Learning from communities in Oceania to build equitable, just, and resilient fisheries
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The nature of seafood in fishing communities is multifaceted. Seafood provides food for billions and is a vital source of food and nutritional security among the world's coastal populations. Seafood is also a globally traded commodity, and luxury seafood products such as sea cucumbers are targeted not only for food security but also for distant, wealthy consumers. Seafoods are also organisms serving ecosystem functions, and their depletion can have downstream effects on ecosystem health. Seafoods also carry cultural meanings, personal associations, and social and political significances. In this dissertation, I examine the multifaceted nature of seafood in Pacific coastal communities, the conflicts that emerge at the intersections, and the ways communities respond and adapt to marketization and depletion of their marine resources. Throughout, I use the lenses of equity and intersectionality to challenge the narrative of fishing communities as monolithic and reveal the necessity of understanding the diversity of assets, access, power, and knowledge of different fishers. In Chapter One, I show how the commodification of sea cucumbers in Palau threatens the intangible cultural heritage of gleaning and its significance as an intergenerational classroom for Indigenous ecological knowledge and values. In Chapter Two, I use an intersectional lens to examine the inequitable impacts of the international sea cucumber trade in Palauan fishing communities, finding that degradation of the fishery disproportionately impacted the least resourced women, entrenching existing inequalities. In Chapter Three, I investigate how and why resistance to the sea cucumber trade emerged in fishing communities in Palau, Yap, and Pohnpei, finding that Indigenous values and struggles for self-determination were central to motivating these movements and that a coalition of actors worked together to ban the trade from local waters. Finally, in Chapter Four, I examine the food security impact of the COVID-19 crisis on rural fishing communities across the Pacific region and the local food practices that were deployed to adapt to food systems interruptions.
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 | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Ferguson, Caroline Elizabeth |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Durham, William H |
| Degree supervisor | Micheli, Fiorenza |
| Thesis advisor | Durham, William H |
| Thesis advisor | Micheli, Fiorenza |
| Thesis advisor | Richmond, Robert |
| Thesis advisor | Seetah, Krish |
| Degree committee member | Richmond, Robert |
| Degree committee member | Seetah, Krish |
| Associated with | Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (Stanford University) |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Caroline Elizabeth Ferguson. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (Stanford University). |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/rw498hg4611 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Caroline Elizabeth Ferguson
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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