D. Johnson, Ph.D.

Research associate

Work address:

Department of Anthropology

443 Fletcher Argue Building

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, Manitoba

R3T 5V5 Canada

Email: Derek_johnson@umanitoba.ca

Education

Derek completed his B.A. in social anthropology and international relations from the University of Toronto. His M.A. and PhD (2002) are from the University of Guelph in sociology and international development studies and in rural studies. The title of his doctoral dissertation is Emptying the Sea of Wealth: Globalisation and the Gujarat Fishery, 1950-1999. Derek held a Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada Post-doctoral Fellowship at MARE from 2003 to 2005.

Research Areas

Social and economic change, political economy and globalisation, small-scale fisheries governance, international development, wellbeing, coastal India and Atlantic Canada

Current Research Projects

2011-2014 Co-Principal Investigator on the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund project Revalorizing small millets: Enhancing the food and nutritional security of women and children in rainfed regions of South Asia using underutilized species. Project funder: International Development Council of Canada.

2009-12 Co-Principal Investigator on the Canadian International Development Agency Canada-CGIAR Linkage Fund project Governing Small-scale Fisheries for Wellbeing and Resilience: A Canada-WorldFish Center Collaborative Research Program. Project Funder: Canadian International Development Agency.

Member FishGovNet.org

Selected Publications

Sarah Coulthard, Derek Johnson, and Allister McGregor. (2011). A Social Wellbeing Approach to Poverty and Sustainability in the Context of the Global Fisheries Crisis. Global Environmental Change. Online DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.01.003. (Jointly written and revised)

(2010). Institutional adaptation as a governability problem in fisheries: patron-client relationships in the Junagadh fishery, India. Fish and Fisheries 11(3): 264-277.

Jentoft, Svein, Maarten Bavinck, Derek S Johnson, Kaleekal Thomson. (2009). Co-management and Legal Pluralism: How an Analytical Problem Becomes an Institutional one, Human Organization 68(1): 27-38. (contributed text and revisions)

Derek R Armitage, Ryan Plummer, Fikret Berkes, Robert I Arthur, Anthony T Charles, Iain J Davidson-Hunt, Alan P Diduck, Nancy C Doubleday, Derek S Johnson, Melissa Marschke, Patrick McConney, Evelyn W Pinkerton, and Eva K Wollenberg. (2009). Adaptive co-management for social–ecological complexity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7(2): 95-102. (contributed a section and comments and revisions on the whole paper)

Jyothis Sathyapalan and Derek Johnson. (2008). Livelihood Security in the Marine Fisheries Sector of Gujarat State, India in S. Mahendra Dev and K. S. Babu (eds.) India’s Development: Even or Uneven? Reflections on Development Theory and Practice. Manohar Press. New Delhi: 277-304.

*Derek R Armitage, Ryan Plummer, Fikret Berkes, Robert I Arthur, Anthony T Charles, Iain J Davidson-Hunt, Alan P Diduck, Nancy C Doubleday, Derek S Johnson, Melissa Marschke, Patrick McConney, Evelyn W Pinkerton, and Eva K Wollenberg. 2008. Adaptive co-management for social–ecological complexity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6

Derek Johnson. 2007. Who’s Sharing the Fish? (republication) in K.G. Kumar (ed.) Sizing Up: Property Rights and Fisheries Management. International Collective in Support of Fishworkers, Samudra Dossier. Chennai: 78-81.

*Derek Johnson. 2006. Category, Narrative, and Value in the Governance of Small-scale Fisheries. Marine Policy 30: 747-756.

*Derek Armitage and Derek Johnson. (2006). Reconciling Resilience with Globalization and the Complex Conditions of Coastal Resource Degradation in Asia. Ecology and Society 11(1): 2 (19 pages). [Online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art2/.

*Ratana Chuenpagdee, Poul Degnbol, Maarten Bavinck, Svein Jentoft, Derek Johnson, Roger Pullin, Stella Williams. (2005). “Chapter 2. Challenges and Concerns in Fisheries and Aquaculture”. In: Jan Kooiman, Maarten Bavinck, Svein Jentoft, and Roger Pullin (eds.), Fish for Life: Interactive Governance for Fisheries. Amsterdam University Press: 25-37.

*Andy Thorpe, Derek Johnson, Maarten Bavinck. (2005). “Introduction” [to the section entitled “The System to be governed”]. In: Jan Kooiman, Maarten Bavinck, Svein Jentoft, and Roger Pullin (eds.), Fish for Life: Interactive Governance for Fisheries. Amsterdam University Press: 41-44.

