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Redefining and experiencing masculinity in a Philippine fishing community

Turgo, Nelson ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5508-7260 2014. Redefining and experiencing masculinity in a Philippine fishing community. Philippine Sociological Review 62 (1) , pp. 7-38.

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Abstract

Being a fisherman and all the dangers and challenges that fishing embodies could well be the most potent expression of hegemonic masculinity in fishing communities. However, in recent years, fish landings amongst small-scale fishermen have been dismal in many parts of the country as exemplified by the experience of a fishing community in Quezon province, south of Manila, the focus of this article. Inevitably, this results in a number of fishermen shifting to fish marketing (selling fish that big commercial fishing boats land which remain relatively more well positioned because of their reach and the technology they use in fishing) as a way to support their families while the rest continue fishing, plodding on regardless of the low volume of catch and, at times, huge economic losses they experience. It is these changing contours of the economic landscape of the community that propel the contestation over meaning and articulation of masculinity in the community as both male fishmongers and fishermen make sense of their gender identities in relation to the work that they do.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC)
Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Publisher: Philippine Sociological Society
ISSN: 0031-7810
Date of Acceptance: 5 August 2014
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2022 09:56
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/68261

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