The Indian Ocean World Podcast
History
For the first episode of our new season, Dr. Philip Gooding (IOWC, McGill) welcomes Prof. Arunima Datta (University of North Texas) to discuss her article, "Race, Anxiety and Shopping in the Australian Outback: Indian Hawkers and Victoria's 1884 Smallpox Outbreak," as well as her newly-published second monograph, Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain (Oxford UP, 2023). Their conversation covers many of the themes that animate Prof. Datta's research: South Asian migration under the British Empire, labour history from a subaltern perspective, and the intersections of gender and race.
Prof. Datta is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at UNT, Associate Editor for both Gender & History and Britain and the World, and Associate Review Editor for the American Historical Review. Her first monograph, Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya, was published in 2021.
Links:
University Profile: https://history.unt.edu/people/arunima-datta
"Race, Anxiety and Shopping": https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003152149-27/race-anxiety-shopping-australian-outback-arunima-datta
Waiting on Empire: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/waiting-on-empire-9780192848239?cc=ca&lang=en&
The Indian Ocean World Podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sam Gleave Riemann, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership "Appraising Risk, Past and Present."
Music: "Nam Nhi-tu" by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con
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Nienke Boer - "The Briny South"
John Lee - "Sylvan Anxieties and the Making of Landscapes in Early Modern Korea" & "A State of Ranches and Forests"
Krishnendu Ray - "Culinary Cultures on the Move" & "Food in the Indian Ocean World"
Chris Gratien - ”The Unsettled Plain”
Jeremy Prestholdt - Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim
Julien Greschner - ”Solutions to Poverty According to Those Who Live It: Case Study in Manyatta B Informal Settlement, Kisumu, Kenya”
James Parker - ”Ecologies of Development: Ecophilosophies and Indigenous Action on the Tana River”
James Beattie - ”Migrant Ecologies” & International Review of Environmental History
Sophie Chao - ”The Beetle or the Bug” & ”The Multispecies World of Oil Palm”
Tamara Fernando - ”Mapping Oysters and Making Oceans in the Northern Indian Ocean, 1880–1906”
The IOWC Research Assistants - Summer 2023 Research Roundup
Philip Gooding - “On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890”
Alice Nyawira Karuri - “Adaptation of Small-Scale Tea and Coffee Farmers in Kenya to Climate Change”
Justin Raycraft - “Islamic Discourses of Environmental Change on the Swahili Coast of Southern Tanzania”
Pao K. Wang - The REACHES Database
Kasia Paprocki - “Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh”
Ruth Mostern - “The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History”
Ruth Morgan - “Health, Hearth and Empire: Climate, Race and Reproduction in British India and Western Australia”
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