Petty Traders, Gender, and Development in a South Indian FisheryFootnote

* I would like to thank the following individuals for their comments on earlier versions of this work: Priti Ramamurthy, Janet Momsen, Yamuna Sangarasivam, Rod Francis, Susan Wadley, Dilip Menon, John Agnew, Jeff Popke, Katherine Jones, members of Sari Bicklin’s Advanced Ethnographic Writing class, and two anonymous reviewers for Economic Geography. Special thanks to Devan Ayyankeril for his contribution to the collection and interpretation of the data. I would also like to thank Nalini Nayak and Aleyamma Vijayan for discussing their work with women fisherfolk and sharing their ideas about the impact of mechanization on women fish traders with me; any errors in analysis are mine.

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