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A look at markets, trade relations & fisher behaviour My PhD thesis in Sustainability Science from the Stockholm Resilience Centre was defended in November 2018. In the video below you can listen to some of my main findings, with some very bad filming from my field sites in the Philippines and Zanzibar 😛 Or you
Catching values of small-scale fisheries Read More »
Thanks to GAFS for taking our little article about the fisherwomen of Concepcion – Julie (my amazing research assistant from 2025) and I wrote a short piece describing the species they glean, catch and work with as well as some descriptions of their livelihoods. Just to get it out there! Check it here
GAFS Gender & Aquaculture in Fisheries – Fisherwomen in Concepcion, Iloilo Read More »
So we finished the behavioural economic experiments for the second work package (WP) in my project Patron of the seas and I’m back in Stockholm finishing off paper 1 which is a grounded theory of sukianay (patronage relations in the Philippines) that I put together with research assistants and project participants over the last two years (hectic).
Beyond the “Middlemen” in seafood trade I didn’t expect to be doing this — buying, selling, managing a stand. I studied hospitality management, actually. But it was the only course my father could afford at the time. Even when I was in school, I’d tag along with him to the port on weekends. Ako gid na
The Woman Behind the Stand Read More »
The story of a male broker in the Philippines and their experience of patron-client relationships (a composite character expressing words, thoughts and feelings of real life brokers who operate in a busy fishery port). I didn’t plan to become a broker. Back then, it was just buying and selling. Zero gid ya (We really had nothing). We
Suki, Utang, Kwarta: Inside the Broker’s Stand Read More »
Research Diaries #6- Goat sacrifice, injustices to fisherfolk & insightful feedback! We are back to our second home here in Concepcion Iloilo- where I have been doing my research with fisherfolk since 2015. We have come back to Tito Alo and Tita Gina’s house of course out in the island Barangays of Concepcion. I feel
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We landed back in Iloilo this week, we meaning me and all the boys, Ferdia (4), Fién (1) and Vitas (49)! It took us three days, two hotel nights and 4 airports to get here but all in all it was an ok journey- except for Fién who was a pain in the BEEP the
Research Diaries — #5 Read More »
Access the article here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10742 FINALLY the first of my two papers from my Postdoc with the OctoPINTS project is out- its only took yeeeaaaaaars and two babies but its finally done! I made a very informal short video explaining the study in an accessible way (hopefully), see above, and below is a little summary. I was inspired
The Complexity of Compliance – A People & Nature Publication Read More »
Access the open article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26395916.2024.2412616 A new paper just published from my Postdoc with the OctoPINTS project https://octopints.wordpress.com/ Abstract: Our study of periodic octopus closures helps to fill an empirical gap in community-based marine protected area (MPA) research on socially-diverse multidimensional wellbeing impacts. Human wellbeing provides a more meaningful and holistic measure of social impacts than
Multidimensional human wellbeing in periodic octopus closures in Zanzibar Read More »
