Learning with fishing families : how worldviews and lived experience shape fisher livelihoods and marine conservation
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation takes an embedded approach to examine how understanding the worldviews and lived experience of Indigenous small-scale fishers, including how marine resources contribute to their well-being, can move toward more productive and inclusive resource management in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, which sits at the heart of the Coral Triangle. My first chapter reviews how visual participatory methods can facilitate nuanced understandings of stakeholder perceptions of social-ecological systems, as well as reconcile disparate worldviews toward locally relevant conservation outcomes. In my second chapter, I employ participatory photography to explore how Indigenous fishing families experience time and how evolving time perception influences resource use. My third chapter dives deeper into one fishery, the global aquarium trade, and how it enhances the resilience of fisher livelihoods. In my fourth chapter, I examine what motivates and sustains use of 'destructive' fishing practices and whose knowledge is privileged when labeling certain practices as destructive. Across the latter three empirical chapters, I show how local weather patterns influence resource use and well-being and argue for conservation approaches that are more attentive to these cycles. In sum, this work provides empirical evidence of how fisher ontology (ways of being) and epistemology (ways of knowing) influence marine resource use, as well as how the aquarium trade contributes to fisher livelihoods. These findings inform recommendations for including fisher worldviews and lived experience in conservation efforts. .
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Switzer, Shannon Leigh |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Ardoin, Nicole M. (Nicole Michele) |
| Degree supervisor | Crowder, Larry B |
| Thesis advisor | Ardoin, Nicole M. (Nicole Michele) |
| Thesis advisor | Crowder, Larry B |
| Thesis advisor | Durham, William H |
| Thesis advisor | Pauwelussen, Annet |
| Degree committee member | Durham, William H |
| Degree committee member | Pauwelussen, Annet |
| Associated with | Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (Stanford University) |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Shannon Leigh Switzer. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (Stanford University). |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/pd849dj8025 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Shannon Leigh Switzer
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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