ESHS/HSS Annual Meeting

Science and Empire in the Anthropocene: Towards an Environmental Shift 3 - (Post)-Imperial Ecologies

Session Submission Type: Organized Session

English Abstract

This symposium, sponsored by the Science and Empire Commission, aims to reinforce discussions on the complex intertwinements between Science, Empire, and Environment in order to assess the possibilities of an environmental shift for the Science and Empire. This third session critically investigates the emergence of ecological frameworks across different sciences, including medicine and pharmacy, and their application in colonial and post-colonial settings, such as Britain, Brazil, Mauritania, and Mexico. More than just assessing the views of imperial agents and elites, this session also examines how rural populations, patient associations, and other marginalised groups have contested, reinterpreted and employed these ecological frameworks in their own terms.

Sub Unit

• Organized Session

Chair

• Jules Skotnes-Brown, University of Liverpool

Individual Presentations

• The Imperial Epistemology of Fraser Darling’s ‘Ecological Reconnaissance’ - Lawrence Dritsas, University of Edinburgh

• Between internal imperialism and post-imperial crossroads: Rethinking disease ecology within Brazilian rural communities (1920-1950) - Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, King's College London

• A Mauritanian Anademic: Pasteurian Science in the Search of Sylvatic Plague at the (Post)Imperial Frontier - Christos Lynteris, University of St Andrews

• Transnational Biopolitics in Laboratories: Animals and Humans at Risk - Deyanira Cuanal Cano, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa

Session Organizers

• Sabina Ferreira Alexandre Luz

• Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, King's College London