The Politics of Transnational Movements by Elyse Mills is a pathbreaking book about a very important but largely overlooked transnational social movement. It is a modern classic in the making. All academic researchers and activists interested in social justice and a positive future of humanity must read this book.'
Saturnino M. Borras Jr., co-author of Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements

'Global Fishers offers an unparalleled historical account of one of the world’s lesser known, but vitally important social movements. But Elyse Mills’ book is more than a history of the transnational fishers’ movements, it is also an insider account of political strategies, splits and struggles as they unfold to resist the ever-shifting forces of industrialization, privatization and extractivism. Essential reading for students of anthropology, development studies and politics who know that history is made as much from the bottom-up as it is from the top-down.'
Liam Campling, author of Capitalism and the Sea and professor of international business and development, Queen Mary University of London

'A powerful message about the past, present and future of global fishers’ movements. This book advances our understandings of the politics of fishers’ movements and, in so doing, offers important insights into the politics of fisheries and food systems more broadly. A must read for anyone working at the intersection of movements and food governance.'
Jessica Duncan, associate professor in the politics of food systems transformations, Wageningen University

'This is a very well researched and written book that will make an important contribution to the scholarship and practice of transnational fishers’ movements and social movements more broadly. The text provides a valuable overview of two key network organizations at the centre of fishers’ movements and traces their origins, development, and engagement in contemporary transnational political spaces.'
Charles Levkoe, Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems and associate professor, Lakehead University

'Can we conceive food sovereignty and climate justice without the peoples from the lakes, rivers and oceans? Clearly not and yet we know little about them. This book is a groundbreaking contribution to fill this gap. It tells the story of the fisher peoples, their struggles and aspirations, and how they have organized to defend not just themselves, but our blue planet.'
Sofia Monsalve, secretary general, fian International

'This book fills an important gap in the literature on global politics and transnational social movements through its focus on small-scale fishers’ movements.'
Kristen Lowitt, assistant professor, School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University

'Elyse Noble Mills has written the definitive account of transnational fishers’ movements, such as the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) and the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers (WFF). But this magnificent book is more than that, analyzing not just justice movements of small-scale fishers but also the varied global governance arenas that deal with ocean and inland aquatic resources, climate change, plummeting seafood stocks, and thorny issues of geopolitics, biodiversity, and intellectual property of genetic material. A remarkable tour-de-force!'
Marc Edelman, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

'Global Fishers: The Politics of Transnational Movements is a fascinating book that should be essential reading for anyone interested in the world’s small-scale fisheries, in social justice movements, and in big global issues of climate change and food security. Mills explores how these all interrelate, in an intriguing book that looks back in time, and forward, through the lens of the two major international fishers’ movements.'
Anthony Charles, director, School of the Environment, Saint Mary’s University

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