Floating Economies

The Cultural Ecology of the Dal Lake in Kashmir, India
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-029-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 650 g

In the Himalayas of the Indian part of Kashmir three communities depend on the ecology of the Dal lake: market gardeners, houseboat owners and fishers.  Floating Economies describes for the first time the complex intermeshing economy, social structure and ecology of the area against the background of history and the present volatile socio-political situation. Using a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, the author deals with the socioeconomic strategies of the communities whose livelihoods are embedded here and analyses the ecological condition of the Dal, and the reasons for its progressive degradation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Casimir, Michael J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Notes on Text

Introduction

PART I

Chapter 1. The Valley of Kasmir and Dal Lake

Chapter 2. Kashmir’s Early History and the Conversion to Islam

Chapter 3. The Social Organization of Contemporary Kashmiri Muslim Society

Chapter 4. The Market Gardeners of the Lake: Early Accounts

Chapter 5. The Market Gardeners’ Economy Today

Chapter 6. The Productivity of Lacustrine Market Gardening

Chapter 7. The Houseboat Owner Community and the Development of Tourism on Dal Lake

Chapter 8. The Gad Hanz: The Last Fishers on the Dal

PART II

Chapter 9. The Degradation of the Dal: Causes and Impacts

Chapter 10. The Political Ecology of a Degrading Lake: A Paradise Lost?

Appendix A

Appendix B

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Casimir, Michael J.
Michael J. Casimir is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Cologne. His major publications include Growing up in a Pastoral Society: Socialisation among Pashtu Nomads in Western Afghanistan (Hundt Druck, 2010) and Culture and the Changing Environment: Uncertainty, Cognition and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective (ed. Berghahn, 2008).