Buoyancy on the Bayou: Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization - Couverture souple

Harrison, Jill Ann.

 
9780801478338: Buoyancy on the Bayou: Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0801478332 ISBN 13 : 9780801478338
Editeur : ILR Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jill Ann Harrison is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon.

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Éditeur
ILR Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801478332
ISBN 13 
9780801478338
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
200
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780801450747: Buoyancy on the Bayou: Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization

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ISBN 10 :  0801450748 ISBN 13 :  9780801450747
Editeur : ILR Press, 2012
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