Trip 2 – Scenario Planning workshops with Fisherfolk After spending two weeks back in the city, we returned to the island for what would be the final fieldwork trip of the project. Unlike my first visit in March, this trip felt different from the moment we arrived. The islands were no longer unfamiliar, and I […]
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Trip 1- Patron of the Seas scenario planning building March 2026 was my first time joining the fieldwork for the Patron of the Seas project, and honestly, I didn’t really know what to expect. I was not part of the previous years of research, so everything felt new to me — the interviews, the island
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FoRel Forum theatre to enhance joint agency in Kenya and Mozambique: towards relational understandings of climate change Running 2019-2023 Based at: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University & Université Libre de Bruxelles In collaboration with Pwani University, WCS Kenya and Universidade Eduardo Mondlane. Visit Forum Relational for more information.
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
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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/ Indi lang “Middlemen” sa Baligyaan sang Isda Hiligaynon/Ilongo [see English below] Wala ko ginplano nga amo ini akon ubrahon— magbakal, magbaligya, magdumala sang stand. Hospitality Management ang akon gin-eskwelahan. Amo lang gid to nga kurso nga makaya sang akon Tatay bayaran sang una. Bisan nagaskwela pa ko, gaupod gid
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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
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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
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https://youtu.be/feeFBjen5F8 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
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