Relations between People, Relations about Things
Gendered Investment and the Case of the Lake Victoria Fishery, Tanzania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2222694 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Modesta Médard (0000-0003-2211-7915, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 555-566 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-6943 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/662704 |
| PMID | 22545266 |
| OpenAlex | W2179173961 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 3 |
Using the example of one of the African fisheries that has been most significantly transformed from family based to commercialized—that on Lake Victoria in Tanzania—this article considers the social nexus of decision making and focuses on analyzing women’s place. It is true that women have never been more than a minority in fisheries due to traditional inheritance patterns and new market structures, both of which bypass women in questions of ownership and decision making. We look in vain for fishwives, if this means female fish producers acting with a highly visible degree of economic and social autonomy. There is no vernacular term to identify women who work with fish or those rare women who own fishing vessels. And yet the absence of derogatory representation suggests that there have been few attempts to detract from women who are active in the fishery. Should we thus be aiming at more subtlety in our analytical approaches to fishing relations on Lake Victoria? The article unveils the ways in which women’s relations with fishermen are negotiated and how agreements are reached on behalf of their families. It explores for women’s empowerment via the customary social relations and management arrangements that exist in these riparian communities. The lake fishery has a basis for development, but its potential for the kind of growth that will have returns for future generations rests on an appreciation of how fisher-wives conceive of, and respond to, the opportunities, constraints and risks of investing in this fishery
Autonomy · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Fisheries management · Fishery · Fishing · Inheritance (genetic algorithm) · Investment (military) · Nexus (standard) · Political science · Politics · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Tanzania · Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Law
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,85 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |