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Article

Publication Title

Human Ecology Review

Publisher

The Australian National University

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Publication Date

2014

Publisher location

Canberra, Australia

First Page

97

Last Page

115

Issue Number

2

Volume Number

20

Abstract/ Summary

This paper reports on ethnographic research aimed at understanding what resilience means to those living within fishery-dependent communities. We draw on semi-structured and oral history interviews, focus groups, and household and business interviews in four Maine fishing communities to examine the reflections of fishermen and other community members on the past, present, and future of their communities, including the threats they face and how they are able to respond to them. Based on our analysis, we identify broad qualitative indicators of resilience: survival, social identity, diversification, getting by, and optimism. The indicators of resilience that we identify are difficult to fully understand using secondary data and, therefore, we argue that understanding them also requires an ethnographic research approach that focuses on the practices of fishermen and the context in which those fishermen live.

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"Johnson, T.R., Henry, A., & Thompson, C. Identifying Qualitative Indicators of Social Resilience in Small-scale Fishing Communities: An Emphasis on Perceptions and Practice. Human Ecology Review, 20(2):97-115 "

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