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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
2Unmooring for Beginners
3Lesson One: Making Space
4Lesson Two: Stories and Scholarship
5Lesson Three: A Brief History of the Pre-Bust Louisiana Shrimp Fishery
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6Syllabus
7Blood
8Bloodlines
9Blood Magic and Cruelty
10Ecology and the Body
11Water
12Bodies of Water
13Names of Water, or the Idea of Order at Mare à Clay
14Bodies on the Water
15Land's End
16Oil and Water
17Gulf
18Nets
19Ghost Nets
20Miraculous Draught of Fish
21Fish Stories: A Methodological Appendix
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