Connectivity in Motion

Alpers, Edward A.; Schnepel, Burkhard

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“…Historically, the Indian Ocean has been a focal point of circulations of people, goods, plants, and animals, as many of its islands are located along trade routes between Africa and Asia (Fuller et al, 2011). Human trading activities have shaped this region, including its fauna and flora (Fuller et al, 2011;Walsh, 2007), and it is still strongly embedded in relations of circulation (Schnepel & Alpers, 2018;Verne, 2012Verne, , 2017. Since the arrival of humans on the Mascarenes in the 16 th century, a massive replacement of the native fauna and flora through habitat destruction and introduced plants and animals has taken place (Cheke & Hume, 2008;Florens, 2013, p. 41).…”

Section: The History Of Species Circulation Extinction and Conservamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Islands can also appear as especially suitable for trying out new nature conservation measures, lending themselves to experimentation in controlled isolation (Baldacchino, 2007). On the other hand, islands have been considered as key sites of relationality, embedded in manifold connections to other places, and to take an essential part in flows of people, goods, and ideas (Bjarnason, 2010;Hay, 2006;Pugh, 2018;Schnepel & Alpers, 2018). With the notion of 'archipelagos' (Pugh, 2013;Stratford et al, 2011), island scholars criticize the simplified oppositional relation of isolation between island and mainland.…”

Section: Islands and Boundaries In Mobile Worldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…But what does it mean to restore an island landscape? Whereas one could suppose that islands are particularly well suited for controlled conservation in relative isolation (Baldacchino, 2007;Mountz & Briskman, 2012), islands also commonly feature as exemplary relational sites and meeting points in circuits of global flows (Pugh, 2013(Pugh, , 2018Schnepel & Alpers, 2018;Stratford et al, 2011), and thus challenge ambitions for complete control. How does the particular island setting exert its influence on attempts at its restoration?…”

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Entangling (non)human isolation and connectivity: island nature conservation on Ile aux Aigrettes, Mauritius

Krieg¹

2018

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This article discusses the Mauritian offshore islet and nature reserve Ile aux Aigrettes as an example of how the tension between isolation and connectivity of small islands plays out in the context of nature conservation. Combining approaches from island studies, anthropology, and geography, and based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, the article enquires into how 'pristine' nature on Ile aux Aigrettes is produced. It shows how the selective mobility of humans, animals, and plants is part and parcel in producing a seemingly isolated island, e.g. in the case of visiting scientists, species translocation, and invasive species. This shows how the production of the isolated 'pristine' island is dependent on global connections and flows. Isolation and connectivity of islands, I argue here, depend on each other, and are significantly co-constituted by nonhuman mobilities. Nature conservation on Ile aux Aigrettes will be looked at as a reference towards an ideal past or a utopian future, protected as signifiers for a world in socio-ecological balance.

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Section: The History Of Species Circulation Extinction and Conservamentioning

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Section: Islands and Boundaries In Mobile Worldsmentioning

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Entangling (non)human isolation and connectivity: island nature conservation on Ile aux Aigrettes, Mauritius

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Burning Desires: Zanzibari Women in the Throes of Concubinage and Gunpoint Matrimony

Abusharaf

2023

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This article examines the two instances of concubinage (suria) during the Omani rule of Zanzibar and the Ndoa Za Karume Forced Marriage Act that followed the revolution in 1964 on the island. Both practices can be seen as laboratories in which the complexities of sex and power were in full display. Throughout, the author draws inspiration from anthropologist Tim Ingold's theory of human correspondence alongside valuable insights from the intersection of black feminist thought and humanistic anthropology to deepen our understanding of both concubinage and forced marriage as forms of sexual bondage occurring within particular political circumstances and historical realities. For indeed, both objectifying practices assumed a variety of meanings in colonial and postrevolutionary Zanzibar. When conjugating suria and ndoa within the complex grammar of race, class, and gender, we also often encounter inconsistencies inherent in fraught human relationships and furthered by the marked fluidities and slippages of both practices and their varying connotative, pragmatic, and ideational significances. Was the Ndoa za Karume an act of retribution against concubinage? Or was it a contribution to a nation-building project in a society adrift? To consider these questions, the article draws on a variety of ethnographic insights gathered in Zanzibar and Oman between 2016 and 2019 and a constellation of texts, including archives, local historiographies, a collection of Swahili statements for and against ndoa possessed by an interlocutor, memoirs, and other field notes gathered in 2020–21. The article explores what was at stake in these two parallel modes of exploiting women's bodies, arguing that they cannot be understood in isolation from their “correspondences” and the emotionality manifested in both gendered social dramas.

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Routes and Hubs in the Indian Ocean World: Methodological Reconsiderations

Schnepel

2023

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This article looks at “routes” and “hubs” in the Indian Ocean world, arguing that using these two concepts within a mobility-oriented perspective will provide an insightful addition, and alternative, to investigations that are guided solely by spatial concepts, such as “hinterland” or “littoral.” The first major part of this article discusses various routes in the history of the Indian Ocean world. It addresses questions such as the competition between various routes, their interconnectedness, their internal structure, deviations from the main routes, and the role of local pilots in showing the way to colonial powers. The second major part looks at the nodal points along such routes, here called “hubs.” It will be argued that these hubs not only enable the movements of things, but also stop them, if only temporarily, thereby often transforming them in meaning, value, and function. Therefore, hubs are also identified as having an internal dimension in addition to an external one. These points will be discussed with reference to one paradigmatic case, namely the island of Mauritius in the southwestern part of Indian Ocean world. The issue of mobility is discussed in greater detail in two further sections. While arguing in favor of mobility-oriented perspectives and methods, it is held that an overinflated use of terms such as circulation or flow may also be misleading.

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Connectivity in Motion

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Entangling (non)human isolation and connectivity: island nature conservation on Ile aux Aigrettes, Mauritius

Entangling (non)human isolation and connectivity: island nature conservation on Ile aux Aigrettes, Mauritius

Burning Desires: Zanzibari Women in the Throes of Concubinage and Gunpoint Matrimony

Routes and Hubs in the Indian Ocean World: Methodological Reconsiderations

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