Browsing by Author "Gau, Roland"

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Adapting traditional livelihood practices in the face of environmental disruptions in subsistence communities
(2019-07-01)
Venugopal, Srinivas
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Gau, Roland
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Appau, Samuelson
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Sample, Kevin L.
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Pereira, Rita C. F.
This paper explores the impact of environmental disruptions on traditional livelihood practices in subsistence communities. Our research was conducted in a South Indian fishing community, which has faced several environmental disruptions over the last two decades. Our findings illustrate how environmental disruptions threaten livelihood security and bring into question the legitimacy of traditional livelihood practices. In the face of livelihood insecurity, the community legitimizes adaptations to traditional livelihood practices to reestablish livelihood security. We find evidence of three types of adaptations to traditional livelihood practices: (1) blending traditional livelihood practices with non-traditional livelihood practices, (2) expanding beyond the domain of traditional livelihood practices, and (3) altering the knowledge base underlying livelihood practices. Our findings also illustrate how various types of legitimacy push against each other during the change process and how the community resolves these tensions.
Subsistence Marketplaces: Challenges and Opportunities
(2019-01-01)
Viswanathan, Madhu
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Elaydi, Raed
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Gau, Roland
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Christensen, Lisa Jones
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This introductory article is a biennial exercise to reflect on the stream of subsistence marketplaces as a prelude to the special section on this topic following the Sixth Subsistence Marketplaces Conference in 2016. The call for papers was not restricted to conference presentations. At the end of the review process, the special section contained four articles spanning a diverse set of topics. The authors provide an overview of the subsistence marketplaces stream and a background of the conference series. This is followed by a brief introduction to the special issue. They then discuss the what, how, and why for past and future work on subsistence marketplaces.