Getting on the bus: Bordering the Indian Ocean, Kanyakumari is peninsular India’s southernmost district. Here, through years of struggle, women fishers have managed to significantly expand their citizenship rights

Subramanian, Ajantha (2009) Getting on the bus: Bordering the Indian Ocean, Kanyakumari is peninsular India’s southernmost district. Here, through years of struggle, women fishers have managed to significantly expand their citizenship rights. Yemaya (30). pp. 4-5. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

Often, Kanyakumari district’s fishing villages are stereotyped as places without history and their inhabitants as primitives existing outside the world of modern politics. Inland castes and state officials commonly reinforce prejudices about fishing populations: “They are as volatile as the ocean they sail”; “Fishers have no sense of the world.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM273
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, India, Tamil Nadu, Women, Fish Marketing, Fishworkers Struggle, Citizenship Rights, Trade, Transportation, Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Jeeva ICSF Rajan
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2021 07:13
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2022 09:03
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/552

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