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, animals’ relationships to climate change and the anthropocene/capitalocene debate, methodologies for studying animal histories, and cultural symbolisms of animals resulting from trade.

The book is available here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-42595-1

This podcast was produced with the help of Renée Manderville (Project Manager, IOWC) and Dr. Archisman Chaudhuri (postdoctoral fellow, IOWC).