Regional Drift (eBook, ePUB)

Remapping Africa's Southern Oceans
Redaktion: Gupta, Pamila; de Araújo, Caio Simões

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040131589
• Artikelnr.: 72290263

Autorenporträt

Pamila Gupta is Research Professor at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa, affiliated with the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies (CGAS). She has published widely in the fields of historical ethnography, decolonization and the Indian Ocean, heritage studies, design, and visual cultures across South Asia and Southern Africa. Her most recent co-edited volume is titled Planetary Hinterlands: Abandonment, Extraction, and Care (With Sarah Nuttall, Esther Peeren and Hanneke Stuit, 2023). Caio Simões de Araújo is a Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) of the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. His research interests involve the history of cities and built environments in Southern Africa, Afro-Asian decolonization, transnational histories of race and anti-racism, and gender and sexuality in the Global South.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Cape Town
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