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This book is an anthology of key essays that foregrounds coasts,
islands, and shorelines as central to the scholarship on the
oceanic environment and climate across South Asia. The volume is a
collaborative effort amongst historians, anthropologists, and
environmentalists to further understand the lifeworlds of the South
Asian littoral that are neither fully aquatic or terrestrial, and
inescapably both. Terra Aqua invokes a 'third surface' located in
the interstice of land and water-deltas, estuaries, tidelands,
beaches, swamps, sandbanks, and mudflats-and engages in a radical
reconceptualization of coastal and shoreline terrains. The book
explores uniquely endangered habitats and emergent templates of
survival against rising seas and climatic disturbances with
particular focus on the Bengal and Malabar coastlines. A critical,
transdisciplinary contribution to the study of climate change in
South Asia, Terra Aqua examines salinity and submergence, coastal
erosion, subterranean degradation, and the depletion of littoral
lifeways impacting marine communities and biospheres. It will be of
particular interest to scholars of environment studies, ecology and
climate change in the Global South, hydrology, geography, ocean and
island studies, environmental justice, colonialism, and imperial
and maritime history.
Aquatopia documents Harmattan Theater's ecological interventions
and traces its engagements with water-bound landscapes, colonial
histories, climate change, and public space across New York City,
Venice, Amsterdam, Lisbon, and Cochin. The volume uses Harmattan's
site-specific performances as a point of departure to consider
climate change and rising sea levels as geographical, ecological,
and urban phenomena. Instead of a collection of flat, static
surfaces, the Aquatopia atlas is animated by a disorienting,
anti-mapping strategy, producing a deterritorialized, nomadic,
fluid atlas unfolding in real time as an archive of climate change
in multidimensional, active space. The book is designed for
pedagogical access, with interludes that consolidate the learning
outcomes of the experimental theory animating each site-specific
performance. Accompanied by close descriptions of five performances
and supplemented by digital documentation available online, this
volume intervenes in discussions on climate change, urbanism, and
postcolonization/decolonialization, and contributes to
interdisciplinary studies of ecology and environmental politics,
postcolonial/decolonial theories and practices, performance studies
and aesthetics, in particular public art, and performance as
research.
The ocean has always been the harbinger of strangers to new shores.
Migrations by sea have transformed modern conceptions of mobility
and belonging, disrupting notions of how to write about movement,
memory and displaced histories. Sea Log is a memory theater of
repressive hauntings based on urban artifacts across a maritime
archive of Dutch and Portuguese colonial pillage. Colonial
incursions from the sea, and the postcolonial aftershocks of these
violent sea histories, lie largely forgotten for most formerly
colonized coastal communities around the world. Offering a feminist
log of sea journeys from the Malabar Coast of South India, through
the Atlantic to the North Sea, May Joseph writes a navigational
history of postcolonial coastal displacements. Excavating Dutch,
Portuguese, Arab, Asian and African influences along the Malabar
Coast, Joseph unearths the undertow of colonialism's ruins. In Sea
Log, the Bosphorus, the Tagus and the Amstel find coherence
alongside the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. Written in a clear
and direct style, this volume will appeal to historians of
transnational communities, as well as students and scholars of
cultural studies, anthropology of space, area studies, maritime
history and postcolonial studies.
The ocean has always been the harbinger of strangers to new shores.
Migrations by sea have transformed modern conceptions of mobility
and belonging, disrupting notions of how to write about movement,
memory and displaced histories. Sea Log is a memory theater of
repressive hauntings based on urban artifacts across a maritime
archive of Dutch and Portuguese colonial pillage. Colonial
incursions from the sea, and the postcolonial aftershocks of these
violent sea histories, lie largely forgotten for most formerly
colonized coastal communities around the world. Offering a feminist
log of sea journeys from the Malabar Coast of South India, through
the Atlantic to the North Sea, May Joseph writes a navigational
history of postcolonial coastal displacements. Excavating Dutch,
Portuguese, Arab, Asian and African influences along the Malabar
Coast, Joseph unearths the undertow of colonialism's ruins. In Sea
Log, the Bosphorus, the Tagus and the Amstel find coherence
alongside the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. Written in a clear
and direct style, this volume will appeal to historians of
transnational communities, as well as students and scholars of
cultural studies, anthropology of space, area studies, maritime
history and postcolonial studies.
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The Law of Crimes (Hardcover)
John Wilder 1819-1883 May, Joseph Henry 1861-1943 Beale
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Hurricane Sandy was a fierce demonstration of the ecological
vulnerability of New York, a city of islands. Yet the storm also
revealed the resilience of a metropolis that has started during the
past decade to reckon with its aqueous topography. In "Fluid New
York," May Joseph describes the many ways that New York, and New
Yorkers, have begun to incorporate the city's archipelago ecology
into plans for a livable and sustainable future. For instance, by
cleaning its tidal marshes, the municipality has turned a
previously dilapidated waterfront into a space for public leisure
and rejuvenation.
Joseph considers New York's relation to the water that surrounds
and defines it. Her reflections reach back to the city's heyday as
a world-class port--a past embodied in a Dutch East India Company
cannon recently unearthed from the rubble at the World Trade Center
site--and they encompass the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy
in 2012. They suggest that New York's future lies in the
reclamation of its great water resources--for artistic creativity,
civic engagement, and ecological sustainability.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Late Imperial Culture (Paperback, New)
E.Ann Kaplan, Michael Sprinker, Roman de la Campa; Contributions by Aijaz Ahmad, Caren Kaplan, …
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R594
Discovery Miles 5 940
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Spanning time and space from late Victorian Britain and Ireland to
postwar America and Latin America, Late Imperial Culture maps
crucial regions in the terrain of imperial cultural practices
including theater, film, photography, fiction, autobiography, and
body art. The forms reviewed in this lively collection range from
those which accept and reproduce empire's dominant self-images to
scathing critiques of the oppressions that colonialism has visited
upon its subjects and the price it continues to exact from them. A
diverse range of theoretically sophisticated and historically
informed contributors take as given two fundamental facts about the
culture of imperialism: firstly, that it has a long and complex
history which, in the present epoch, merits its being designated
"late"; and, secondly, that its impact on the contemporary world is
far from exhausted. Together they highlight the contradictions in
the serried cultural practices of imperialism in its different
historical periods. Contributors: Aijaz Ahmad, Steven Cagan, Roman
de la Campa, David Glover, May Joseph, Caren Kaplan, Rob Nixon,
Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, and Marianna Torgovnick.
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