This chapter explores the Chagos Archipelago from a perspective of connectivity and disconnections, and investigates the extent to which different domains of circulation to and from these Indian Ocean islands qualify them as a hub. The chapter explores the Chagos Archipelago as a military hub, a social hub, and an environmental hub, and introduces the concept of dis/entangled hubs to explain how real and imagined hubs, which may appear to work or hub independent of one another, can in fact be intimately interconnected on a political level. In order to protect an area, an island, or an archipelago as a particular kind of hub, parties in power can welcome and support new forms of circulation, at times only to rule out hubs unwanted.
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Johannessen, S. F. (2018). Dis/Entangled Hubs: Connectivity and Disconnections in the Chagos Archipelago. In Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies (pp. 259–287). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59725-6_11
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