Fishermen, Fishmongers, and the Sea: Economic Restructuring and Gender Dynamics in a Philippine Community

Turgo, Nelson

doi:10.1353/phs.2015.0035

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“…If he has fish to market, he arranges that himself. Turgo (2015) refers to such shifting roles as "fishermen-turned-house-husbands" and "disrupted masculinity" that can lead to rising tensions among spouses. However, James Eder (2006: 408) reports a shift in gender roles that more carefully captures what we saw in Vera's household.…”

Section: Paid Labors In Putting Out Systems Other Than Fishingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, imported foods overcome few of the nutritional shortfalls of Asian farming households (see Table 6). In local markets, peasant crop outputs are routinely traded directly for locally captured fish (our Philippine field research; Philippine Annual Fisheries Profile 1977Profile -2019Pomeroy et al 2009;Siason 2001;Turgo 2015;Wang 2004). Furthermore, peasant farms serve as conservators of genetic diversity of food crops because they cultivate a wider variety of crops that, in turn, increase their resilience against pests, diseases, droughts, and other stresses (Quizon 2013: 52;Harrero et al 2017: 36).…”

Section: Peasant Contributions To Asian Food Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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2023

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We promised to keep secret the identities of peasant fishers, NGO staff and local public officials who encompass the vast majority of those to whom we need to show respect for the knowledge, hospitality, guidance and extra bits of help that made our research manageable in difficult, under-funded circumstances. Many of you opened your homes, took hours away from your work schedules, and shared scare food resources with us. One of you fisherwomen told us that "the world does not weep" for endangered peasant fishers and their communities. Taking to heart what you told us, we have done our best in this book and in our public presentations to make people stop to see the globalized world from your vantage point. In the words of the Philippine Catholic Bishops ("Pastoral Letter on Ecology," 1988):Go to my mountain cradle.Go to my home and sea. Look on my ruined forests.And note what ye did to me.However, we also need to thank a group of people whose identities we can publicly acknowledge. We wish to express our deep appreciation and warm affection to the many Philippine feminists, fishery/mangrove scholars, nutritional analysts, and time-analysis specialists whose published scholarship we gleaned to construct the historiography of how the Philippines was transformed into a food extractive enclave to feed the world. Our bibliography reflects that many of you were on the early cutting edge of concern about hunger, women's overwork, and destruction of the country's ecological resources. Your empirical and conceptual clues often guided us toward deeper, Tables and FiguresTables World Rankings for the major Asian fisheries, 2019 2 Indicators of food insecurity, 2016 34 What happens to fishery production? How exporting, nonfood uses and wastage threaten food security, 2016 37 Per capita dietary protein consumption, 2013 47 Nutritional unequal exchange: exports of fishery foods from high hunger zones to low hunger zones, 2017 50 How is the import budget spent? Percentage of total value expended by food category, 2016 53 Nutritional unequal exchanges embodied in trade of Asian fishery commodities, 2016 58 Can domestic meat production offset iron losses from fishery exporting? 2016 61 Food versus feed in the import budget, 2016 67 Nonfood production, 2016 72 Intra-national indicators of inequality that impact access to food, 2010 85 Philippine food insecurity through land redistribution 161 Food insecurity in Panguil Bay communities, 2019 174 Climate risk for the major Asian fisheries, 1999-2020 306 A comparison of climate change risks and emissions 310 Trading in carbon offsets: certified emission reductions issued to Asian countries (July to October 2021) 313 Climate change funding to the major Asian fisheries, 2015-2021 315 Asian states and conflict over indigenous lands, 2020 326 Heavy infrastructure construction in rural areas of the major Asian fisheries, 2000-2020 332 Status of agricultural expenditures in national budgets, 2015 353 Two decades of alarming to moderate global hunger indexes, 2000-2019 354 Farm size and lan...

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Section: Paid Labors In Putting Out Systems Other Than Fishingmentioning

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Section: Peasant Contributions To Asian Food Securitymentioning

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Where Shrimp Eat Better than People

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2023

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“…Although women are not often directly involved in bushmeat hunting, they have been found to encourage it (Lowassa et al, 2012) and comprise the majority of bushmeat traders (Edderai & Dame, 2006) in parts of Africa. Similarities can be seen in both legal and illegal fishing, where women are more likely to be fish processors, traders and retailers (also known as fishmongers, a term that is traditionally reserved for women; Turgo, 2015), and only occasionally involved in illegal fishing (Medard, 2012). Aside from studies that have discussed women's involvement in illegal fishing (Medard, 2012) and alluded to the illegal harvesting of sea turtle eggs (Madrigal-Ballestero & Jurado, 2017), news articles indicate more frequent and occasional high-profile examples of organized criminal behaviour, with numerous examples of women's involvement as intermediaries in more localized markets such as the trade of bushmeat and freshwater fish (Table 1).…”

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Women and wildlife crime: hidden offenders, protectors and victims

Kahler

Rinkus

2021

Oryx

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Gender is an explanatory factor in multiple dimensions of conservation, including women's access to and participation in conservation programmes, with gender bias in wildlife research persisting globally. There is reason to believe the current global wildlife crime crisis is no exception, with a lack of critical examination of gendered roles in security for biodiversity conservation. Despite the emergence of high-profile all-women ranger units (e.g. Akashinga in Zimbabwe) there has been a lack of systematic integration of gender within biodiversity protection. Theoretical and methodological applications from criminology have become progressively more common in response to an increase in a wide range of environmental crimes with consequences for women and their communities. Here we consider the implications of the lack of knowledge of women's direct and indirect roles in wildlife security. We used the criminology and conservation literature to identify key gaps in research, and relevant and robust typologies and frameworks informed by criminology to structure future research on women as offenders, protectors (handlers, managers, guardians) and victims of wildlife crime. We argue that more intentional research into the direct and indirect roles of women in wildlife crime is needed to address wildlife crime, protect biodiversity and support social justice in response to wildlife crimes.

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‘Laway lang ang kapital’ (Saliva as capital): Social embeddedness of market practices in brokerage houses in the Philippines

Turgo

2016

Journal of Rural Studies

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Fishermen, Fishmongers, and the Sea: Economic Restructuring and Gender Dynamics in a Philippine Community

Cited by 5 publications

References 43 publications

Where Shrimp Eat Better than People

Where Shrimp Eat Better than People

Women and wildlife crime: hidden offenders, protectors and victims

‘Laway lang ang kapital’ (Saliva as capital): Social embeddedness of market practices in brokerage houses in the Philippines

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