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100			_aDilip M. Menon
245		0	_aOcean as method : _bthinking with the maritime / _cDilip M. Menon ... [et al.].
250			_a1st ed.
260			_bRoutledge , _c2022. _aLondon :
300			_axi, 126 p. ; _c18 cm.
504			_aIncludes Bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences. It explores maritime connections in social and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national histories and area studies. As global warming and rising sea levels ring alarm bells across the world, the essays in the volume argue that it is time to think through oceans to realign discourses which better understand our future. The volume: - Engages with the paradigms of oceanic narratives to identify connections between continents through trade, migration, and economic processes, thinking beyond the artificial distinctions between the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans; - Discusses oceanic travel accounts by Muslim travelers to counter the idea that the colonial era was marked by European travel to Asia and Africa, without a counterflow of "native travel"; - Examines the connections between South Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia through histories of Indian indenture and the slave trade, and engages with the idea of the ocean and enforced movement; - Compares and connects recent scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities centering the ocean to break away from inherited paradigms which have shaped world history so far.
650			_aOcean and civilization.
650			_aIndia Relations South Africa.
650			_aSouth Africa Relations India.
700			_aDilip M. Menon
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