Shorelines

Subramanian, Ajantha:
Shorelines : space and rights in South India / Ajantha Subramanian. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009. - xiii, 301 S. : Ill., Kt.
ISBN 978-0-8047-6146-8 / 0-8047-6146-9
US$ 60,00

Beschreibung
After a clerical sanction prohibited them from fishing for a week, a group of Catholic fishers from a village on India's southwestern coast took their church to court. They called on the state to recognize them as custodians of the local sea, protect their right to regulate trawling, and reject the church's intermediary role.
   In Shorelines, Ajantha Subramanian argues that their struggle requires a rethinking of Indian democracy, citizenship, and environmentalism. Rather than see these fishers as non-moderns inhabiting a bounded cultural world, or as moderns wholly captured by the logic of state power, she illustrates how they constitute themselves as political subjects. In particular, she shows how they produced new geographies—of regionalism, common property, alternative technology, and fisher citizenship—that underpinned claims to rights, thus using space as an instrument of justice. Moving beyond the romantic myth of self-contained, natural-resource dependent populations, this work reveals the charged political maneuvers that bound subalterns and sovereigns in South Asia.
   In rich historical and ethnographic detail, Shorelines illuminates postcolonial rights politics as the product of particular histories of caste, religion, and development, allowing us to see how democracy is always "provincial." [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
List of Illustrations. vii
Acknowledgments. ix
Note on Terminology. xiii
Introduction.
PART 1: GENEALOGIES OF INEQUALITY AND RIGHTS
    1. The Coastal World: Spatial Jurisdictions and Meanings. 35
    2. From the Inland Out: Caste Purity to Caste Modernity. 66
    3. Changing Developmentalisms: Spatializing the Artisan. 103
PART 2: POSTCOLONIAL CHALLANGES
    4. Community Developments to the Blue Revolution: New Technologies, New Shorelines. 143
    5. Projects of Intermediacy: Regionalism, Artisanal Territory, Appropriate Technology. 171
    6. Locality and Nation: Respatializing Rights under Neoliberalism. 206
Conclusion. 245

Autorin

AJANTHA SUBRAMANIAN is Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Studies at Harvard University. Faculty page; profile at Harvard University, Center for the Environment.

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