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Jill Ann. Harrison - Buoyancy on the Bayou: Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization - 9780801450747 - V9780801450747
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Buoyancy on the Bayou: Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization

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Description for Buoyancy on the Bayou: Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4, 4 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; JFSF; JHBL; KNAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 399.

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780801450747
SKU
V9780801450747
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

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

Reviews for Buoyancy on the Bayou: Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization
Jill Ann Harrison's book is a highly readable and insightful account of the hardships faced by Louisiana shrimpers over the last decade. Based on 'ethnographic interviewing,’ the empirical focus of Buoyancy on the Bayou is the social strategies of shrimpers dealing with the twofold threat of lower prices paid for their productresulting from cheaper imported shrimp and soaring costs mostly ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Buoyancy on the Bayou: Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization


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