Natures of Change
Weathering the World in Post-Tsunami Tamil Nadu
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9348152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frida Hastrup (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 135-150 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1558-6073 • E-ISSN: 1558-5468 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/nc.2008.030201 |
| OpenAlex | W2063320425 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This article analyzes local concerns with nature and natural changes in response to the tsunami of 2004 based on anthropological fieldwork in the South Indian fishing village of Tharangambadi. It explores the fishermen's effort to restore confidence in their environment after the disaster, and argues that this entails a subtle strategy of relating to climate and weather that aims at gradually transferring the rupture of the tsunami to a more manageable pattern of seasonal variation. In analytical terms, the article investigates how the fishermen work to reassert their subjectivity in the aftermath of the overwhelming disaster through operating with different perspectives on their environment. In conclusion, the article suggests that these shifting perspectives more generally reflect notions of different intensities of change and creative local modes of adaptation ensuing from a disruption like the tsunami
Archaeology · Climate change · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Epistemology · Fishing · Geography · Meteorology · Natural (archaeology · Natural disaster · Political science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Tamil · Weathering · Work (physics · Asian Studies and History · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Engineering · Environmental Science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Geology · Oceanography
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2016 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |