Gender and social economies of dried fish meeting summaries

Full meeting minutes will be uploaded to the wiki as time permits.

Meeting 1: December 15, 2023

• DFM’s scoping phase has generated substantial insights into the gendered aspects of the social economy of dried fish
• Collective analysis of this wealth of material can help sustain the project’s momentum in the project’s second phase
• We need to work towards identifying a set of guiding analytical points of reference to help bring out the insights of our research
• Simultaneously, research teams need to think about how their findings fit with the emerging conceptualization
• Suggested outputs are first summary collaborative pieces followed by either a special issue or edited volume
• One approach to the summary pieces might be to write a thought piece for Yemaya followed by a literature review that identifies gaps, followed by a substantive rejoinder to the first (building on Madu’s suggestions)

Meeting 2: February 23, 2023 (full notes)

• This meeting was intended to talk about the conceptual basis for DFM's approach to gender in dried fish social economies
• The meeting focused primarily on the theorization of space and gendered work
• Attention was directed at power and gendered public, household, and online spaces
• Holly suggested that the Gendered Commodity Chains volume by Dunaway could be the basis to deepen our analysis further
• Holly also suggested that we try to identify guiding research questions to focus our attention