The Indian Ocean World Podcast

Everjoy Chiimba - "Assessing the Potential of Mobile Communication Technologies to Enhance Early Warning and Disaster Preparedness in Zimbabwe"

In this episode, Sam Gleave Riemann (IOWC, McGill) is joined by Everjoy Grace Chiimba (Bonn), an affiliate of the Appraising Risk project, to discuss her ongoing PhD research into information circulation and social media before, during, and after Cyclone Idai and its devastating effects in Zimbabwe in 2019.
Everjoy Grace Chiimba is a PhD Candidate in Geography at the University of Bonn. She holds a BA in Geography and Archeology in 2014 from the University of Zimbabwe and a MSc. In Geography from Bonn and the United Nations University.
Links:
University Profile: https://kulturgeographie-mainz.de/team/everjoy-chiimba/
2022 Paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103012
The Indian Ocean World Podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced by Sam Gleave Riemann, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership "Appraising Risk, Past and Present."
Music: "Nam Nhi-tu" by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con

Lukas Ley & Tarini Monga - S.AND

Dr. Philip Gooding (IOWC, McGill) is joined by Dr. Lukas Ley and Tarini Monga (both Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) to discuss the research group, "S.AND - The Future of Coastal Cities in the Indian Ocean." Their conversation covers the shifting roles of sand in human environments, with particular attention to their current fieldwork in the port of Marseille and peri-urban Goa, respectively.
Lukas Ley is Research Head of the S.AND research group. He holds PhD in Anthropology from the University of Toronto and his first monograph, Building on Borrowed Time: Raising Seas and Failing Infrastructure, was published in 2021.
Tarini Monga is a PhD candidate in the S.AND research group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
Links:
S.AND project website: https://www.s-and.org/
Dr. Ley's profile: https://www.eth.mpg.de/ley
Ms. Monga's profile: https://www.eth.mpg.de/monga
The Indian Ocean World Podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sam Gleave Riemann, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership "Appraising Risk, Past and Present."
Music:
"Nam Nhi-tu" by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con

James Warren - "Typhoons: Climate, Society, and History in the Philippines"

This week, Dr. Philip Gooding (IOWC) is joined by Prof. James Warren (Murdoch) to discuss his monumental new book, Typhoons: Climate, Society, and History in the Philippines. Their conversation covers Prof. Warren's decades-long research project that led to this book, the impact of extreme storms on South East (and especially Philippine) history, and the shifting social dynamics that impact vulnerability to such events.
Prof. James Warren is Emeritus Professor of History at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. Over his long and celebrated career, he has published 9 books and over 140 shorter pieces, held posts at universities on three continents, and made major contributions to research in South East Asian history, particularly environmental history.
Links:
University profile: https://researchportal.murdoch.edu.au/esploro/profile/james_warren/overview
Typhoons: Climate, Society, and History in the Philippines: https://unipress.ateneo.edu/product/typhoons-climate-society-and-history-philippines
The Indian Ocean World Podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sam Gleave Riemann, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership "Appraising Risk, Past and Present."
Music:
"Nam Nhi-tu" by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con

Marit Kleinert - "Women Cooperatives on Zanzibar: Transformative Spaces of Resistance through Care"

For the first episode of this season, we are trying something new. Instead of an interview, this week we turn the feed over to another, Marit Kleinert, who takes us to Zanzibar in the first episode of her new show, Beyond Theory. It is a fantastic piece of audio documentary, merging music, field recording, interview, and (yes) a little bit of social science theory to explore the dynamic women's cooperative economic sector in the Zanzibar archipelago.
Marit Kleinert is a Masters candidate in the program "Human Geography: Globalisation, Media and Culture" at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. This podcast was produced for a seminar in that program. Marit has a background in musicology and sound studies, as well as Southeast Asian studies, on which she draws in her podcast.
Links:
Beyond Theory & bibliography: https://beyondtheorypodcast.wordpress.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marit-kleinert
The Indian Ocean World Podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sam Gleave Riemann, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership "Appraising Risk, Past and Present."
Music:
"Nam Nhi-tu" by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con
"Construisons (Let’s build)" by Destinolas Bwenge
"Do it for me" by Jerybrown

The IOWC Research Assistants - Summer 2024 Research Roundup

For the second annual Summer Research Roundup, Dr. Philip Gooding sits down with five research assistants employed here at the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University to explore and recognize the hard work they've put into their research over the last year.
Nadia Fekih is entering her final year in Environmental Studies at McGill. She has been with the IOWC for nearly two years, with a paper (co-authored with Dr. Gooding) forthcoming in the Journal of Southern African Studies.
Lilia Scudamore has just finished her BA and will begin an MA in History at McGill in the fall. She has two years of experience here at the IOWC and a particular interest in the history of infectious disease, the topic of her proposed MA project.
Sienna Hsu is a Computer Science student here at McGill. Her technical expertise has made her an invaluable member of our team, and she has contributed to all aspects of data collection, analysis, and visualization on a number of projects.
Sam Gleave Riemann joined the IOWC upon the completion of his MA in Classical Studies at McGill two years ago. He produces this podcast, helps organize events, contributes to research, and has recently stepped into a Project Manager role alongside Dr. Gooding.
Hannah Sparwasser Soroka is a PhD candidate in History at McGill, entering her fourth year and specializing in Early Modern European intellectual history.
The Indian Ocean World Podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced by Sam Gleave Riemann, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership “Appraising Risk, Past and Present.”
Music: "Nam Nhi-tu" by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con

