Beyond the Margins: Place, Narratives, and Maritime Circuits in Diu

Pombo, Pedro

doi:10.1080/02666030.2018.1440059

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“…This essay proceeds from an ongoing investigation on the coastal landscapes in Western India (Pombo, 2019) and broader research on the materialities of maritime circulations on port cities in the Indian Ocean (Pombo, 2018). In this context, based on my investigation, landscapes are related to notions of maritime circulations, material heritages and sensorial memories and traces of oceanic systems.…”

Section: Landscape Of Encounters: the Aesthetics And Meanings Of Landmentioning

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Water Cartographies of Goa: Khazans, Sedimentation and Dissolution of Coastal Cultural Landscapes

Pombo

2019

Journal of Heritage Management

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Goa’s landscape is an encounter between dry and wet materialities, the Indian Ocean world and the Western Ghats of Konkan, the distant and the localized, open seas and deep currents and floodplains, estuaries and muddy soils. Reordered in geometric geographies, these curvilineous cultivated lowlands, named khazans, surrounded by villages, temples and churches are part of the landscape and crucial sensorial layers of this Indian state. Village neighbourhoods (named waddi in Konkani) are organized not around a solid centre, but along several interconnected paddy fields, creating particular territorial maps of each village. Can our perception change, thus, if we see the Goan territory having water as its defining element, instead of a land-based perspective, and consider these lands as cultural landscapes? The aesthetic and heritage dimensions of cultural landscapes are essential to perceive Goa as a place of simultaneous dissolution and sedimentation along time and cultural geographies. Based on recent research on Goa and the Indian Ocean, this text proposes khazans to be recognized both as natural elements and cultural signifiers and as the main cartographic layers of inclusive Goan cultural landscapes.

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Section: Landscape Of Encounters: the Aesthetics And Meanings Of Landmentioning

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Water Cartographies of Goa: Khazans, Sedimentation and Dissolution of Coastal Cultural Landscapes

Pombo

2019

Journal of Heritage Management

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Tales of Ocean, Migration and Memory in Ancestral Homespaces in Goa

Pombo

2022

The Palgrave Handbook of Blue Heritage

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Weaving Networks: the Economic Decline of Diu and Indian Ocean Circulations of the Vanza Weavers

Pombo

2020

Asian Rev. World Hist.

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Abstract Diu, on the Western India coast and Portuguese territory until 1961, was a strategic port connecting the subcontinent with Eastern Africa until the industrial mills in Western India provoked the decline of the traditional textile production systems in Gujarat and the near erasure of the maritime trade in Diu. Sustained by ethnographic and archival research, this article shows how the decline of maritime trading from Diu exposed the lack of Portuguese control over the trading routes connecting Asia and Africa. Local communities responded to changing contexts by developing new migratory connections with Mozambique. Among them are the Diuese weavers’ community, the Vanza, whose role in Mozambican trade, and later postcolonial connections with European countries, is still mostly to be examined. Though a preliminary observation of their migratory initiatives we observe how lives across the Indian Ocean navigated relatively apart from colonial intentions, pursuing their own winds and tides.

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Beyond the Margins: Place, Narratives, and Maritime Circuits in Diu

Cited by 3 publications

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Water Cartographies of Goa: Khazans, Sedimentation and Dissolution of Coastal Cultural Landscapes

Water Cartographies of Goa: Khazans, Sedimentation and Dissolution of Coastal Cultural Landscapes

Tales of Ocean, Migration and Memory in Ancestral Homespaces in Goa

Weaving Networks: the Economic Decline of Diu and Indian Ocean Circulations of the Vanza Weavers

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