Indian Ocean Islands: Illustrated Cases on Geopolitics, Ocean and Environment

ISBN-13: 9780367588380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 164 str.

Christian Bouchard; Shafick Osman

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.