DFM WG1 Themes and outputs

Instructions for contributors

This is a draft list of suggested themes and outputs for DFM Working Group 1: Social Economy.

We have started out with a list of themes identified at the meeting of December 16, 2020. It was proposed that key questions could be listed for each theme.

Note
Note

Themes and key questions of interest

• feminist ecology, intersectionality, political ecology
• intra-household dynamics
• Migration (as affecting production and consumption of dried fish)
• Child labour, forced labour, exploitation
• Relational well-being (defining?)
• Value creation at each node in value chains -- socio-economic dimensions
• Gender-based labour, pay gaps, harassment
• Visualization as methodology; mapping, creative expression, visual displays, and collaborative authorship
• Distributive justice
• Changes in value chains (e.g., technological changes) and how they are experienced by actors within them
• Sensoriality of dried fish

Outputs

• conference panel
• video screening at MARE Conference
• ebooks (popular writing?)
• Research article linking value chains and social well-being
• Book or special issue synthesizing social economies of dried fish (based on country-level literature reviews?)
• Publishable versions of Scoping studies
• Collection of ethnographic studies
• Set of theoretical description documents (on wiki), as point of reference but also as support for future theoretical papers on dried fish.