The Cultural Unity of the Gulf and the Indian Ocean: A Longue Durée Historical Perspective

2009 ◽  
pp. 163-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Redha Bhacker
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Longue Durée

Michael Pearson: A Bibliography

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-103
Author(s):  
Editors of the JIOWS
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Western India ◽  
Best Effort ◽  
Limited Space ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
Indian Ocean World

Since the late 1960s, Michael Pearson’s work has been at the forefront of thestudy of the Indian Ocean World. Pearson’s unparalleled contribution to thefield has long been recognized by his pears. In 1981, the famed historian ofGoa, Teotonio R. de Souza, wrote in an introduction to one of Pearson’s booksthat it ‘will stand out as the best effort on the part of a non-Indian historianto do justice to the Indian component of Indo-Portuguese history.’ In 2004,Pearson spoke to this acclaim in an interview with Frederick Noronha, a journalist-publisher based in Goa. He said: ‘Certainly this is what I have wantedto achieve when I write about the Portuguese in India: to locate them in theIndian context in which they operated and by which they were constrained.This is a deliberate attempt to counter the triumphalism, and even racism, ofmuch Portuguese writing on their empire.’ But Pearson’s influence was notlimited to Goa and the coastal western India. Across nearly four decades ofwork, Pearson was always a leader in developing the longue durée approach tostudying the Indian Ocean World.To honor this influence, the editors of the Journal of Indian Ocean WorldStudies have compiled an exhaustive bibliography of Michael Pearson’s work.They have also appended short descriptions to some of his most importanttexts. Limited space meant that abstracts could not be attached to each reference. The editors decided that where they existed, abstracts written by Pearson or his co-editors would be prioritized. They then selected some of his works without abstracts to write their own abstracts or mini reviews (indicated with **). Particular prominence has been given to some of his earlier, lesser-known works. The intention was to use the space to reflect the diversity of Pearson’s research, while highlighting some of its core themes.

scholarly journals Revisiting Michael Pearson’s Indian Ocean Littoral

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rila Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Social History ◽  
Common Heritage ◽  
Shared History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Longue Durée

This essay rethinks Pearson’s formulation of littoral society in two essays he wrote in 1985 and 2006. While the first made a case for coastal history, the second continued the theme into the littoral, the strip between land and sea. Pearson foregrounded the universality of a clearly discernible littoral culture on coastlines along and across the Indian Ocean. This translated consequently into a shared history and a common heritage across the ocean’s diverse shores. At a time when maritime historians were writing what were essentially land-based histories on ocean spaces, Pearson’s social history of the littoral over a longue duree was a significant intervention.

Hinterland: The political history of a geographic category from the scramble for Africa to Afro-Asian solidarity

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Matthew Unangst
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Nation States ◽  
History Of ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Longue Durée

Abstract This article traces the history of one geographical concept, hinterland, through changing political contexts from the 1880s through the 1970s. Hinterland proved a valuable tool for states attempting to challenge the global territorial order in both the Scramble for Africa and the postwar world of nation-states. In the context of German territorial demands in East Africa, colonial propagandists used hinterland to knit together the first longue-durée histories of the Indian Ocean to cast Zanzibar as a failed colonial power and win control of the coast. In the 1940s, Indian nationalists revived hinterland as a concept for writing about the Indian Ocean, utilizing the concept to link areas far from the ocean to an informal Indian empire that could be rebuilt to its premodern glory through naval expansion. In both contexts, hinterland provided a geographical framework to challenge British dominance on the Indian Ocean. The shifting meaning and usage of the term indicates continuities in territoriality between the Scramble for Africa and postwar internationalism.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Nurfadzilah Yahaya
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Legal Regimes ◽  
The Indian Ocean

This introductory chapter flips the more common historical perspective that European imperialism led to new patterns of legal pluralism across empires that spawned possibilities for interpolity contact and trade, acting as catalysts for the emergence of global legal regimes. It demonstrates how British and Dutch territorial jurisdictions expressed very specific relationships between territory, authority, and forms of law, and it simultaneously puts into stark relief the preponderance of diasporic Arab merchants generating their own jurisdictions across the Indian Ocean in tandem with those of the European colonist. Not only were these Arabs attuned to legal pluralism being the operative condition of law, they were also acutely aware of jurisdictional ordering and the concentration of power across time and space. The chapter proposes a spatial repositioning of the Indian Ocean from the perspective of Southeast Asia outward toward Hadramawt, a region located in present-day Yemen from which most Arabs in Southeast Asia originated. Ultimately, it presents the result of the legislation after members of the Hadhrami diaspora attempted to bring their own regulation with them, inscribing territorial lines across the Indian Ocean through law.

scholarly journals Understanding African Poverty Over the Longue Durée: A Review of Africa’s Development in Historical Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 893-905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret McMillan
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée

The sixteen essays edited and synthesized by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, and James A. Robinson contribute significantly to our understanding of the following questions: (1) When did Africa become poor?; (2) Why did Africa become poor?; and (3) Why has Africa remained poor? Although these questions are impossible to answer in a definitive way, the partial explanations offered in this book are insightful and thought provoking and are summarized in this article. However, they also rest primarily on economic and political arguments. The importance of geography, which is mostly not explored in these essays, is reviewed in the final section of this article. (JEL F54, I32, J11, N17, N37, N47, O10)

scholarly journals Between hospitality and asylum: A historical perspective on displaced agency

2017 ◽  
Vol 99 (904) ◽  
pp. 75-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Isayev
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée

AbstractThis article aims at positioning the agency of the displaced within the longue durée, as it is exposed in contexts of hospitality and asylum, by articulating its key modes: contingent, willed and compelled. Using the ancient world as its starting point, the article exposes the duplicity in conceiving of the current condition of displacement as transient or exceptional. As such, it argues for the urgent need of a shift in the perception of displaced persons from that of impotent victims to potent agents, and to engage with the new forms of exceptional politics which their circumstances engender.

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