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LOVE, MARK
[email protected]
University of Queensland, Australia (anthropology)
Anthropology, fisheries, rural surveys – Marovo
UQ Marovo Project
Current affiliation, academic qualifications and contact details.
Mark W. Love (Honours, 1st class. anthropology 2006). Awarded a ‘University Medal
for Outstanding Scholarship (2006)’ for my thesis.
Currently I am undertaking my PhD in anthropology. I am 70% affiliated with the
School of Social Science, 30% with the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict
Studies (ACAPCS) at The University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA.
Mail: Michie Building, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +61 7 3289 8247
Fax: +61 7 3365 1544
Research
My (very short) research career in the Solomon’s has so far been based solely on
‘quick ethnography’ strategies, using PRA methods combined with a cultural
consensus analysis, interviews and some other tools. As the anthropological field
operative on the UQ-Marovo Lagoon Project (stage 1), I spent five months in the
lagoon, over four trips (the longest continues stay being only two months).
I speak competent Solomon Islands Pijin and basic (simple conversational) Marovo,
but with a reasonable ecological vocabulary.
My thesis was an investigation of two marine resource conservation projects who
were trying to establish MPAs in the territorial waters of several butubutu in the
lagoon (Seacology, an American NGO and the International Waters Project, a
regionally implemented project working in 14 Pacific countries). My interest is thus
in the realm of ‘development studies’ and ‘political ecology’, and I am extending on
this theme in my PhD - which in brief is a comparative study of several marine
resource management programs in both Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. I am
particularly interested in ‘incentive-based’ resource management programs and how
local people harness and reconceptualise such projects.
Both personally and professionally, I am interested in developing a career around
‘anthropology in use’ rather than as a tenured academic. I have been doing applied
work in Vanuatu on the AusAID funded Kastom Governance Partnership, a
collaboration between ACPACS and the National Council of Chiefs which explores
and holds workshops (or more pointedly dialogues or storians) with regional Chiefs
and government and community representatives on the intersection(s) between
customary and introduced governance systems. I have also done work in northern
Australia researching the impact that Indigenous employment in the mining industry
has on Indigenous families and communities. In short, I am interested in topics and
research methods that have tangible, practical relevance to local people.
I honestly cannot say how my work might serve the current interests of the people of
the Western Province in the aftermath of the tsunami. One of the field sites for my
PhD is the WorldFish-WWF MPAs, where WorldFish have been involved in
providing technical assistance to communities interested in alternative mariculture
activities and who have established an MPA with WWF. Some of these communities
were affected by the tsunami. Certainly some of the reports that have come out post
tsunami could do with some more social science perspectives and experience!
Further, some of the development assistance research and programs, such as Oxfam’s
Livelihood Assessment report of Ghizo (2008), could have been much more
constructive and interesting had they been assisted by a regionally experienced social
scientist.
Key publications/reports/materials
S. Albert, J. Udy, I. Tibbetts, N. Duke, D. Neil, M. Love, C. Roelfsema and A. Ross
(2006) Chiniena ba lineana pa Marovo Lagoon [Condition of the marine
environments in Marovo Lagoon]. Report to Marovo community. The University of
Queensland, Brisbane.
S. Albert, M. Love, C. Roelfsema, N. Duke, J. Udy and I. Tibbetts (2007) Marovo: A
lagoon and people facing change. In N. Duke et al. (eds) Conserving the marine
biodiversity of Marovo Lagoon: development of environmental management initiative
that will conserve the marine biodiversity and productivity of Marovo Lagoon,
Solomon Islands. pp. 29-41. The University of Queensland, Brisbane.
S. Albert, M. Love, J. Udy, I. Tibbetts, C. Roelfsema, D. Neil, G. Manion, S. Hough,
A. Ross and N. Duke (2007) Science addressing community concerns about the
marine environment. In Duke et al. (eds) Conserving the marine biodiversity of
Marovo Lagoon: development of environmental management initiative that will
conserve the marine biodiversity and productivity of Marovo Lagoon, Solomon
Islands. pp. 43-83. The University of Queensland, Brisbane.
N. Duke, J. Udy, S. Albert, M. Love, A. Ross, I. Tibbetts, C. Rolelfsema, D. Neil, G.
Manion, J. Prange, J. Corrin-Care, R. W. Carter, P. Dart and S. Hough (eds) (2007)
Conserving the marine biodiversity of Marovo Lagoon: development of environmental
management initiative that will conserve the marine biodiversity and productivity of
Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands. The University of Queensland, Brisbane.
N. Duke, M. Love, S. Albert, J. Udy, A. Ross, I. Tibbetts, C. Roelfsema, R.W. Carter,
J. Corrin-Care and D. Neil (2007) The UQ Marovo Experience: science-based
support for community management of marine resources. In Duke et al. (eds)
Conserving the marine biodiversity of Marovo Lagoon: development of environmental
management initiative that will conserve the marine biodiversity and productivity of
Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands. pp. 11-27. The University of Queensland,
Brisbane.
M. Love (2006) Projected epistemologies and unintended consequences: in
consideration of environmental change and marine protected areas in Marovo
Lagoon, Solomon Islands. B.A. Honours thesis, The University of Queensland,
Brisbane.
M. Love and A. Ross (2006) Preliminary anthropological field report: UQ Solomon
Marovo Project Report. University of Queensland, Brisbane.
M. Love, A. Ross and J. Corrin-Care (2007) Strengthening community capacity. In
Duke et al. (eds) Conserving the marine biodiversity of Marovo Lagoon: development
of environmental management initiative that will conserve the marine biodiversity and
productivity of Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands. pp. 85-97. The University of
Queensland, Brisbane.
M. Love and A. Ross (2007) Social and cultural considerations. In Duke et al. (eds)
Conserving the marine biodiversity of Marovo Lagoon: development of environmental
management initiative that will conserve the marine biodiversity and productivity of
Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands. pp. 99-109. The University of Queensland,
Brisbane.
M. Love, A. Ross, J. Udy, R.W. Carter and C. Howell (2007) Economic
considerations. In Duke et al. (eds) Conserving the marine biodiversity of Marovo
Lagoon: development of environmental management initiative that will conserve the
marine biodiversity and productivity of Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands. pp. 111127. The University of Queensland, Brisbane.
M. Love, J. Corrin-Care and A. Ross with S. Albert, I. Tibbetts, J. Udy. C. Roelfsema
and N. Duke (2007) Lessons learned, future directions and recommendations. In
Duke et al. (eds) Conserving the marine biodiversity of Marovo Lagoon: development
of environmental management initiative that will conserve the marine biodiversity and
productivity of Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands. pp. 129-141. The University of
Queensland, Brisbane.
MATERIALS
Love (2006) Environmental change and marine protected areas in Marovo lagoon
(BA Hons thesis).pdf