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<p>Small-scale fisheries provide crucial livelihoods, food security, and cultural resilience for indigenous communities across the Philippines and South Asia; yet they remain marginalized within dominant policy frameworks. This study examines the Manobo fishers of Lamidan, Davao Occidental, whose livelihoods are governed by a dynamic spiritual ecology rooted in ritual practices, taboos, lunar calendars, and relational marine stewardship. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted across seasonal cycles in 2023, we analyze how Manobo cosmologies shape fishing technologies, regulate marine resource use, and sustain community well-being amidst socio-economic precarity and structural exclusion. Despite resilient indigenous adaptations—such as technological innovation and ritual governance—Manobo fishers face intensified vulnerabilities under shifting political economies, including the impacts of “Blue Economy” agendas that undervalue small-scale fisheries. Situating this case within the broader social and political ecologies of small-scale fishing in South and Southeast Asia, we argue for the urgent recognition of indigenous knowledge systems and spiritual ecologies as vital components of food sovereignty, human rights, and sustainable fisheries governance.</p>

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Beyond the blue economy: indigenous knowledge, resilience, and the social ecologies of small-scale fisheries in the Philippines

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    2026年3月2日

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  • Malona V. Alinsug,
  • Kara Isobel V. Alinsug

摘要

Small-scale fisheries provide crucial livelihoods, food security, and cultural resilience for indigenous communities across the Philippines and South Asia; yet they remain marginalized within dominant policy frameworks. This study examines the Manobo fishers of Lamidan, Davao Occidental, whose livelihoods are governed by a dynamic spiritual ecology rooted in ritual practices, taboos, lunar calendars, and relational marine stewardship. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted across seasonal cycles in 2023, we analyze how Manobo cosmologies shape fishing technologies, regulate marine resource use, and sustain community well-being amidst socio-economic precarity and structural exclusion. Despite resilient indigenous adaptations—such as technological innovation and ritual governance—Manobo fishers face intensified vulnerabilities under shifting political economies, including the impacts of “Blue Economy” agendas that undervalue small-scale fisheries. Situating this case within the broader social and political ecologies of small-scale fishing in South and Southeast Asia, we argue for the urgent recognition of indigenous knowledge systems and spiritual ecologies as vital components of food sovereignty, human rights, and sustainable fisheries governance.