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| − | | | + | | [https://trello.com/c/61e5ddcfc07f1d1f6e08879c Examining value from a socio-cultural perspective (Md. Mahfuzar Rahman)] |
| This essay examines value from a socio-cultural perspective, deriving insights from existing value literature in anthropology, social science, development studies, and critical literature on global value chains. Highlighting the social connection of value and value heterogeneity, it problematizes the market economy's narrow, individualistic and disembedded value perspective. The money-centric valuation system builds on neo-classical economic principles, pays attention only to the capitalist economic relations and their economic value and is insensitive to non-economic relations and value. The existing valuation system built on this narrow understanding is partial and misleading; it failed to capture the real value of a thing. This essay argues for a critical value perspective that is inclusive, sensitive to value heterogeneity, attentive to all types of economic and social relations that produce value, and critical to the impact of (dis)recognition of value on human wellbeing. | | This essay examines value from a socio-cultural perspective, deriving insights from existing value literature in anthropology, social science, development studies, and critical literature on global value chains. Highlighting the social connection of value and value heterogeneity, it problematizes the market economy's narrow, individualistic and disembedded value perspective. The money-centric valuation system builds on neo-classical economic principles, pays attention only to the capitalist economic relations and their economic value and is insensitive to non-economic relations and value. The existing valuation system built on this narrow understanding is partial and misleading; it failed to capture the real value of a thing. This essay argues for a critical value perspective that is inclusive, sensitive to value heterogeneity, attentive to all types of economic and social relations that produce value, and critical to the impact of (dis)recognition of value on human wellbeing. | ||
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| − | | | + | | [https://trello.com/c/61e5ddd0e0d7014f6ddc1ca6 Maimul: The story of marginality (Yeashir Arafath and Mirza Taslima Sultana)] |
| Maimul is the term widely used to denotes the North-eastern haor centric families of Bangladesh, who are involved in fishing, fish farming, fish trading, and fish drying. During the scoping field visit on dried fish at Sylhet and Sunamganj, we came across the term. The research participants of the dried fish market told us that though the Maimuls are Muslim, they are considered as a lower caste in the society; hence no one generally wants to have a marital relationship with these families. Socially the term Maimul has a derogatory connotation. Over the past two decades, people's perceptions of the Maimul suffix have been transforming slowly due to the economic change of the people involved in dried fish production and trading. This paper aims to unpack the tensions around the identity of Maimul at Sylhet, as well as to grasp the transformation of the identity which is intertwined with the local politics. | | Maimul is the term widely used to denotes the North-eastern haor centric families of Bangladesh, who are involved in fishing, fish farming, fish trading, and fish drying. During the scoping field visit on dried fish at Sylhet and Sunamganj, we came across the term. The research participants of the dried fish market told us that though the Maimuls are Muslim, they are considered as a lower caste in the society; hence no one generally wants to have a marital relationship with these families. Socially the term Maimul has a derogatory connotation. Over the past two decades, people's perceptions of the Maimul suffix have been transforming slowly due to the economic change of the people involved in dried fish production and trading. This paper aims to unpack the tensions around the identity of Maimul at Sylhet, as well as to grasp the transformation of the identity which is intertwined with the local politics. | ||
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| − | | | + | | [https://trello.com/c/61e5ddce05b1916c93e33347 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)] |
| The Karnataka and Kerala team while mapping the dried fish markets came across species sold using different weights and measurements. Through further observations we found there are species sold in numbers as a unit, others in kilogram, some as heaps, and yet others in seru a container of local measurement. We probed dried fish value chains further to understand what measurements are followed in the procurement process of these species. This led us to multiple and varied measurements used at different points along the value chain for different species. To add to the complexities, the weight of the fish (in terms of mass and volume) goes through a change as the wet fish loses weight in the drying process and the level of moisture content decreases. The amount of salting would also change the weights. This led to the question, how do the women-small-scale dried fish processors and traders navigate varied weights and measurements in their procurement of supply, processing, and sale of products to consumers? How does experience and the intuitive cognitive logic work for these women who are barely literate, to navigate the process? Is there a trade secret from which they tend to gain, or they lose out or discount their own (non-market and mostly labor) contribution in the process? Why isn’t a uniform method of measurement followed across species of fish and in dried fish value chains? In this short narrative, we attempt to explain the process of measurement in different nodes of the dried fish value chain. While we group some species across different types of measurement in the value chain, we also follow a few species, in an attempt to unearth the reasons behind following such varied measurement practices. To address a larger question, standardization of measurement is one of the prime attributes of capitalist economy and its