Pirates, Ports and Coasts in Asia aims to fill in some of the historical gaps in the coverage of maritime piracy and armed robbery in Asia. The authors highlight a variety of activities ranging from raiding, destroying and pillaging coastal villages and capturing inhabitants to attacking and taking over vessels, robbing and then trading the cargo and its people.Generally speaking, what connects these activities is the fact that they are carried out at sea, often in the coastal inshore waters, by vessels attacking other vessels or raiding coastal settlements. Acts of maritime piracy cannot be regarded as being located outside the relevant framework of the coastal zone. Coastal zones have therefore become highly desirable places, a circumstance which has transformed them into places subject to great social and ecological pressures. Piracy being the most dramatic of marginal(ized) maritime livelihood, this book brings the relationship between pirates, ports, and coastal hinterlands into focus.
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THE EDITORS:
John Kleinen is an anthropologist and historian, and serves as an Associate Professor at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Manon Osseweijer, trained as an anthropologist, is the Coordinator of Academic Affairs at the International Institute for Asian Studies and she co-organized the workshop from which the chapters of this book result.
THE CONTRIBUTORS:
Robert J. Antony • Paola Calanca • Stefan Eklöf • Hoang Ahn Tuan • John Kleinen • Gerrit Knaap • Adrian B. Lapian • Carolin Liss • Manon Osseweijer • Michael Pearson • Ikuya Tokoro • Esther Velthoen • Jim Warren
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