Contested coastlines : fisherfolk, nations, and borders in South Asia / Charu Gupta and Mukul Sharma.
On the fishers of South Asia, their economic conditions, and coastal zone management in the region; a study.
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New Delhi :
Routledge,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Ecology, capitalism and conflict
- Tyranny of the National: Disciplining bodies
- Fisherfolk flows: Ambiguities of identities
- On the Fisher's body: human rights and suffering
- 2. Beyond borders: the Indian Ocean Region in South Asia
- Histories memories, movements in the South Asian Indian Ocean Region
- Natural and human resources in the Indian Ocean
- Fishing industry, unequal distribution and the Blue Crisis
- Towards sustainable seas?
- 3. Fisherfolk as 'Prisoners of War': India and Pakistan
- Cartographic dilemmas: the Sir reek Dispute
- Depleting fish catch
- Structures of fishing
- Omnipotent state and marginalised populations
- An exchange protocol: a chronicle of arrests and releases
- 4. The killing waters: India and Sri Lanka
- The manifold (ab)uses of law
- Tormented bodies: Fisherfolk and their families
- A fluid and dispersed community
- The universalising impact of capital
- Caught in a conflict warp
- Ethnic conflicts, terrorism and Fisherfolk
- What is to be done?
- 5. Ironies of identities: India and Bangladesh
- Politics of borders and maritime disputes
- Harsh habitations: poverty, fishing, ecological malaise and migrations
- Shifting terrains of nationalism and communalism: paradoxes of crossings
- Actions from above and visions for future
- 6. 'Unruly' Fisherfolk in the eyes of law
- Historical evolution of the law of the seas
- Maritime (F)laws in South Asia.