Gender and social economies of dried fish meeting summaries

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

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)

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?

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