Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
List of maps
List of contributors
Introduction: many worlds, many oceans
Part I: Proximity and distance
	Chapter 1: The ends of the Indian Ocean: notes on boundaries and affinities across time
		Shifting boundaries of relation
		Shifting imaginations of space
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 2: Indian Ocean ontology: Nyerere, memory, place
		The place of memory, memory as place
		Sensory histories
		Saba Saba
		Cochin
		Tanzanianness
		Arusha Declaration and socialist belonging
		Inauthentic Asians
		Disinterred
		References
	Chapter 3: The littoral, the container, and the interface: situating the dry port as an Indian Ocean imaginary
		Introduction: between limits and possibilities
		Figuring the littoral: land, ocean, port, city
		The container
		The dry port
		Conclusion: contemporary Indian Ocean worlds
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 4: Seasons of sail: the monsoon, kinship, and labor in the dhow trade
		Flying in the face of the wind
		Monsoons at sail
		From aakhar to mausam: a dual morphology, interrupted?
		Seasons of work, cycles of debt: labor and kinship for the khalaasi
		A clash of calendars: regulating the weather and mobility
		From sea to shore: a monsoonal relationality
		Notes
		References
Part II: Landscapes, oceanscapes, and practices
	Chapter 5: Elsewheres in the Indian Ocean: spatio-temporal encounters and imaginaries beyond the sea
		Dreams of mobility
		Elsewheres
		Mountains, oceans, and estranged stones
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		References
	Chapter 6: Dicey waterways: evolving networks and contested spatialities in Goa
		Introduction
		Evolving networks and new routes
		Onshore impact
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7: Improvising Juba: productive precarity and making the present at the edge of the Indian Ocean world
		The Minister of Darkness
		Dealing with dollars and making sense of the pound
		Building “companies”
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8: Displacemaking with shutki: living with dead, dried fish as companions
		Shutki and displacemaking: an introduction
		Shutki in Nazirartek: the process of becoming
		Shutki on the move
		Shutki gone bad: contemplating contamination
		Shutki and future challenges
		Notes
		References
Part III: Memory and maps
	Chapter 9: Memory, memorialization, and \"heritage\" in the Indian Ocean
		Introduction
		Sacred geographies
		Coerced pasts
		Extractive pasts
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 10: Shorelines of memory and ports of desire: geography,identity, and the memory of oceanic trade in Mekran Coast (Balochistan)
		A seaward perspective?
		Slaves, tribesmen, and the transformation of the Mekran  Coast
		Nostalgia and madness as critique of the present
		Ghosts of memory: djinns, winds, and placemaking
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 11: The ship and the anchor: shifting cartographies of affinity and belonging among Sikhs in Fiji
		South Asians in Fiji
		The ship: the portability of Sikhs and Indian Ocean
		The anchor: Sikh sacred geography in the Fiji  Archipelago
		Conclusion: the emergence of a global Gurdwara imaginary and uncertain futures in Fiji
		Notes
		References
		Unpublished Sources
Part IV: Methods and disciplines
	Chapter 12: Bibi\'s uchungu: eating, bitterness, and relationality across Indian Ocean worlds
		Bibi’s grief (uchungu)
		Land and personhood
		Eating as relationality across Indian  Ocean worlds
		A methodological proposal
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 13: Marfa masti: performing shifting Indian Ocean geographies
		Afro-Asia in the seventeenth century Deccan – courtly elite and a Sufi lyre player
		Golconda to Hyderabad: the Deccan’s changing locatedness
		Marfa masti – twenty-first century choreographic translocations
		Performative geographies of the Indian  Ocean: past, present, future?
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 14: Exploring the \"unknown:\" Indian Ocean materiality as method
		Introduction
		Cooperation and collaboration: marine science, oceanography, and the first International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE)
		The second International Indian Ocean Expedition: a “basin-wide research program” with global implications
		The Indian Ocean as method for an endangered world
		Notes
		References
Index