118: Pink Gold - Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico with Dr. María L. Cruz Torres
AnthroDish6 Feb 2024

118: Pink Gold - Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico with Dr. María L. Cruz Torres

The idea of fish industry tends to feel big, vague, and hyper-masculine – it's easy to think of tales of fisherman and ideals of masculinity. But as my guest this week shares, there are so many complexities to how gender, fishing, and identities intersect.

My guest this week is Dr. María L. Cruz Torres. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University and a cultural anthropologist whose areas of teaching and research include: political ecology; impact of globalization upon local communities and households; gender and work; sustainability and the environment; migration; food systems; and the environmental and social aspects of natural resource management. Her research has always combined a mixed methods approach of qualitative ethnography, ecological analysis, archival research, and household surveys.

She speaks today about the "shrimp ladies" in southern Sinaloa, Mexico, who are locally known as changueras. Through her new book Pink Gold: Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico, María describes how women shrimp vendors sell seafood in open-air markets that form an extralegal but key part of the local economy built around this "pink gold." She shares the stories of how the women struggled and evolved from marginalized peddlers to local icons depicted in popular culture, and how their roles in Sinaloa and Mazatlan offer fresh insights into gender and labour, street economies, and commodities as culturally valuable experiences.

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