%0 Journal Article
%T Moorings: Indian Ocean Creolizations
%A Francoise Verges
%A Carpanin Marimoutou
%J PORTAL : Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
%D 2012
%I 
%X In this essay written in 2004, Fran oise Verg¨¨s and Carpanin Marimoutou explore the ways in which processes and practices of creolization occurred in R¨Ļunion Island. They argue that creolization must be analyzed within the historical, political and cultural context in which they emerge. Verg¨¨s and Marimoutou reflect on these processes -- frictions, conflicts, and exchanges among slaves, settlers, migrants, and indentured workers from Madagascar, Mozambique, Gujarat, Bengal, France, Tamil Nadu, Southern China, Malaysia, Vietnam..., who were brought or came on the uninhabited island, colonized by the French in the 17th century. The authors also looked at the post-colonial moment, the French policies of assimilation and repression in the 1960s-1970s. For them, vernacular cultural practices and memories of struggle continue to work as counter strategies against local and national reactionary politics. In their conclusion, Verg¨¨s and Marimoutou look at the current form of globalization and its consequences on processes of creolization.
%K Indian Ocean
%K Creolization
%K Vernacular Practices
%K Creole
%U http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/2568