Featured pages
The DFM Wiki is the main platform for project working documents. Working papers, reference documents, etc. are available here for internal discussion and, where appropriate, contributions from people outside the project. To create an account and edit documents on the wiki, see https://driedfishmatters.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started.
Currently there are 430 pages and 1,049 media files in the DFM wiki, with a total of 4,732 edits by 57 users. The pages below were most recently added to the "Featured" category on the DFM wiki; older pages are listed at https://driedfishmatters.org/wiki/Category:Featured. To see recently added media (images, videos, and other media), see https://driedfishmatters.org/wiki/Special:NewFiles.
DFM Reports status
This table includes reports that have been submitted and as working drafts. Status details are taken from the description page for each report; the list itself is managed manually. .
E-book
Building on the success of the three Dried Fish Matters roundtables at the MARE 2021 "People and the Sea" Conference, we are preparing a DFM e-book that will explore the socio-cultural value of dried fish. The e-book will be formally released on 18 June, 2022 to coincide with global observance of Sustainable Gastronomy Day. We intend this e-book to celebrate the role of dried fish as one that is deeply "gastronomical" – in the sense of being embedded in cultural life and foodways – while also vitally linked to sustainable development. The publication will include contributions that describe dried fish products and value chains, share the stories and experiences of people who produce and sell dried fish, and reflect on our efforts to find new ways to learn and to communicate knowledge about dried fish. Individual contributions will describe preliminary results, reflect on the research process, invite readers to contemplate, present field notes or raw data, or convey the original works of research participants and collaborators.
E-book editorial review
This is a reviewer listing and sign-up sheet for the DFM e-book. Our intention is that each of our 29 manuscripts will be reviewed by a section editor and by someone else from the project, and brief comments returned to each author by MARCH 2, 2022. Contributors will then have two weeks to complete any revisions they wish to make. This review process is not expected to be rigorous and evaluative in the sense of a journal peer review; instead, reviewers will focus primarily on flow and clarity (does the text flow in a logical way? Is it easy for a non-specialist reader to follow?) and offer general comments, questions, or suggestions for the authors, in the spirit of sharing ideas across the DFM Partnership.
IMBeR panel
DFM is organizing a panel at the upcoming IMBeR West Pacific Symposium, entitled "Dried Small Fish: Ecology, Value Chains, and Nutrition".
Maritime Studies special issue
This is a draft proposal for a Special Issue of Maritime Studies, to be edited by Amrita Sen and Jenia Mukherjee, on the topic Social and political ecologies of small-scale fishing in South Asia: co-producing knowledge through transdisciplinary research and stakeholder engagement. Small-scale fishers in South Asia both marine and inland, are underrepresented and undervalued in policy agendas and discourses. Structural challenges encumbering their livelihoods include environmental risks, increase in intensive industrial and commercial fishing, habitat loss, displacements and weaker agencies associated with limited subsistence-based assets . An increasing emphasis on the ‘Blue Economy’, as many studies have recently begun to point out, further undervalues and threatens the foundations of small-scale fishing, threatening basic considerations of food security and human rights [1][2]. In many rapidly growing coastal cities in the South, as a recent (urban) political ecology framing has shown, biophysical shifts in built nature have reconfigured images of how small-scale fishing communities can stake claims to newer and even more dynamic coastal spaces that are under the influence of economic and political transformations [3].
Research team midterm activity summaries
These activity summaries were provided by the DFM Research Teams as part of the project Mid-Term Reporting exercise in October 2021. Although all of our research teams experienced setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of our teams were successful at conducting research through online channels, in partnership with third-party organizations, or drawing on secondary sources.
SSHRC Midterm report feedback
These comments were shared by SSHRC in response to our Midterm Report. The contents of the report are included on the wiki page Strategic planning and were presented at the Plenary meeting on 2021-12-09. The feedback is strongly positive overall, while noting the possibility of improvement in several areas: increasing the number of academic publications, updating research activities on the project website, and increasing partner contributions.
Stage two planning
This document lists some planning suggestions the starting point of which was the outcome of discussions at the Plenary meeting of 2022-01-25. We have set up an associated discussion Page where we are trying to collect feedback on (1) routine communications strategies, and (2) planned outputs for the remainder of the project. In particular, we are looking for ideas and preferences for brown bag meetings, webinars, or in-person meetings; suggestions for pilot projects; ideas about how to involve students in the second half of the project; and thoughts about potential collaborative writing outputs, such as the proposed edited volume or collaborative monograph. Please press the "Comment" button or one of the "reply" links to join the discussion.
Strategic planning
This document, which incorporates material from the DFM Milestone and Midterm Reports submitted to SSHRC, outlines our progress to date and outlines strategic directions for the second phase of the Dried Fish Matters project.
Visualizing social economies image credits
The still images on this page were used in the "Visualizing social economies" video. They are presented here in a gallery format; click on any image to view as a slideshow with a link to the image description.
WOW panel transcript
This transcript is taken from the DFM panel discussion at the Small-Scale Fisheries Open House held during World Ocean Week in June 2021, facilitated by Ben Belton. The discussion follows a presentation of the video What Is the “Value” in Dried Fish Value Chains? [1], and features comments on value and governance in the dried fish sector from Tara Nair, Sisir Pradhan, Gayathri Lokuge, Mostafa Hossain, Anupama Adikari, and Shalika Wickrama. The text has been edited for clarity.
WSSFC 2022
This is the DFM proposal for the 4WSFC Asia-Pacific. The title of the session is "Collaborative process in research on dried fish in Asia: social economy, nutrition, and ‘improvement’".
Help:Image uploader
The Upload Wizard is the default method for uploading images and other files to the DFM Wiki, for use within the Dried Fish Matters project and beyond. This tool replicates the one used by Wikimedia Commons. The text and screenshots below describe the typical uploading process. You can access the uploader at any time by following the "Upload file" link in the "Wiki tools" site menu.
Help:QDA best practices
This document outlines some suggested best practices for Qualitative Data Analysis.
Category:Cox's Bazar workshop 2019
Materials from the DFM Scoping research planning and training workshop, held in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh in February 2019. This collection includes photographs taken during pilot fieldwork at the Nazirar Tek fish drying yards.
Category:DFYWA
Photographs and other research materials produced by DFYWA.
Category:Derek's Travels
This category includes a collection of over 100 images taken from the Travels into Several Familiar Nations of South and Southeast Asia by Professor Derek S. Johnson (2019). Images in the collection are georeferenced but lack descriptions from the author. Many of the images depict diverse and sundry dried or fermented fish products that captured the interest of the photographer. Some images, notably within the series beginning with figure 89, depict Co-Investigators and Collaborators of the Dried Fish Matters project in various poses.
Category:Infographics
This category contains infographics produced by, or with support from, the Dried Fish Matters project. Please circulate widely!
Category:Mizoram and Manipur
Resources related to Mizoram and Manipur. This category includes photographs submitted by VSS from their field research in the Northeastern states of India, featuring geo-tagged images of dried fish processors, sellers, markets, and products.
Category:Myanmar
Research from DFM Myanmar. This category contains photographs, primarily taken by Ben Belton, representing different dried fish products from Myanmar as well as consumption graphs. These items were uploaded by Wae Win as part of work on the Myanmar Dried Fish Consumption Survey.
