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A Chest in the Attic
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Konstnärligt arbeteabstract
- When the attic of the Huseby estate house was cleaned in 2008, a large wooden chest was found. It had not been opened since being sealed in India and shipped to Sweden in 1869. Its contents reveal a world of knowledge that changes how we understand the history of colonial India and of Småland 150 years ago, and how these histories intertwine. Joseph Stephens grows up in a British family shaped by the global transformations of the nineteenth century. Joseph was born in Stockholm and, when he is 11 years old, moved to Copenhagen where his father George, folklorist and runologist, had taken up a position at the university. In 1859, at the age of 19, Joseph leaves for Bombay. This is an important port city and a world-leading metropole of trade and finance. Here, Joseph is trained to become a civil engineer under his brother-in-law, an engineer working on one of the world’s largest infrastructure projects: the railways. In the 1860s the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company (G.I.P.R.) was constructing the trunk lines between India’s trade metropoles, Bombay and Calcutta. The large railway network will eventually interconnect the colonial economy, transporting passengers, goods and troops across the continent. Joseph soon becomes a subcontractor and mobilises labourers and material for smaller projects. After some time he set up his own firm: Joseph Stephens & Company.
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- Chatterjee, Niladri, 1983-, et al.
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Politics of Vaccine Nationalism in India : Global and Domestic Implications
- 2021
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Ingår i: Forum for Development Studies. - : Routledge. - 0803-9410 .- 1891-1765. ; 48:2, s. 357-369
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The fight against the Covid-19 pandemic has shifted from finding a cure to acquiring vaccines and organizing vaccination. The race for vaccination has exacerbated tendencies of hoarding, particularly among rich countries, academically expressed as vaccine nationalism. Vaccine nationalism is harmful to the global effort in the fight against the pandemic. India in contrast has been quite generous to its neighbours in sharing vaccines pursuing its own form of vaccine nationalism. The strategy pursued by India can be read as an effort to gloss over the failures in initial pandemic management, to improve diplomatic leverage and reinforce an idiom of nationalism. Such an effort however has potentially harmful effects undermining trust in the vaccine as well as in the government. The politicization of vaccine also has counterproductive outcomes for democratic practices within the country.
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- Duncan, Rebecca, et al.
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The Emergency Has Already Happened
- 2023
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Ingår i: Environment and History. - : White Horse Press. - 0967-3407 .- 1752-7023. ; 29:4, s. 476-482
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- Marcussen, Eleonor, 1980-
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Acts of Aid : Politics of Relief and Reconstruction in the 1934 Bihar–Nepal Earthquake
- 2022
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- This socio-political history on the aftermath of the 1934 Bihar–Nepal earthquake explores disaster aid, relief, and reconstruction and the questions they give rise to about class, communities and inequality. The book traces disaster responses across the twentieth century in order to demonstrate how they were embedded in political processes transcending the event of the earthquake. Aid, relief and reconstruction mirrored political agendas and ideas that articulated both changes and continuities by the colonial state, civil society and international organisations. The impact of the earthquake and aid in its wake varied widely according to social groups, ethnicity and gender in the aftermath. By studying the effects of the earthquake on communities directly affected and society, the author argues that we can come closer to an understanding of the role political, social and cultural factors held in shaping resilience to natural disasters.
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- Marcussen, Eleonor, 1980-
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“And there are Political Earthquakes” : Disaster Governance, Nation Building and State Formation
- 2020
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Governance in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster begins as the management of a crisis and lasts for a limited time. In the long aftermath, a disaster offers an opportunity to introduce new modes of governance, often in response to the failure of protection that the disaster represents. Natural disasters such as the destructive 1934 earthquake in Bihar (India) are not only disruptive and often tragic events but also the beginning of a social process of coping and rehabilitation. Historical disaster research underline how aftermaths can serve as opportunities to reorder society or reinforce the existing social order. After the devastating earthquake in 1934, numerous civil society associations organised financial aid and mobilised man-power to aid the victims of the disaster. Both the state and civil society groups consciously deployed disaster relief as a means to appease social groups of people such as the middle classes and urban residents. From the perspective of civil society organisations, politicised disaster relief became a tool for nation building and a practice in state formation. This paper argues that disaster relief and the regimes of aid laid out by the colonial state and civil society organisations represented and produced ideas of citizenship and legitimate government institutions in the aftermath of the 1934 earthquake. Disaster governance could thereby represent attempts at reinforcing or reinventing colonial subjects and citizens as well as shaping the framework of the envisioned nation state. The questioning of colonial governance in the aftermath by civil society organisations serves as a site for analysing political ideas underpinning aid, relief and reconstruction in the making of an alternative modeof governance.
