Mixing Oil and Water

The Shrimp-Petroleum Nexus in Coastal Louisiana

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5949080
AutoresVeronica Davidov (0000-0002-7098-4338)
Año2022
Volumen25
Número1
Páginas26-44
Fecha de publicación2022-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal for the Anthropology of North America (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2475-5389 • E-ISSN: 2475-5389
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/nad.12164
OpenAlexW4288467384
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas19

The Shrimp-Petroleum Festival is an annual event in Morgan City, Louisiana, that celebrates the history of the two industries in this coastal city. The festival came under media scrutiny and public criticism in the wake of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in part because of the seeming incompatibility and incongruence of the two things being celebrated. From a local perspective, however, the convergence of the two industries is far from incompatible and the two resources in question, shrimp and oil, are categorically similar within local discourses of identity, well-being, and economic prosperity. In that capacity, it offers an insight into how precarious and contingent the seemingly self-evident dichotomies commonly invoked in normative environmentalism are. It also offers insight and into the range of assumptions and signification practices involved in assigning meaning to particular kinds of resources and particular kinds of human-nature relations

American Environmental and Regional History · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology