ICYMI: New & Notable Articles (5 Aug 2024)

August 5, 2024

Each week, we collect the articles that we posted in the last week and put them all in one place, right here on the blog. So no worries if you missed an article we posted to Facebook, X/Twitter, Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, Instagram and/or LinkedIn.

Here they are, In Case You Missed It:

Promotional tile featuring the cover art from the Spring 2020 edition of Feminist Formations and the text: #summerlit friday Summertime, Madness Prose by Tiana Reid Read free in Feminist Formations thru 16 Aug

Summertime, Madness

Tiana Reid

Feminist Formations
Volume 32, Issue 1, Spring 2020

We continue #SummerLit Friday today with "Summertime, Madness" — a prose meditation on a Toronto summer by Tiana Reid — from the Spring 2020 issue of Feminist Formations

Enjoy free through 16 August

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Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies joins Hopkins Press

Philip Gooding

Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies
Volume 8, Number 1, 2024

We are thrilled to welcome Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies to the Hopkins Press roster as our first platinum open-access journal.

The new issue is out now, including new articles by Mathew Ruguwa and Hans Hägerdal, conversations with associate editor Philip Gooding, and more!

Read all about it at the Newsroom blog.

Promotional tile featuring cover art from Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies 6.2 and the text: Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies Rosabelle Boswell Ocean and Human Health in the Blue Era, Indian Ocean and African Perspectives Platinum Open Access

Ocean and Human Health in the Blue Era, Indian Ocean and African Perspectives

Rosabelle Boswell

Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies
Volume 6. Number 2, 2022

One of our State of the Field Essays: Boswell draws on her research in the Blue Humanities to make a rubric for integrating locally produced, embodied, and sensorial responses to the challenges of climate change in coastal and oceanic areas

Promotional tile featuring cover art from Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies 1.1 and the text: Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies Gwyn Campbell Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the ‘Early Modern’: Historiographical Conventions and Problems Platinum Open Access

Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the ‘Early Modern’: Historiographical Conventions and Problems

Gwyn Campbell

Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies
Volume 1. Number 1, 2017

From the first issue: Campbell sets out what’s at stake in Indian Ocean World Studies, including the ability to contest Eurocentric framing devices. Here, he tackles temporal paradigms, especially the so-called ‘early modern’ period.

Promotional tile featuring cover art from Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies 4.2 and the text: Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies Shanaaz Mohammed Reimagining the Aapravasi Ghat: Khal Torabully's poetry and the indentured diaspora Platinum Open Access

Reimagining the Aapravasi Ghat: Khal Torabully's poetry and the indentured diaspora

Shanaaz Mohammed

Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies
Volume 4. Number 2, 2021

Mohammed challenges current efforts to commemorate the period of indenture in Mauritius. She asks: How can literature inform cultural heritage, especially as they relate to indenture and other forms of bondage?

Ruth Mostern on The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History

Ruth Mostern

Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies
Volume 7. Number 2, 2023

Mostern discusses her award-winning book, The Yellow River, in the JIOWS’ Conversations section. Readers learn of the methodological efforts that underpin one of the most celebrated books in environmental history from the last few years.

Children on Board: Child labor on ships in the Indian Ocean, c. 18th – 19th Centuries

Sundara Vadlamudi

Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies
Volume 6. Number 2, 2022

Vadlamudi centres the ocean itself in an important field of Indian Ocean World Studies: the history of slavery and bondage. He shows how children experienced sea voyages as labourers on ship and in the port.

Seas of Data; or, The Oceanographer in the Archive

Felix Lüttge

Configurations
Volume 31, Number 3, Summer 2023

In “Seas of Data,” Felix Lüttge argues that the ocean of oceanography is not only a body of water, but also a data space transcending the boundary between land and sea

Read free in Configurations through 16 August