Tasha Rijke-Epstein - "Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar"

Dr. Philip Gooding (IOWC, McGill) is joined by Prof. Tasha Rijke-Epstein (Vanderbilt) to discuss her wonderful new book, Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar. Their conversation takes us to Mahajanga, a port city in northwestern Madagascar, considering the city's contested built environment, as well as the human and more-than-human interactions and complex (and sometimes fraught) migration histories that play out against this backdrop.
Prof. Rijke-Epstein is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She holds a PhD in History and Anthropology from the University of Michigan and an MPhil from the University of Cape Town. Children of the Soil is her first monograph.
Links:
University Profile: https://as.vanderbilt.edu/history/bio/tasha-rijke-epstein/
Book: https://www.dukeupress.edu/children-of-the-soil
The Indian Ocean World Podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced by Sam Gleave Riemann, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership "Appraising Risk, Past and Present."

Nienke Boer - "The Briny South"

This week, Dr. Nienke Boer (Sydney) joins our producer, Sam Gleave Riemann, to discuss her 2023 book, The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World (Duke UP). They discuss the connections between post-colonial and ocean studies, feelings and their representations, and South Africa and the broader Indian Ocean World.
Dr. Boer has been Lecturer in World Literatures at the University of Sydney since early 2023. She was previously Assistant Professor of Humanities (Literature) at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. The Briny South is her first monograph.
Links:
University Profile: https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/nienke-boer.html/
The Briny South: https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-briny-south
The Indian Ocean World Podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced by Sam Gleave Riemann, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership "Appraising Risk, Past and Present."
Music: "Nam Nhi-tu" by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con

John Lee - "Sylvan Anxieties and the Making of Landscapes in Early Modern Korea" & "A State of Ranches and Forests"

In this episode, Dr. Philip Gooding (IOWC, McGill) is joined by Dr. John Lee (Durham) to discuss two recent article-length publications, his 2022 paper, “Sylvan Anxieties and the Making of Landscapes in Early Modern Korea,” and his chapter, “A State of Ranches and Forests: The Environmental Legacy of the Mongol Empire in Korea,” from the 2023 volume, Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments. As these titles suggest, their discussion considers forests and forest management in Korean history, as well as the field of environmental history as a whole.
Dr. Lee is an Assistant Professor of East Asian History in the Department of History at the University of Durham, serving since 2019. He completed his PhD in 2017 at Harvard University and is currently finishing his first monograph.
Links:
University Profile: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/john-s-lee/
"Sylvan Anxieties": https://doi.org/10.3197/096734022X16551974226081
"A State of Ranches and Forests": https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv310vm12.9
The Indian Ocean World Podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced by Sam Gleave Riemann, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership "Appraising Risk, Past and Present."
Music: "Nam Nhi-tu" by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con

Krishnendu Ray - "Culinary Cultures on the Move" & "Food in the Indian Ocean World"

Prof. Krishnendu Ray (NYU) joins Dr. Philip Gooding (IOWC, McGill) to discuss a recent special volume of Verge: Studies in Global Asias, entitled "Culinary Cultures on the Move," which Prof. Ray co-edited, as well as his contribution to that volume, entitled "Food in the Indian Ocean World: Mobility, Materiality, and Cultural Exchange," which he coauthored with Dr. Kathleen Burke (NYU Shanghai) and Stephanie Jolly. This wide-ranging conversation covers the dynamics of academic collaboration across disciplines, competing geographic heuristics between Asia(s) and the broad IOW, and the possibilities of multi-sensory scholarship.
Trained as a sociologist, Prof. Ray teaches in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at NYU and previously at the Culinary Institute of America. He is the author of two monographs, The Migrant's Table (Temple UP, 2004) and The Ethnic Restaurateur (Bloomsbury, 2016), and serves on the Editorial Collective of the journal Gastronomica.
Links:
University Profile: https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/krishnendu-ray
Verge, "Culinary Cultures on the Move": https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/50261
The Indian Ocean World Podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sam Gleave Riemann, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership "Appraising Risk, Past and Present."
Music: "Nam Nhi-tu" by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con

Arunima Datta - "Race, Anxiety and Shopping in the Australian Outback: Indian Hawkers and Victoria's 1884 Smallpox Outbreak"

For the first episode of our new season, Dr. Philip Gooding (IOWC, McGill) welcomes Prof. Arunima Datta (University of North Texas) to discuss her article, "Race, Anxiety and Shopping in the Australian Outback: Indian Hawkers and Victoria's 1884 Smallpox Outbreak," as well as her newly-published second monograph, Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain (Oxford UP, 2023). Their conversation covers many of the themes that animate Prof. Datta's research: South Asian migration under the British Empire, labour history from a subaltern perspective, and the intersections of gender and race.
Prof. Datta is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at UNT, Associate Editor for both Gender & History and Britain and the World, and Associate Review Editor for the American Historical Review. Her first monograph, Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya, was published in 2021.
Links:
University Profile: https://history.unt.edu/people/arunima-datta
"Race, Anxiety and Shopping": https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003152149-27/race-anxiety-shopping-australian-outback-arunima-datta
Waiting on Empire: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/waiting-on-empire-9780192848239?cc=ca&lang=en&
The Indian Ocean World Podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sam Gleave Riemann, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership "Appraising Risk, Past and Present."
Music: "Nam Nhi-tu" by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con