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Cyclonic Lives In An Indian Ocean World: Environment, Disaster, And Identity In Modern Mauritius (Indian Ocean Studies Series)
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Disasters As Historical Processes Shaping Identity, Governance, And Diasporic Memory In Colonial And Postcolonial Mauritiusin A World Marked By Increasingly Destructive Ecological And Meteorological Upheavals, Cyclonic Lives In An Indian Ocean World Offers A Historical Analysis Of How These Catastrophes Shape PeopleS Understanding Of Themselves, Their Collective History, And Their Relationship To The Institutions That Govern Them. An Examination Of Cyclonic Disasters In The Multiethnic Indian Ocean Island Of Mauritius Throws Into Stark Relief How Deep Histories Of Diasporic Identity Formation, Of Imperial Governance, And Of The Informal Practices Of Racial Difference Making Graft Onto How Everyday People Interpret These Moments Of Loss And The Futures That Emerge In Their Wake.Cyclonic Lives Shows That Disasters Are Not Only Events; They Are Also Processes Through Which People Evaluate And Rethink The Most Elemental Social And Cultural Categories That Give Meaning To Their Lives. Beginning In The Late Nineteenth Century And Continuing Until The Early Postcolonial Era, This Book Tracks, For Example, How Mauritians Of African Descent Integrated These Disasters Into Broader Collective Histories And Memories Of The Indian Ocean Slave Trade, How Hindu IndoMauritians Understood Cyclones Ecological Effects As Material Elements To Be Accounted For In A Broader Hindu Diasporic Space, And How The Late Colonial And Early Postcolonial State Built InfrastructuresMaterial, Conceptual, And FinancialTo Mitigate The Threats Posed By These Storms And Ensure Their Own LongTerm Durability.The Increasing Political, Social, And Economic Instability That Climate Change Has Already Triggered Demands That Humanists Develop Analytical Geographies And Methodologies That Shed Light On How Power Can Modulate In Asymmetrical Ways At Moments Of Crisis. If There Is One Central Takeaway From This Historical Study Of This Small Island In A Big Ocean, It Is That Catastrophic Events Are Not Things That Merely Happen To People; They Are Processes That Remake Them.
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