Linking social wellbeing and intersectionality to understand gender relations in dried fish value chains

Galappaththi, Madu; Collins, Andrea M.; Armitage, Derek; Nayak, Prateep Kumar

doi:10.1007/s40152-021-00232-3

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“…The social wellbeing framework has become an important reference approach to understand complex attachments to, and societal contributions of, fishing (e.g. Britton and Coulthard 2013 ; Weeratunge et al 2014 ; Voyer et al 2015 ; Galappaththi et al 2021 ). Our paper builds on the observation in this literature that the societal value of fisheries is a relational phenomenon; what wellbeing means, and how fisheries contribute to wellbeing, have to be understood as emerging in the context of particular historical transitions and social, economic, and political relations (Coulthard 2012 ; ref suppressed).…”

Section: Wellbeing Change and Gender In Small-scale Fisheriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Men typically dominate larger-scale and more commercialised activities with women commonly involved in processing labour, small-scale trading, and petty retail (Weeratunge et al 2010 ; Hapke and Ayyankeril 2004 ). Contemporary research on gender in fisheries points to the intersectional complexities of gender relations where the performance of gender is shaped by class, ethnicity, caste, and other social positions (Galappaththi et al 2021 ).…”

Section: Wellbeing Change and Gender In Small-scale Fisheriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A social wellbeing approach to the gendered impacts of fisheries transition in Gujarat, India

Biswal

Johnson

2023

Maritime Studies

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In this paper, we use the analytical lens of social wellbeing to interpret the history of livelihood change in the coastal village of Saiyad Rajpara in Gujarat over the past 70 years. We describe a broad narrative of transition from food scarcity to food security brought about by the introduction and intensification of bag net fishing in the village. This form of fishing has largely displaced the previous economic basis for livelihoods of uncertain daily wage labour. In a pattern common along the coast, an economy offering at best subsistence has shifted to one that is market-oriented, and which generates considerable surplus. We use the social wellbeing perspective to take stock of and order the complex effects of this transition. While the intensification of small-scale fishing in Saiyad Rajpara resulted in a general and marked material improvement in the lives of the residents of the village, the social relational benefits and subjective experience of change have been more mixed, particularly along lines of gender. A social wellbeing perspective offers an approach to fisheries governance that is more inclusive and sensitive to local experience.

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Section: Wellbeing Change and Gender In Small-scale Fisheriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Wellbeing Change and Gender In Small-scale Fisheriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A social wellbeing approach to the gendered impacts of fisheries transition in Gujarat, India

Biswal

Johnson

2023

Maritime Studies

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“…Second, our study considers only one activity of the many dimensions of small-scale fisheries that can potentially affect well-being of fishing communities. Many other activities have a paramount role in the well-being of other actors in small-scale fisheries, such as those derived by women through their role in dried fish value chains (Galappaththi et al 2021 ), which deserve further consideration. Furthermore, the relational dimensions of well-being, including the fishers’ identity, camaraderie, and community cohesion are very relevant in small-scale fisheries and may account for certain discrepancies with other studies using more holistic measures such as life or job satisfaction.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This approach envisions three dimensions of well-being including the material, relational and subjective dimensions, and has been used as a framework to investigate the locally relevant well-being benefits derived by fishing communities from coastal ecosystem services (Coulthard et al 2014;Lau et al 2019;Lapointe et al 2021). Recent research has focused on how specific stages of the small-scale fisheries value chain may provide well-being benefits to different stakeholders (Galappaththi et al 2021). While this has provided important findings on the varied nature of benefits and the mediating effects of specific factors, such as urbanization, discrimination or management approaches, a substantial data gap remains in mechanistically understanding how these benefits from the environment directly relate to the experience of human well-being (Carpenter et al 2009;Lapointe et al 2021;Fabinyi and Barclay 2022).…”

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Does catching more fish increase the subjective well-being of fishers? Insights from Bangladesh

Miñarro

Selim

Galbraith

2022

Ambio

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Small-scale fisheries have been associated with the subjective well-being of coastal communities through their links with culture, identity, and social cohesion. But although fish catches are usually considered the primary ecosystem service that benefits fishers, little is known about how subjective well-being is influenced by the fishing activity itself. Here, we applied the experience sampling method in two small-scale fisheries in Bangladesh to assess the effects of fishing on fishers’ occurrence of positive and negative affect, two measures of subjective well-being. We found that fishing activities were not directly associated with increased momentary affect and that the frequency of positive affect actually decreased as the fishing trip progressed. Furthermore, although very low catches were associated with less positive affect, the highest frequency of positive affect was achieved with relatively small catches. Our results imply that the benefits provided by small-scale fisheries to the momentary subjective well-being of fishers are not strongly related to the actual catching of fish.

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“…Women also make up a significant portion of the workforce in dried fish, which is a sub-sector within SSF (Hossain et al, 2015;Belton et al, 2018;Medard et al, 2019). Women play a crucial role in supporting their livelihoods, cultures, and local economies (e.g., income, employment, food, social ties, and cultural values) through their engagement in SSF and DF production (e.g., production, processing, and marketing) (Galappaththi et al, 2021). Paradoxically, serious concerns have been raised regarding the sustainability of SSF and also about the people associated with it.…”

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Exploring Values and Beliefs in a Complex Coastal Social-Ecological System: A Case of Small-Scale Fishery and Dried Fish Production in Sagar Island, Indian Sundarbans

2021

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The survivability of the small-scale fishery and dried fish production in Indian Sundarbans, despite increasing threats posed by climate, environmental, economic, and policy drivers, suggests that they possess certain unique strengths and capabilities. One thread of these strengths is connected to the fact that Sundarbans’ fishery system is strongly anchored in the values and beliefs of the local fishing communities. There is, however, limited empirical information available on the prevailing individual and collective attitudes, expectations, traditions, customs, and, above all, values and beliefs that strongly influence local fishing communities of Sundarbans. This manuscript aims to address this gap by drawing on qualitative data to (1) map the nature of values and beliefs associated with the Sundarbans’ Sagar Island fishing communities who are engaged in small-scale fishery and dried fish production; and (2) highlight the contributions of values and beliefs to the small-scale fishery and dried fish production systems of Sagar Island. Our study reveals that historical factors such as the patriarchal and patrilineal system prevalent in the Indian Sundarbans as well as the current drivers, including environmental and social-economic changes, create inconsistent values and beliefs among male and female members of its society. Issues around values and beliefs are heavily influenced by social-ecological realities comprising material, relational and subjective dimensions. They can range from being strictly personal to largely community-oriented as they are shaped by realities of gender, class, power dynamics, and politics. Values and beliefs are fundamental to human perception and cognition but often get neglected in mainstream literature covering human dimensions of resource management. Our research adds weight to the theoretical and place-based understanding of the contributions of values and beliefs to the small-scale fishery and dried fish production systems. We learn from the case study that values and beliefs can act as mirrors, reflecting the current as well as future realities of small-scale fisheries and dried fish production systems and provide important directions for sustainability and viability of the entire social-ecological system that hosts this sector.

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Linking social wellbeing and intersectionality to understand gender relations in dried fish value chains

Cited by 15 publications

References 44 publications

A social wellbeing approach to the gendered impacts of fisheries transition in Gujarat, India

A social wellbeing approach to the gendered impacts of fisheries transition in Gujarat, India

Does catching more fish increase the subjective well-being of fishers? Insights from Bangladesh

Exploring Values and Beliefs in a Complex Coastal Social-Ecological System: A Case of Small-Scale Fishery and Dried Fish Production in Sagar Island, Indian Sundarbans

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