ABSTRACT

What links the value and exchange of everyday commodities with the production of new wealth in contemporary capitalism? By taking the reader on an ethnographic stroll through a potlatch-like community festival sponsored by the Icelandic fishing industry, this article sheds light on a new liberal politics of value that is rooted in the redirection of societal wealth through the privatisation of access rights to former common pool resources. While this politics of value has created a new, highly valuable asset class by neatly separating the right to fish from the fish in the sea, it has caused moral outrage and controversy over the ownership of the nation’s most valuable export commodity. To reunite what has been divided, asset-rich companies return the gifts of nature by handing out generous donations of free fish, while valuable fishing rights remain the de facto inalienable assets of societal influence and intangible wealth.

摘要

日常商品的价值和交换与当代资本主义中新财富的产生有什么联系？通过引导读者在由冰岛捕捞业赞助的类似于沼泽的社区节日中进行民族志漫步，本文为一个新的自由主义者提供了启示。价值政治植根于通过对以前的共同资产的访问权进行私有化来重新分配社会财富。这种价值政治通过将捕捞权与海中鱼类巧妙地分离开创了一种新的，极有价值的资产类别，但它却引起了道德上的愤怒，并对该国最有价值的出口商品的所有权产生了争议。为了统一分歧，资产丰富的公司通过慷慨捐赠免费鱼来回报大自然的恩赐，而宝贵的捕鱼权仍然是社会影响力和无形财富事实上不可剥夺的资产。