Regional Drift

<p>This book examines the Southern Indian Ocean corridor as a geographic geological and atmospheric space taking a critical oceanic humanities approach while never losing sight of the land and water interface.</p><p>Using a range of disciplinary approaches and materials Gupta and de Araújo hydrate territorial and land-based imaginations of the Southern African region by conceptualizing its oceanicity as a fluid and more than human materiality synthetic situation and geopolitical nexus. With a diverse set of case studies they explore a variety of conceptual framings and methodologies including science-technology-society studies tourism and heritage studies history and international relations (IRs) – among others. The contributors cover a complex and vast imaginative geography cross-cutting Portuguese German and British colonial traces in the region and exploring land water and submerged spaces from coastal towns and bridges to islands and archipelagos.</p><p>A fresh approach to thinking about Atlantic and Indian Ocean coastlines in a relational and scalar manner for scholars across a range of disciplines focussed on Southern Africa.</p>