Buoyancy on the Bayou
Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization
by Jill Ann Harrison; Jill Ann. Harrison
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Pub Date Dec 11 2012 | Archive Date Nov 05 2013
Cornell University Press | ILR Press
Description
Over the past several decades, shrimp has transformed from a luxury food to a kitchen staple. While shrimp-loving consumers have benefited from the lower cost of shrimp, domestic shrimp fishers have suffered, particularly in Louisiana. Most of the shrimp that we eat today is imported from shrimp farms in China, Vietnam, and Thailand. The flood of imported shrimp has sent dockside prices plummeting, and rising fuel costs have destroyed the profit margin for shrimp fishing as a domestic industry.
In Buoyancy on the Bayou, Jill Ann Harrison portrays the struggles that Louisiana shrimp fishers endure to remain afloat in an industry beset by globalization. Her in-depth interviews with more than fifty individuals working in or associated with shrimp fishing in a small town in Louisiana offer a portrait of shrimp fishers' lives just before the BP oil spill in 2010, which helps us better understand what has happened since the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Harrison shows that shrimp fishers go through a careful calculation of noneconomic costs and benefits as they grapple to figure out what their next move will be. Many willingly forgo opportunities in other industries to fulfill what they perceive as their cultural calling. Others reluctantly leave fishing behind for more lucrative work, but they mourn the loss of a livelihood upon which community and family structures are built. In this gripping account of the struggle to survive amid the waves of globalization, Harrison focuses her analysis at the intersection of livelihood, family, and community and casts a bright light upon the cultural importance of the work that we do.
Advance Praise
"Emily T. Yeh’s Taming Tibet is one of the best analyses of the contemporary socioeconomics and politics of development of Tibet. The book is based on powerful ethnographic details and strong theoretical analysis and situates the current sociopolitical milieu within the context of the larger issues of the state’s goal of 'development' and local subjectivity in transforming Tibetan landscape. Yeh shows that the issue is not a simple dichotomy between state action and local resistance. The 'gift of development' produces an asymmetrical relationship between donor and recipient, the Chinese state’s desire to make an imprint on the territory while at the same time creating 'internal others' and 'objects of suspicion.' Taming Tibet should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding contemporary Tibet and China’s relations with periphery regions."—Tsering Wangdu Shakya, Canada Research Chair in Religion and Contemporary Society in Asia, University of British Columbia, author of The Dragon in the Land of Snows
“Taming Tibet is a highly original book; no one else is capable of doing the kind of research and analysis that Emily T. Yeh has done among Tibetans in the People's Republic of China. She incorporates an unprecedentedly wide regional and comparative scope of experience, even as the book focuses on the Lhasa valley. This is a timely book, and increasingly so with Tibet's rising geopolitical importance and the recent protests and military crackdown.”—Charlene E. Makley, Reed College, author of The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780801478338 |
| PRICE | $21.95 (USD) |
