..., diasporic space that challenges continent-based constructions of nation and rigid understandings of racial identity, indigeneity, and belonging. By imagining islands as archipelagic circuits including coastal communities, Hopkins goes against the grain of dominant island tropes that imagine the bounded...

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... This chapter discusses terror, hope, and changing identities as they are reshaped by the changing physical, economic, and political geography of the coastal Carolinas, and as they organized and reorganized electoral struggles in the early years of the civil rights movements. swamps...

... history is placed in dialogue with scholarship on the column, spatial history, and the histories of mythology and regionalism in Brazil. The Prestes Column is framed as an emblematic, but not singularly unique, example of the long-standing relationship—spatial as well as social—between Brazil's coastal...

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... a self-fulfilling cycle of the interior's supposed “backwardness.” In the column's coastal logic, if interior communities supported the rebellion, by willingly handing over supplies or even volunteering to join the column, such acts were held as proof of a worthy and civilized predisposition. Yet because...

... This chapter analyzes conflicts at the cable landing point, the zone where undersea cables emerge from the deep ocean and extend through coastal waters, beaches, and local communities before connecting with cable stations. The chapter describes how, because these public spaces cannot be walled...

... sensing instruments, field measurement campaigns, and visions of waves as natural objects yoked to projects of cultural control. Netherlands domestication environmental infrastructure coastal engineering scale models ...

... Among works depicting coastal and insular United States in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC is Poppies (Isles of Shoals) , painted by Childe Hassam in 1891. Poppies is a quiet reminder that America is an archipelago—a revelation, perhaps, since to think about both the United...

... Chapter 5 looks at Smart Oceans, a multipurpose ocean governance project seeking to synthesize diverse coastal interests into an inclusive network of environmental preparedness. Since 2014, its acting institution, Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), has established a range of regional community...

... known as the Coordinating Center of the Tarahumara ( Centro Coordinador de la Tarahumara , or CCIT) in 1957 that included a forestry project intended to fund the CCIT and integrate native people into the economic mainstream. In coastal Michoacán, development fell to a private corporation known...

... This chapter charts the history of organizational politics of Dalits in Telugu-speaking areas of the nizam’s territory and the Madras presidency, which predates Ambedkar’s movement. It exemplifies the history of Dalit organizations, such as the Adi-Andhra Mahajana Sabha in the coastal Andhra...

... littoral district. A Chilean military incursion into the province of Atacama led to the resounding defeat of Bolivian forces and the annexation of Bolivia’s only coastal territory. The following description of the first battle, fought on 23 March 1879 at Topater outside the town of Calama, was written...