Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds

Introduction: Many Worlds, Many Oceans

Smriti Srinivas, Bettina Ng'weno and Neelima Jeychandran

Part I Proximity and Distance

1. The Ends of the Indian Ocean: Notes on Boundaries and Affinities across Time

Jeremy Prestholdt

2. Indian Ocean Ontology: Nyerere, Memory, Place

May Joseph

3. The Littoral, the Container, and the Interface: Situating the Dry Port as an Indian Ocean Imaginary

Ishani Saraf

4. Seasons of Sail: The Monsoon, Kinship, and Labor in the Dhow Trade

Nidhi Mahajan

Part II Landscapes, Oceanscapes, and Practices

5. Elsewheres in the Indian Ocean: Spatio-Temporal Encounters and Imaginaries Beyond the Sea

Nethra Samarawickrema

6. Dicey Waterways: Evolving Networks and Contested Spatialities in Goa

Maya Costa-Pinto

7. Improvising Juba: Productive Precarity and Making the Present at the Edge of the Indian Ocean World

Christian J. Doll

8. Displacemaking with Shutki: Living with Dead, Dried Fish as Companions

Bidita Jawher Tithi

Part III Memory and Maps

9. Memory, Memorialization and "Heritage" in the Indian Ocean

Pedro Machado

10. Shorelines of Memory and Ports of Desire: Geography, Identity, and the Memory of Oceanic Trade in Mekran Coast (Balochistan)

Hafeez Ahmed Jamali

11. The Ship and The Anchor: Shifting Cartographies of Affinity and Belonging Among Sikhs in Fiji

Nicole Ranganath

Part IV Methods and Disciplines

12. Bibi's Uchungu: Eating, Bitterness, and Relationality across Indian Ocean Worlds

Laura A. Meek

13. Marfa Masti: Performing Shifting Indian Ocean Geographies

Pallavi Sriram

14. Exploring the "Unknown:" Indian Ocean Materiality as Method

Vivian Y. Choi