Indian Ocean Islands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indian Ocean Islands write by Christian Bouchard. This book was released on 2018-12-07. Indian Ocean Islands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Islands are intrinsic parts of the Indian Ocean Region’s physical geography and human landscape. Historically, many have played substantial roles in the regional cultural and economic networks, as well as in the regional political developments. Today, at least three issues bring these islands back to the forefront of the regional and global affairs, namely geopolitics and strategic matters, environmental conditions and challenges, as well as ocean affairs. However, there has not been yet a lot of research and publications on this phenomenon of islands’ growing significance in the specific context of the Indian Ocean Region. 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. More specifically, it provides case studies on Sri Lanka (foreign policy), Cocos and Christmas Islands (geo-strategy), Chagos Archipelago (history), Mauritius (‘Indo-Mauritians’), Mauritius and Seychelles (maritime security), European Union and the Indian Ocean Islands (international relations), and Sundarban islands (environment and society). The chapters were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region.
African Islands
African Islands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Islands write by Toyin Falola. This book was released on 2019. African Islands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories and of islands off the African coast
Connectivity in Motion
Connectivity in Motion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Connectivity in Motion write by Burkhard Schnepel. This book was released on 2017-10-30. Connectivity in Motion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This original collection brings islands to the fore in a growing body of scholarship on the Indian Ocean, examining them as hubs or points of convergence and divergence in a world of maritime movements and exchanges. Straddling history and anthropology and grounded in the framework of connectivity, the book tackles central themes such as smallness, translocality, and “the island factor.” It moves to the farthest reaches of the region, with a rich variety of case studies on the Swahili-Comorian world, the Maldives, Indonesia, and more. With remarkable breadth and cohesion, these essays capture the circulations of people, goods, rituals, sociocultural practices, and ideas that constitute the Indian Ocean world. Together, they take up “islandness” as an explicit empirical and methodological issue as few have done before.
Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands
Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands write by Ian Sinclair. This book was released on 2013. Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the format of the successful 'Sasol Birds of Southern Africa', this is an identification guide to the birds of Madagascar and the other Indian Ocean islands.
Africa in the Indian Ocean
Africa in the Indian Ocean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africa in the Indian Ocean write by Tor Sellström. This book was released on 2015-05-26. Africa in the Indian Ocean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The four sovereign Indian Ocean states of Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles, the two French overseas departments of Mayotte and Reunion, as well as the British colony of BIOT (Chagos), all form part of Africa. As insular nations and territories in an increasingly globalized, militarized and largely unregulated ocean, they face particular challenges. Commonly overlooked in the fields of African and international studies, this text traces the islands’ history and explores their diverse contemporary social, political and economic trajectories. From human settlement and slavery to conflict resolution and piracy, the relations with continental Africa and the African Union feature prominently. Richly sourced, this comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to Africa’s Indian Ocean islands covers a significant lacuna.
