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the fishermen of Sardinia or other locations around the world for that matter, offer to

discussions and the making of the term and terms of sustainability?

In the next chapter this thesis turns to the particular case study of tuna fishing

in southern Italy. So far in this thesis I have described and analysed some key

components of a sustainability assemblage (devices, objects, institutions, discourses)

and moments of assembling (launch of the Coles eco tin, UNCLOS convention, the

Roundtable on Cultural and Biological Diversity). I have established the function of

sustainability discourses to delimit and limit sustainability practices, devices and

knowledge. This is the case for the environment centred discourse of the current

chapter, as well as the four-pillar discourse of the previous chapter. In the next

chapter I will introduce some of the participants who assemble around tuna, and I will

draw on Bruno Latour’s (2005) notion of dingpolitik and “matter of concern”, to

situate tuna as not simply a matter of fact to be sustained but a matter of concern,

conflict and care. I will analyse the conditions that govern those who fish for tuna in

southern Italy, and will consider the ontological and epistemological issues at stake. I

will continue to describe the components of a sustainability assemblage in an effort to

render visible moments of assembling, including the enactment of sustainability

discourses.

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