Indian Ocean Islands (eBook, PDF)

Illustrated Cases on Geopolitics, Ocean and Environment
Redaktion: Bouchard, Christian; Osman, Shafick

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a rare attempt to cover various issues related to geopolitics, international relations, history, security, anthropology and ocean/environment of Indian Ocean islands and their societies. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351019972
• Artikelnr.: 57895971

Autorenporträt

Christian Bouchard is the Coordinator of Environmental Studies (French) at Laurentian University, Canada, a founding member of the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG), and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Indian Ocean. Shafick Osman is a Research Associate at the Florida International University (USA), Deputy Editor-in-chief of Outre-Terre (France) and a member of the Society for Indian Ocean Studies (New Delhi) and IORG.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Indian Ocean Islands: Illustrated cases on geopolitics,
ocean, environment
Christian Bouchard and Shafick Osman
1. Balancing and bandwagoning: explaining shifts in Sri Lankan foreign
policy
Rajni Nayanthara Gamage
2. Cocos and Christmas Islands: building Australia's strategic role in the
Indian Ocean
David Brewster and Rory Medcalf
3. Towards a workers' history of the Chagos archipelago
Marina Carter
4. 'Indo-Mauritians' and the Indian Ocean: literacy accounts and
anthropological readings
Mathieu Claveyrolas
5. Small islands' understanding of maritime security: the cases of
Mauritius and Seychelles
James A. Malcolm and Linganaden Murday
6. The European Union and the Indian Ocean Islands: identifying
opportunities for developing a more ambitious and comprehensive strategy
Erwan Lannon
7. Tropical cyclones and coastal communities: the dialectics of social and
environmental change in the Sundarban delta
Debojyoti Das