Abstract: This talk focuses on flows. It discusses mobility across large and interconnected regions in Asia. The extensive territories between northeast India, Bangladesh, Burma\/Myanmar and southwest China have among the world\u2019s most varied natural and socio-political conditions. From the Brahmaputra to the Mekong, and from Tibet to the lowland river basins, nature is extremely diverse. High-value goods have travelled with caravans across the landscapes for at least a millennium within what is known as the south-western branch of the Silk Road network. Together with people and animals travelled also items, wealth, labour, alliances, merchant and religious groups, beliefs, networks, kinship, behaviour, and anything else that that could move along the communication routes.<\/p>\n
These territories, people and societies were therefore under the impact of transformation at near and long distances. In the late 19th century, three empires \u2013 the Qing, the British and the French \u2013 were fast closing in on the large, multi-polity and multi-ethnic hill region connecting southwest Yunnan, east Burma, and north Laos, known as the Shan-Dai region. As a consequence of changing global politics, they all had China\u2019s markets in mind \u2013 either to conquer or to protect from foreign interference.<\/p>\n
Biography: Gunnel Cederl\u00f6f is Professor of History at the Linnaeus University, Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. She is a historian of modern India, focusing on colonial, environmental, and legal history. Among her publications are: Founding an Empire on India\u2019s North-Eastern Frontiers, 1790-1840: Climate, Commerce, Polity (2014),\u00a0 Landscapes and the Law: Environmental Politics, Regional Histories, and Contests over Nature\u00a0(2008, 2019),\u00a0Bonds Lost: Subordination, Conflict and Mobilisation in Rural South India c. 1900-1970\u00a0(1997, 2019),\u00a0At Nature\u2019s Edge: The Global Present and Long-Term History\u00a0(2018 with M. Rangarajan),\u00a0Subjects, Citizens and Law: Colonial and Independent India\u00a0(2017 with S. Das Gupta), and\u00a0Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia\u00a0(2006, 2014 with K. Sivaramakrishnan).<\/p>\n
The event is open to the public but requires registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Abstract: This talk focuses on flows. It discusses mobility across large and interconnected regions in Asia. The extensive territories between northeast India, Bangladesh, Burma\/Myanmar and southwest China have among the world\u2019s most varied natural and socio-political conditions. From the Brahmaputra to the Mekong, and from Tibet to the lowland river basins, nature is extremely diverse. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":99152,"template":"","class_list":["post-99151","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_category-lecture"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n