expansion. In that context, we can raise questions about how multiple systems of transactions co-exist and how does these inform the economic system overall, which is deeply embedded in social, cultural, and path-dependent practices. | | The Karnataka and Kerala team while mapping the dried fish markets came across species sold using different weights and measurements. Through further observations we found there are species sold in numbers as a unit, others in kilogram, some as heaps, and yet others in seru a container of local measurement. We probed dried fish value chains further to understand what measurements are followed in the procurement process of these species. This led us to multiple and varied measurements used at different points along the value chain for different species. To add to the complexities, the weight of the fish (in terms of mass and volume) goes through a change as the wet fish loses weight in the drying process and the level of moisture content decreases. The amount of salting would also change the weights. This led to the question, how do the women-small-scale dried fish processors and traders navigate varied weights and measurements in their procurement of supply, processing, and sale of products to consumers? How does experience and the intuitive cognitive logic work for these women who are barely literate, to navigate the process? Is there a trade secret from which they tend to gain, or they lose out or discount their own (non-market and mostly labor) contribution in the process? Why isn’t a uniform method of measurement followed across species of fish and in dried fish value chains? In this short narrative, we attempt to explain the process of measurement in different nodes of the dried fish value chain. While we group some species across different types of measurement in the value chain, we also follow a few species, in an attempt to unearth the reasons behind following such varied measurement practices. To address a larger question, standardization of measurement is one of the prime attributes of capitalist economy and its expansion. In that context, we can raise questions about how multiple systems of transactions co-exist and how does these inform the economic system overall, which is deeply embedded in social, cultural, and path-dependent practices. | ||
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| − | | | + | | [https://trello.com/c/61e5ddd091fc1f361174f9e9 SES-oriented dried fish value chain and social-ecological wellbeing of upper segment value chain actors (Sisir Kanta Pradhan, Prateep Kumar Nayak, Derek Armitage)] |
| Dried fish accounts for 12% of the total fish consumption globally increases up to 36% in low-income countries. Rich in calcium and essential micronutrients, dried fish contribution to food and nutrition security of the poor is considered significant. Its primary production and trade are important sources of livelihoods and employment for millions of producers, about half of which are women. Despite its importance, work on dried fish value chain (DFVC) continues to focus on financial value creation and linear interactions among market actors that impede the recognition of human rights, justice, food security and power across the entire value chain. Such a neoclassical perspective of DFVC undermines the complex human-nature interactions that is contingent upon specific histories, people, place, and practices. This has strong implications for the poor who are positioned at the extractive end of value chain and who continue to remain vulnerable to the changing governance approaches as well as dwindling fish stocks. Scholars working within the realm of sociology, anthropology and interdisciplinary sciences such as social-ecological systems advocate for inclusion of non-linear and multiple feedbacks within the DFVC, in place of the current narrow connotations of value and the process of value realization. Drawing upon dried fish value chain and SES literature, the chapter offers an outline of a SES-oriented value chain (SESVC) by identifying the key attributes that have the potential to improve social-ecological wellbeing of upper end value chain actors in dried fish value chain. | | Dried fish accounts for 12% of the total fish consumption globally increases up to 36% in low-income countries. Rich in calcium and essential micronutrients, dried fish contribution to food and nutrition security of the poor is considered significant. Its primary production and trade are important sources of livelihoods and employment for millions of producers, about half of which are women. Despite its importance, work on dried fish value chain (DFVC) continues to focus on financial value creation and linear interactions among market actors that impede the recognition of human rights, justice, food security and power across the entire value chain. Such a neoclassical perspective of DFVC undermines the complex human-nature interactions that is contingent upon specific histories, people, place, and practices. This has strong implications for the poor who are positioned at the extractive end of value chain and who continue to remain vulnerable to the changing governance approaches as well as dwindling fish stocks. Scholars working within the realm of sociology, anthropology and interdisciplinary sciences such as social-ecological systems advocate for inclusion of non-linear and multiple feedbacks within the DFVC, in place of the current narrow connotations of value and the process of value realization. Drawing upon dried fish value chain and SES literature, the chapter offers an outline of a SES-oriented value chain (SESVC) by identifying the key attributes that have the potential to improve social-ecological wellbeing of upper end value chain actors in dried fish value chain. | ||
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Revision as of 11:01, 10 March 2022
