Together with the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), the artec Sustainability Research Center cordially invites you to a guest lecture by Dr. Gerardo Damonte:

20.06.2023, 12:00-13:00 | Big seminar room, ZMT, Fahrenheitstr. 6, 28359 Bremen & online: https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/9999141518

Intertwined realities – hybrid institutions in the Peruvian fisheries and aquaculture sectors

Dr. Gerardo Damonte
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)

Gerardo Damonte is a Professor of the Department of Social Sciences at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). He holds a PhD in anthropology from Cornell University. He has worked as Senior Researcher at the Analysis Group for Development (GRADE). Currently, he is the Director (PUCP) of trAndeS—Postgraduate Program on Social Inequalities and Sustainable Development in the Andean. Gerardo has been a DAAD professor at the Free University of Berlin and visiting researcher at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. His research addresses socio-environmental issues in the Andean region, particularly the social dynamics linked to global extractive developments. 
 
Following pro-market policies, the Peruvian state has aimed to regulate profitable fisheries and aquaculture activities to increase production. However, informal and illegal activities persist and are interlinked with formal practices and frameworks, creating intertwined realities in fostering processes of institutional hybridization. In this guest lecture, Gerardo Damonte will be presenting us with an analysis of the (re)production of informal and illegal activities by explaining the formation of hybrid institutional entanglements in two case studies: the Peruvian anchoveta fishery and the Peruvian bay scallop aquaculture industry in Sechura. This analysis has recently been published in the journal Maritime Studies https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-023-00309-1