The Indian Ocean World Podcast
The Indian Ocean World Podcast seeks to educate and inform its listeners on topics concerning the relationship between humans and the environment throughout the history of the Indian Ocean World — a macro-region affected by the seasonal monsoon weather system, from China to Southeast and South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Based out of the Indian Ocean World Centre, a research centre affiliated with McGill University’s Department of History and Classical Studies, under the direction of Prof. Gwyn Campbell, the Indian Ocean World Podcast is part of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded Appraising Risk Partnership, an international collaboration of researchers dedicated to exploring the critical role of climatic crises in the past and future of the Indian Ocean World.
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Episodes
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Professor Debjani Bhattacharyya, Drexel University joins the IOW Podcast to discuss her book: Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The making of Calcutta (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), as well as some of her work in progress on credit, climate, and calamity in the Bay of Bengal.
For more on Prof. Bhattacharyya’s work, see her bio: https://drexel.edu/coas/faculty-research/faculty-directory/DebjaniBhattacharyya/
For more on the book we discuss in this podcast see: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/empire-and-ecology-in-the-bengal-delta/4741DB240F1EACD9E1AFDDDFD9EE74AA
This podcast was produced with the help of Renée Manderville (Project Manager, IOWC), Archisman Chaudhuri and Philip Gooding (both postdoctoral fellows, IOWC, McGill).
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Archisman Chaudhuri discusses aspects of his PhD thesis, ‘From Camp to Port: Mughal Warfare and the Economy of Coromandel, 1682-1710.’
This podcast was produced with the help of Renee Manderville (IOWC Project Manager) and Philip Gooding (IOWC postdoctoral fellow).
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Philip Gooding, a postdoctoral fellow at the Indian Ocean World Centre, discusses his recent article: ‘Tsetse flies, ENSO, and Murder: The Church Missionary Society’s failed East African Ox-Cart Experiment of 1876-78,’ Africa: Rivista semestrale di studi e ricerche, N/S, 1, 2 (2019). The article is available at https://www.viella.it/rivista/9788833132556 or by contacting Philip Gooding directly: philip.gooding@mcgill.ca.
This podcast was produced with the help of Renee Manderville (IOWC Project Manager) and Archisman Chaudhuri (postdoctoral fellow at the IOWC).
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
How does the narrative of various pertinent historical realities shift when considered through an Indian Ocean World perspective rather than a Eurocentric vision? Dr. Gwyn Campbell discusses key works which have impacted the understanding of Indian Ocean World Studies, touching on subjects such as slavery, trade, and environmental histories. Interviewed by PhD student and IOWC project manager Peter Hynd, this podcast begins to introduce topics which will be developed later in our series, mentioning some of the great minds of Indian Ocean World Studies.Featuring: Philip Gooding, Peter Hynd, and Gwyn Campbell
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
This introductory episode discusses the human-environment interaction within the Indian Ocean World. Featuring: Philip Gooding, Peter Hynd, and Gwyn Campbell
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
This is the first episode of our subseries, ‘Indian Ocean World – at a glance.’ In this subseries, scholars will use their expert knowledge of the secondary literature to discuss an issue, debate, or case study related to Indian Ocean World studies. It is designed for listeners to gain an informed knowledge of topics that are frequently misunderstood or overlooked, or are especially pertinent to the contemporary IOW.
In this episode, Prof. Jon Unruh (McGill) discusses the conflict and humanitarian crisis in present-day Yemen in historical, environmental, domestic, regional, and global contexts.
For more on Prof. Unruh, see his bio at: https://www.mcgill.ca/geography/people-0/unruh
For Prof. Unruh’s previous podcast based on his own research into land rights and conflict in the IOW, see: https://www.appraisingrisk.com/2020/07/16/podcast-episode-7-unruh-land-rights-and-conflict/
For some of Prof. Unruh’s scholarship on land rights and conflict in Yemen, see: Jon D. Unruh, ‘Mass Claims in Land and Property Following the Arab Spring: Lessons from Yemen,’ Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, 5, 1, (2016): 1–19.
For UNHCR’s work in Yemen, see: https://www.unhcr.org/yemen-emergency.html
This podcast was produced with the help of Renée Manderville (Project Manager, IOWC), Archisman Chaudhuri and Philip Gooding (both postdoctoral fellows, IOWC, McGill).
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
What is the Indian Ocean World? How does this podcast intend to tackle the complex subjects regarding the entanglement of environmental and human histories in this vast geographical region? With the help of the managing director of the Indian Ocean World Centre, Gwyn Campbell, and PhD student Peter Hynd, our first episode begins to unravel the environmental marvel that is the Indian Ocean World. Featuring: Philip Gooding, Peter Hynd, and Gwyn Campbell