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| Examining value from a socio-cultural perspective (Md. Mahfuzar Rahman) | This essay examines value from a socio-cultural perspective, deriving insights from existing value literature in anthropology, social science, development studies, and critical literature on global value chains. Highlighting the social connection of value and value heterogeneity, it problematizes the market economy's narrow, individualistic and disembedded value perspective. The money-centric valuation system builds on neo-classical economic principles, pays attention only to the capitalist economic relations and their economic value and is insensitive to non-economic relations and value. The existing valuation system built on this narrow understanding is partial and misleading; it failed to capture the real value of a thing. This essay argues for a critical value perspective that is inclusive, sensitive to value heterogeneity, attentive to all types of economic and social relations that produce value, and critical to the impact of (dis)recognition of value on human wellbeing. |
From Mahfuz:
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| Maimul: The story of marginality (Yeashir Arafath and Mirza Taslima Sultana) | Maimul is the term widely used to denotes the North-eastern haor centric families of Bangladesh, who are involved in fishing, fish farming, fish trading, and fish drying. During the scoping field visit on dried fish at Sylhet and Sunamganj, we came across the term. The research participants of the dried fish market told us that though the Maimuls are Muslim, they are considered as a lower caste in the society; hence no one generally wants to have a marital relationship with these families. Socially the term Maimul has a derogatory connotation. Over the past two decades, people's perceptions of the Maimul suffix have been transforming slowly due to the economic change of the people involved in dried fish production and trading. This paper aims to unpack the tensions around the identity of Maimul at Sylhet, as well as to grasp the transformation of the identity which is intertwined with the local politics. |
Submitted by Yeashir Arafath (Borno), JU MSS student.
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| 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) | The Karnataka and Kerala team while mapping the dried fish markets came across species sold using different weights and measurements. Through further observations we found there are species sold in numbers as a unit, others in kilogram, some as heaps, and yet others in seru a container of local measurement. We probed dried fish value chains further to understand what measurements are followed in the procurement process of these species. This led us to multiple and varied measurements used at different points along the value chain for different species. To add to the complexities, the weight of the fish (in terms of mass and volume) goes through a change as the wet fish loses weight in the drying process and the level of moisture content decreases. The amount of salting would also change the weights. This led to the question, how do the women-small-scale dried fish processors and traders navigate varied weights and measurements in their procurement of supply, processing, and sale of products to consumers? How does experience and the intuitive cognitive logic work for these women who are barely literate, to navigate the process? Is there a trade secret from which they tend to gain, or they lose out or discount their own (non-market and mostly labor) contribution in the process? Why isn’t a uniform method of measurement followed across species of fish and in dried fish value chains? In this short narrative, we attempt to explain the process of measurement in different nodes of the dried fish value chain. While we group some species across different types of measurement in the value chain, we also follow a few species, in an attempt to unearth the reasons behind following such varied measurement practices. To address a larger question, standardization of measurement is one of the prime attributes of capitalist economy and its expansion. In that context, we can raise questions about how multiple systems of transactions co-exist and how does these inform the economic system overall, which is deeply embedded in social, cultural, and path-dependent practices. |
Review completed.
Received from Prasanna Surathkal.
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| SES-oriented dried fish value chain and social-ecological wellbeing of upper segment value chain actors (Sisir Kanta Pradhan, Prateep Kumar Nayak, Derek Armitage) | Dried fish accounts for 12% of the total fish consumption globally increases up to 36% in low-income countries. Rich in calcium and essential micronutrients, dried fish contribution to food and nutrition security of the poor is considered significant. Its primary production and trade are important sources of livelihoods and employment for millions of producers, about half of which are women. Despite its importance, work on dried fish value chain (DFVC) continues to focus on financial value creation and linear interactions among market actors that impede the recognition of human rights, justice, food security and power across the entire value chain. Such a neoclassical perspective of DFVC undermines the complex human-nature interactions that is contingent upon specific histories, people, place, and practices. This has strong implications for the poor who are positioned at the extractive end of value chain and who continue to remain vulnerable to the changing governance approaches as well as dwindling fish stocks. Scholars working within the realm of sociology, anthropology and interdisciplinary sciences such as social-ecological systems advocate for inclusion of non-linear and multiple feedbacks within the DFVC, in place of the current narrow connotations of value and the process of value realization. Drawing upon dried fish value chain and SES literature, the chapter offers an outline of a SES-oriented value chain (SESVC) by identifying the key attributes that have the potential to improve social-ecological wellbeing of upper end value chain actors in dried fish value chain. |
2022-03-10: Received from Sisir.
2022-02-03: Sisir still dealing with COVID issues in family.
Responded that we will accept the submission when it is ready.
2022-02-02: Follow-up email to Sisir et al.
2022-01-14: Requests 15 day extension (down with COVID019) |
2022-01-30 |
