Edyta Roszko
How Global Conflict Becomes Local and How Local Fishermen Become Global Players: Tracing the Social, Cultural and Legal Consequences of the South China Sea Dispute for Local Fisheries
Edyta Roszko received her PhD in Social Anthropology from the Martin-Luther-Universität/MPI for Social Anthropology in Halle in November 2011. Her dissertation “Spirited Dialogues: Contestations over the Religious Landscape in Central Vietnam’s Littoral Society” is a study of coastal communities in Central Vietnam and a multi-faceted contestation over the religious landscape against the backdrop of ecological, economic and political change. Edyta Roszko has four years of research experience in Vietnam and two years of research at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. In 2011-2012, she taught anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is also an affiliated post-doctoral researcher at the NIAS in Copenhagen.
How Global Conflict Becomes Local and How Local Fishermen Become Global Players: Tracing the Social, Cultural and Legal Consequences of the South China Sea Dispute for Local Fisheries
In Berlin, she will work on fisheries and cross-border fish trade in coastal frontier areas between Vietnam and China and the legal and customary procedures simultaneously facilitating and constraining the management of marine spaces and resources against the backdrop of the South China Sea conflict. In contrast to those studies, which are concerned with the security of state borders, she focuses on the livelihood and ecological security of the people at the state’s margins whose livelihoods depend on degrading environmental resources. She will explore ways in which various actors make their legal claims to fishing grounds and trade marine commodities—even at times of territorial dispute.
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