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- Marcussen, Eleonor, 1980-
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Circulation of Knowledge, Capital, and Goods : Scandinavia and the British Empire
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Imperial Underbelly. - London : Routledge. - 9781003317227 - 9781032320922 - 9781032328928 ; , s. 135-160
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter builds upon histories of empires that recently have begun to explore the extent to which colonialism impacted social and economic life beyond the geopolitical boundaries of the colonizers and the colonized. This chapter takes Huseby estate in south Sweden as a case for exploring how networks and British imperial connections played an integral role in the restart of the estate’s businesses at the end of the 1860s and in the early 1870s. For the entrepreneurial spirit of Joseph Stephens, the acquisition of the estate was an economic investment made possible through larger British imperial networks and his earnings as railway contractor in India. This chapter argues that colonial capital and networks continued to shape the estate’s business connections for years to come. Sweden’s late industrialization, outward migration, and relatively unexplored commodities from the perspective of colonial markets became an opportunity for Stephens to develop businesses that to a great extent relied on his colonial networks.
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- Marcussen, Eleonor, 1980-
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Cooperation and Pacifism in a Colonial Context : Service Civil International and Work Camps in Bihar, 1934-1937
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Ingår i: HerStory – Historical Scholarship between South Asia and Europe. - Heidelberg, Berlin : CrossAsia-eBooks. - 9783946742432 - 9783946742449 ; , s. 83-102
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- After a major earthquake in Bihar and Nepal in 1934, the Swiss peace and relief organisation Service Civil International (SCI), would for the first time set up work camps in India. This chapter examines how the work camps in Bihar materialized through an exchange of ideas, networks, and cooperation in Europe and India. While several factors conspired to elicit the idea of reconstruction camps in Bihar at that particular time, SCI would for the practical implementation of the project depend on the support of a network of people that included Indian politicians, British Quakers and members of the Indian Conciliation Group. The thoughts and agency of SCI’s founder, Pierre Ceresole serve not only as a window into the life of an internationalist and pacifist of the time, but also illustrate the importance of political networks and ideological motivation in the internationalisation of disaster relief in the 1930s. In this context, the chapter discusses the organisation and motivation behind setting up work camps in India.
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- Marcussen, Eleonor, 1980-
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"Dream city of the homeless" : International humanitarianism and refugees in Faridabad industrial settlement (India), 1950-1952
- 2021
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Ingår i: Sixth European Congress on World and Global History 2023: Minorities, Cultures of Integration, and Patterns of Exclusion. - : European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH).
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper examines refugee work by Service Civil International (SCI) in Faridabad industrial settlement in 1950-1952. The postcolonial era in South Asia posed new challenges for the humanitarian organisation’s work and ideas. Having established a network of collaborators among leading Indian National Congress members in the mid-1930s, the organisation reinitiated work among refugees in Faridabad in 1950 and expanded into small-scale development work in health and infrastructure projects across South Asia in the following decades. The Faridabad industrial settlement would become the model for small-scale industrialization where SCI worked with skills and health of refugees from the N.W.F.P. Based in Switzerland, SCI had since the 1920s organised international work camps in Europe after wars and natural disasters in order to form inter-personal relations and foster reconciliation. For the SCI, the 1950s represented a shift towards development work in alignment with the goals of the independent Indian nation-state. Without the explicit aims of conflict resolution, forming inter-personal relationships remained an important feature of the organisations profile. The case of SCI sheds light on continuities and breaks in aims of emerging international humanitarianism after pre- and post-independence. The presentation first seeks to understand SCI’s motives and ideas behind the first project in post-independence India; and secondly, it analyses its cooperation with other relief organisations and the policy in the first five-year plan by the Indian planning commission.
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