Jatin Dua

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Book

Captured at Sea moves beyond the binaries of legal and illegal to illustrate how the seas continue to be key sites of global regulation, connectivity, and commerce today.

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About

Jatin Dua is an associate professor of Anthropology and Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan. His research explores maritime mobility, and its perils and possibilities, in the Indian Ocean, focusing on processes and projects of governance, law, and economy. His book, Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean, published with the University of California Press (December 2019) and winner of the 2020 Elliot P. Skinner Book Award, is a multi-sited ethnographic and archival engagement with Somali piracy and contestations over legitimate and illegitimate commerce in the Western Indian Ocean. In addition, he has published a number of articles on maritime anthropology, captivity, political economy, and sovereignty. 

Videos

Yale Council on African Studies 

Yale University (Jan 31, 2022)

“Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea” 

The Indian Ocean Working Group at Georgetown University in Qatar 

Loiy Hammad Memorial Lecture: “Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean”

(March 4, 2021)

Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

“Piracy, Trade, and Regulation in the Western Indian Ocean” 

(November 14, 2015)

Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

 “Sea of Protection” 

(November 13, 2015)