How the IWC Meetings Appear



Although decisions at the IWC meetings are reported in various media, the nature of those meetings is not known. In this section, I present some descriptions and analyses of them, taken from the Ph.D. dissertation of Dr Masami Iwasaki-Goodman with her approval as follows.

Iwasaki-Goodman, Masami. 1994.
An Analysis of Social and Cultural Change in Ayukawa-hama (Ayukawa Shore Community).
Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of Anthropology.
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

As a member of the Japanese delegation to the IWC, she attended IWC meetings several times to present her research on coastal whaling communities in Japan.

In Chapter 7, she describes the 43rd Annual Meeting held in Iceland as follows:

Interactional Analysis: IWC where decisions are made

Also, her analysis of the IWC continues in Chapter 8 as follows:

C. Polarization in IWC
D. Impacts of polarization in the IWC

The following appendix is often cited in the part of the paper presented here.

Appendix 1. Portion of the Verbatim Record from the 43rd Annual Meeting of the IWC in 1991

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