In the wake of what has been termed “the scramble for the oceans,” the Republic of Mauritius lodged an application in 2012 with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to recognize its rights to an Exclusive Economic Zone that comprises a large expanse of the Indian Ocean, and subsequently redefined itself as an ocean-state. This new configuration raises as many issues as it answers. The Indian Ocean remains firmly central both to Mauritian history and to its imaginary. All at once, the endless fluidity of the ocean renders material traces and academic archeology harder, yet somehow it traps and sediments memory and meaning in some ways more profoundly than land. This article bores and drills into the historical, geopolitical, and ontological depths of ocean-state Mauritius with the figure of the ghost as motif, metaphor, and witness.

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绘制海洋国家毛里求斯及其散落的幽灵的地图：印度洋的水文学和文学

在被称为“海洋争夺战”之后，毛里求斯共和国于2012年向《联合国海洋法公约》（UNCLOS）提出申请，要求承认其对包括印度洋的广阔地带，后来又重新定义为海洋国家。此新配置引发了许多问题。印度洋始终是毛里求斯历史及其虚构的中心。海洋的无休止的流动性立刻使物质的痕迹和学术考古学变得更加困难，但无论如何，它在某种程度上比陆地更能陷于并沉积记忆和意义。本文以幽灵的形象作为主题，隐喻，研究并深入研究了海洋国家毛里求斯的历史，地缘政治和本体论深度。