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This is an annotated draft outline for the first DFM e-book. Notes on each contribution are by editors and may be taken as guidance by authors. The title of each proposed contribution is linked to the chapter synopsis.

== Introductory section ==

=== Preface ===
Volume editors, 1000 words. What this e-book is (audience, purpose), and how it is organized. Identify the main themes.

=== Why, how, and to whom dried fish matters ===
Derek et al. Brief words about the DFM project, how it came to be, why Derek saw it as important, how this understanding has changed since the inception of the project. Could be presented as a dialogue between Derek and someone else (Madu?); or perhaps something like the panel discussion we had at the TBTI Open House. Maybe provide a set of 4-5 questions to three “panellists” and have them prepare responses – see our [[WOW panel questions]] and [[WOW panel transcript|transcript]] (which could be edited for inclusion).

=== Dried fish and sustainable gastronomy ===
Volume editors, 3000 words. Linking dried fish to foodways / cultural heritage, sustainability, and development. Combining the three pillars of sustainable development – ecological, economic, and social – plus culture and various forms of lived, sensorial experience.

=== What is dried fish? ===
List(s) or table(s) of major species, processing methods, and product types, including local names where appropriate. Provide detail on terminology: ''dried fish'', ''fermented fish'', ''fish paste'', ''salted fish'', ''smoked fish'', etc. Describe the logic of our terminological scheme.

=== Geographies of dried fish ===
Compiled by Madu, around 12000 words altogether. Two-page summaries from the DFM research teams: (1) Gujarat (2) Karnataka (3) Kerala (4) Sri Lanka (5) Andhra Pradesh (6) Telangana (7) West Bengal (8) Bangladesh (9) Mizoram & Manipur (10) Myanmar (11) Thailand (12) Cambodia. Include a small map from each country and ask for information in a template format.

== Dried fish as commodity: describing value chains ==

=== Section introduction ===
Volume editors, 800-1000 words. Include discussion of value chains, comparison of the various case studies, and reflection on the different ways of representing value chains.

=== [[Characterizing dried fish value chains in Kalutara and Kantale, Sri Lanka]] ===
Madu Galappaththi, Hiroshini Wadige, Ishan Indunil, Long essay, 5000 words. Suggest bringing in discussion of the research methods as well -- not only a “characterization” of the value chains, but also a comment on HOW that characterization might take place. 

=== [[Dried Fish Consumption in Myanmar]] ===
Sithu Lin, Ben Belton, Wae Win Khaing, Report, 5000 words. Wae Win suggests this will be rewritten as the [[DFM Myanmar consumption survey|draft report]] is very technical. We want to avoid this being a series of tables and graphs, but it would be nice to include discussion of what we can and can’t learn from consumption surveys, and to speak to the generative potential of quantitative research (i.e., what survey data suggest in terms of future qualitative research questions or hypotheses).

=== [[Fish fermentation in the floodplain - a photo essay]] ===
Mostafa A R Hossain, Ben Belton and Shakuntala H Thilsted, Life stories: photo essay, 500-1000 words. Image requirements: 300 dpi; include photographer and participant details for each.

=== [[Maldive Fish Processing in Southern Sri Lanka]] ===
S.A. Adikary, D.N. Koralagama, and N. Weerathunga, short essay, 3000 words. Suggest focusing on the diversity of processing, and including a reflection on how to make sense of “messy” information from field research.

=== [[Shopping for dried fish: A photo essay portraying the varieties of dried fish products in Thailand]] ===
Kongpop Rungruengrayup, Piyanuch Rungrattanapongporn, Suphakarn Traesupap, Suvaluck Satumanatpan, Thammasak Yeemin, Kungwan Juntarashote, and Ratana Chuenpagdee; photo essay; 2000 words.

=== IMBeR contribution ===
Synthesis of knowledge/issues related to ecology, nutrition, and value chains involving small dried fish in three regions: South Asia, East Asia, South-East Asia. Focus primarily on food and nutrition security.

== Stories ==

=== Section introduction ===
Volume editors, 800-1000 words. How dried fish processing and trade is deeply grounded in local, personal experiences. 

For each of the contributions here, suggest possible questions about voice: is the life story translated? Edited by the researcher? Is there a researcher’s commentary? It would be helpful to encourage reflection on the role of the researcher in constructing a “life story” that is not told directly by the subject to the audience but rather through an intermediary.

=== [[A woman in a strange place]] ===
Wae Win Khaing, Life story, 1000 words.

=== [[Dawn to Dusk: A day in the life of a dry fish vendor]] ===
Dr.M.Sai Leela, Interview transcript, 3000 words.

=== [[Local stories of the global Anthropocene: A one-day “adda” with the dry fishers of the Sundarbans Delta]] ===
Jenia Mukherjee and Raktima Ghosh, Essay, 3000 words.

=== [[Chronicling Coastal Lives: An Interview with Vishnu Bhaliya, Boat Owner, Dried Fish Processor and Writer, Jafrabad]] ===
Tara Nair with Vishnu Bhaliya, Interview, 3000 words.

