Situated Transformations of Women and Gender Relations in Small-Scale-Fisheries and Communities in a Globalized world
Second issue of the TBTI thematic collection "(En)gendering Change in Small-Scale Fisheries and Fishing Communities in a Globalized world"
Edited by: Katia Frangoudes, Siri Gerard and Danika Kleiber (TBTI 'Women and Gender' cluster coordinators)
In collaboration with with COST Action Working Group on 'Gendered Seas of the Ocean Past and Platform'
Maritime Studies, Vol. 18, Issue 3
The need to uncover, interrogate, and integrate women’s contributions to fisheries in research and development has never been clearer. As coastal and fisheries management continues to look to the Sustainable Development Goals and the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication, as frameworks and mandates, gender equity and equality have become a central concern.
To fill the still existing gap of documentation and theoretical engagement, in this thematic collection, the authors have gathered together voices from researchers and practitioners from around the world, with one overarching common approach of using a gender lens to examine the relationship between humans and aquatic resources. Drawing on Donna Haraway’s classic feminist concept of situated knowledges, they examine the many and varied approaches researchers are using to engage with the intersection of gender and fisheries.
Beginning and ending with two reviews that examine where gender and fisheries has come from, and where it is going, this thematic issue includes case studies from 10 countries, engaging in the topic at various scales (individual, household, national, institutional etc.), and using multiple methodological approaches.
Taken together, these pieces explore the mechanism by which women’s contribution to fisheries are overlooked and provide direct evidence to contest the persistent invisibility of women in fishing, fisheries labor, and fisheries decision-making. Going beyond the evidence of women’s contributions, the authors go further to examine different coastal contexts, intersectional identities such as age, and explore gender transformative approaches to fisheries development.
The two issues of this thematic collection have been supported by the Too Big To Ignore project and its cluster 'Women & Gender in Fisheries' (the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant #895-2011-1011) and the Working Group “Gendered Seas” of Ocean Past Platform (OPP) IS1403 COST Action, of European Cooperation in Sciences & Technology.
