Dismantling the Neocolonial Maritime Archive: Indigenous Oceanic Epistemologies
This VIRTUAL panel invites papers on “Dismantling the Neocolonial Maritime Archive: Indigenous Oceanic Epistemologies” for NeMLA 57th Annual Convention to be held on March 5-8, 2026.
The panel addresses how West Asian, South Asian, and Gulf literatures regenerate the power of oceanic precarity that propels newer modes of decolonial resistance and resilience to interrogate and distrust the rigid structures that propagate epistemic violence and archival control.