Gender and social economies of dried fish

This page is the gathering place for links and documents related to the WG1 sub-theme on gender and the social economies of dried fish.

The sub-theme speaks to a long-standing critical area of interest and importance for the participants in DFM. The formalization of the sub-theme crystallized during discussions at the GAF8 conference in Cochin in November 2022. The first output of those discussions was a list of key words compiled by conference participants. The compilation of key words was the basis for the first formal meeting of the sub-theme on December 15, 2022.

The next meeting on the theme is planned for February 1 at 9 am CST. The objective of the meeting is to develop further our theoretical focus for the collaboration. So that we have a shared starting point, participants are requested in advance to read the following two publications:

Galappaththi, Madu, Andrea M. Collins, Derek Armitage, and Prateep Kumar Nayak. 2021. “Linking Social Wellbeing and Intersectionality to Understand Gender Relations in Dried Fish Value Chains.” Maritime Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-021-00232-3.

Sachs, Carolyn E. 1996. Gendered Fields: Rural Women, Agriculture, and Environment. Rural Studies Series. Boulder: Westview Press. (particularly chapters 1, 2, and 8)

Copies of the publications are available in the DFM Zotero library in a new shared GAF folder. That folder also includes copies of the presentation slides from the GAF8 conference.

Documents (to be added)

Minutes from meeting 1

Chat transcript from meeting 1