The Indian Ocean: Territorialization & conceptualization
Take part in the doctoral seminar "Indian Ocean: territorialization and conceptualization - Sequence 3" on December 14 in the Genevaux amphitheater, Moufia Campus from 13:00 p.m. to 17:00 p.m.
Participate in the doctoral seminar “Indian Ocean: territorialization and conceptualization – Sequence 3” on December 14 in the Genevaux amphitheater, Moufia Campus from 13:00 p.m. to 17:00 p.m.
This seminar “Indian Ocean: territorialization and conceptualization” returns for a third sequence. After having debated the contextualization of research on and from Reunion and the Indian Ocean during the first and second parts, this seminar will offer a space for exchange on the specificities of the Indo-Pacific, India-Oceanic basins. or Indianoceania.
In order to identify the permanences and mutations of the societies of the Indian Ocean, it seems appropriate to collectively understand the emergence of these cultures and plural stakeholder games evolving within the same geographical area. This edition therefore proposes to focus on three axes of reflection: first of all, by focusing on new geopolitical issues, then by re-examining cultural heritages and, finally, by proposing a prospective of the cultural strategies which are emerging.
It also aims to promote the meeting between the academic world and the territorialized actors who work and are involved in the empirical practice of the territories under study. With a view to exchanges and enrichment of scientific reflection, creating a space including associative and institutional environments will allow the contribution of new materials, discourses, practices and representations rich in lessons.
Contextualizing in a period where scientific discourse seems to be called into question, decompartmentalizing thinking can be the guarantee of reestablishing a necessary link between researchers and society in the disciplines of the human and social sciences. Thus, each axis will propose an intervention by a researcher, a doctoral student and a territorialized actor outside the scientific community and will close with a time of discussions between the various interlocutors and the public.
Finally, this seminar aims to develop an inclusive methodology, with the idea of integrating the territorialization of Indianoceania into that of India-Oceania, or even the Indo-Pacific as an object of research. The aim is to create a bridge between the different concepts and geographical spaces in order to develop an interpretive framework to analyze the territorialization of geographical places and societies in multi-scalar groups.
Given the challenges of globalization and globalization currently underway, it becomes legitimate to rethink these spaces according to our times (Idelson and Molinatti, 2022).
A multi-scalar Indian Ocean: from Indianoceania to India-Oceania or even the Indo-Pacific, a plurality of concepts and spaces
The Indian Ocean is a geographical area characterized by the existence of plural territories and cultures. An area of exchange and commerce, it can be presented as a space of transnational relations without precise territorialization (Badie, 2013). It is also a heterogeneous cultural space connected by an ocean, a contact zone (Pratt, 1991).
However, in this maritime space, many rivalries come into play: we cannot determine the level of fragmentation of the societies of both border states and island territories (Marimoutou, 2006).
It is these links and conflicts which, due to distance, nourish plural dynamics in social and cultural constructions. In the conceptualization of this space, the organization of circulation and territories practiced is perceived from different prisms.
Among these prisms, numerous sets of scales develop. From the expanse of water that connects the south of the Asian continent to the tip of South Africa, via the islands that dot the Indian Ocean to Oceania, François Taglioni (2004) defines the basin India-Oceanic geographically. This seminar offers a multiscalar and multidisciplinary approach.
