Counter‐Mapping, Counter‐Histories, and Insurgencies of Subjugated Knowledges in the Fisher Struggle for Ennore Creek
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The Ennore wetlands in North Chennai, India were once dense with diverse habitats and interwoven histories. Many of these histories began to unravel from the 1960s onwards, when state-sponsored heavy industry began encroaching into and polluting the wetlands. Local fishers, whose lives, livelihoods, and cultural worlds were ignored by these changes, fought back in a campaign to reclaim and restore the wetlands. This paper analyses how the Save Ennore Creek Campaign and Ennore fishers used counter-mapping strategies to reveal the state's wilful suppression of fisher knowledge and worldviews using maps and plans. It draws from decolonial and ignorance studies literatures to analyse the campaign's counter-maps as cartographic, performative, and affective insurrections of subjugated knowledges and counter-histories that un-made the state's maps and plans, exposed the state's knowledge as wilful ignorance and spotlighted geographical knowledge from the margins as a way of remaking reality and opening up possibilities of alternative futures for the creek and its communities.
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- Jayaraman, N., Bremner, L., Coelho, K., Kumar, P., & Kasinathan, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Waikato (NZ)
- University of Westminster (GB)
- Madras Institute of Development Studies (IN)
- Independent Researcher Chennai India
- Fisher & Activist Urur Olcott Kuppam Chennai India
- Corresponding author
- Jayaraman, Nityanand
- Venue
- Antipode
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2024-10-29
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- 57
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- Pages
- 259-281
- ISSN
- 0066-4812 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8330
- OpenAlex
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- 8
- References
- 55
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Social Sciences and Humanities
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
- Keywords
- fishing communities, counter-mapping, counter-history, subjugated knowledges, decolonial cartography, ignorance studies, wetland restoration, industrial pollution, alternative futures
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