Conversations on the Beach

Conversations on the BeachAlready on the margins of an agrarian society, the marine fisherfolk of the South Indian state of Kerala are faced with a severe environmental problem: overfishing. The actions of trawlers and industrial fishing ships, it seems, have caused the resources on which they depend to dwindle rapidly. Yet what may appear to be a clear cut case of cause, effect and responsibility turns out to be a complex issue. Local perceptions of the environment are deeply

Daughter of a Manchu aristocrat

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spiteful kings and selfish trolls forced to confront the error of their ways

social justice and biological conservation must go hand in hand

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Wells’ Scientific and Horrific Stories is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers

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Focusing on the role of political leadership and domestic political institutions

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The essays collected here outline a geophilosophy of the Mediterranean-a sea of great importance in the history of Europe and the wider West

medical anthropologists and a clinician