Northern Fishing and Manuel DeLanda’s Flat Ontology

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This publication presents a discussion of the article “Elements of Assemblage in Northern Informal Fisheries: Solidarity, Norms, Pink Salmon, Atlantic Salmon”, in which the authors (K.Y. Kotkin, A.M. Sergeev, V.M. Voronov, and V.V. Simonova) approach informal fisheries in the Murmansk region, employing Manuel DeLanda’s concept of horizontal ontology as an alternative to the traditional vertical structures that advocate a hierarchical understanding of the world and the exclusivity of humans. The authors argue that DeLanda’s horizontal ontology allows considering different-level components of fishing in two interdependent axes (“material – expressive” and “synthetic – variable”), and that the analysis of these axes lets us analyze the problem of the lack of positive attitude of local population toward the abundance of pink salmon, which is one of the most significant material components of the assemblage of informal fisheries in the Murmansk region. The discussion includes critical contributions: “Academic Fashion as a Conceptual Bricolage” (S.V. Sokolovskiy), “On Fish and Assemblages in the Murmansk Region” (N.S. Goncharov), and “DeLanda ‘Eats’ Salmon: The Kidnapping of Anthropology by a Supposedly ‘New’ Social Ontology” (A.G. Kuznetsov), as well as the response of the authors of the original article (“Figures and Background, or on the Logic of the Growth of Reviews”).

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Sergey V. Sokolovsky

Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Author for correspondence.
Email: sokolovskiserg@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0112-0739

д. и. н., главный научный сотрудник

Russian Federation, Moscow

Nikolay S. Goncharov

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: nikola.gon4arov@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0755-4877

к. и. н., научный сотрудник отдела этнографии Сибири

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Andrey G. Kuznetsov

Yerevan Center for Internation Education (YCIE); European University at Saint Petersburg

Email: andrey.kuznetsov.29@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0249-5890

к. социол. н., научный сотрудник; ассоциированный научный сотрудник Центра исследований наук и технологий (STS-Центр)

Armenia, Yerevan; Saint Petersburg, Russia

Konstantin Ya. Kotkin

Murmansk Arctic University; Murmansk Regional Museum; Centre of Arctic and Siberian Exploration of the Sociological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences – a Branch of Federal Center for Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Sociological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: kostyakotkin@rambler.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3281-3036

к. филос. н.; хранитель музейных предметов; ассоциированный научный сотрудник

Russian Federation, Murmansk; Murmansk; Saint Petersburg

Andrey M. Sergeev

Murmansk Arctic University; Saint Petersburg State University

Email: asergeev8@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1553-4238

д. филос. н., ведущий научный сотрудник кафедры философии и социальных наук; профессор кафедры философской антропологии

Russian Federation, Murmansk; Saint Petersburg

Vasily V. Voronov

Murmansk Arctic University

Email: voronov.mspu@rambler.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3109-3655

к. филос. н., старший научный сотрудник кафедры философии и социальных наук

Russian Federation, Murmansk

Veronika V. Simonova

Murmansk Arctic University; Centre of Arctic and Siberian Exploration of the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences – a Branch of Federal Center for Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha; Higher School of Economics – Saint Petersburg Branch

Email: v.simonova@socinst.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1167-7589

к. социол. н., PhD in Social Anthropology; руководитель

Russian Federation, Murmansk; Saint Petersburg; Yakutsk; Saint Petersburg

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