{"product_id":"contested-coastlines-charu-gupta-9780415449052","title":"Contested Coastlines: Fisherfolk, Nations and Borders in South Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is about the tragic journeys and livelihood insecurities of coastal fisherfolk jailed by India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh for having entered each other's territorial waters. While reflecting on national anxieties and the deleterious politics of boundaries, it reveals how these fisherfolk create alternative maps and a new world of 'debordering'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese fishworkers and coastal conflicts have been subjects of everyday news, but never a subject of serious study. A first of its kind, the present book breaks new ground by examining the journeys of these fisherfolk and coastal conflicts in South Asia from several overlapping but distinct perspectives: declining sea resources, security and border anxieties, suffering of the fisherfolk, their ambiguous identities and transnational movements. The book is also innovative in terms of methodology: it is fisherfolk-centric as it marginalizes the concerns of the state from the perspective of security; it questions the very basis of security and argues for a shift in its perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charu Gupta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415449057\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415449052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.90d","brand":"Charu Gupta","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136088027391,"sku":"9780415449052","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_33bc6bec-447d-4496-8965-031c35000bca.jpg?v=1770160428","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contested-coastlines-charu-gupta-9780415449052","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}