Abstract

Dive fishing with cyanide is known as a risky fishing practice, as it pushes or lures divers to the limits of what their bodies can take. Its association with physical danger is linked to a culture of machismo and a coming-of-age process in which young men prove their bravery and become part of a shared manhood. What often remains implicit in the understanding of risk-seeking activities is the notion of body and masculinity that such practices entail and produce. Understanding risk and how it relates to masculinity in native terms requires conceptual tools to think beyond the self-contained body that navigates an external environment. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Indonesia, this article explores cyanide dive fishing in the context of risky practice in relation to the body as contingent, permeable and leaky. Drawing from situated narratives and post-human phenomenology, the article makes room for masculinities beyond the self-contained man by describing dive fishing as a transformative process of becoming fluid to a submerged world of currents and spirits. By showing how this process brings bodies to or beyond their threshold of endurance, the article sheds light on the situated vulnerabilities of dive fishers in an environment of exploitation.

摘要

用氰化物潜水捕鱼被认为是一种危险的捕鱼行为，因为它会将潜水员推向或引诱到他们身体可以承受的极限。它与身体危险的联系与大男子主义文化和成年过程有关，在这个过程中，年轻人证明了他们的勇敢并成为共同男子气概的一部分。在对冒险活动的理解中，通常隐含的是这种实践所带来和产生的身体和男子气概的概念。理解风险及其与本地术语中男性气质的关系需要概念工具来超越在外部环境中导航的独立身体进行思考。基于在印度尼西亚的长期民族志实地考察，本文探讨了与身体相关的风险实践背景下的氰化物潜水捕鱼，如偶然性、可渗透性和渗漏性。借鉴情境叙事和后人类现象学，这篇文章通过将潜水钓鱼描述为一种转变过程，为超越自给自足的人的男性气质提供了空间，使之成为水流和精神的淹没世界。通过展示这个过程如何使身体达到或超过其耐力阈值，这篇文章揭示了潜水渔民在剥削环境中所处的脆弱性。