Asia’s Maritime History and Identity at Cultural Crossroads

Sreedevi Santhosh, Samjaila T. H., Preethi S., Steffi Santhana Mary S, Uma Maheswary, L. Santhosh Kumar

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040820490
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Geopolitics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Maritime Asia, collectively bordered by the Pacific, Indian and Arctic Ocean, sources Asia's food reserve, goods and ideas yet figures relatively lesser in global cultural production. Asia's 'great highways' and 'wide common' of the sea function as routes for trade and commerce that underpins globalization. Due to unprecedented human trafficking at sea, the ocean has largely become a repository for plastic pollution, waste and effluents. Complex oceanic-ecosystems make it inconceivable for human beings to take stock of the interdependence of seas, earth and atmosphere, 'missing in context' for redressal.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• About the Editors
• About the University and Department
• Trade and Merchants in Asia's Maritime History (17th century)
• Reimagining the East African Ocean through Idris: An Interview with Author Anita Nair
• Floating Pedagogies Siddis, and the Indian Ocean
• 1 A Travelled Genre: The Novel in Khasi Literature
• 2 Madness and Displacement in the Film Kalira Atita (Yesterday's Past): A Geo-Demographic and Psychoanalytic Reading of Tropical Cyclones
• 3 Land, Power and Politics: A Marxist Examination of the Land - Caste Nexus in Thakazhi's Kayar and its Geopolitical Resonances
• 4 The Water Unites and the Land Divides: Exploring Chinese Maritime Migration and the Birth of Kolkata Chinatown
• 5 Kochi Water Metro: Revisiting the Economy-Ecology Paradox of Water Transportation
• 6 MamakamInclusion of Rituals: A Sea Change in Kappal Kalaham in Cultural Practices
• 7 Dual Identities and Cultural Negotiations: A Study of Goan Diasporic Communities, Their Challenges and Contribution in Preserving Heritage
• 8 Spirality Motif: The Geophilosophy of the Sea in Children of the Sea
• 9 A Journey to Redeem or Attain Redemption? : A Study of the Migration of Knanaya Community through Select Folk Songs
• 10 Rethinking Environmental Consciousness and Sustainable Rethinking Environmental Development through New Stories and Ideologies
• 11 Interrogating the Colonial Legacy of Kochi: A Reading of Rigo 23's Installation in Kochi-Muziris Biennale
• 12 Of Sea and Self: A Panpsychist Analysis of Bharatan's Amaram
• 13 Saltwater Chronicle: Cyclonic Memory and Resilience in the Folk Ballads of the Sundarbans
• 14 Silent Architects: A Study on Tamil Indentured Labourers in the Maritime British Empire
• 15 Navigating Maritime Spaces: A Study of Fisherwomen and their Interactions in the Public Realm in Alappuzha, Kerala
• 16 Repositioning on the Global Stage: Maritime Identity in Yukio Mishima's the Temple of the Golden Pavilion
• 17 AVM Canal as Testimony of Oral Traditions and Cultural Memory
• 18 (Re)-Visiting the Marine Industry and Maritime Simulators
• 19 Colonialism at Sea: A Study of Cultural Resilience and Assimilation in Maritime Asia
• 20 When Rivers Meet the Sea: How Kerala’s Maritime Pathways Shaped the Development of Athirampuzha as an In-land Trading Centre
• 21 Non-Human Agency and Identity in Plastic Debris: A Speculative Realistic Reading of Craig Leeson's Documentary A Plastic Ocean
• 22 The Tides of Change: Exploring the Intersection of Tradition and Modernity Among the Mogaveera Community
• 23 Museum as Mediators: Integrating Local Histories within Archaeological Narratives at the Muziris Children’s Museum, Pattanam, Kerala
• 24 Navigating Morality: The Ethics and Legacy of Indian Ocean Pirates
