Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2025

Illuminating the role of iTaukei women in Fiji's small-scale fisheries

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Based on empirical work carried out in Fiji, this paper addresses the question of women's role in small-scale fisheries in the context of multiple social, environmental, and climatic changes. In Fiji, the contributions of iTaukei (indigenous) women to small-scale fisheries remain underestimated in social representations, official statistics, and management practices and policies. For gender equity in this sector, it seems necessary to ensure that the role of these women is better recognized, and thus made more visible by marine (social) science research. We will present two complementary strategies explored in the research project “A Sea Of Connections: Contextualizing Fisheries in the South Pacific Region” (SOCPacific, 2018-2022, ANR-DFG co-funding, IRD-ZMT-USP partnership) to highlight the role of iTaukei women in small-scale fisheries in Fiji, respectively on two different islands of the archipelago (the 3rd and 5th largest).The first strategy involved a study of men's and women's catches and the associated monetary and socio-cultural values. The second documented iTaukei women's active engagement with the sea via their fishing practices, which constitute for them a gendered and more-than-human field of sociality, influenced by conservation ideas and regulations both internal and external to their community. Together, these strategies provide food for thought on how to better take gender into account in research on the challenges of sustainable management (or transition) of coastal fisheries as a key sector for food security and, more generally, for the future of South Pacific Island countries and territories.

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hal-05040096 , version 1 (18-04-2025)

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Elodie Fache. Illuminating the role of iTaukei women in Fiji's small-scale fisheries. FALAH final conference - “Family farming, lifestyle and health in small islands, countries and territories”, Mar 2025, Nouméa, New Caledonia. ⟨hal-05040096⟩
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