Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India

by Ajantha Subramanian

Book Overview

Shorelines 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804761469
• ISBN13: 9780804761468
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"