Reciprocity
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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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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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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
Liz Drury O'Neill 