Sea Log: Indian Ocean to New York

ISBN-13: 9780367670719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 168 str.

May Joseph

Opis

Sea Log is a memory theatre of repressive hauntings based on urban artefacts across a maritime archive of Dutch and Portuguese colonial pillage. Written in a clear and direct style, this volume will appeal to students and scholars of cultural studies, anthropology of space, maritime history and postcolonial studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Writing Anthropocene

Preface: Decolonial Periplus

Part I

1. Indian Ocean Affect

2. Sea of Shock

3. Ocean Ontologies

4. Contested Visuality

Part II: Periplus

5. Cochin, Dhow City

6. Dar-Es-Salaam, Socialist Utopia

7. Hanoi Palimpsest

8. Bamiyan Pillage

9. New York: Archipelagoes of the Unseen

10. Deciphering the Indian Ocean

O autorze

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).