Event

The Institute of Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) continues their Lunchtime Seminar series with Associate Professor of History Kris Manjapra, Tufts University on the topic, Plantation Dispossessions: Tracing the Global Travels of Caribbeanity.

The event takes place at noon the IGDS Seminar Room. Please feel free to bring your own lunch.                                           

Background

Abolition in the British Empire in the 1830s, and the rise of Liberalism, did not result in the end of slavery in any clear sense.  Rather, it resulted in the global expansion of institutions of forced labour and environmental extractivism on plantations. This paper explores this expansion of the "plantation complex" by studying the movement of capital, labour, and crops between the Caribbean and Asia — between the Caribbean Sea and the Indian Ocean — in the age of 19th century Liberalism.

About the speaker

Kris Manjapra is Associate Professor of History at Tufts University, and author of Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals Across Empire (HUP, 2014).  This year he is Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

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