- 144 pages
- English
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About this book
This book examines the Southern Indian Ocean corridor as a geographic, geological, and atmospheric space, taking a critical oceanic humanities approach while never losing sight of the land and water interface.
Using a range of disciplinary approaches and materials, Gupta and de Araújo hydrate territorial and land-based imaginations of the Southern African region by conceptualizing its oceanicity as a fluid and more than human materiality, synthetic situation, and geopolitical nexus. With a diverse set of case studies, they explore a variety of conceptual framings and methodologies, including science-technology-society studies, tourism and heritage studies, history, and international relations (IRs) – among others. The contributors cover a complex and vast imaginative geography, cross-cutting Portuguese, German, and British colonial traces in the region, and exploring land, water, and submerged spaces, from coastal towns and bridges to islands and archipelagos.
A fresh approach to thinking about Atlantic and Indian Ocean coastlines in a relational and scalar manner for scholars across a range of disciplines focussed on Southern Africa.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Regional Drift
- 1 The Socialist Atlantic: Rethinking Luanda From the Prédios Cubanos
- 2 Imperial Geographies and Precarious Coastal Livelihoods: Lüderitz and Walvis Bay as Extractive Regions
- 3 The Region and the Shipwreck
- 4 Hydro-de-Colonialism and the Cables Around the Cape
- 5 Polar Paradoxes: Antarctic Borders and the African Conundrum
- 6 Bridging the Bay: Infrastructure, Temporality, and History From the Maputo Bay
- 7 Porous Futures in Indian Ocean Africa: Oceanic Flows and Insular Socio-Ecologies in Mauritius
- Index