Gendered dimensions of climate change impacts, adaptive capacity, and resilience in Maine’s coastal fisheries
A woman caring for a green plant on a mountain in a destroyed landscape. Illustration by Lars Leetaru in We can’t fight climate change without fighting for gender equity
Project Background
What are women’s experiences of climate change in Maine’s coastal fisheries and how are they responding and adapting to change? The impacts of climate change on fishing communities are not equal; instead, they are shaped by existing social relations, including gender. Using oral histories, this project aims to understand the impacts of the rapidly warming Gulf of Maine on women in fishing communities.
Project Aims:
- Collect new oral histories with women in Maine’s fishing sector for the NOAA Voices Archive and Maine Sound and Stories.
- Analyze data to understand how women are a) impacted by climate change, b) are responding, and c) their adaptive capacities.
- Identify opportunities to enhance equitable climate adaptation in Maine’s Climate Council
- Produce a podcast sharing the stories of climate change and adaptation.
What skills you can expect to learn:
- Collecting oral history interviews
- Analyzing interview data (qualitative and/or quantitative methods)
- Qualitative analysis software
Data
- We will be working with data from NOAA Voices Archive and Maine Sound and Story and adding a new collection of interviews to these archives.
