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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Main Author: Gupta, Charu
Other Authors: Sharma, Mukul, 1961-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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.