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Recent Episodes
- Adam Bobbette, “The Pulse of the Earth”
- Everjoy Chiimba, “Assessing the Potential of Mobile Communication Technologies to Enhance Early Warning and Disaster Preparedness in Zimbabwe”
- Lukas Ley & Tarini Monga, S.AND
- James Warren, “Typhoons: Climate, Society, and History in the Philippines”
- Marit Kleinert, “Women Cooperatives on Zanzibar: Transformative Spaces of Resistance through Care”
- The IOWC Research Assistants, Summer 2024 Research Roundup
Podcasts by Region and Theme
Indian Ocean Africa
- Everjoy Chiimba, “Assessing the Potential of Mobile Communication Technologies to Enhance Early Warning and Disaster Preparedness in Zimbabwe”
- Lukas Ley & Tarini Monga, S.AND
- Marit Kleinert, “Women Cooperatives on Zanzibar: Transformative Spaces of Resistance through Care”
- The IOWC Research Assistants, Summer 2024 Research Roundup
- Tasha Rijke-Epstein, “Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar”
- Nienke Boer, “The Briny South”
- Jeremy Prestholdt, Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim
- Julien Greschner, “Solutions to Poverty According to Those Who Live It: Case Study in Manyatta B Informal Settlement, Kisumu, Kenya”
- James Parker, “Ecologies of Development: Ecophilosophies and Indigenous Action on the Tana River”
- The IOWC Research Assistants, Summer 2023 Research Roundup
- Philip Gooding, “On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890”
- Alice Nyawira Karuri, “Adaptation of Small-Scale Tea and Coffee Farmers in Kenya to Climate Change”
- Justin Raycraft, “Islamic Discourses of Environmental Change on the Swahili Coast of Southern Tanzania”
- “Shaping Landscapes: Environmental History, Plantation Management and Colonial Legacies in Mauritius”
- “From New Spain to Mughal India: Rethinking Early Modern Animal Studies with a Turkey, ca. 1612”
- “Kuishi Ughaibuni” & “To Everyone Who Told Zanzis That They Are Not Omani”
- Consuming Ivory
- Gone to Ground
- Ocean Cultures and Heritage
- The Travels of Robert Lyall
- Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World
- Land Cover and Freshwater Fish in Madagascar
- Tsetse flies, ENSO, and Murder
- Introduction to the Indian Ocean World: Episodes 1-3
East Asia, Southeast Asia and Australasia
- Adam Bobbette, “The Pulse of the Earth”
- Lukas Ley & Tarini Monga, S.AND
- James Warren, “Typhoons: Climate, Society, and History in the Philippines”
- The IOWC Research Assistants, Summer 2024 Research Roundup
- John Lee, “Sylvan Anxieties and the Making of Landscapes in Early Modern Korea” & “A State of Ranches and Forests”
- Arunima Datta, “Race, Anxiety and Shopping in the Australian Outback: Indian Hawkers and Victoria’s 1884 Smallpox Outbreak”
- James Beattie, “Migrant Ecologies” & International Review of Environmental History
- Sophie Chao, “The Beetle or the Bug” & “The Multispecies World of Oil Palm”
- The IOWC Research Assistants, Summer 2023 Research Roundup
- Pao K. Wang, The REACHES Database
- Ruth Mostern, “The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History”
- Ruth Morgan, “Health, Hearth and Empire: Climate, Race and Reproduction in British India and Western Australia.”
- “Atmospheric Archives: Gender and Climate Knowledge in Colonial Tasmania”
- Micro-financing rural Cambodia: Loans, Debt, and Climate Change
- The Indus Delta Between Past and Future
- The Disadvantaged Asian Honeybee
- 19th Century Transcolonial Tourism
- The Yellow River’s Shifting Course and its Impact on 11th Century Northern Song China
- ‘Black Cardamom is Forever’: ethnic minority livelihoods in the western Sino-Vietnamese borderlands
- Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Maladaptation to Climate Change
- Coastal Shipping of Tokugawa Japan
- Indonesia’s Peatlands and Environmental Politics
- Maritime Disasters, Risk Appraisals, and Exchanges of Medicinal Knowledge in Maritime East Asia
- Tang-Song transition era and maritime activities in E and SE Asia
- ‘Becoming Traditional’: A transnational history of neem and biopiracy discourses
- Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World
- Colonial Monocrops and Global Climatic Oscillations in the Philippines
- Introduction to the Indian Ocean World: Episodes 1-3
Animals and Plant Life in the IOW
- Krishnendu Ray, “Culinary Cultures on the Move” & “Food in the Indian Ocean World”
- Sophie Chao, “The Beetle or the Bug” & “The Multispecies World of Oil Palm”
- Tamara Fernando, “Mapping Oysters and Making Oceans in the Northern Indian Ocean, 1880–1906”
- “From New Spain to Mughal India: Rethinking Early Modern Animal Studies with a Turkey, ca. 1612”
- Introducing the Gwillim Project
- The Indus Delta Between Past and Future
- The Disadvantaged Asian Honeybee
- 19th Century Transcolonial Tourism
- The Yellow River’s Shifting Course and its Impact on 11th Century Northern Song China
