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Gendered struggles and strategies to remain in place in small-scale fisheries

Smith, Hillary (2017) Gendered struggles and strategies to remain in place in small-scale fisheries.

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Abstract

Did you know that fish can have an ethnicity, social class and gender? Fishing is an inherently social activity, where different fishing practices and their division of labor are embedded within wider social relations, that in turn shape opportunities and access to work in the small-scale fishing sector. Through this social segmentation of fisheries, certain fish species and types of work are relegated to certain social groups. At the People and the Sea conference I attended this summer in Amsterdam, a room full of scholars shared stories about the socially embedded division of labor in fisheries across different geographies. In Sri Lanka, certain fish species are coded “Tamil fish” while other are Sinhalese, and for both, women can process fish but fishing is “men’s work”—women are not even permitted to touch fishing gear for fear of bad luck [1]. In Tanzania—where I conducted field work this summer—small pelagic fish (known locally as dagaa), are both classed and gendered; they are coded as poor people’s food and women’s work.

Item Type: Articles
Keywords: Gender, Equality, Struggles, Strategies, Small-scale Fisheries, Fishing Practices, Women, Fishing Gear, Labour
Subjects: Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User: Users 4 not found.
Date Deposited: 16 Dec 2021 07:16
Last Modified: 16 Dec 2021 07:16
URI: http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/6044

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