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Vertical Indian Ocean: A Cultural History of the Southern Submarine

The Indian Ocean has been called the ocean of the South, as well as the ocean of the future.

Charne Lavery Charne Lavery

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“Conoces tu historia?”

Saurabh Dube. 2014. “Conoces tu historia?” Estudios de Asia y África, 49 (1), 193-217

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Subjects of Modernity

Dube, Saurabh. 2017. Subjects of Modernity. Time-space, disciplines, margins. (1st ed.). Stellenbosch: African Sun Media. https://doi.org/10...

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Unwilling Umma: Histories of Exile and Islam Across the Indian Ocean

This project is an exploration of the life and memories associated with three key saints of the local Capetonian scene, and most notably Tuan Guru, set against a larger story of forced labour and exile in the Indian Ocean from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Michael Laffan Michael Laffan
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