The Indian Ocean World Podcast seeks to educate and inform its listeners on topics concerning the relationship between humans and the environment throughout the history of the Indian Ocean World — a macro-region affected by the seasonal monsoon weather system, from China to Southeast and South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Based out of the Indian Ocean World Centre, a research centre affiliated with McGill University’s Department of History and Classical Studies, under the direction of Prof. Gwyn Campbell, the Indian Ocean World Podcast is part of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded Appraising Risk Partnership, an international collaboration of researchers dedicated to exploring the critical role of climatic crises in the past and future of the Indian Ocean World.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 18 hours 33 minutes
episode 16: Thomas Kuehn - Managing the Hazards of Yemen’s Natural Environment
Prof. Thomas Kuehn (Simon Fraser University) discusses his forthcoming chapter, ‘Managing the hazards of Yemen’s natural environment. Nature and imperial governance in Ottoman South West Arabia, 1872-1914.’ Key themes include imperial governance, hum...
episode 15: Michael Christopher Low - Imperial Mecca
Professor Michael Christopher Low (Iowa State University and NYU Abu Dhabi) discusses his new book, Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020). Key themes include technological change, disease...
episode 14: Steven Serels - Animal Diseases as Threats to State Power in the SRSR
Dr. Steven Serels (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient) discusses his research into animal diseases as threats to state power in the history of the Southern Red Sea Region (SRSR). The discussion weaves around diseases to camels, horses, and cattle, and b...
episode 13: Akash Ondaatje - Animal Ascension
Akash Ondaatje, a recently graduated Masters candidate at Queens University, discusses his thesis, ‘Animal Ascension: Elevation and Debasement Through Human-Animal Associations in English Satire, 1700 -1820,’ thus continuing our recent theme on anima...
episode 12: Radhika Govindrajan - Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas
Professor Radhika Govindrajan (University of Washington) discusses her award winning book, Animal Intimacies: Interspecies relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018) with Renée Manderville, Archisman Chaudhu...
episode 11: Martha Chaiklin & Philip Gooding - Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World
Martha Chaiklin and Philip Gooding discuss their recently published edited volume, Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World (Cham, CH: Palgrave, 2020). As part of their discussion, they explore themes including, animals in world history, anim...
episode 10: Margaret Kalacska & Oliver Lucanus - Land Cover and Freshwater Fish in Madagascar
Professor Margaret Kalacska and Dr. Oliver Lucanus (both McGill) discuss their project, Fish and Forest. This interdisciplinary work uses data from historical aerial photography, satellite imagery, and new information captured by UAV and in-situ obse...
episode 9: James Warren - Colonial Monocrops and Global Climatic Oscillations in the Philippines
Professor James Warren (Murdoch University) discusses his past and ongoing research into the effects of global climatic oscillations on the history of the Philippines. In this podcast episode, he examines the role of ENSO-related climatic anomalies a...
episode 8: Brian Tomaszewski - Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Disaster Management
Professor Brian Tomaszewski of the Rochester Institute of Technology discusses his work on digital map-making and disaster management. To see the visual format of this podcast, please see https://www.appraisingrisk.com/2020/07/27/geographic-informati...
episode 7: Jon D. Unruh - Land Rights and Conflict
Professsor Jon D. Unruh of McGill University discusses his work on land rights and restitution in times of conflict in several regions of the contemporary IOW. Some of the works discussed in the podcast include: Jon D. Unruh and Musa Adam Abdul-Jalil...