I. Sharma
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Towards uncommon grounds
Heterogenous vocabularies of the valley and the gulf
This article stages a dialogue between the two distant sites of our respective research, located in India and Georgia, both of which are at the centre of major infrastructural transformations. From these two sites of Kutch and west Georgia, the authors have noticed that local vocabularies are testaments to material economies of place and often contain traces of histories and relations that are erased by the global script through which infrastructural developments are justified and narrated. In striving to build a different kind of narration of the transformations that have invested them they place their incommensurability in focus through our exchange. Instead of comparison, this bringing together of two worlds is shaped by acknowledging a shared interest and common concerns. Borrowing from De La Cadena (‘Uncommoning nature’, 2015), the authors define their effort as a form of ‘uncommoning’ that shapes possible alliances to resist extractive projects, while allowing for divergence and differences in how the world is viewed (or written).
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This article stages a dialogue between the two distant sites of our respective research, located in India and Georgia, both of which are at the centre of major infrastructural transformations. From these two sites of Kutch and west Georgia, the authors have noticed that local vocabularies are testaments to material economies of place and often contain traces of histories and relations that are erased by the global script through which infrastructural developments are justified and narrated. In striving to build a different kind of narration of the transformations that have invested them they place their incommensurability in focus through our exchange. Instead of comparison, this bringing together of two worlds is shaped by acknowledging a shared interest and common concerns. Borrowing from De La Cadena (‘Uncommoning nature’, 2015), the authors define their effort as a form of ‘uncommoning’ that shapes possible alliances to resist extractive projects, while allowing for divergence and differences in how the world is viewed (or written).
This themed issue of the Journal of Visual Culture is concerned with how to think and work across what might at first sight seem to be incommensurate worlds. The articles assembled here think through questions of evidence, affect and speculation, and how these operate within our current economy of knowledge production through the use of practices such as mapping, modelling, sensing and storytelling. While these practices are not new, they have been transformed through advancements in technology and through the way they are embedded within the digital realm. In attending to these practices, the authors give precedence to different ways of knowing the world, to other forms of intelligence, and demonstrate a commitment to developing forms of practice that weave together what might be contradictory positions into future scenarios.
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This themed issue of the Journal of Visual Culture is concerned with how to think and work across what might at first sight seem to be incommensurate worlds. The articles assembled here think through questions of evidence, affect and speculation, and how these operate within our current economy of knowledge production through the use of practices such as mapping, modelling, sensing and storytelling. While these practices are not new, they have been transformed through advancements in technology and through the way they are embedded within the digital realm. In attending to these practices, the authors give precedence to different ways of knowing the world, to other forms of intelligence, and demonstrate a commitment to developing forms of practice that weave together what might be contradictory positions into future scenarios.
Between forests and coasts
Fishworkers on the move in India
The Covid-19 lockdown in India in March 2020 revealed the presence of Adivasi communities in the marine fishing industry of Goa, a coastal state in India. While the migration for work of Adivasi communities from the central regions of the country is well recorded, their movement across geographies of the forest and the coast is relatively unknown. Working with initial data collected during the lockdown, interviews conducted after the pandemic and using secondary materials, the paper sought to understand the social and material conditions in the forest and the coastal regions that shape this movement. Centring the waged relation of Adivasi workers opened the door to thinking about the marine fishing sector in India as a capitalist industry, while paying attention to social reproduction highlighted how the coastal and forest regions are spatially linked through their movement and labour. This highlights that the coasts and forests are going through distinct processes of capitalist intensification and expansion. Making connections between ecological appropriation, historical processes of resource extraction and marginalization, the paper finds that the extraction of fish resources in Goa is made productive through the hierarchization and differentiation of Adivasi workers. It reveals how the social relations of identity and caste mediate access to and define conditions of work at sea.
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The Covid-19 lockdown in India in March 2020 revealed the presence of Adivasi communities in the marine fishing industry of Goa, a coastal state in India. While the migration for work of Adivasi communities from the central regions of the country is well recorded, their movement across geographies of the forest and the coast is relatively unknown. Working with initial data collected during the lockdown, interviews conducted after the pandemic and using secondary materials, the paper sought to understand the social and material conditions in the forest and the coastal regions that shape this movement. Centring the waged relation of Adivasi workers opened the door to thinking about the marine fishing sector in India as a capitalist industry, while paying attention to social reproduction highlighted how the coastal and forest regions are spatially linked through their movement and labour. This highlights that the coasts and forests are going through distinct processes of capitalist intensification and expansion. Making connections between ecological appropriation, historical processes of resource extraction and marginalization, the paper finds that the extraction of fish resources in Goa is made productive through the hierarchization and differentiation of Adivasi workers. It reveals how the social relations of identity and caste mediate access to and define conditions of work at sea.