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Ocean as Method - Thinking with the Maritime (Hardcover)
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Ocean as Method - Thinking with the Maritime (Hardcover)
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Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities
and the social sciences. It explores maritime connections in social
and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national
histories and area studies. As global warming and rising sea levels
ring alarm bells across the world, the chapters in the volume argue
that it is time to think through oceans to realign discourses which
better understand our future. The volume: * Engages with the
paradigms of oceanic narratives to identify connections between
continents through trade, migration, and economic processes,
thinking beyond the artificial distinctions between the Pacific,
Atlantic, and Indian Oceans; * Discusses oceanic travel accounts by
Muslim travellers to counter the idea that the colonial era was
marked by European travel to Asia and Africa, without a counterflow
of "native travel"; *Examines the connections between South Africa,
South Asia, and South East Asia through histories of Indian
indenture and the slave trade, and engages with the idea of the
ocean and enforced movement; *Compares and connects recent
scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities centring the
ocean to break away from inherited paradigms which have shaped
world history so far. As a unique transdisciplinary collaboration,
this volume will be of much interest to scholars and researchers of
history, especially oceanic history, historiography, critical
theory, literature, geography, and Global South studies.
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