Reimagining Indian Ocean worlds / edited by Smriti Srinivas, Bettina Ng'weno, and Neelima Jeychandran.
This book breaks new ground by bringing together multidisciplinary approaches to examine contemporary Indian Ocean worlds. It reconfigures the Indian Ocean as a space for conceptual and theoretical relationality based on social science and humanities scholarship, thus moving away from an area-based...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of contributors
- Introduction: many worlds, many oceans
- Crafting arrival
- Keywords for Indian Ocean worlds
- Thinking as process
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Part I: Proximity and distance
- Chapter 1: The ends of the Indian Ocean: notes on boundaries and affinities across time
- Shifting boundaries of relation
- Shifting imaginations of space
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 2: Indian Ocean ontology: Nyerere, memory, place.
- The place of memory, memory as place
- Sensory histories
- Saba Saba
- Cochin
- Tanzanianness
- Arusha Declaration and socialist belonging
- Inauthentic Asians
- Disinterred
- References
- Chapter 3: The littoral, the container, and the interface: situating the dry port as an Indian Ocean imaginary
- Introduction: between limits and possibilities
- Figuring the littoral: land, ocean, port, city
- The container
- The dry port
- Conclusion: contemporary Indian Ocean worlds
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 4: Seasons of sail: the monsoon, kinship, and labor in the dhow trade.
- Flying in the face of the wind
- Monsoons at sail
- From aakhar to mausam: a dual morphology, interrupted?
- Seasons of work, cycles of debt: labor and kinship for the khalaasi
- A clash of calendars: regulating the weather and mobility
- From sea to shore: a monsoonal relationality
- Notes
- References
- Part II: Landscapes, oceanscapes, and practices
- Chapter 5: Elsewheres in the Indian Ocean: spatio-temporal encounters and imaginaries beyond the sea
- Dreams of mobility
- Elsewheres
- Mountains, oceans, and estranged stones
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References.
- Chapter 6: Dicey waterways: evolving networks and contested spatialities in Goa
- Introduction
- Evolving networks and new routes
- Onshore impact
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 7: Improvising Juba: productive precarity and making the present at the edge of the Indian Ocean world
- The Minister of Darkness
- Dealing with dollars and making sense of the pound
- Building "companies"
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 8: Displacemaking with shutki: living with dead, dried fish as companions
- Shutki and displacemaking: an introduction.
- Shutki in Nazirartek: the process of becoming
- Shutki on the move
- Shutki gone bad: contemplating contamination
- Shutki and future challenges
- Notes
- References
- Part III: Memory and maps
- Chapter 9: Memory, memorialization, and ""heritage"" in the Indian Ocean
- Introduction
- Sacred geographies
- Coerced pasts
- Extractive pasts
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 10: Shorelines of memory and ports of desire: geography, identity, and the memory of oceanic trade in Mekran Coast (Balochistan)
- A seaward perspective?