Fishing for compliments: Legitimate illegality and institutional signaling in the case of recreational fishing in Germany

IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI:10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104082
Yannick Eckhardt
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Addressing the largely overlooked area of illegal action in geography, this study draws upon an institutional framework to examine how actors of legitimate institutions admit to their actions in the face of conflicting regulations. In recreational fishing, the practice of voluntary ‘catch and release’ (C&R) of fish collides with official regulations in most German federal states. Yet, despite the prohibition by law and the threat of criminal conviction, this is widely legitimized as a conservation practice. Grounded on extensive social media research and interpretive content analysis I qualitatively extract the underlying social practices that unite voluntary C&R anglers into a cohesive group. Building on these findings, I propose the strategy of institutional signaling as a means of encoding compliance with common expectations while avoiding explicit acknowledgment of unlawful behavior. In this way, the study sheds light on a relatively unexplored facet of our social fabric, where the realms of legitimacy and illegality intersect.

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针对地理学中被忽视的非法行为领域,本研究利用制度框架来考察合法制度的参与者在面对相互冲突的法规时如何承认自己的行为。在休闲渔业中,自愿 "捕获并释放"(C&R)鱼类的做法与德国大多数联邦州的官方法规相冲突。然而,尽管法律明令禁止,并有可能被判刑,但这种做法却被广泛认为是一种保护行为。基于广泛的社交媒体研究和解释性内容分析,我定性地提取了将自愿垂钓者团结成一个有凝聚力的群体的基本社会实践。在这些研究结果的基础上,我提出了制度信号策略,作为一种编码遵守共同期望的手段,同时避免明确承认非法行为。通过这种方式,本研究揭示了我们社会结构中一个相对未被探索的方面,即合法性与非法性领域的交叉点。
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期刊介绍: Geoforum is an international, inter-disciplinary journal, global in outlook, and integrative in approach. The broad focus of Geoforum is the organisation of economic, political, social and environmental systems through space and over time. Areas of study range from the analysis of the global political economy and environment, through national systems of regulation and governance, to urban and regional development, local economic and urban planning and resources management. The journal also includes a Critical Review section which features critical assessments of research in all the above areas.
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