MARE conference 2021
The deadline for submissions to the conference organizing committee has been extended to 12 February, 2021. To allow us time to finalize the DFM proposals, we request that you send us your comments by no later than FEBRUARY 5.
Preamble
The MARE conference presents an opportunity towards the end of the scoping phase of DFM to take stock of what we have achieved so far. It also gives us a chance to present our preliminary results to the broader maritime studies audience. I (Derek) present below a proposal for DFM’s participation in the MARE conference that tries to allow for participation by project members and presentation of DFM’s themes while also recognizing the limits of how many panel slots we can reasonable ask from the conference organizing committee. The roundtable structure draws substantially on discussions that we have had in our working group meetings.
Rather than a traditional panel/paper format, therefore, I am proposing a ‘roundtable’ structure for DFM’s contribution to the MARE conference. The three or four roundtables offer an opportunity for students, research teams, and working groups to collectively present DFM’s empirical, methodological, theoretical, and applied findings from our scoping research. DFM has also been invited to join other panels co-organized by Prateep Nayak’s V2V project, Maarten Bavinck’s Fish4Food project, Ratana Chuenpagdee’s TBTI Global, and WorldFish. Titles of these panels are listed below the roundtable proposal.
We do not need to have a final program for the roundtables at this stage. If our proposal is accepted we can work on details for some time until the conference program needs to be finalized. I anticipate that the conference committee will accept the proposal, but not allow us the full number of panels that we are requesting.
Roundtable proposal: Collaborations in Dried Fish Social Economies in Asia
Roundtable 1: Conceptualizing Dried Fish Social Economies
- Brief framing overview for the panel set and this panel: Derek (10 mins)
- Complicating value in DF value chains: Mahfuz, Madhu, Sevil, Sisir, Tara, Ben, Jessie, Jonah (20 mins)
- Gendered intersections: Madhu, Mahfuz, Nireka, Kyoko, Holly, Gayathri (20 mins)
- Framing questions and discussion (40/70 mins)
Roundtable 2: Constructing Dried Fish Social Economies: Methods
- Performing collaboration: Alexia, Derek, Fabiana, Eric, Prateep, Ratana (15 mins)
- Tools for collaboration: Eric (15 mins)
- Methodological innovation for studying dried fish value chains: Ben, Tara, Nireka, Sami, Sisir, Aklima (15 mins)
- Lessons from scoping research implementation: all research team leaders (15 mins)
- Discussion (30/60 mins)
Roundtable 3: Constructing Dried Fish Social Economies: Findings 1
Cross-research team presentations on focused set of key themes to be identified through deliberative DFM process
For example:
- Gender, labour, and migration: Dilanthi (Experience from Sri Lanka)
- Product variation, nutrition security, and cultural preference
- Comparative structural analysis of dried fish value chains
- Comparative conduct analysis of dried fish value chains
- Comparative performance analysis of dried fish value chains
- Comparative dried fish policy landscapes
- Dried Fish Stories: Visual, aural, and gustatory landscapes of dried fish (Tina and Nireka's idea for pre-recorded/prepared video presentation; also of interest to Sara and Gayathri among others)
Roundtable 4: Constructing Dried Fish Social Economies: Findings 2
A more traditional panel of papers by DFM Research Teams and Students
Other DFM Panels at MARE
DFM-V2V-TBTI-WorldFish panel on lessons, learning, and promise of inter-project collaboration
Combined panel with Fish4Food, SmallFishFood, and IKAN-F3 on small fish and nutrition security
- A summary paper on dried fish and nutrition security from DFM would be part of this panel (Sami, Rotimi, Amal, Priya, Ben, Shakuntala, Kirit, Sai Leela)
V2V-DFM panel
- V2V I-Adapt framework (Alida Bundy)
- V2V Situational Analysis (Derek Armitage)
- DFM Social ecological systems and dried fish value chains (Sisir Pradhan)
- DFM Policy, governance, development and dried fish value chains (Emdad Haque)
