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Return to the realm of the Kob Kings: social capital, learning, resilience and action research in a changing fishery
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the traditional commercial linefishery on South Africa’s southern Cape coast, informed by social-ecological systems (SES) thinking, and directed by a participatory action research approach, the work facilitated the co-development of a series of applied responses...
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| author | Duggan, Gregory Lawrence |
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| description | Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the traditional commercial linefishery on South Africa’s southern Cape coast, informed by social-ecological systems (SES) thinking, and directed by a participatory action research approach, the work facilitated the co-development of a series of applied responses to local challenges identified by research participants including commercial linefishers, school learners, teachers, and other local community members. The thesis is presented in four chapters, each focussing on a different challenge: marine water temperatures; school learning for social learning; fishers’ organisations; and branding of linefish. The objectives of the thesis are to explore the processes, constraints, motivators, and lessons learnt in addressing each of the four challenges drawing on four emergent themes: 1) trust and social capital, 2) social learning, 3) resilience and transformation, and 4) participatory action research/co-development. The thesis underlines how participation leads to co-developed strategies to address realworld challenges. The work on water temperatures resulted in the co-development of a novel water temperature measuring device for deployment on commercial linefishing boats. However, despite initial successful deployment, fishers’ time and financial concerns, paired with a short-term focus undermined the participatory process. The social learning and teaching work facilitated the co-development of a series of integrated teaching modules that addressed challenges observed in the school, transforming the approach to teaching, and laying the foundation for future community social learning. The work also raised the challenge of ‘high stakes testing’ which may constrain teacher participation. The work on fishers’ organisations revealed the role of leadership, competing economic and lifestyle foci, competence and political trust, as well as ‘bonding’, ‘bridging’, and ‘linking’ forms of social capital in the formation, maintenance and dissolution of these bodies. The research found that different forms of trust and social capital, paired with leadership, were critical to successful participation and collaboration throughout the fieldwork. Finally, the branding work resulted in an adaptation on the part of the fishers, but one which was constrained by and highlighted the economic influence of inshore trawling that continues to limit the extent of linefishers’ adaptive strategies. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/36749 Return to the realm of the Kob Kings: social capital, learning, resilience and action research in a changing fishery Duggan, Gregory Lawrence Jarre, Astrid Murray, Grant Fisheries Research Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the traditional commercial linefishery on South Africa’s southern Cape coast, informed by social-ecological systems (SES) thinking, and directed by a participatory action research approach, the work facilitated the co-development of a series of applied responses to local challenges identified by research participants including commercial linefishers, school learners, teachers, and other local community members. The thesis is presented in four chapters, each focussing on a different challenge: marine water temperatures; school learning for social learning; fishers’ organisations; and branding of linefish. The objectives of the thesis are to explore the processes, constraints, motivators, and lessons learnt in addressing each of the four challenges drawing on four emergent themes: 1) trust and social capital, 2) social learning, 3) resilience and transformation, and 4) participatory action research/co-development. The thesis underlines how participation leads to co-developed strategies to address realworld challenges. The work on water temperatures resulted in the co-development of a novel water temperature measuring device for deployment on commercial linefishing boats. However, despite initial successful deployment, fishers’ time and financial concerns, paired with a short-term focus undermined the participatory process. The social learning and teaching work facilitated the co-development of a series of integrated teaching modules that addressed challenges observed in the school, transforming the approach to teaching, and laying the foundation for future community social learning. The work also raised the challenge of ‘high stakes testing’ which may constrain teacher participation. The work on fishers’ organisations revealed the role of leadership, competing economic and lifestyle foci, competence and political trust, as well as ‘bonding’, ‘bridging’, and ‘linking’ forms of social capital in the formation, maintenance and dissolution of these bodies. The research found that different forms of trust and social capital, paired with leadership, were critical to successful participation and collaboration throughout the fieldwork. Finally, the branding work resulted in an adaptation on the part of the fishers, but one which was constrained by and highlighted the economic influence of inshore trawling that continues to limit the extent of linefishers’ adaptive strategies. 2022-08-30T07:59:17Z 2022-08-30T07:59:17Z 2018 2022-07-18T08:55:16Z Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36749 eng application/pdf Department of Biological Sciences Faculty of Science |
| spellingShingle | Fisheries Research Duggan, Gregory Lawrence Return to the realm of the Kob Kings: social capital, learning, resilience and action research in a changing fishery |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | Return to the realm of the Kob Kings: social capital, learning, resilience and action research in a changing fishery |
| title_full | Return to the realm of the Kob Kings: social capital, learning, resilience and action research in a changing fishery |
| title_fullStr | Return to the realm of the Kob Kings: social capital, learning, resilience and action research in a changing fishery |
| title_full_unstemmed | Return to the realm of the Kob Kings: social capital, learning, resilience and action research in a changing fishery |
| title_short | Return to the realm of the Kob Kings: social capital, learning, resilience and action research in a changing fishery |
| title_sort | return to the realm of the kob kings social capital learning resilience and action research in a changing fishery |
| topic | Fisheries Research |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36749 |
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