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Introduction
Additional affiliations
March 2016 - July 2022
International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES)
Position
- Research Associate
July 2008 - February 2011
WorldFish Center
Position
- Senior Scientist, Gender & Social Development
January 2000 - February 2003
Education
September 1993 - February 1998
September 1988 - January 1992
August 1981 - May 1985
Publications
Publications (20)
Despite longstanding recognition that small-scale fisheries make multiple contributions to economies, societies and cultures, assessing these contributions and incorporating them into policy and decision-making has suffered from a lack of a comprehensive integrating ‘lens’. This paper focuses on the concept of ‘wellbeing’ as a means to accomplish t...
Most research on gender difference or inequities in capture fisheries and aquaculture in Africa and the Asia-Pacific focuses on the gender division of labour. Emerging research on globalization, market changes, poverty and trends in gendered employment within this sector reveals the need to move beyond this narrow perspective. If gleaning and post-...
Every southeast monsoon, men and women from the west coast fishing villages migrate to east coast villages, leaving their homes and their children and their school-age children behind with kin. This monograph is an exploration of the motivations and aspirations that drive an internal process of seasonal fisheries migration. It focusses on the gende...
Through a historical lens, this paper illustrates the differing economic, legal, institutional, social and cultural relationships people of varying cultures have with the ocean.
Focusing on the institutions that affect access and rights, this paper addresses concerns about the appropriation of marine resources and displacement of indigenous vision...
Households in fishing communities on the west and east coasts of Sri Lanka engage in internal seasonal migration (coastal and coast to coast) to pursue small-scale fishing and fisheries-based livelihoods. The chapter focuses on the material, relational, and subjective factors underlying the households’ gendered decision-making, using a social well-...
Social networks are significant for enabling or constraining migration in coastal communities in Sri Lanka. On the basis of qualitative and quantitative data from four fishing communities in Puttalam District and Trincomalee District, the chapter explores the structure and processes of social relations based on kin, community, and religious organiz...
The depletion of coastal fish resources and a marked increase in fishing households on the east coast of Sri Lanka have negatively affected west coast fishing communities’ seasonal migration to fish off the northeast and east coasts during the southwest monsoon in Asia. East coast communities whose livelihoods were destroyed by civil war claim the...
Hydropower development with concomitant changes in water and land
regimes often results in livelihood transformation of affected people,
entailing changes in intra-household decision-making upon which livelihood
strategies are based. Economic factors underlying gender dimensions of
household decision-making have been studied rigorously since the 19...
The Asia-Pacific's Coral Triangle is defined by its extremely high marine biodiversity. Over one hundred million people living in its coastal zones use this biodiversity to support their livelihoods. Hundreds of millions more derive nutritious food directly from the region′s marine resources and through local, regional and global trade. Biodiversit...
Aquaculture is the fastest growing agricultural sector in the world; it can meet both the food security and cash needs of poor households in africa and the asia-Pacific region. • aquaculture can provide food and nutrition security to the entire household, as well as much needed micronutrients for women and children. It can particularly benefit dise...
Floodplains are characterized by a period of several months when the land is not available for agriculture and large, open areas are used for fisheries. The enclosed part of these flooded areas can be utilized for fish production aside from naturally occurring self recruited species through a community-based management system. Experiences in the Vi...
Key Messages: Women's involvement in fisheries is more significant than often assumed. According to current estimates from nine major fish producing countries, they comprise 47% of the labor force in small-scale capture fisheries-related activities, including pre-and post-harvesting work. Their current engagement is shaped by rapidly dwindling fish...
The morality and ethics of business are a very old problem, debated extensively by philosophers, writers and social scientists, and underpins current concepts of social justice within a market economic system. In rural societies where a large proportion of people have been engaged in agriculture or fisheries, the disdain towards those who make a li...
"Living in harmony with nature" has become a root metaphor and an imperative in a postcolonial global discourse on environmental crisis. This article uses an interpretive approach to problematize the concepts of "harmony" and "nature" by juxtaposing global and local discourses on the human-environment relationship. It argues that harmony is a "West...
Local environmental knowledge and practice in the highland Uva of Sri Lanka in the context of new global/national discourses on indigenous/traditional knowledge are examined. An interpretive approach is used to problematise the concepts of "indigenous" and "traditional", and to question the extent to which environmental knowledge, is both local and...
Thesis (M.A.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Anthropology Department, 1992. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 193-204)
Projects
Project (1)
The project’s goal is to examine how value is created in the dried fish economy at all stages of activity from production through processing, exchange, and consumption, viewing value chains as a framework for understanding human economic activity in the context of social, ecological, cultural, historical, political, and other forces. The partnership will generate the first comparative and richly detailed study of the regional dried fish economy.
Project Website: https://driedfishmatters.org/
