E-book outline

INTRODUCTION

Introduction

Geographies of dried fish

Why, how, and to whom dried fish matters (Ben Belton, Tara Nair, Sisir Pradhan, Gayathri Lokuge, Mostafa Hossain, Anupama Adikari, and Shalika Wickrama)

STORIES AND RECIPES

SECTION INTRODUCTION: Food, recipes, taste

Amali: Life history of a Maldive fish processor and producer association leader (Dilanthi Koralagama and Nireka Weeratunge)

All about 'Kapi' (Ratana Chuenpagdee, Suphakarn Traesupap, Suvaluck Satumanatpan, Thammasak Yeemin, Kungwan Juntarashote)

Local stories of the global Anthropocene: A one-day “adda” with the dry fishers of the Sundarbans Delta (Jenia Mukherjee and Raktima Ghosh)

Residing with risks: Everyday narrative of a woman at dried fish practice in the Indian Sundarbans (Souradip Pathak)

Dried fish recipes with coconut milk (Koralagama D N & Hettiarachchi H A N D)

Trawling the Shutki tidalectics: Short narratives from dry-fishing women folk in Frasergunj, India (Shreyashi Bhattacharya and Anuradha Choudry)

Chronicling Coastal Lives: An Interview with Vishnu Bhaliya, Boat Owner, Dried Fish Processor and Writer, Jafrabad (Tara Nair with Vishnu Bhaliya)

Dried fish recipes (Dr. Sai Leela Modem)

Dawn to Dusk: A day in the life of a dry fish vendor (Dr.M.Sai Leela)

A woman in a strange place (Wae Win Khaing)

Let There Be Bounty Every Day (Parag Tandel in collaboration with Sara Ahmed)

DESCRIBING VALUE CHAINS

SECTION INTRODUCTION: Dried fish as commodity: describing value chains

Maldive Fish Processing in Southern Sri Lanka (S.A. Adikary, D.N. Koralagama, and N. Weerathunga)

Online marketing and e-commerce of dried fish in Thailand (Nova Almine and Ratana Chuenpagdee)

Fish fermentation in the floodplain - a photo essay (Mostafa A R Hossain, Ben Belton and Shakuntala H Thilsted)

Characterizing dried fish value chains in Kalutara and Kantale, Sri Lanka (Madu Galappaththi, Hiroshini Wadige, Ishan Indunil)

Shopping for dried fish: A photo essay portraying the varieties of dried fish products in Thailand (Kongpop Rungruengrayup, Piyanuch Rungrattanapongporn, Suphakarn Traesupap, Suvaluck Satumanatpan, Thammasak Yeemin, Kungwan Juntarashote,and Ratana Chuenpagdee)

Living on the Edge (DFYWA)

Dried Fish Consumption in Myanmar (Sithu Lin, Ben Belton, Wae Win Khaing)

India’s fish and dried fish trade: An Overview (Jeena)

THEORIZING VALUE

SECTION INTRODUCTION: Concepts, theory, ideas

SES-oriented dried fish value chain and social-ecological wellbeing of upper segment value chain actors (Sisir Kanta Pradhan, Prateep Kumar Nayak, Derek Armitage)

Examining value from a socio-cultural perspective (Md. Mahfuzar Rahman)

Maimul: The story of marginality (Yeashir Arafath and Mirza Taslima Sultana)

Transforming values: reflections on how dried fish takes value socially (Derek Johnson)

Navigating Weights and Measurement in the dried fish value chain (Amalendu Jyotishi, Prashanth R, Nikita Gopal, Ramachandra Bhatta, Priya Gupta, Holly M. Hapke, Prasanna S)

Dried fish and sustainable gastronomy (Eric)

CO-LEARNING

SECTION INTRODUCTION: Co-learning (methodological reflections)

Computer-assisted research and the construction of a "dried fish literature" (Eric Thrift with Derek Johnson, Ben Belton, and Jonah Olsen)

Dried fish stories: Reflections on visualizing social economies of dried fish in the time of COVID (Nireka Weeratunge, Eric Thrift)

Tastes and smells of dried fish (Stories by Gayathri Lokuge, Madu Galappaththi, Mostafa Hossain, and Nikita Gopal; Commentary by Eric Thrift)

Researching the researchers: communication and communication effectiveness in an international project (Alexia Pigeault & Fabiana Li)

Synthesis: The Dried Fish Matters E-book as Co-Learning