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In recent years, shrimpers on the Louisiana coast have faced a historically dire shrimp season, with the price of shrimp barely high enough to justify trawling. Yet, many of them wouldn't consider leaving shrimping behind, despite having transferrable skills that could land them jobs in the oil and gas industry. Since 2001, shrimpers have faced increasing challenges to their trade: an influx of shrimp from southeast Asia, several traumatic hurricane seasons, and the largest oil spill at sea in American history.
In
Last Stand of the Louisiana Shrimpers, author Emma Christopher Lirette traces how Louisiana Gulf Coast shrimpers negotiate land and blood, sea and freedom, and economic security and networks of control. This book explores what ties shrimpers to their boats and nets. Despite feeling trapped by finances and circumstances, they have created a world in which they have agency.
Lirette provides a richly textured view of the shrimpers of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, calling upon ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, interdisciplinary scholarship, and critical theory. With evocative, lyrical prose, she argues that in persisting to trawl in places that increasingly restrict their way of life, shrimpers build fragile, quietly defiant worlds, adapting to a constantly changing environment. In these flickering worlds, shrimpers reimagine what it means to work and what it means to make a living.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Psychology
Length8 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byLinda Rigamer Lirette
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 14, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication and Acknowledgements
12Bodies of Water
2Unmooring for Beginners
13Names of Water, or the Idea of Order at Mare à Clay
3Lesson One: Making Space
14Bodies on the Water
4Lesson Two: Stories and Scholarship
15Land's End
5Lesson Three: A Brief History of the Pre-Bust Louisiana Shrimp Fishery
16Oil and Water
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6Syllabus
17Gulf
7Blood
18Nets
8Bloodlines
19Ghost Nets
9Blood Magic and Cruelty
20Miraculous Draught of Fish
10Ecology and the Body
21Fish Stories: A Methodological Appendix
11Water
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