Gender and social economies of dried fish meeting summaries
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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 (see Kyoko's powerful example of the politics of public-private reproductive space in Thailand)
- 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 (three) guiding research questions to focus our attention
- Possibilities (Derek):
- How are dried fish spaces across the value chain (processing, trading, retailing, consuming, online) gendered?
- How might relational approaches like feminist materialism, social wellbeing, and intersectionality provide a novel basis for insights into the social economy of dried fish?
- How best to compare our findings on the gendered social economy of dried fish across our study sites?
- What does the shape of dried fish value chains look like when household are included as sites of production and reproduction?
