SOCPacific – A sea of connections
“Through a main geographical focus on Fiji, New Caledonia and Vanuatu, SOCPacific aimed at a better understanding and recognition of fisheries in the South Pacific; a region that has become a central stage for imagining the future of the world’s oceans and their governance. Overall, SOCPacific conceptualized South Pacific fisheries as embedded in “a sea of connections”. This notion highlights the multiple meanings, dimensions and expressions of ocean connectivity from/in Oceania. It also emphasizes that Oceanian knowledges, cosmologies, socialities, spiritualities, values, norms/forms of governance, and sovereignties are central to ensuring the health of the Pacific Ocean, considered all at once as the planet’s largest ocean, a common heritage, the scene of an unequalled rush for space and resources, a four-dimension (including depth and time) oceanscape, and a more-than-human entity.”