Author: Udon Sokmoly
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.GD-23-03
Year: 2023
Academic Program: Gender and Development Studies (GDS)
Type: Thesis (M. Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2023
Examination Committee: Kyoko Kusakabe (Chairperson); Philippe Doneys, Thi Phuoc Lai Nguyen (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: This study aims to understand how the changes in prahok production and consumption among prahok makers are affected by and led to different perceptions of women for these changes. The qualitative method (phenomenology) was applied in this study. There were 20 female and 11 male respondents selected for in-depth interviews. This study was conducted in two different categories of areas: seasonally flooded village (Preaek Sramaoch and Mok Wat villages) and displaced village (Chhnok Tru village). This study found that there were some factors that affected prahok production and consumption patterns among prahok makers in Tonle Sap Lake including livelihood strategies increasing price of inputs changes in consumers’ preference decrease in the amount of fish caught changes in market trend time-saving and the easiest of selling fresh fish or semi-processed prahok lack of capital time-consuming of producing prahok and change in living patterns. The effects of these factors made prahok makers into different groups of prahok production and changed their prahok production and consumption patterns in different ways. Due to these effects, the study revealed that there were four groups of prahok production: Home consumption Prahok makers (group 1) Professional Prahok makers (group 2) Fresh fish/Semi-processed Prahok sellers (group 3) and Quitting Prahok makers (group 4). In prahok production patterns, there were some key different changes among these four groups including types of prahok for producing, purposes of producing, sources of fish for processing, production scale, labor use, gender roles, income getting from prahok, amount of producing, and significant roles of prahok production. In prahok consumption patterns, there also had some key different changes among these four groups such as types of prahok for consumption, where to get prahok, amount of using, and ways of using prahok. This study also figured out why women from different groups of prahok production changed their praho
Scholarship Donor(s): The Dried Fish Matters (DFM) Project; Asian Institute of Technology Fellowship
Note: A thesis submitted in patial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Gender and Development Studies
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