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Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago considers the origins, challenges and future of Chagos, bringing together leading experts and academics specialising in differing aspects of the Chagos dispute.
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Zistwar Sagosian, nu tu bizin amenn li Introduction 1. The Chagos saga: 21st century dispute about incomplete decolonisation 2. The Chagos Archipelago in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Indian Ocean world history 3. Origins, legacies, and future: the Chagossians, a population in exile So immaculate - Peros Banhos, Saloman, Diego Garcia 4. Chagos: plantation or paradise? Island edens and Indian Ocean empires, 1600-2023 5. Human rights and the Marine Protected Area around the Chagos Archipelago 6. Return of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and Chagossian identity: constitutional, legal, and political perspectives 7. Political and legal debates about Chagossian ethnicity and indigeneity 8. Intergenerational challenges, cultural identity, and future prospects for Chagossian communities in the UK ayapana in a british plastic plant pot 9. Certainty and uncertainty: native and older generation Chagossian perspectives from Mauritius amid the UK Government's Nationality and Borders Act 2022 Limuria is in Our trust 10. Voicing the trauma of the lost territory: creative writing, therapy and the Chagos Refugees Group This poem is intuitively aware of the erasure of the Chagos Archipelago... 11. "Notes for an Essay: On a Literature of Solidarity" from
Diego Garcia, A Novel 12. The British courts and the Chagos story: an exercise in colonial justice 13. Stakeholders or bystanders? An attempt by Seychellois Chagossians to intervene in the
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea 14. The 1966 BIOT Agreement and Polaris 15. The power behind the throne: the US Government must face its responsibility for the Chagossian exile 'UK Ambassador Lobbied Senators To Hide Diego Garcia's Role In Rendition' 16. The Indo-Pacific and the Chagos Archipelago: two logics, two futures 17. Flagpole fights, courtroom clashes, and coconut crabs 18. Why has it taken 25 years for the UK to start negotiating an overall settlement on Chagos with Mauritius? An ode to the Chagossian zistwar 19. Afterword
About the author
Laura Jeffery is Professor of Anthropology of Migration in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She has worked with the Chagossian community since 2002.
Chris Monaghan is Head of Law and Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Worcester, UK. He has interests in the Chagos Islands legal dispute, Constitutional Law, the role of Parliament, executive accountability, and the global use of impeachment.
Mairi O'Gorman is a social anthropologist who holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her doctoral thesis,
Tree of Knowledge, Tree of Life: materials, intimacy and being Creole in London and Seychelles (2019), was based on ethnographic fieldwork in both places.
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Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago considers the origins, challenges and future of Chagos, bringing together leading experts and academics specialising in differing aspects of the Chagos dispute.
