Gender and social economies of dried fish
This page is the gathering place for links and documents related to the WG1 sub-theme on gender and the social economies of dried fish.
Materials from all meetings are here.
The sub-theme speaks to a long-standing critical area of interest and importance for the participants in DFM. The formalization of the sub-theme crystallized during discussions at the GAF8 conference in Cochin in November 2022. The first output of those discussions was a list of key words compiled by conference participants. The compilation of key words was the basis for the first formal meeting of the sub-theme on December 15, 2022. Materials from that meeting are here. The requested first preliminary stab at identifying possible key themes for a possible synthesis paper is here. Discussion of exact planned outputs is still ongoing. Some ideas for outputs were discussed at our first meeting.
The second meeting on the theme took place on February 23, 2023. The objective of the meeting was to develop further our theoretical focus for the collaboration. Readings for this meeting are indicated in the bibliography below.
Meeting three took place on March 29. The meeting had two parts: 1. continued theoretical discussion based on the readings listed below; 2. planning of next steps and outputs.
Meeting four took place on April 26. Readings for this meeting are listed below. All are available in the GAF folder in the DFM Zotero library.
Meeting five took place on December 20, 2023.
The format of meeting four was a talk circle, followed by a discussion, where each participants had an opportunity to make a short statement (2 minutes or less) of one way in which their contribution to, or learning from the project linked to the themes that had been discussed and read about in the gender and social economies of dried fish meetings. Speakers could position their comments in relation to any aspect of their contribution or role in the project that they wished. My (Derek's) view of the purpose of the meeting was threefold: 1. encourage participation of as wide a range of participants in the project as possible; 2. created an opportunity to see commonalities and differences in understanding and experience; 3. served as an opportunity to refine ideas for contributions to an edited collection on gender and dried fish social economies. Through this meeting, following Holly's suggestion, the aim was to better define the core objectives and/or questions that would frame the eventual edited collection.
Tara had suggested that research teams, working groups, students, and others prepare abstracts to present at meeting four. We decided to defer the preparation of full abstracts until later. Nonetheless, participants were encouraged to begin organizing ideas and analysis of research findings in written form. Doing so would help identify emerging key points of contribution to present at the next meeting.
Readings
Readings are available in the DFM Zotero library in a new shared GAF folder. That folder also includes copies of the presentation slides from the GAF8 conference and references on gender and dried fish.
Meeting 2
Galappaththi, Madu, Andrea M. Collins, Derek Armitage, and Prateep Kumar Nayak. 2021. “Linking Social Wellbeing and Intersectionality to Understand Gender Relations in Dried Fish Value Chains.” Maritime Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-021-00232-3.
Sachs, Carolyn E. 1996. Gendered Fields: Rural Women, Agriculture, and Environment. Rural Studies Series. Boulder: Westview Press. (particularly chapters 1, 2, and 8)
Meeting 3
Dunaway, Wilma A. 2014. “Introduction.” In Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing Women’s Work and Households in Global Production, edited by Wilma A. Dunaway, 1–23. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804788960.
Collins, Jane. 2014. “A Feminist Approach to Overcoming the Closed Boxes of the Commodity Chain.” In Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing Women’s Work and Households in Global Production, edited by Wilma A. Dunaway, 27–37. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
additional optional reading:
Ferolin, Maria Cecilia. 2014. “Commodity-Chained Fishing Households: Peasant Subsidization of Exports in a Philippine Seafood-Extractive Enclave.” In Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing Women’s Work and Households in Global Production, edited by Wilma A. Dunaway, 156–71. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Meeting 4
Kabeer, Naila. 2021. “Capabilities, Empowerment, and Citizenship.” In The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics, 99–107. Routledge.
Knott, Christine, and Madeleine Gustavsson. 2022. “Introduction to Fishy Feminisms: Feminist Analysis of Fishery Places.” Gender, Place & Culture 29 (12): 1669–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2135492. (special issue introduction; other papers in collection available in DFM GAF folder in Zotero)
Mangubhai, Sangeeta, Kate M. Barclay, Sarah Lawless, and Natalie Makhoul. 2023. “Gender-Based Violence: Relevance for Fisheries Practitioners.” Fish and Fisheries n/a (n/a). https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12747.
Pedroza-Gutiérrez, Carmen, and Holly M. Hapke. 2022. “Women’s Work in Small-Scale Fisheries: A Framework for Accounting Its Value.” Gender, Place & Culture 29 (12): 1733–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2021.1997936.
