From mangroves to womangroves to feminist foodscapes
(En)gendering research on indigenous food livelihoods in the Solomon Islands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6414359 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heide K Bruckner (0000-0003-4337-1146), Mary Tahu Paia (0000-0002-0848-4615) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 507-525 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Agriculture and Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0889-048X • E-ISSN: 1572-8366 |
| Publisher | Springer Nature (Netherlands) (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10460-024-10634-8 |
| OpenAlex | W4402602395 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 69 |
Pacific Island communities are facing rapid changes to their food systems in the context of globalization, environmental degradation and climate change. While in urban areas residents face a rapid nutrition transition, in rural environments, concerns are being raised about how to best maintain traditional food systems that are nutritious and sustainable. Mangrove forests are part of biodiverse food environments that support rural communities in the Pacific, but they are often overlooked in food system research because they occur between sea and land, and because gleaning mollusks and invertebrates from mangroves are considered mere subsistence practices carried out by women. In this paper, we draw from a feminist foodscape approach in feminist political ecology to discuss qualitative fieldwork from mangrove-adjacent communities in the Solomon Islands. We highlight the socio-ecological importance of mangrove foodscapes, along with the gendered and generational aspects of how environmental and food system change are experienced differently by community members in Marovo Lagoon. While conservationists are increasingly interested in the potential of mangroves for carbon sequestration, this research addresses the critical need to engage with mangroves’ social, cultural and gendered aspects– towards intertwined goals of gender equity, biodiversity and indigenous food sovereignty in the Pacific
Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Development studies · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental sociology · Ethnology · Fishery · Geography · Indigenous · Livelihood · Mangrove · Political science · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Ecology
Guardians of Marovo Lagoon
Gender and small‐scale fisheries
Exploring gender inclusion in small-scale fisheries management and development in Melanesia
Gender and Natural Resource Management
Theorizing and Researching Intersectionality
Spatiotemporal determinants of seasonal gleaning
Scientific Evaluation in Women’s Participatory Management
Women's and Men's Work
Exploring Changes in Foodscapes in Western Province, Solomon Islands
Indigenous Peoples' food systems, nutrition, and gender
Malnutrition in rural Solomon Islands
Beyond foodscapes
Indigenous education sovereignty
Changing market culture in the P acific
Gender equality and economic empowerment in the Solomon Islands and Fiji
Political ecology III
Gender and Biodiversity
Ecological complexity, fuzzy logic, and holism in indigenous knowledge
Women/chickens vs. men/cattle
Indigenous food sovereignty is constrained by “time imperialism”
Should we pay research participants? Feminist political economy for ethical practices in precarious times
Feminist Political Ecology
Threatened Biodiversity and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Food sovereignty as decolonization
Food sovereignty, food security and health equity
Whiteness, space and alternative food practice
Beyond net deficits
Critical climate justice
The social life of mangroves
Dismantling the Divide Between Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge
Situated Knowledges
Street Phenomenology
The feminist dimensions of food sovereignty
Food sovereignty, gender and everyday practice
The Art of Gleaning and Not Becoming Domesticated in Mollusc Waterworlds
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |