Bettina Ngweno, “Investigating Indian Ocean Imaginaries: Navigating the Space between Orientalism and Slavery Denial”
Bettina Ngweno, “Investigating Indian Ocean Imaginaries: Navigating the Space between Orientalism and Slavery Denial”
Thursday, April 24, 2014
4:10-6:00 pm, 3201 Hart Hall
How has the Indian Ocean been imagined? How do current portrayals of the Indian Ocean, its continental limits and its inhabitants affect the way we think about the past and understand the present? In particular what are ways to navigate conflicting imaginaries of the Indian Ocean?
Bettina Ng’weno is an Associate Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis. Trained in anthropology and originally from Kenya, she conducts research on states and property in Latin America and Africa. She is the author of Turf Wars: Territory and Citizenship in the Contemporary State, (Stanford 2007) and articles on race, ethnicity, and comparative international area studies.
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