Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds

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. . Language: English