Investigating the Waterfront: The Entangled Sociomaterial Transformations of Coastal Space in Karnataka, India

Kadfak, Alin; Knutsson, Per

doi:10.1080/08941920.2016.1273418

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“…Tota-Bengre is home to approximately 6,000 residents spread across 982 households, with a Hindu majority 3 as well as Christian and Muslim minorities. Tota-Bengre is located on a sand-spit on the opposite side of the Gurupura river from the harbour (see also Kadfak & Knutsson, 2017), a 10-min communal ferry allows for straightforward crossing. Within walking distance from the harbour are a number of government offices including the District Office, a centre for district administration, the Port Authority, the District Department of Fisheries (DoF) and national and commercial banks.…”

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“…Mangaluru fisheries development is observed through the expansion of fishing harbour facilities to the south and on Tota-Bengre waterfront as well as in volume of catches. This harbour expansion has claimed about half of the waterfront which used to be a common space for numerous smallscale livelihood activities, such as fish drying, net mending, small-scale boat mooring and for social gatherings (Kadfak & Knutsson, 2017). Presently, however, the area is hosting more than 1000 trawlers and purse seiners that were previously at the main harbour.…”

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More than Just Fishing: The Formation of Livelihood Strategies in an Urban Fishing Community in Mangaluru, India

Kadfak

2019

The Journal of Development Studies

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This article examines livelihood strategies of fishers and youth in an urban fishing community in India. Situated next to the busiest fishing harbour in Karnataka, I show how proximity to the city provides fishers and youth broader occupational choices to diversify their livelihoods by intensifying or taking on several fisheries-based activities, moving into the service sector, or getting urban jobs. Urban conditions have largely influenced how fishers and youth decide their livelihood strategy. The article shows how the fishers and youth have employed livelihood diversification via both accumulation and risk management strategies. Due to the lack of analysis drawing on urban fisheries case studies, the narratives of small-scale fisheries have largely been based on rural contexts, which often portrait small-scale fishers as either inefficient or vulnerable. This study, however, allows us to open up existing small-scale fisheries narratives to view fishers as active agents. Therefore, this study calls for more systematic emphasis on studying urban implications in small-scale fishing communities with important repercussions for urban fishers and their livelihood strategies.

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More than Just Fishing: The Formation of Livelihood Strategies in an Urban Fishing Community in Mangaluru, India

Kadfak

2019

The Journal of Development Studies

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“…In some sectors of the academic community suspicion of interdisciplinary working persists, with the notion often reported that this approach dilutes efforts away from the study of traditional disciplines (Rylance, 2015). At Gothenburg, while expanding our interdisciplinary pursuits, we have maintained our disciplinary integrities as evidenced by the publishing of intra-disciplinary studies (e.g., Eriander et al, 2016;Infantes et al, 2016a, b;Kaur Kahlon et al, 2016;Turner et al, 2016;Kadfak and Knutsson, 2017). When the Graduate School was established at Gothenburg we followed the same model as that underpinning the NSF's IGERT programs (Carney et al, 2006) with an emphasis on both interdisciplinary and intra-disciplinary outcomes.…”

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“…As similarly reported by participants in the NSF's IGERT program, benefits under the Gothenburg model have been tangible at the student, academic and institutional level (Carney et al, 2006). These benefits have included the successful completion of an interdisciplinary PhD thesis (Eriander, 2016), high impact disciplinespecific (e.g., Eriander et al, 2016;Infantes et al, 2016a, b;Kaur Kahlon et al, 2016;Turner et al, 2016;Kadfak and Knutsson, 2017) as well as interdisciplinary publications (Cole and Moksnes, 2016;Moksnes et al, 2016a, b), new successful interdisciplinary grant applications, and individual career progression.…”

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Transporting ideas between marine and social sciences: experiences from interdisciplinary research programs

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Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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The oceans comprise 70% of the surface area of our planet, contain some of the world’s richest natural resources and are one of the most significant drivers of global climate patterns. As the marine environment continues to increase in importance as both an essential resource reservoir and facilitator of global change, it is apparent that to find long-term sustainable solutions for our use of the sea and its resources and thus to engage in a sustainable blue economy, an integrated interdisciplinary approach is needed. As a result, interdisciplinary working is proliferating. We report here our experiences of forming interdisciplinary teams (marine ecologists, ecophysiologists,social scientists, environmental economists and environmental law specialists) to answer questions pertaining to the effects of anthropogenic-driven global change on the sustainability of resource use from the marine environment, and thus to transport ideas outwards from disciplinary confines. We use a framework derived from the literature on interdisciplinarity to enable us to explore processes of knowledge integration in two ongoing research projects, based on analyses of the purpose, form and degree of knowledge integration within each project. These teams were initially focused around a graduate program, explicitly designed for interdisciplinary training across the natural and social sciences, at the Gothenburg Centre for Marine Research at the University of Gothenburg, thus allowing us to reflect on our own experiences within the context of other multi-national,interdisciplinary graduate training and associated research programs.

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“…Waves of development and urbanization have in Mangaluru, like in other Indian cities undergoing similarly dramatic changes, influenced a rapid urban expansion with additional pressure on scarce land resources (Bhatta, 2013;Kadfak and Knutsson, 2017). What until recently were rural villages today contain diverse social groups with migrant workers moving into intensified industrial and service sectors, an influx of students attending colleges as well as government and office workers looking for affordable housing.…”

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Intermediary Politics in a Peri-Urban Village in Mangaluru, India

Kadfak

2018

Forum for Development Studies

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This article examines an unsettled institutional setting in a peri-urban coastal village of Mangaluru, India. This village is experiencing rapid economic, social and political changes. Urbanity has introduced formal institutions into this area as part of decentralization and state recognition to a dedicated economic development area. This peri-urban area, however, did not exist in an institutional void prior to formal recognition but under customary institutions. The newly introduced formal institutions therefore create an entangled and overlapping peri-urban governance setting. In order to understand the complex relationship between local governance bodies in swiftly urbanizing contexts, I use intermediary lens to view how institutions adapt to changing environments when becoming (formally) urban. The results show that instead of fixating performances according to mandates or laws, the formal and informal institutions both operate through intermediary performances to respond to residents' requirements and state provision of public services. To negotiate with the state, intermediaries use their skills to cultivate personal relations with local political parties, low-level bureaucrats and caste-base organizations, as well as to record vital information like demography and land relations. Furthermore, the intermediaries need to build reputation based on the perpetuation of successful representation, caste-based identity and political influence within the area. The intermediary lens illustrates a dynamic relationship between institutions influenced by current political issues and always emerging (re)alignments part of peri-urban political and economic transitions.

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Investigating the Waterfront: The Entangled Sociomaterial Transformations of Coastal Space in Karnataka, India

Cited by 6 publications

References 29 publications

More than Just Fishing: The Formation of Livelihood Strategies in an Urban Fishing Community in Mangaluru, India

More than Just Fishing: The Formation of Livelihood Strategies in an Urban Fishing Community in Mangaluru, India

Transporting ideas between marine and social sciences: experiences from interdisciplinary research programs

Intermediary Politics in a Peri-Urban Village in Mangaluru, India

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