*Derek Johnson, Maarten Bavinck, Joeli Veitayaki. (2005). “Chapter 4. Fish Capture”. In: Jan Kooiman, Maarten Bavinck, Svein Jentoft, and Roger Pullin (eds.), Fish for Life: Interactive Governance for Fisheries. Amsterdam University Press: 71-91.

*Derek Johnson, Andy Thorpe, Maarten Bavinck, and Michel Kulbicki. (2005). “Chapter 7. Links in the Fish Chain.” In: Jan Kooiman, Maarten Bavinck, Svein Jentoft, and Roger Pullin (eds.), Fish for Life: Interactive Governance for Fisheries. Amsterdam University Press: 133-144.

Derek Johnson, Erika Pladdet, and Mark Valencia. (2005). “Introduction: Research on Southeast Asian Piracy”. In: Derek Johnson and Mark Valencia (eds.), Piracy in Southeast Asia: Status, Issues, and Responses. ISEAS Press. Singapore: xi-xx.

Derek Johnson and Mark Valencia. (2005). “Conclusion: Towards an Agenda for Piracy Research”. In: Derek Johnson and Mark Valencia (eds.), Piracy in Southeast Asia: Status, Issues, and Responses. ISEAS Press. Singapore: 160-165.

*Derek Johnson. 2002. Fishy Comparisons or Valid Comparisons? Reflections on a Comparative Approach to the Current Global Fisheries Malaise, with Reference to Indian and Canadian cases. Maritime Studies 1(1). Amsterdam: 103-122.

Derek Johnson. 2001. Wealth and Waste: Contrasting Legacies of Fisheries Development in Gujarat since the 1950s. Economic and Political Weekly 36(13). Mumbai: 1095-1102.

*Derek Johnson. 1999. Merchants, the State and the Household: Continuity and Change in a 20th Century Acadian Fishing Village. Acadiensis 24(1) autumn. Fredericton: 57-75.

Languages

English, French, Gujarati

Major Professional Activities

July 1, 2007 to present: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba.

July 1, 2007 to present: Research Associate, MARE

September 2004 to present: Chief Editor, Maritime Studies (MAST)

October 1, 2003 to October 1, 2005: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellow, MARE.

