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9780367344535: Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds (Routledge Series on the Indian Ocean and Trans-Asia)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 036734453X ISBN 13: 9780367344535
Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

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 and geographical approach to Indian Ocean studies.

Contributors from a variety of disciplines focus on keywords such as relationality, space/place, quotidian practices, and new networks of memory and maps to offer original insights to reimagine the Indian Ocean. While the volume as a whole considers older histories, mobilities, and relationships between places in Indian Ocean worlds, it is centrally concerned with new connectivities and layered mappings forged in the lived experiences of individuals and communities today. The chapters are steeped in ethnographic, multi-modal, and other humanities methodologies that examine different sources besides historical archives and textual materials, including everyday life, cities, museums, performances, the built environment, media, personal narratives, food, medical practices, or scientific explorations.

An important contribution to several fields, this book will be of interest to academics of Indian Ocean studies, Afro-Asian linkages, inter-Asian exchanges, Afro-Arab crossroads, Asian studies, African studies, Anthropology, History, Geography, and International Relations.

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About the Author

Smriti Srinivas is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, USA.

Bettina Ng’weno is Associate Professor for African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis, USA.

Neelima Jeychandran is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate in African Studies and Asian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
036734453X
ISBN 13 
9780367344535
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
250
Editor
Srinivas Smriti, Ng'weno Bettina, Jeychandran Neelima