Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Gender and Fishing Practices in a Cosmopolitan Littoral

密歇根大学博士生詹妮弗·李·约翰逊将在丽贝卡·哈丁博士的指导下，研究乌干达渔业中与鱼类合作和管理的性别做法和政治。该项目以维多利亚湖(尼安加)为重点，以妇女是、而且长期以来一直是维持渔业相关经济的关键这一重要命题为指导。尽管妇女的工作支撑着一个社会和生态上的世界性的Nyanja，但在该湖的环境史、经济人类学和管理科学中，对她们在渔业中的作用的描述和分析几乎看不到，就像在对许多其他淡水和海洋渔业的研究中一样。Co-Pi将在乌干达进行为期15个月的实地调查，调查一套变化的和性别相关的当地渔业做法是如何与乌干达海岸(或“沿海”地区)舒适、商业和控制的政治密切相关的。她将采用多种社会科学研究方法，包括：在选定的沿海地点、在市场和在正式的管理环境中进行参与者观察；对从事鱼类工作的妇女和男子进行有目的的样本的职业史访谈；对居住在沿海地点的长老进行口述历史访谈；对学术、专业、媒体和档案来源中叙述的“公认的智慧”进行话语分析；以及不同渔业供应链的描述性地理信息系统地图。这项研究的发现将促进对历史上和当代动态的资源相互依存社会中社会-生态相互作用的科学理解。这项研究的重点是与渔业相关的经济体如何生产特定种类的蛋白质和收入，并在民族国家内部和跨民族国家之间创造相互依存和社会差异的性别关系，这将有助于环境人类学、非洲人类学和日益增长的多物种人种学领域。通过发展白话实践和沿海政治的概念，这项研究还将对当代技术资源治理以及更广泛的可持续性和发展研究的辩论做出重要的理论和方法贡献。这项研究的资金还支持对一名社会科学家的培训。

University of Michigan doctoral student Jennifer Lee Johnson, supervised by Dr. Rebecca Hardin, will investigate the gendered practices and politics of working with and managing fish in Uganda's fisheries. Focusing on Lake Victoria (Nyanja), this project is guided by the overarching proposition that women are, and have long been, crucial to sustaining fisheries-related economies. Though women's work sustains a socially and ecologically cosmopolitan Nyanja, accounts and analyses of their role in fisheries have been virtually invisible in the environmental history, economic anthropology, and managerial science of this lake, as in studies of many other freshwater and marine fisheries. This research seeks to contribute findings that will partially fill this gap.The Co-PI will conduct 15 months of fieldwork in Uganda, investigating how a shifting and gendered set of vernacular fisheries practices are intimately bound up in the politics of comfort, commerce and control along Uganda's shore (or "littoral") areas. She will employ multiple social science research methods, including: participant observation at selected littoral sites, in markets, and in formal managerial settings; career history interviews with a purposeful sample of women and men who work with fish; oral history interviews with elders residing at littoral sites; discourse analysis of the 'received wisdoms' recounted in scholarly, professional, media and archival sources; and descriptive GIS mapping of diverse fisheries supply chains. Findings from this study will advance the scientific understanding of social-ecological interactions in historically and contemporarily dynamic resource-interdependent societies. This study's focus on how fisheries-related economies produce particular kinds of protein and income and create gendered relationships of interdependence and social difference within and across nation states will contribute to environmental anthropology, the anthropology of Africa, and the growing field of multi-species ethnography. By developing concepts of vernacular practice and littoral politics, this study will also make important theoretical and methodological contributions to contemporary debates in technical resource governance and sustainability and development studies more broadly. Funding for this research also supports the training of a social scientist.