Locating the Indian Ocean: notes on the postcolonial reconstitution of spaceFootnote

^†The special thematic section that follows – including the papers by Jeremy Prestholdt, Preben Kaarsholm, Scott Reese, Jatin Dua, Stephanie Jones, and David Anderson and Jacob McKnight – has its background in two workshops that were held at Roskilde University in November 2013 and May 2014 on ‘Pirates, preachers and politics: Security, religion and networks along the African Indian Ocean coast’. The two workshops were organized jointly by the AEGIS collaborative research group on ‘Africa in the Indian Ocean’ and Roskilde University's research priority programme on ‘The Dynamics of Globalisation, Inequality and New Processes of International Interaction’. Among the participants and discussants who contributed to these two lively and inspiring workshops were Anne K. Bang, Felicitas Becker, James R. Brennan, Francesca Declich, Isabelle Denis, Nikolas Emmanuel, Tobias Hagmann, Stig Jarle Hansen, Sarah Hillewaert, Anna Leander, Bjørn Møller, Gorm Rye Olsen, Rosa Maria Perez, Samadia Sadouni, and Kadara Swaleh.

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