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in Pedro Machado, Steve Mullins and Joseph Christensen (eds.), Pearls, People, and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019), pp. 313-343
Situated between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean and separating Northeast Africa from the ... more Situated between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean and separating Northeast Africa from the Arabian Peninsula, the Red Sea is one of the most unique maritime spaces in the world and among the first to be mentioned in recorded history. This essay debunks past perceptions of this space as merely a maritime corridor and a transit space between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Instead, it promotes an effort to recast the history of the region with the Red Sea as an organizing framework for analysis, allowing us to imagine it as an integrated region sui generis characterized by multilayered, interconnected, and overlapping circuits and networks operating within and across it while still linked to both the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. The essay proposes a materially based analytical framework which can underpin several possible avenues for future research.
In Gianfrancesco Lusini (ed.), History and Language of the Tigre-Speaking Peoples. Proceedings of the International Workshop, Naples, February 7-8, 2008, «Studi Africanistici. Serie Etiopica 8 » (Napoli: Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 2010), pp. 33-50.
In R. S. O'Fahey (ed.), The Writings of the Muslim Peoples of Northeastern Africa. Arabic Literature in Africa. Volume III Fascicle A (Leiden: Brill, 2003), pp. 1-17.
In Holger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle (eds.), Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World (Oxford and Athens, OH: James Currey and Ohio University Press, 2002): 121-135.
in Pedro Machado, Steve Mullins and Joseph Christensen (eds.), Pearls, People, and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019), pp. 313-343
Situated between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean and separating Northeast Africa from the ... more Situated between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean and separating Northeast Africa from the Arabian Peninsula, the Red Sea is one of the most unique maritime spaces in the world and among the first to be mentioned in recorded history. This essay debunks past perceptions of this space as merely a maritime corridor and a transit space between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Instead, it promotes an effort to recast the history of the region with the Red Sea as an organizing framework for analysis, allowing us to imagine it as an integrated region sui generis characterized by multilayered, interconnected, and overlapping circuits and networks operating within and across it while still linked to both the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. The essay proposes a materially based analytical framework which can underpin several possible avenues for future research.
In Gianfrancesco Lusini (ed.), History and Language of the Tigre-Speaking Peoples. Proceedings of the International Workshop, Naples, February 7-8, 2008, «Studi Africanistici. Serie Etiopica 8 » (Napoli: Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 2010), pp. 33-50.
In R. S. O'Fahey (ed.), The Writings of the Muslim Peoples of Northeastern Africa. Arabic Literature in Africa. Volume III Fascicle A (Leiden: Brill, 2003), pp. 1-17.
In Holger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle (eds.), Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World (Oxford and Athens, OH: James Currey and Ohio University Press, 2002): 121-135.
in Alain Rouaud (ed.) Les orientalistes sont des aventuriers. Guirlande offerte à Joseph Tubiana par ses élèves et ses amis. (Saint-Maur: Sépia, 1999), pp. 130-135
Dictionary of African Biography, Eds., Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Emmanuel K. Akyeampong (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012): Vol 3, pp. 130-132.
Northeast African Studies (NEAS) is a biannual interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that publi... more Northeast African Studies (NEAS) is a biannual interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research in the social sciences and the humanities on the Horn of Africa and its neighbors. The region covers primarily Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan, Djibouti, and Somalia/Somaliland. We welcome submissions from a range of academic disciplines including history, anthropology, political science, sociology, religion, literature and the arts. NEAS editors seek contributions that rethink established debates and paradigms in the field, that address issues with comparative implications for scholars working in other parts of the world, or that draw on new source materials and disciplinary methodologies. We are highly interested in studies adopting transnational, transregional and comparative perspectives as well as a regional approach to Northeast Africa that transcends the conventional borders of individual countries. Studies that explore the region's broader interactions with the Red Sea and Indian Ocean areas, the adjacent Arabian Peninsula, relevant Trans-Saharan connections, or that converse with global history approaches are particularly welcome. At this time we are inviting … (I) submission of article-length manuscripts accompanied by an abstract not exceeding 150 words.
CALL FOR PAPERS | NORTHEAST AFRICAN STUDIES Northeast African Studies (NEAS) is a biannual interd... more CALL FOR PAPERS | NORTHEAST AFRICAN STUDIES Northeast African Studies (NEAS) is a biannual interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality original research in the social sciences and the humanities on the Horn of Africa and its neighbors. The region covers primarily Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan, Djibouti, and Somalia/Somaliland. We welcome submissions from a range of academic disciplines including history, anthropology, political science, sociology, religion, environmental studies, literature and the arts. NEAS editors seek contributions that rethink established debates and paradigms in the field, that address issues with comparative implications for scholars working in other parts of the world, or that draw on new source materials and disciplinary methodologies. We are highly interested in studies adopting transnational, transregional and comparative perspectives as well as a regional approach to Northeast Africa that transcends the conventional borders of individual countries. Studies that explore the region's broader interactions with the Red Sea and Indian Ocean areas, the adjacent Arabian Peninsula, relevant Trans-Saharan connections, or that converse with global history approaches are particularly welcome. NEAS also publishes scholarly reviews of current books in the field. Periodically, the editors commission guest-editors or solicit proposals for special issues on specific themes. We invite submission of article-length manuscripts accompanied by an abstract not exceeding 150 words. For submission instructions visit the Northeast African Studies website
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