Sea Log

Indian Ocean to New York

AvMay Joseph

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Del i serien Changing Mobilities

1 667 kr

Skickas . Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Fler format och utgåvor

Häftad

625 kr

Beskrivning

The ocean has always been the harbinger of strangers to new shores. Migrations by sea have transformed modern conceptions of mobility and belonging, disrupting notions of how to write about movement, memory and displaced histories. Sea Log is a memory theater of repressive hauntings based on urban artifacts across a maritime archive of Dutch and Portuguese colonial pillage.Colonial incursions from the sea, and the postcolonial aftershocks of these violent sea histories, lie largely forgotten for most formerly colonized coastal communities around the world. Offering a feminist log of sea journeys from the Malabar Coast of South India, through the Atlantic to the North Sea, May Joseph writes a navigational history of postcolonial coastal displacements. Excavating Dutch, Portuguese, Arab, Asian and African influences along the Malabar Coast, Joseph unearths the undertow of colonialism’s ruins. In Sea Log, the Bosphorus, the Tagus and the Amstel find coherence alongside the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean.Written in a clear and direct style, this volume will appeal to historians of transnational communities, as well as students and scholars of cultural studies, anthropology of space, area studies, maritime history and postcolonial studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-13
Mått:156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt:380 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Changing Mobilities
Antal sidor:148
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138088337

Utforska kategorier

Migration inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

May Joseph is Professor of Social Science and Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute, where she teaches a walking history of coastal New York. Joseph is Founder of Harmattan Theater and has produced site specific performances along Dutch and Portuguese maritime routes. Joseph’s other books include Ghosts of Lumumba (2019), Fluid New York: Cosmopolitan Urbanism and the Green Imagination (2013) and Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship (1999).

Recensioner i media

"May Joseph’s itinerary is singular but worldly, tending toward an otherworldliness where plenty bursts through colonial scarcities, where plenum pierces the One in everyone, where pleriplus is the genre of shared refuge in mobility. Her lyric, sharply analytic Sea Log is unprecedented and unanticipated in how it immediately establishes its absolute necessity. How else would we know how to sound the sound of the Indian Ocean as it washes New York shores?"- Fred Moten, Professor in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts"Historically revealing, and politically attuned to the ongoing moment of decolonization, May Joseph’s Sea Log brings us to the Indian Ocean and its archive of colonial affects, brilliantly meeting the necessity for understanding the geopolitical crises of climate and environment. Taking us across coastal regions between Asia and Africa, Sea Log is an intimate and lyrical encounter with the other-than-human that also critically engages the inhuman. Powerful and poetic, this book is a moving rendition of what is lost and mourned, and what remains and inspires."- Patricia Clough, Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center and Queens College of the City University of New York

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Writing AnthropocenePreface: Decolonial PeriplusPart I1. Indian Ocean Affect2. Sea of Shock3. Ocean Ontologies 4. Contested VisualityPart II: Periplus5. Cochin, Dhow City6. Dar-Es-Salaam, Socialist Utopia7. Hanoi Palimpsest8. Bamiyan Pillage9. New York: Archipelagoes of the Unseen10. Deciphering the Indian Ocean