Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-48683-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 626 g

Reihe: Small State Studies

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.

In 1965, as part of negotiations leading to Mauritian independence in 1968, the UK government excised the Chagos Archipelago from the colony of Mauritius to form part of a new overseas territory, the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). The UK then set about removing the population of the Chagos Islands in order to allow the United States to construct a military base. As a consequence of the UK’s acquisition of the Chagos Islands and the expulsion of the Chagossian population, there has been wide ranging litigation brought by Mauritius and the Chagossians. This has reached the International Court of Justice, the United Nations General Assembly, the European Court of Human Rights and the UK Supreme Court. This book offers a wide-ranging debate between experts and practitioners, including those of Chagossian and Mauritian heritage, touching upon key developments and offering an inclusive approach that transcends traditional disciplinary silos. Issues such as international and constitutional law, human rights, colonialism and decolonisation, using creative writing to express the experience of banishment, international relations, environmentalism, and globalisation, will be explored as part of a dialogue that sheds new light on the Chagos dispute. Edited by experts on Chagos, the contributors are drawn from across the globe, and all have a distinctive take on what has happened, what it means for the world and the region, and how Chagos will both shape and be shaped by the future.

This book will be of great interest to students, academics and researchers from across the humanities and social sciences, including political science, international relations, law, sociology, socio-legal studies, human rights, social anthropology, indigenous rights, history, colonialism, postcolonialism, and cultural studies, as well as practitioners, policymakers and general readers who are interested in Chagos.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jeffery, Laura

Monaghan, Chris

O'Gorman, Mairi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.