The elusive quest for access and collective action: North Sri Lankan fishers’ thwarted struggles against a foreign trawler fleet
The purpose of this paper is to further the understanding of how unequal access to commons is (re)produced and contested. I do so by looking into the thwarted struggle of small-scale fishers in post-war Northern Sri Lanka to contest encroachment of an Indian trawler fleet. I contend that for underst...
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| Language: | English |
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Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services)
2016-09-01
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| Series: | International Journal of the Commons |
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| Online Access: | https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/627 |