User:Jessievarquezjr
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| Full name | Jessie Varquez |
|---|---|
| Institution | University of Manitoba |
| Research | Social Wellbeing, Assemblage, and Governmentality of Human-Rabbitfish Relations |
About me
I'm currently a PhD Candidate in anthropology at the University of Manitoba conducting ethnographic fieldwork to investigate human-rabbitfish relations on Bantayan Island in the Central Philippines.
About my research
My research broadly investigates human-rabbitfish relations through the lens of social wellbeing, assemblage, and governmentality. In particular, I look at a dried fish commodity locally called "boneless danggit", which commands a high price and is widely consumed throughout the Philippines, as a reference and vantage point toward understanding the complex issues of coastal ecology, small-scale fisheries, artisanal dried fish making, gender, coastal governance, and other attendant issues and themes on values and power..