January 1, 2003 to July 1, 2007: Senior Researcher, MARE

Centre for Maritime Research
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NL-1018 TV Amsterdam
Phone: +31 20 5254185
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Home Who We Are What We Do Conferences Journal MAST Publications Links	D. Johnson, Ph.D. Research associate Work address: Department of Anthropology 443 Fletcher Argue Building University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 5V5 Canada Email: Derek_johnson@umanitoba.ca Education Derek completed his B.A. in social anthropology and international relations from the University of Toronto. His M.A. and PhD (2002) are from the University of Guelph in sociology and international development studies and in rural studies. The title of his doctoral dissertation is Emptying the Sea of Wealth: Globalisation and the Gujarat Fishery, 1950-1999. Derek held a Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada Post-doctoral Fellowship at MARE from 2003 to 2005. Research Areas Social and economic change, political economy and globalisation, small-scale fisheries governance, international development, wellbeing, coastal India and Atlantic Canada Current Research Projects 2011-2014 Co-Principal Investigator on the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund project Revalorizing small millets: Enhancing the food and nutritional security of women and children in rainfed regions of South Asia using underutilized species. Project funder: International Development Council of Canada. 2009-12 Co-Principal Investigator on the Canadian International Development Agency Canada-CGIAR Linkage Fund project Governing Small-scale Fisheries for Wellbeing and Resilience: A Canada-WorldFish Center Collaborative Research Program. Project Funder: Canadian International Development Agency. Member FishGovNet.org Selected Publications Sarah Coulthard, Derek Johnson, and Allister McGregor. (2011). A Social Wellbeing Approach to Poverty and Sustainability in the Context of the Global Fisheries Crisis. Global Environmental Change. Online DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.01.003. (Jointly written and revised) (2010). Institutional adaptation as a governability problem in fisheries: patron-client relationships in the Junagadh fishery, India. Fish and Fisheries 11(3): 264-277. Jentoft, Svein, Maarten Bavinck, Derek S Johnson, Kaleekal Thomson. (2009). Co-management and Legal Pluralism: How an Analytical Problem Becomes an Institutional one, Human Organization 68(1): 27-38. (contributed text and revisions) Derek R Armitage, Ryan Plummer, Fikret Berkes, Robert I Arthur, Anthony T Charles, Iain J Davidson-Hunt, Alan P Diduck, Nancy C Doubleday, Derek S Johnson, Melissa Marschke, Patrick McConney, Evelyn W Pinkerton, and Eva K Wollenberg. (2009). Adaptive co-management for social–ecological complexity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7(2): 95-102. (contributed a section and comments and revisions on the whole paper) Jyothis Sathyapalan and Derek Johnson. (2008). Livelihood Security in the Marine Fisheries Sector of Gujarat State, India in S. Mahendra Dev and K. S. Babu (eds.) India’s Development: Even or Uneven? Reflections on Development Theory and Practice. Manohar Press. New Delhi: 277-304. Derek R Armitage, Ryan Plummer, Fikret Berkes, Robert I Arthur, Anthony T Charles, Iain J Davidson-Hunt, Alan P Diduck, Nancy C Doubleday, Derek S Johnson, Melissa Marschke, Patrick McConney, Evelyn W Pinkerton, and Eva K Wollenberg. 2008. Adaptive co-management for social–ecological complexity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6 Derek Johnson. 2007. Who’s Sharing the Fish? (republication) in K.G. Kumar (ed.) Sizing Up: Property Rights and Fisheries Management. International Collective in Support of Fishworkers, Samudra Dossier. Chennai: 78-81. Derek Johnson. 2006. Category, Narrative, and Value in the Governance of Small-scale Fisheries. Marine Policy 30: 747-756. Derek Armitage and Derek Johnson. (2006). Reconciling Resilience with Globalization and the Complex Conditions of Coastal Resource Degradation in Asia. Ecology and Society 11(1): 2 (19 pages). [Online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art2/. Ratana Chuenpagdee, Poul Degnbol, Maarten Bavinck, Svein Jentoft, Derek Johnson, Roger Pullin, Stella Williams. (2005). “Chapter 2. Challenges and Concerns in Fisheries and Aquaculture”. In: Jan Kooiman, Maarten Bavinck, Svein Jentoft, and Roger Pullin (eds.), Fish for Life: Interactive Governance for Fisheries. Amsterdam University Press: 25-37. Andy Thorpe, Derek Johnson, Maarten Bavinck. (2005). “Introduction” [to the section entitled “The System to be governed”]. In: Jan Kooiman, Maarten Bavinck, Svein Jentoft, and Roger Pullin (eds.), Fish for Life: Interactive Governance for Fisheries. Amsterdam University Press: 41-44. Derek Johnson, Maarten Bavinck, Joeli Veitayaki. (2005). “Chapter 4. Fish Capture”. In: Jan Kooiman, Maarten Bavinck, Svein Jentoft, and Roger Pullin (eds.), Fish for Life: Interactive Governance for Fisheries. Amsterdam University Press: 71-91. Derek Johnson, Andy Thorpe, Maarten Bavinck, and Michel Kulbicki. (2005). “Chapter 7. Links in the Fish Chain.” In: Jan Kooiman, Maarten Bavinck, Svein Jentoft, and Roger Pullin (eds.), Fish for Life: Interactive Governance for Fisheries. Amsterdam University Press: 133-144. Derek Johnson, Erika Pladdet, and Mark Valencia. (2005). “Introduction: Research on Southeast Asian Piracy”. In: Derek Johnson and Mark Valencia (eds.), Piracy in Southeast Asia: Status, Issues, and Responses. ISEAS Press. Singapore: xi-xx. Derek Johnson and Mark Valencia. (2005). “Conclusion: Towards an Agenda for Piracy Research”. In: Derek Johnson and Mark Valencia (eds.), Piracy in Southeast Asia: Status, Issues, and Responses. ISEAS Press. Singapore: 160-165. Derek Johnson. 2002. Fishy Comparisons or Valid Comparisons? Reflections on a Comparative Approach to the Current Global Fisheries Malaise, with Reference to Indian and Canadian cases. Maritime Studies 1(1). Amsterdam: 103-122. Derek Johnson. 2001. Wealth and Waste: Contrasting Legacies of Fisheries Development in Gujarat since the 1950s. Economic and Political Weekly 36(13). Mumbai: 1095-1102. *Derek Johnson. 1999. Merchants, the State and the Household: Continuity and Change in a 20th Century Acadian Fishing Village. Acadiensis 24(1) autumn. Fredericton: 57-75. Languages English, French, Gujarati Major Professional Activities July 1, 2007 to present: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba. July 1, 2007 to present: Research Associate, MARE September 2004 to present: Chief Editor, Maritime Studies (MAST) October 1, 2003 to October 1, 2005: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellow, MARE. January 1, 2003 to July 1, 2007: Senior Researcher, MARE	Centre for Maritime Research Plantage Muidergracht 14-16 NL-1018 TV Amsterdam Phone: +31 20 5254185 Fax: +31 20 5254051 Contact Form