Fishing, Mobility and Settlerhood Coastal Socialities in Postwar Sri Lanka /

• Main Author: Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: MARE Publication Series, 20
• Subjects: Anthropology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Peace.; Political economy.; Human geography.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Peace Studies.; International Political Economy.; Human Geography.

This multi-sited island ethnography illustrates how the embattled politics of (im) mobility, belonging, and patronage among coastal fishing communities in Sri Lanka´s militarised northeast have intersected in the wake of civil war. It explores an undertheorized puzzle by asking how the conceptual du...

Table of Contents:

• Part1. Coastal Entanglements in Everyday Life
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Sri Lanka´s Littoral Northeast
• Chapter 3. Fisher Lifeworlds, Relational Practices
• Part 2. Sambandam: The Lateral, A-Sociative, and The Hierarchical
• Chapter 4. Change and Continuity after Wartime
• Chapter 5. Transversal Ties across the Local-Migrant-Settler Complex
• Chapter 6. Vertical Alliances during Popular Protest
• Chapter 7. Postscript: Thinking through the Sea.