Bringing analysis of gender and social-ecological resilience together in small-scale fisheries research: Challenges and opportunities.
The demand for gender analysis is now increasingly orthodox in natural resource programming, including that for small-scale fisheries. Whilst the analysis of social-ecological resilience has made valuable contributions to integrating social dimensions into research and policy-making on natural resource management, it has so far demonstrated limited success in effectively integrating considerations of gender equity. This paper reviews the challenges in, and opportunities for, bringing a gender analysis together with social-ecological resilience analysis in the context of small-scale fisheries research in developing countries. We conclude that rather than searching for a single unifying framework for gender and resilience analysis, it will be more effective to pursue a plural solution in which closer engagement is fostered between analysis of gender and social-ecological resilience whilst preserving the strengths of each approach. This approach can make an important contribution to developing a better evidence base for small-scale fisheries management and policy.
International Potato Center (CIP), International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Hanoi, Vietnam. n.kawarazuka@cgiar.org.
Nozomi
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7806-1247
N
Kawarazuka
School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK.
Catherine
C
Locke
WorldFish, 10670, Penang, Malaysia.
Cynthia
C
McDougall
, Penang, Malaysia.
Paula
P
Kantor
WorldFish, 10670, Penang, Malaysia.
Miranda
M
Morgan
D005398:Fisheries; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D011593:Psychology, Social / Q000379:methods*
Gender; Interdisciplinarity; Small-scale fisheries; Social–ecological resilience