Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds

Smriti Srinivas is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, USA.Bettina Ng’weno is Associate Professor for African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis, USA. Neelima Jeychandran is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate in African Studies and Asian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

• Introduction: Many Worlds, Many OceansSmriti Srinivas, Bettina Ng’weno and Neelima Jeychandran Part I Proximity and Distance1. The Ends of the Indian Ocean: Notes on Boundaries and Affinities across TimeJeremy Prestholdt2. Indian Ocean Ontology: Nyerere, Memory, PlaceMay Joseph3. The Littoral, the Container, and the Interface: Situating the Dry Port as an Indian Ocean ImaginaryIshani Saraf4. Seasons of Sail: The Monsoon, Kinship, and Labor in the Dhow TradeNidhi MahajanPart II Landscapes, Oceanscapes, and Practices5. Elsewheres in the Indian Ocean: Spatio-Temporal Encounters and Imaginaries Beyond the SeaNethra Samarawickrema6. Dicey Waterways: Evolving Networks and Contested Spatialities in GoaMaya Costa-Pinto7. Improvising Juba: Productive Precarity and Making the Present at the Edge of the Indian Ocean WorldChristian J. Doll8. Displacemaking with Shutki: Living with Dead, Dried Fish as CompanionsBidita Jawher TithiPart III Memory and Maps9. Memory, Memorialization and "Heritage" in the Indian Ocean Pedro Machado10. Shorelines of Memory and Ports of Desire: Geography, Identity, and the Memory of Oceanic Trade in Mekran Coast (Balochistan) Hafeez Ahmed Jamali11. The Ship and The Anchor: Shifting Cartographies of Affinity and Belonging Among Sikhs in FijiNicole RanganathPart IV Methods and Disciplines12. Bibi’s Uchungu: Eating, Bitterness, and Relationality across Indian Ocean WorldsLaura A. Meek13. Marfa Masti: Performing Shifting Indian Ocean GeographiesPallavi Sriram14. Exploring the "Unknown:" Indian Ocean Materiality as MethodVivian Y. Choi