Alainagaram
By Niranjana
This podcast attempts to set up a cross-disciplinary conversation on seacoasts and the urban processes they are entangled in. The first series has a geographical focus on the shoreline of Tamil Nadu, on the south eastern coast of India.
Alainagaram Oct 11, 2021
Fisher narratives of industrial pollution in the Coromandel coast ft. Oviya Govindan
Language: English
Guest: Oviya Govindan
PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of California Irvine
Articles mentioned in episode:
Oviya Govindan. Following Fish-Talk through Industrial Waters. Items: Insights from the Social Sciences. Social Science Research Council. February 16, 2021. Read article.
Timothy Neale, Matt Barlow & Radhika Govindrajan. Episode #38: Radhika Govindrajan. Conversations in Anthropology. 2020. Podcast, mp3 audio: 49.13. Listen here.
Max Liboiron, Manuel Tironi & Nerea Calvillo. Toxic politics: Acting in a permanently polluted world. Social Studies of Science. 2018. 48(3):331-349. Read article.
Fisher councils in the Coromandel Coast and the politics of resource governance ft. A Bhagath Singh & Prabhakar Jayaprakash
Language: Tamil
Guests:
Bhagath Singh A
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Social Sciences, French Institute of Pondicherry
Prabhakar Jayaprakash
PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai
Articles mentioned in episode:
Sarah Coulthard. More than just access to fish: the pros and cons of fisher participation in a customary marine tenure (Padu) system under pressure. Marine Policy. 2011. 35(3), 405-412. Read article.
Kenton Lobe & Fikret Berkes. The padu system of community-based fisheries management: change and local institutional innovation in south India. Marine Policy. 2004. 28(3), 271-281. Read article.
Gender, caste & sexual publics on the beaches of Chennai ft. Sneha Krishnan
Language: English
Guest: Sneha Krishnan
Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Oxford
Articles mentioned in episode:
Sneha Krishnan. Where do good girls have sex? Space, risk and respectability in Chennai. Gender, Place & Culture. 2021. 28:7, 999-1018. Read article.
Pearl Fishery in the Gulf of Mannar ft. Tamara Fernando
Language: English
Guest: Tamara Fernando
PhD Candidate in History, University of Cambridge
Articles mentioned in episode:
Tamara Fernando. Death at the Pearl Fishery. Hypocrite Reader. Issue 95. July 2020. Read article.
Tamara Fernando. Seeing Like the Sea: A Multispecies History of the Ceylon Pearl Fishery 1800–1925. Past & Present. 2021. Read article.