Shorelines
Subtitle: space and rights in South India
By: Ajantha Subramanian.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780804761468
Subjects: Catholic Church -- India -- Kanniyākumāri (District) -- Clergy -- Political activity; Catholic Church -- India -- Kanniyākumāri (District) -- History; Mukkuvars -- Civil rights -- India -- Kanniyākumāri (District); Fishers -- Civil rights -- India -- Kanniyākumāri (District); Village communities -- India -- Kanniyākumāri (District); Space -- Political aspects -- India -- Kanniyākumāri (District)
Description: After a clerical sanction prohibited them from fishing for a week, a group of Catholic fishers from a village on India's southwestern coast decided to take their church to court. This title shows their struggle, providing insights into contemporary Indian democracy, citizenship, and environmentalism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The coastal world : spatial jurisdictions and meanings; title: From the inland out : caste purity to caste modernity; title: Changing developmentalisms : spatializing the artisan; title: Community development to the blue revolution : new technologies, new shorelines; title: Projects of intermediacy : regionalism, artisanal territory, appropriate technology; title: Locality and nation : respatializing rights under neoliberalism.