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| Winner - 2011 Clio Prize - Atlantic | | | The CHA is proud to annonce that this year's winner of the Clio Prize for Atlantic Canada is Dean Bavington, for his book Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse. The Clio prizes are awared to to meritorious publications or for exceptional contributions by individuals or organizations to regional history. With lucid and highly accessible prose, Dean Bavington offers an insightful, and often disturbing, explanation of how “the northern cod was scientifically managed out of existence” (2). Bavington traces the history of managerial ecology and its hegemony in environmental discourse and practices of the twentieth century. Bavington calls for a shift from managerial to moral ecology. Bavington’s heterodoxy will have its critics, but his challenge to reconsider our conviction that we can control nature reminds us that we have seen this type of hubristic and flawed certainty in the past. His intervention is both timely and important. |
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