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Anna Shnukal Guy Ramsay and Yuriko Nagata eds, Navigating Boundaries: the Asian Diaspora in Torres Strait, Canberra, Pandanus Books, 2004, pp 330, pb $55.00, ISBN 1740760891.
The ocean as a shifting, mobile space of possibility and interconnection between peoples is a counter force to the rooted territorialities, bounded demarcations and sovereignty claims that organise dry land. This is not to suggest that the sea is a space free of cultural inscription or territorial contestation, but that it is the site of alternative practices, histories and imaginaries that counteract absolutist claims to territory. In the Indian and Pacific oceans long histories of the sea as a space of commonality and exchange refute nationalist fantasies of the island-fortress and rebuke aspirations to rule the waves. Increasingly, cultural theorists and historians are exploring maritime life as a space of cultural crossings, both painful and productive, and a crucible for the fashioning of new knowledges, creativities and subjectivities. Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic, constituted by the passage of slave ships between Europe, Africa and the Americas, and Michael Pearson's Afrasian Sea, the site of ancient trading voyages crisscrossing among Arab, African and Indian port cities, are two powerful explorations of oceans as spaces of connection...
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