- ‘Black Cardamom is Forever’: ethnic minority livelihoods in the western Sino-Vietnamese borderlands
- Consuming Ivory
- Tigers, Tiger Food, and Mental Health in the Sundarbans
- Indonesia’s Peatlands and Environmental Politics
- Hortus Malabaricus (Muralidharan)
- ‘Becoming Traditional’: A transnational history of neem and biopiracy discourses
- Animal diseases as threats to state power in the SRSR
- Animal Ascension (Ondaatje)
- Animal Intimacies (Govindrajan)
- Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World
- Land Cover and Freshwater Fish in Madagascar
- Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta (Bhattacharyya)
- Introduction to the Indian Ocean World: Episodes 1-3
Middle East and the IOW
- Krishnendu Ray, “Culinary Cultures on the Move” & “Food in the Indian Ocean World”
- Chris Gratien, “The Unsettled Plain”
- Jeremy Prestholdt, Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim
- Tamara Fernando, “Mapping Oysters and Making Oceans in the Northern Indian Ocean, 1880–1906”
- The IOWC Research Assistants, Summer 2023 Research Roundup
- Contextualizing environmental contingencies
- Managing the Hazards of Yemen’s Natural Environment
- Imperial Mecca (Low)
- Animal diseases as threats to state power in the SRSR
- Conflict and Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen (Unruh)
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Disaster Management
- Land Rights and Conflict (Unruh)
- Introduction to the Indian Ocean World: Episodes 1-3
South Asia
- Lukas Ley & Tarini Monga, S.AND
- The IOWC Research Assistants, Summer 2024 Research Roundup
- Krishnendu Ray, “Culinary Cultures on the Move” & “Food in the Indian Ocean World”
- Arunima Datta, “Race, Anxiety and Shopping in the Australian Outback: Indian Hawkers and Victoria’s 1884 Smallpox Outbreak”
- Tamara Fernando, “Mapping Oysters and Making Oceans in the Northern Indian Ocean, 1880–1906”
- The IOWC Research Assistants, Summer 2023 Research Roundup
- Kasia Paprocki, “Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh”
- Ruth Morgan, “Health, Hearth and Empire: Climate, Race and Reproduction in British India and Western Australia.”
- “From New Spain to Mughal India: Rethinking Early Modern Animal Studies with a Turkey, ca. 1612”
- “Cholera, British Seamen and Maritime Anxieties in Calcutta, c.1830s–1890s.”
- Introducing the Gwillim Project
- Never Again was there a City like Diu: Architecture, History, and Culture in Colonial Gujarat
- The Indus Delta Between Past and Future
- William Tolly and His Canal: 18th Century Calcutta and the Complexities of Industrialization
- 19th Century Transcolonial Tourism
- Recovery with dignity in South Asia
- Tigers, Tiger Food, and Mental Health in the Sundarbans
- A Genealogy of Terrorism
- Sustainable organic farming and questions of value
- Hortus Malabaricus (Muralidharan)
- ‘Becoming Traditional’: A transnational history of neem and biopiracy discourses
- Animal Ascension (Ondaatje)
- Animal Intimacies (Govindrajan)
- Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta (Bhattacharyya)
- Climatic history of late seventeenth century Coromandel and the VOC sources
- Introduction to the Indian Ocean World: Episodes 1-3
Maritime Zones, IOW Disasters, and GIS
- Everjoy Chiimba, “Assessing the Potential of Mobile Communication Technologies to Enhance Early Warning and Disaster Preparedness in Zimbabwe”
- Lukas Ley & Tarini Monga, S.AND
- James Warren, “Typhoons: Climate, Society, and History in the Philippines”
- The IOWC Research Assistants, Summer 2024 Research Roundup
- Nienke Boer, “The Briny South”
- Tamara Fernando, “Mapping Oysters and Making Oceans in the Northern Indian Ocean, 1880–1906”
- The IOWC Research Assistants, Summer 2023 Research Roundup
- Pao K. Wang, The REACHES Database
- “Cholera, British Seamen and Maritime Anxieties in Calcutta, c.1830s–1890s.”
- The Yellow River’s Shifting Course and its Impact on 11th Century Northern Song China
- Recovery with dignity in South Asia
- Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Maladaptation to Climate Change
- Coastal Shipping of Tokugawa Japan
- Ocean Cultures and Heritage
- Contextualizing environmental contingencies
- The Travels of Robert Lyall
- Maritime Disasters, Risk Appraisals, and Exchanges of Medicinal Knowledge in Maritime East Asia
- Tang-Song transition era and maritime activities in E and SE Asia
- Managing the Hazards of Yemen’s Natural Environment
- Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World
- Conflict and Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen (Unruh)
- Colonial Monocrops and Global Climatic Oscillations in the Philippines
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Disaster Management
- Climatic history of late seventeenth century Coromandel and the VOC sources
- Introduction to the Indian Ocean World: Episodes 1-3