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(Post)colonial ports : place and (non)place in the ecotone / edited by Jill Didur and Nalini Mohabir.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in modern history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Harbors--History.
- Harbors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Post-colonial ports : place and non-place in the ecotone
- Post colonial ports
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Wading into 'the Wake' Section 1: Trans-Port 1. 'Fantasy in the Hold': The Logistics of Container Architecture, Transivity, and Queer Port Urbanisms 2. The Azulejo as Symbol of Colonial Power Structures: A Deconstruction Through Sugar and Art 3. Life and Death in the Port: Petromodernity and Fossil Capital in Abdelrahman Munif's Cities of Salt 4. Lost in Transit: Behrouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison Section 2: Passages, Partings, Terminus 5. Placing and Dis/placing the Port: Towards a Critical Literary Geography of the Caribbean Port 6. Georgetown: Ecotonal Lessons of 'Secret Histories' 7. Going Against the Flow: Customs and Apartheid Censorship 8. Pèpè Ports: Haitian Women's Labour and Resistant Mobility in Cap-Haïtien's Second-hand Clothing Trade Section 3: Environmental Insecurities and Flows of Power 9. Where the Ozama Meets the Caribbean Sea: Dominican Art and Social Advocacy in the Ecotone 10. The Frontier and the Wasteland: 21st Century Gentrification Landscapes in Saint-Henri, Montreal 11. Watery Places and Relations: The Burial of a River and Modern Wasting Practices 12. Precious Water and Urban Practices in Ondjaki's Transparent City
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 27, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: (Post)colonial ports
- ISBN:
- 9781040346433
- 104034643X
- 9781040346372
- 1040346375
- 9781003363941
- 1003363946
- Publisher Number:
- 90101928182
- CIPO000194293
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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