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Buoyancy on the Bayou - Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization (Paperback) Loot Price: R624
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Buoyancy on the Bayou - Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization (Paperback): Jill Ann Harrison

Buoyancy on the Bayou - Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization (Paperback)

Jill Ann Harrison

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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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Imprint: ILR Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2012
First published: December 2012
Authors: Jill Ann Harrison
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-7833-8
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Rural communities
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Fisheries & related industries
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LSN: 0-8014-7833-2
Barcode: 9780801478338

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