=== [[Amali: Life history of a Maldive fish processor and producer association leader]] ===
Dilanthi Koralagama and Nireka Weeratunge, Short essay with photos (~1500 words)

== Food (recipes, taste) ==

=== Section introduction ===
Volume editors, 800-1000 words. How can we describe the taste and smell of dried fish? What makes dried fish so valued as food?

=== [[All about 'Kapi']] ===
Ratana Chuenpagdee, Suphakarn Traesupap, Suvaluck Satumanatpan, Thammasak Yeemin, and Kungwan Juntarashote, Short essay, 2,500 words. Suggest using strong visual evidence. Reflect on the “value” of kapi -- social, cultural, taste, etc.

=== [[Dried fish recipes]] ===
Dr. Sai Leela Modem, Grandmother's recipe, 1000 words. Recipe

=== [[Dried fish recipes with coconut milk]] ===
Koralagama D N & Hettiarachchi H A N D, Grandmother's recipe, 800 words. Recipe

=== [[Let There Be Bounty Every Day]] ===
Parag Tandel (co-founder of the Tandel Fund of Archives, Mumbai) in collaboration with Sara Ahmed, Recipe and visuals, Short contribution. Very useful model for community collaboration. Interfaces with academic and non-academic knowledge.

=== Poems on dried fish ===
Compiled (and translated?) by Mahfuzar Rahman. Poetry and how it celebrates dried fish; presented in Bengali with English translation and commentary.

== Co-learning (methodological reflections) ==

=== Section introduction ===
Volume editors, 800-1000 words. The Partnership Grant scheme is intended to foster collaboration, which we could frame as “co-learning”. What methods and tools have we used, especially in experimental ways, to help us understand dried fish?

=== [[Computer-assisted research and the construction of a "dried fish literature"]] ===
Eric Thrift with Derek Johnson, Ben Belton, and Jonah Olsen, Essay, 3000 words. Focusing on the process of working with Zotero, how technology structures knowledge and privileges certain types of text and metadata. Discuss opportunities for collaboration and future uses of Zotero.

=== [[Not just fish and salt: student views on dried fish research]] ===
Nova Almine, Personal reflections on the research and learning process, about 4,000 words. Nice reflexive approach – possibly try to speak to the literature on the supposed biases of the “Native Anthropologist” and, conversely, decolonization of ethnographic knowledge (e.g., discussion following Kirin Narayan, 1993, "How Native is a 'Native' Anthropologist?").

=== [[Researching the researchers: communication and communication effectiveness in an international project]] ===
Alexia Pigeault & Fabiana Li, Essay, 4000 words. Likely to be a summary of the thesis. Potentially comment, more speculatively than the thesis itself allows, on how communications structure knowledge (what we study, how we represent it) and the power relations inherent within communications. Everyone in the project has a passion for dried fish – how does that come across?

=== [[Dried fish stories: Reflections on visualizing social economies of dried fish in the time of COVID]] ===
Nireka Weeratunge and Eric Thrift, Short essay with photographs and link to video, 2000 words.

== Concepts (Theory, ideas) ==

=== Section introduction ===
Volume editors, 800-1000 words. Different theoretical frameworks and the types of value they illuminate. Exploring or interrogating the various concepts or terms that we can use in thinking about dried fish value chains: local terms for weights and measures, "social economy", "value", etc.

=== [[Examining value from a socio-cultural perspective]] ===
Md. Mahfuzar Rahman, Essay, 2500-3000 words. See overlap with Derek’s contribution.

=== [[Maimul: The story of marginality]] ===
Yeashir Arafath and Mirza Taslima Sultana. Very appropriate to the concept of "social economy", which might be addressed here or in the section introduction -- how dried fish processing and trade is entangled with socio-political and cultural identities.

=== [[Navigating Weights and Measurement in the dried fish value chain]] ===
Amalendu Jyotishi, Prashanth R, Nikita Gopal, Ramachandra Bhatta, Priya Gupta, Holly M. Hapke, Prasanna S, Analytical narrative, 3000 words plus photographs and figures. Commentary on how standardized vs informal weights and measures structure knowledge and social relations.

=== [[SES-oriented dried fish value chain and social-ecological wellbeing of upper segment value chain actors]] ===
Sisir Kanta Pradhan, Prateep Kumar Nayak, Derek Armitage - Theory chapter. Suggest expanding the chapter by adding a commentary about how to research 'SES aspects' or one/two brief case examples from the field plus photos -- not just theory.

=== [[Transforming values: reflections on how dried fish takes value socially]] ===
Derek Johnson, conceptual reflection essay with lots of empirical illustrations from across the project, 3000-4000 words. Note overlap with Mahfuz. Could be synthesis piece for book at beginning or end.

=== [[Exploring fisherwomen's contributions to dried fish value chains within 'fishermen's world'.|Exploring fisherwomen's contributions to dried fish value chains within 'fishermen's world']] ===
Aklima Akter, long essay, 3000 words. 

== Conclusion ==

=== Synthesis ===
Volume editors, 5000 words. Discuss where this all leaves us; how the e-book represents a pathway or process; reiteration of our passion for dried fish; hopes for the future. Possibilities: how we define or challenge understandings of “value”; methodological complications; the messiness of knowledge. How all of this fits within our project of ''making dried fish matter'', surfacing its value, etc., but in very particular ways (that are not politically neutral).