Afrikaanse Kultuur, Luso-tropicalismo and Négritude in the Twentieth Century: An Atlantic Revisitation via an Indian Ocean Island

Moving Spaces ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 193-210
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Ocean Island ◽  
Indian Ocean Island

How the Maldives Have Navigated Disease and Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 (825) ◽  
pp. 152-158
Author(s):  
Eva-Maria Knoll
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Regional Powers ◽  
Ocean Island ◽  
China And India ◽  
Indian Ocean Island ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Way

For centuries, malaria kept European colonial interests away from the Maldive islands, leaving the remote Indian Ocean island chain on a distinct and largely self-governed trajectory. Successful mosquito eradication in the twentieth century paved the way for development. The COVID-19 pandemic posed a new challenge to the economy, which is now heavily dependent on tourism. But resorts were able to reopen relatively quickly, since they are mostly set up on islands apart from those inhabited by local communities. The nation also has proved adept at finding ways to make tourism compatible with Muslim traditions, though imported harder-line Islamic ideology has raised tensions in recent years. Now the islanders must manage their entanglements with rival regional powers, as China and India compete to provide infrastructure.

scholarly journals Similarities in Leptospira Serogroup and Species Distribution in Animals and Humans in the Indian Ocean Island of Mayotte

2012 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amélie Desvars ◽  
Florence Naze ◽  
Gwenaël Vourc'h ◽  
Alain Michault ◽  
Eric Cardinale ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Species Distribution ◽  
Ocean Island ◽  
Indian Ocean Island ◽  
The Indian Ocean

scholarly journals Assessing the bacterial communities of sponges inhabiting the remote western Indian Ocean island of Mayotte

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. e12517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole J. de Voogd ◽  
Anne Gauvin-Bialecki ◽  
Ana R. M. Polónia ◽  
Daniel F. R. Cleary
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Bacterial Communities ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Ocean Island ◽  
Indian Ocean Island

Reclaiming Lost Ancestors and Acknowledging Slave Descent: Insights from Madagascar

2004 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 616-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret L. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Ocean Island ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The People ◽  
Indian Ocean Island ◽  
Comparative Inquiry

These three statements regarding personal ancestry were made to me by villagers during life history interviews I conducted a few months into my research in northeastern Madagascar. Each statement is an admission of slave ancestry, and I highlight them to introduce this paper for three reasons. First, such statements are not uncommon in these villages. Many villagers told stories of lost or stolen ancestors, forced labor for “nobles,” and slave ancestry. Second, much of the recent scholarship addressing slavery elsewhere in Madagascar has suggested that slavery is not easily discussed among contemporary residents of this Indian Ocean island. Thus, the fact that the people among whom I studied readily acknowledged their own slave descent by referring to their “lost” or “stolen” grandparents or to their own Makoa identity prompts further comparative inquiry. What factors explain acceptance of slave ancestry among some Malagasy and its concurrent stigmatization among others? Third, examination of variations in Madagascar's responses to slavery can lead us to new insights into the forms of identity and opportunity in other post-slave societies.

scholarly journals Ecotourism as a Means of Conservation of the Landscape of Rodrigues Island

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Jean-Michel Jauze
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Environmental Resources ◽  
Ocean Island ◽  
Indian Ocean Island ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Island Territory

Abstract The Indian Ocean island of Rodrigues provides an interesting landscape case study. It offers a characteristic example of a small island territory whose natural and environmental resources have been overexploited by human activity and whose inhabitants are now clinging to the remains of its symbolic heritage in an attempt to implement conservation and sustainable reconstruction. From this perspective, rurality, with its attendant agricultural practices, its traditional gardens and its natural or humanized landscapes, has become an essential asset; one which the island is trying to promote by means of a tourist strategy based on the enhancement of economic and identity-focused parameters.

scholarly journals Correction: Predicting Where a Radiation Will Occur: Acoustic and Molecular Surveys Reveal Overlooked Diversity in Indian Ocean Island Crickets (Mogoplistinae: Ornebius)

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. e0153504
Author(s):  
Ben H. Warren ◽  
Rémy Baudin ◽  
Antoine Franck ◽  
Sylvain Hugel ◽  
Dominique Strasberg
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Ocean Island ◽  
Indian Ocean Island
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