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Book SynopsisShorelines reveals how spatial imaginaries and practices affect power and politics through a close look at how Catholic fishing communities in southwestern India have defended their role as custodians of the local sea and expressed their rights in relation to church and state.
Trade Review"This book is more than important: it is unique and path-breaking. Evocative of its place and time, it reveals the coast of India and, by implication, other coastal sites in Asia as a landscape of negotiations for livelihood rights. In avid focus, Subramanian calls attention to a community's capacity to mobilize their in-between positionality for political ends." -- David Ludden * New York University *
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Shorelines boldly invites discussion of how social and political spaces are produced, what space does to political and social relations, and how people in fishing communities think about the relationship between water and land. It will produce a significant and lasting impact." -- Arun Agrawal * University of Michigan *
