ESHS/HSS Annual Meeting

Science and Empire in the Anthropocene: Towards an Environmental Shift 4 - Imperial Medicine Contested

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 fourth session focuses on how imperial medicine was enacted, and contested from below across different Asian contexts. By analyzing cases from colonial India, China, and Japan in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this session invites reflection on the construction of scientific knowledge in plural and intersecting worlds.

Sub Unit

• Organized Session

Chair

• Shiori Nosaka, University of Strasbourg

Individual Presentations

• Pilgrims, Pathogens, and the Port: Environmental Crisis and Disease Control in Colonial Voyages in Colonial India (1850-1940) - Sutanwi Chatterjee, University of Houston

• Disease in a Temple Town - Prakash Kumar, Pennsylvania State University

• Where epidemiology failed: plague, facemasks and the crisis of the Japanese imperial hygiene in 1940 Manchuria - Meng Zhang, University of Manchester

• Burying Anthrax: The Making of an Animal Cemetery in Izmit in Early Republican Turkey - Zeynep Akçakaya, Kadir Has University

Session Organizers

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

• Sabina Ferreira Alexandre Luz