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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of contributors -- Introduction: many worlds, many oceans -- Crafting arrival -- Keywords for Indian Ocean worlds -- Thinking as process -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Proximity and distance -- Chapter 1: The ends of the Indian Ocean: notes on boundaries and affinities across time -- Shifting boundaries of relation -- Shifting imaginations of space -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Indian Ocean ontology: Nyerere, memory, place -- The place of memory, memory as place -- Sensory histories -- Saba Saba -- Cochin -- Tanzanianness -- Arusha Declaration and socialist belonging -- Inauthentic Asians -- Disinterred -- References -- Chapter 3: The littoral, the container, and the interface: situating the dry port as an Indian Ocean imaginary -- Introduction: between limits and possibilities -- Figuring the littoral: land, ocean, port, city -- The container -- The dry port -- Conclusion: contemporary Indian Ocean worlds -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Seasons of sail: the monsoon, kinship, and labor in the dhow trade -- Flying in the face of the wind -- Monsoons at sail -- From aakhar to mausam: a dual morphology, interrupted? -- Seasons of work, cycles of debt: labor and kinship for the khalaasi -- A clash of calendars: regulating the weather and mobility -- From sea to shore: a monsoonal relationality -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Landscapes, oceanscapes, and practices -- Chapter 5: Elsewheres in the Indian Ocean: spatio-temporal encounters and imaginaries beyond the sea -- Dreams of mobility -- Elsewheres -- Mountains, oceans, and estranged stones -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 6: Dicey waterways: evolving networks and contested spatialities in Goa.

This book breaks new ground by bringing together multidisciplinary approaches to examine contemporary Indian Ocean worlds. It reconfigures the Indian Ocean as a space for conceptual and theoretical relationality based on social science and humanities scholarship, thus moving away from an area-based and geographical approach to Indian Ocean studies. Contributors from a variety of disciplines focus on keywords such as relationality, space/place, quotidian practices, and new networks of memory and maps to offer original insights to reimagine the Indian Ocean. While the volume as a whole considers older histories, mobilities, and relationships between places in Indian Ocean worlds, it is centrally concerned with new connectivities and layered mappings forged in the lived experiences of individuals and communities today. The chapters are steeped in ethnographic, multi-modal, and other humanities methodologies that examine different sources besides historical archives and textual materials, including everyday life, cities, museums, performances, the built environment, media, personal narratives, food, medical practices, or scientific explorations. An important contribution to several fields, this book will be of interest to academics of Indian Ocean studies, Afro-Asian linkages, inter-Asian exchanges, Afro-Arab crossroads, Asian studies, African studies, Anthropology, History, Geography, and International Relations.