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This book examines the role of (post)colonial ports in creating and shaping the ecotonal, cultural, historical, material, environmental, socio-political, and economic contexts in formerly colonized regions, spanning the Caribbean, Africa, North America, Europe, and the Pacific. The essays assess the role that literature, visual culture, architecture, archives, and ethnography can play in enriching our understanding of the complex histories of ports and port cities. They present the relation between ports and colonial infrastructure such as immigration checkpoints, detention centers, mines, plantations, shipping containers, canals, sewers, and rivers, and their impact on human and more-than-human environments. The volume approaches (post)colonial ports through the "ecotone," a concept borrowed from geography and ecology to describe a transition zone where two biological communities meet and mix--such as a forest and a grassland--to bring attention to port (non)spaces as a hinge between their environments, communities, and colonial infrastructure. It foregrounds postcolonial and decolonial approaches to the ecotone to draw attention to the cultural, ecological, and geographical dynam

Who reads (Post)Colonial Ports: Place and (Non)Place in the Ecotone?

Author

Jill Didur (editor); Nalini Mohabir (editor)

Publisher

Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated

Published

2025

Language

EN

ISBN

9781003363941

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, World History, Humanities