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What can the history of South India’s handloom industry tell us about economic history? How did changes in growing, cleaning, spinning, and weaving cotton shape this history? And how did local, regional, national, and global forces affect the lives of ordinary weavers?
Using an expansive array of sources textual, material, and agricultural Karuna Dietrich Wielenga’s new book, Weaving Histories: The Transformation of the Handloom Industry in South India 1800–1960, addresses these questions. Join us for a bonus event in the Conversations on South Asia series to hear more!
Prasannan Parthasarathi (History, Boston College) and Maxine Berg (History, University of Warwick) will join the conversation as discussants.
Conversations on South Asia with Durba Mitra
Join us for the next Conversations on South Asia event to hear Durba Mitra discuss her book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. Tuesday, April 6, 2021
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How did deviant female sexuality become foundational to the colonial knowledge-production project? And how did the “prostitute” emerge as a key concept in attempts by British and elite Indian men to “know” India?
Durba Mitra (Harvard University) tackles these puzzles in her latest book, I
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Vanessa Freije is an Assistant Professor of International Studies. In 2015-2016, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the inaugural class of the Dartmouth College Society of Fellows. Her research and teaching focus on the history of Mexico, the history of intra-American relations, the politics of knowledge production, and the role of journalists in development. Her book, Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico, was published in October 2020 with Duke University Press. The book examines how media scandals shaped social imaginaries and forged new modes of political engagement from the 1960s through the 1980s. This book project builds upon her dissertation, which was awarded the Latin American Studies Association Mexico Dissertation Award for the best dissertation on Mexico in the social sciences and humanities and the Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize, awarded by the American Journalism Historians Association for the best dissertati