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APPROACHES TO REGIONALISM IN THE SOUTH-WEST INDIAN OCEAN HAVE BEEN STRONGLY INFLUENCED BY THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE POLITIES OF THE REGION. THE POSITION OF MAURITIUS, THE SEYCHELLES (BOTH INDEPENDENT COMMONWEALTH STATES) AND REUNION ( A FRENCH OVERSEAS DEPARTMENT) IS BRIEFLY REVIEWED TO ESTABLISH THE PERSPECTIVES FROM WHICH THEY APPROACH REGIONALISM. IN LARGE PART THIS IS TO DO WITH FURTHERING THEIR OWN ECONOMIC INTERESTS IN A SITUATING WHERE SOME OF THE ARRANGEMENTS WHICH HAVE PREVAILED IN THE POST ARE CHANGING. IN TERMS OF THE IMMEDIATE REGION AND ADJOINING PARTS OF AFRICA MAURITIUS IS GIVING PRIORITY TO THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY (SADC) BUT IS ALSO A LEADING MEMBER OF THE INDIAN OCEAN COMMISSION (IOC). BOTH THE SEYCHELLES AND REUNION (THROUGH FRANCE) ARE ACTIVE IN THE IOC. ON A BROADER SCALE MAURITIUS HAS ALSO BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN FURTHERING THE INDIAN OCEAN RIM INITIATIVE, WHEREAS THE SEYCHELLES AND REUNION HAVE REMAINED PERIPHERAL TO THIS PROCESS.

BASED ON REPORTS BY THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTION-MONITORING TEAM, THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES RECENT ELECTIONS IN GUYANA, KENYA, AND SEYCHELLES.

The five island societies of the Western Indian Ocean--Madagascar, Mauritius, the Seychelles, the Comoros, and the French Overseas Department of Raeunion--have retained distinctive national characters while cultivating regional cohesion and the establishment of a Zone of Peace. In this study, Dr. Allen places the nations of the maritime Latin Quarter

How is identity reconstructed in places where oppression still lingers? This question has intrigued me for the past 15 years and I have sought to answer it by undertaking a voyage back to the Southwest Indian Ocean region, the place of my birth and space of incredible diversity and early globalisations. My proposed lecture discusses the politics of identity, as well as the influence of contemporary social phenomena on the islands, specifically international tourism and heritage management. I argue that the islanders are keen to re-imagine self and community so as to produce alternative identities, networks and sources of power in a still oppressive context – and that this process is vital to care, solidarity and the pursuit of social justice. Doing research in Mauritius, Madagascar, Seychelles and Zanzibar also revealed to me that anthropology is perplexing and rewarding, since it involves difficult 'returns', learning with others and seeing power where the apparently powerless reside. I conclude that being in the Indian Ocean region positively changed the way I perceive and experience fieldwork, and that my findings thus far, underscore the relevance of anthropology to contemporary Africans and their 'cousins' in the African Diaspora.

The expansion of India's role as a security provider in the Indian Ocean region has aroused much interest in recent years. Many inside and outside India see great potential for India, and particularly the Indian Navy, to play a positive role in enhancing the region's security in the context of India's rise as a major power. Over the last several decades, India has developed good security relationships in the Indian Ocean, particularly with island or small littoral states such as Mauritius, Seychelles and Madagascar in the southwest Indian Ocean, Oman and Qatar in the Persian Gulf, the Maldives in the central Indian Ocean and Singapore in the east. India is now seen as a key security provider to, and even a security guarantor of, several of these states. However, the history of India's strategic role in the Indian Ocean has not been the subject of a great deal of study. This article will examine India's previously undisclosed interventions in the Seychelles in 1986, which acted as a prelude to other interventions throughout the region, including India's foray in Sri Lanka in 1987 and the Maldives in 1988.

French territories in the late eighteenth century, the archipelagos of Mascarene, Seychelles and Chagos experienced a different political destiny. All of these islands except Reunion became English-speaking. Yet today, we make an essential observation, paradoxical in appearance: these islands still have a mostly French-speaking toponymy. This ascertainment is at the origin of this research supported by a thematic and georeferenced database of about 6600 place names. Thanks to this tool, an analyse has been carried according to several criteria such as the languages, the semantic values, the natures and importance of designated elements and the spatial distribution. The question about appropriation and evolution of place names is also examined and analysed. This work constitutes a base, open and evolutive, for further works. ; Territoires français à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, les archipels des Mascareignes, Seychelles et Chagos ont connu un destin politique différent. L'ensemble de ce vaste espace insulaire, La Réunion exceptée, est devenu anglophone. On fait pourtant un constat essentiel, paradoxal en apparence : ces îles ont aujourd'hui encore une toponymie majoritairement francophone. Cette constatation est à l'origine de cette recherche, appuyée sur la constitution d'une base de données thématique et géo-référencée d'environ 6600 toponymes. À l'aide de cet outil, ce corpus toponymique est analysé suivant plusieurs critères, tels que les langues, les valeurs sémantiques, les natures et importances des éléments désignés et de la répartition spatiale. La question de l'appropriation et l'évolution des toponymes est également abordée et analysée. Ce travail constitue une base, évolutive et ouverte, pour des travaux complémentaires ultérieurs.

French territories in the late eighteenth century, the archipelagos of Mascarene, Seychelles and Chagos experienced a different political destiny. All of these islands except Reunion became English-speaking. Yet today, we make an essential observation, paradoxical in appearance: these islands still have a mostly French-speaking toponymy. This ascertainment is at the origin of this research supported by a thematic and georeferenced database of about 6600 place names. Thanks to this tool, an analyse has been carried according to several criteria such as the languages, the semantic values, the natures and importance of designated elements and the spatial distribution. The question about appropriation and evolution of place names is also examined and analysed. This work constitutes a base, open and evolutive, for further works. ; Territoires français à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, les archipels des Mascareignes, Seychelles et Chagos ont connu un destin politique différent. L'ensemble de ce vaste espace insulaire, La Réunion exceptée, est devenu anglophone. On fait pourtant un constat essentiel, paradoxal en apparence : ces îles ont aujourd'hui encore une toponymie majoritairement francophone. Cette constatation est à l'origine de cette recherche, appuyée sur la constitution d'une base de données thématique et géo-référencée d'environ 6600 toponymes. À l'aide de cet outil, ce corpus toponymique est analysé suivant plusieurs critères, tels que les langues, les valeurs sémantiques, les natures et importances des éléments désignés et de la répartition spatiale. La question de l'appropriation et l'évolution des toponymes est également abordée et analysée. Ce travail constitue une base, évolutive et ouverte, pour des travaux complémentaires ultérieurs.

The expansion of India's role as a security provider in the Indian Ocean region has aroused much interest in recent years. Many inside and outside India see great potential for India, and particularly the Indian Navy, to play a positive role in enhancing the region's security in the context of India's rise as a major power. Over the last several decades, India has developed good security relationships in the Indian Ocean, particularly with island or small littoral states such as Mauritius, Seychelles and Madagascar in the southwest Indian Ocean, Oman and Qatar in the Persian Gulf, the Maldives in the central Indian Ocean and Singapore in the east. India is now seen as a key security provider to, and even a security guarantor of, several of these states. However, the history of India's strategic role in the Indian Ocean has not been the subject of a great deal of study. This article will examine India's previously undisclosed interventions in the Seychelles in 1986, which acted as a prelude to other interventions throughout the region, including India's foray in Sri Lanka in 1987 and the Maldives in 1988. ; Copyright Information: Publisher permission to deposit a version granted via email on 6/05/2015.