Intro; Dedication; Foreword; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Prologue: The Market Day that Never Was; References; On Transliteration; Contents; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Glossary of Local Terms; List of Figures; List of Graphs; List of Tables; Part I: Coastal Entanglements in Everyday Life; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Fishing in the Wake of War; 1.2 Locating Co-operation in Conflict Settings; 1.3 Ethics Amidst Everyday Lifeworlds; 1.4 Unlearning the "Field": Tracing Figurations Across Fluid Spaces; References; Chapter 2: Sri Lanka's Littoral Northeast
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2.1 Social Diversity in Coastal Trincomalee2.2 Wartime Transitions and the (Mis)fortunes of a Tsunami; 2.3 Militarised Shorelines: Edges and Peripheries; References; Chapter 3: Fisher Lifeworlds, Relational Practices; 3.1 Reclaiming the Sea: Beyond Violence and Dwelling; 3.2 Fishing Lifeworlds and the Salience of Co-operation; 3.3 The Grammar of Sambandam; 3.4 Co-operation Institutionalised: Fisher Co-operative Societies in Perspective; 3.5 Conclusion; References; Part II: Sambandam: The Lateral, A-Sociative, and the Hierarchical; Chapter 4: Change and Continuity After Wartime
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4.1 Situating Ethics in Everyday Livelihoods4.2 Mythologies of Postwar Liberalisation; 4.2.1 "Militarised Liberalisation": The Political Economy of Postwar Fishing; 4.2.2 Declines in Postwar Fortunes; 4.3 Contested Narratives of Entropy and Catch Depletion; 4.3.1 Chains of Culpability; 4.3.2 Spatial Mobility in the Wake of Liberalisation; 4.4 "Kappam" and the Ethnicisation of Rule Breaking; 4.4.1 The Social Biography of a Fishing Net; 4.4.2 The Interplay of "Kappam" As an Institution; 4.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Transversal Ties Across the Local-Migrant-Settler Complex
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5.1 Bilingual Seafarer Vadis and the Boundaries of Otherness5.1.1 Hybrid Identities and Spaces of In-Betweenness; 5.1.2 Migrant Camps As Perceived Sites of Exemption; 5.1.3 Pioneer Narratives, Local Antagonisms and Cold Dependencies; 5.2 Beach-Seine Padu Sites As Borderscapes; 5.2.1 Dwelling in Diversity; 5.2.2 Local Interactions and Practices of Conviviality; 5.3 Reverse Migration and Its Discontents; 5.4 Sinhalese Settlers and the Ambivalence of Belonging; 5.4.1 "People of Malee": Local Histories of Settlement; 5.4.2 Enclaved Settler Spaces at the Periphery
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5.4.3 Settlers As Bridging Agents?5.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Vertical Alliances During Popular Protest; 6.1 Fictions and Factions: Moral Discourses in Purse Seining; 6.2 Speaking for the Other: Local-Settler Mobilisation; 6.3 Political Patronage and the Dynamics of Grievance Trading; 6.4 Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: Postscript: Thinking Through the Sea; 7.1 Towards an Anthropology of Everyday Co-operation; 7.2 Narratives of Return; 7.3 Everyday Life After the "Rainbow Coalition"; 7.4 Mundo Mar: Of Islanded Presence and Belonging; References
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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 dualisms between co-operation and contestation simplify the complex lifeworlds of small-scale fishing communities that are often imagined by scholars through allegories of rivalry and resource competition. Drawing on ordinary interpretations and lived practices implicated in the vernacular term sambandam (bearing multiple meanings of intimacy and entanglement), the book traces how intergroup co-operation is both affectively routinised and tactically instrumentalised across coastlines, and at sea. Given its distinct focus on translocal and ethno-religiously plural collectives, the study maps recent historic formations of diverse practices and their contentions, from networked 'piracy' and dynamite fishing, to collective rescue missions and coalitional lobbying. Moreover this work serves as an open invitation to academics, policymakers and activists for re-imagining multiple modes of ethical being and doing, and of everyday sociality among so-called 'deeply divided' societies. A rich ethnography that pays meticulous attention to a complex social fabric made up of locals, settlers and migrants, with multiple linguistic and religious affiliations, sometimes contending fishing practices, and migration and livelihoods patterns as they have been affected by tsunami, war and the aftermaths of both. It draws from and speaks to a range of disciplines - from political science and sociology, to critical geography and cultural studies, and contributes to diverse fields of inquiry, including conflict and its relationship to a "cold" peace; coastal/maritime livelihoods; identity, cooperation, and collective action." Aparna Sundar, Assistant Professor of Politics, Ryerson University By unveiling the vast heterogeneity of fisher migrants and settlers, the book demonstrates in an excellent way how research should not merely focus on the articulations of identity, but more so the inherent properties and qualities of the diverse interdependencies they come to sustain. Conrad Schetter, Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Bonn.--
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Springer Nature
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com.springer.onix.9783319788371
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Fishing, mobility and settlerhood.
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9783319788364
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Coasts-- Sri Lanka-- Social conditions.
Fisheries-- Social aspects-- Sri Lanka.
Migration, Internal-- Sri Lanka-- Sociological aspects.