Philippines
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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
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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
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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
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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 so at home and comfortable in this island life as do
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Nakapuli na gid kami!
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Keep an eye on my blog where I post about the project through Research Diaries January 2025 As of 18th of January 2025 we are back to Iloilo to do the second round of fieldwork and living! Same place, same people 🙂 Barangay Tambaliza sa Concepcion! I am STILL in the middle of qualitatively coding
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Research Diaries Post 4: 13th March 2024- A Window into shared culture? Iloilo City, Western Visayas, Philippines It’s been a while! We are back in the city now post 60 interviews, Jelai and I both nearly lost our voices and were fairly wrecked after those 3.5 weeks! We took a day off to prepare and
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Research Diaries Post 3: 11th February 2024- Arriving @ the Fieldsite, kids & all Sitio Pasil, Barangay Tambaliza, Concepcion, Iloilo, Western Visayas, Philippines We arrived to the amazing fieldsite! Back to my honorary Tito and Tita- Alo and Gina in Sitio Pasil (Barangay Tambaliza) whom I stayed with in 2017 to run the behavioural economic
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Post 2: 24th January 2024- Travel agencies (Bahala na!) & interpretivism Iloilo City, Western Visayas, Philippines Feeling much better about everything at the moment, I’m still stuck in this academic space with a wee little project all by myself (would much rather be in a project team and support a fun group!) but hey it
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Post 1: 16th January 2024- Finally opening my computer! Iloilo City, Western Visayas, Philippines Finally opening my computer properly for the first time in a month. Have been on Christmas holidays with the kids since the 16th of December so I couldn’t have opened my laptop even if I wanted to. Before that I have
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In Philippine fishing communities, gender roles have a bigger influence than price on fishers’ business decisions. Story highlights: What would you do if you were offered a higher price for something that you are selling? Your first instinct might be the rational economic response: produce more, sell more, and laugh all the way to the
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Story highlights: Acts of good will and reciprocity lay the foundations that can strengthen bonds within societies. When you’re a fisher on the coastline of the Visayan sea in the Philippines, that gets hit by 20 typhoons a year, you’ll want the strongest foundations you can get. In November 2013 one of the most powerful
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Introducing the new FORMAS (formas.se) funded project “Patron of the Seas-Rethinking patron-client relationships in small-scale fisheries”. Hi there all! My new mobility grant funded by the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (i.e. formas) starts this month January 2023! This is my first big girl grant as a researcher and it funds 100% of my
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