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food politics. I ask, what kind of transparency project is following and what could following,

along with the notion of shadow places, add to existing transparency projects? I argue that if

we are to take seriously traceability and an integrated version of sustainability then the

sustainability project must extend beyond the fishery and beyond its current ecological focus.

Sustainability is the main subject of chapters two and three. In chapter two I explore

discourses of nature and culture through analysis of the four-pillar model of sustainability,

which emerged from the 2002 World Summit of Sustainable Development (Johannesburg)

and positioned culture at the forefront of ecological debates. From this chapter onwards, I

employ two different analytical lenses concurrently: an empirical lens to research cultural

elements (e.g. practices, knowledge, values) of marine management and tuna fishing, and a

conceptual lens to analyse the production and mobilisation of culture as a key term. The latter

involves ethnographic research into how people use the term culture in addition to forms of

culture. Kunda refers to this approach as ‘ethnography with a twist’ (2006, p. 23). In chapter

two I analyse concepts of culture and their use alongside the term nature. This includes

analysis of the discursive connection between biological and cultural diversity that articulated

shortcomings of a nature/culture binary, which had dominated environmental management. I

argue that in both academia and policy one of the unintended outcomes was the production of

scalar and temporal binaries – local/global, small-scale/large-scale and traditional/modern. I

deepen this argument in chapters five and six through the case study of the tonnara in

southern Italy.

Chapter three explores the “conditions of possibility” for the emergence of

sustainability. Through a Foucauldian discourse analysis I pay attention to that which is said

and put into practice in relation to the term sustainability, and I dig down into its knowledge

coordinates. This involves tracing the origins of a four-pillar sustainability discourse to the

natural sciences and the disciplinary divides of the enlightenment period. With a focus on

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