• 25 Culinary Cultural Crossroads: An Introduction to Historical and Socio-Cultural Exploration of Indian Maritime Encounters in Southeast Asia
• 26 Maritime Spaces: Islands as Geographies of Crime and Horror
• 27 Nautical Narratives: An Exploration from Bygone to Present
• 28 Are We Really Out of the Tragic Triad? Understanding the Dialectic of “Paracolonialism” and “Wet Globalization” through Blue Humanities
• 29 A Requiem for the Ocean: Ecocritical Engagements with Plastic Pollution and Coral Bleaching
• 30 Seascapes: The Ocean in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies
• 31 Legendary Mountains and Maritime Spheres: Exploring the Symbolic and Navigational Significance of Mandara, Mainak, and Meru in South Asia
• 32 Ocean Sustainability Through Storytelling: A Study of S. T. Coleridge's Rime of The Ancient Mariner Through the Lens of Indian and Western Literary Theories
• 33 Besieged by the Shifting Sea: Challenges Amid Ecological Change
• 34 Traversing Maritime Chessboard: Power Plays in the Indian Ocean Region
• 35 Revisiting Maritime History through the Literary Evidences of South-Asian Piracy, Terrorism and the Oceanic Combat for Capital and Power
• 36 Bake-Kujira: A Study of Yōkai Myth, Cultural Historicization and Marine Conservation
• 37 Looking at the East through the Chinese Lens: A Multidisciplinary Study of Ma Huan's The Overall Survey of the Ocean
• 38 The Ministry for The Future: An Eye Opener Towards The Harrowing Collapse of Climate
• 39 A Single-Case Study on Resilience and Adaptation in the Children of Indian Coast Guard Personnel
• 40 Stagnant Waters and Haunting Bodies: A Study of Hydro Terror in Enmakaje through Ambika Suthan Mangad's Endosulfan: Nilavilikal Avasanikkunnilla
• 41 Navigating Time and Tide: A Cultural Documentation of Maritime Ethnography and Social Transformation in Joe D' Cruz's Korkai
• 42 Coral Harmony: Implementing SDGs for Healthy Trade in Southeast Asia through Coastal Communities
• 43 Gender Intersectionality with Cultural History and Blue Ecocriticism in Lisa See's The Island of Sea Women
• 44 Lord of the Flies Revisited: An Examination of Human Nature through Adolescent Conflict on a Deserted Island
• 45 Ocean as a Metaphor for Identity and Transformation in Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi
• 46 Calicut and the Spice Routes: Maritime Power, Cultural Exchange, and the Legacy of the Zamorins in Asia’s Oceanic History
• 47 The Seafaring Heroes and a Damsel in Distress: The Shared Maritime Experiences of the Lived and the Imagined in S.P. Jananathan's Iyarkai
• 48 Between Tides and Tigers: Displacement, Survival, and Cultural Identity in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide
• 49 Beneath the Tide: Maritime Literature and the Hideous Mystery of “Black Water: Abyss” (2020)
• 50 Chords of the Ocean: Unveiling Maritime Identity through Musicscape in Carsten Jensen's We, the Drowned
• 51 Connoted Waters: Understanding Transcorporeality through Select Kurunthokai Poem of Neidal Thinai in Sangam Literature of Tamil Nadu
• 52 The Role of Women in Maritime Trade and Labour in Tamil Nadu’s Coastal Border: A Gender Intersectional Perspective within Maritime Activities
• 53 Building Resistance: Water Feminism in Eeram
• 54 The Coastal Economy versus the Agrarian Economy of South Tamil Nadu: Geopolitical and Ecocritical Reflections on Ocean Rimmed World
• 55 Islands of Flavor: The Interplay of Aqua Pelagic Assemblage and Culinary Currents in South Korea’s The Island of Sea Women
• 56 The Mythical World of Legendary Beasts and Celestial Protectors in Asian Oceanic Lore
• 57 Masculine Seas and Feminine Demons: Maritime Myths and Gender Dynamics in Tiya Chatterjee’s Horrors of The Sea
• 58 Potato to Protato: How the European Maritime Expedition Re-imagined the Indian Foodscape with GM Cultivars