Dr. Paul Foley

Education

• PhD, Political Science, York University (2012)
• MA, International Development Studies, Dalhousie University (2006)
• BA (Hons) (First Class), History, Memorial University (2005)

Research Interests

International and comparative political economy; political ecology; development and environmental change (e.g. fisheries); environmental politics and policy; market-oriented environmental policy and governance (e.g. eco-certification and eco-labeling); global environmental governance.

Projects

• Co-Investigator, On the Move: Employment-related Geographic Mobility (E-RGM) in the Canadian Context
• Principal Investigator, Shrimp Allocation Policies and Regional Development Under Conditions of Environmental Change: Insights for Aboriginal Groups in Northern Labrador
• Principal Investigator, Political Geographies of Private Governance: Legitimacy and Effects in Fisheries Certification
• Principal Investigator, Capturing Value: Enhancing Sustainable Seafood Strategies in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Inshore Fishing Industry

Teaching

Examples of Recent Courses Taught:

• Political Science 2600: Introduction to Public Policy and Administration
• Political Science 4650: Public Policy in Resource Dependent Economies
• Environmental Policy 6003: Environmental Political Thought
• Environmental Policy 6052: Political Economy, Political Ecology and Policy

Supervised Students

Master of Arts (M.A.) in Environmental Policy

Current:

• Juan Pablo Catellanos-Gonzales

Completed:

• Benjamin J. Dosu
• Banjo B. Edu
• Jannatul Islam
• Meghan Faught
• Ayotunde Omosule
• Richard Oppong-Bosomah
• Candice Ramalho
• Elias Mahmud Dipu
• Yaw Adom-Frempah
• Abayomi Ogayemi
• Abul Fozol Muhammod Zakaria

Selected Publications

• Foley, P. (in press). A Coxian perspective on transnational business governance proliferation: counter-hegemonic movements in fisheries. In S. Wood, K.W. Abbott, E. Meidinger, B. Eberlein, & R. Schmidt (Eds.). Transnational Business Governance Interactions: Empowering Marginalized Actors and Enhancing Regulatory Quality. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
•  Foley, P. (forthcoming). Social-ecological reproduction and the substance of life in commodity frontiers: Newfoundland fisheries in world market shifts, Capital & Class, 43(4).
• Foley, P., & Mather, C. (2019). Ocean grabbing, terraqueous territoriality and social development. Territory, Politics, Governance, 7(3): 297-315.
• Carruthers, E., Parlee, C.E., Keenan, R., & Foley, P. (2019). Onshore benefits from fishing: tracking value from the northern shrimp fishery to communities in Newfoundland and Labrador. Marine Policy, 103, 130-137.
• Stephenson, R., Wiber, M., Allain, M., Paul, S., Angel, E., Benson, A., Charles, T., Chouinard, O., Clemens, M., Edwards, D., Foley, P., Lane, D., McIsaac, J., Neis, B., Parlee, C., Pinkerton, E., Saunders, M., Squires, K., & Sumaila, R. (2019). Integrating diverse objectives for sustainable fisheries in Canada. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 76(3): 480-496.
• Foley, P., Mather, C., Dawe, N., & Snook, J. (2018). Creative and constrained hybridizations in subarctic Inuit communities: communal fishery development in Nunatsiavut, Canada. In C.P Heidkamp & J. Morissey (Eds.). Towards Coastal Resilience and Sustainability. Routledge.
• Foley, P., & Mather, C. (2018). Bringing seafood into food regime analysis: the global political economy of Newfoundland and Labrador fisheries. In C. Keske (Ed.). Food Futures: Growing a Sustainable Food System for Newfoundland and Labrador. John’s: ISER Books.
• Foley, P., Okyere, D., & Mather, C. (2018). “Alternative environmentalities: recasting the assessment of Canada’s first MSC-certified fishery in social terms. Ecology & Society, 23(3): 37.
• Epstein, G., Andrews, E., Brushett, R., Armitage, D., Foley, P., & Pittman, J. (2018). Human dimensions of eco-system-based management: Lessons in managing trade-offs from the northern shrimp fishery in Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland. Marine Policy, 97, 10-17.
• Stephenson, R., Paul, S., Wiber, M., Allain, M., Angel, E., Benson, A., Charles, T., Clemens, M., Edwards, D., Foley, P., Jennings, L., Jones, O., Lane, D., McIsaac, J., Mussells, C., Neis, B., Nordstrom, B., Parlee, C., Pinkerton, E., Saunders, M., & Squires, K. (2018). Evaluating and implementing social-ecological systems: a comprehensive approach to sustainable fisheries. Fish and Fisheries, 19(5), 853-873.
• Bennett, N., Kaplan-Hallam, M., Augustine, G., Ban, N., Belhabib, D., Brueckner-Irwin, I., Charles, T., Couture, J., Eger, S., Fanning, L., Foley, P., Goodfellow, A. M., Harper, S., Greba, L., Gregr, E., Hall, D., Maloney, B., McIsaac, J., Ou, W., Pinkerton, E., Porter, D., Satterfield, T., Sparrow, R., Stephenson, R., Stocks, A., Sumaila, R., Sutcliffe, T., & Bailey, M. (2018). Coastal and Indigenous community access to fisheries and the ocean: a policy challenge and imperative for Canada. Marine Policy, 87, 186-193.
• Foley, P. (2017). The territorialization of transnational sustainability governance: production, power, and globalization in Iceland’s fisheries. Environmental Politics, 26(5), 915-937.
• Fox, C., van Zyll de Jong, M., Hearn, B., Moores, L., Foley, P., & Harris, D. (2016). Perspectives on implementing certification on Crown forest: the case of Newfoundland and Labrador. Forestry Chronicle, 92(4), 503-511. (Open access)
• Foley, P., & Havice, E. (2016). The rise of territorial eco-certification: new politics of transnational sustainability governance in the fisheries sector. Geoforum, 69, 24-33. (Open access)
• Foley, P., & Mather, C. (2016). Making space for community use rights: insights from “community economies” in Newfoundland and Labrador. Society and Natural Resources, 29(8), 965-980. (Open Access)
• Foley, P., Mather, C., & Neis, B. (2015). Governing enclosure for coastal communities: social embeddedness in a Canadian shrimp fishery. Marine Policy, 61, 390-400. (Open Access & Part of special issue, ‘Fishing Futures: Neoliberalism and the Alternatives for Small-Scale Fisheries in North America,’ edited by Evelyn Pinkerton and Reade Davis.)
• Foley, P., & McCay, B. (2014). Certifying the commons: eco-certification, privatization and collective action. Ecology and Society, 19(2), 28. (Open access & part of special feature, ‘Rebuilding fisheries and threatened communities: the social-ecology of a particularly wicked problem,’ edited by Barbara Neis and Rosemary Ommer.)
• Foley, P., & Hébert, K. (2013). Alternative regimes of transnational environmental certification: governance, marketization, and place in Alaska’s salmon fisheries. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 45(11), 2734-2751.
• Foley, P. (2013). National government responses to Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) fisheries certification: insights from Atlantic Canada. New Political Economy, 18(2), 284-307.
• Foley, P. (2012). The political economy of Marine Stewardship Council Certification: processors and access in Newfoundland and Labrador’s inshore shrimp industry. Journal of Agrarian Change, 12(2&3), 436-57. (Part of special double issue, ‘The Political Economy and Ecology of Capture Fisheries,’ edited by Liam Campling, Elizabeth Havice and Penny McCall Howard.)