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by Dilip M. Menon (Author), Nishat Zaidi (Author), Simi Malhotra (Author)
Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences. It explores maritime connections in social and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national histories and area studies.
Author Biography
Dilip M Menon is the Mellon Chair in Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, and Director, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa. He was recently awarded the 2021 Falling Walls Foundation Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities.
Nishat Zaidi is Professor at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
Simi Malhotra is Professor and Head of the Department at the Department of English, Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi. Her latest publications are the edited books Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation, and Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives and Challenges, 2021 and Terrains of Consciousness: Multilogical Perspectives on Globalization again in 2021.
Saarah Jappie is Program Officer, Social Science Research Council, New York, USA, and Research Associate, Visual Arts in Identity and Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
