Open AccessNatural Logics of the Indian Ocean
Author(s) -
Devleena Ghosh,
Stephen Muecke
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
cultural studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1837-8692
pISSN - 1446-8123
DOI - 10.5130/csr.v12i1.3419
Subject(s) - indian ocean , colonialism , argument (complex analysis) , project commissioning , natural (archaeology) , publishing , postcolonialism (international relations) , history , sociology , social science , oceanography , literature , art , geology , archaeology , biochemistry , chemistry
Interdisciplinary approaches to the Indian Ocean are fairly new, and ecological topics in cultural studies more generally are also rare. This paper, then, is an attempt to begin discussion on these two fronts, hoping that further research will be able to document it in more detail. We cast our argument as being both about Indian Ocean stories and a story in itself, and cast it in three parts: the pre-colonial Indian Ocean, the colonial one, and the postcolonial or contemporary situation