Overview

This open access book explores how different spatial geographies emerged, adapted or were transformed in various occupied and colonial settings around Asia, showing how the experiences of those living under occupation shaped and was shaped by new interpretations and typologies of ‘space’. With case studies across South, Southeast and East Asia and through a variety of disciplinary perspectives, Spatial Histories of Occupation adopts a trans-Asian comparative approach to show how the experiences of occupation and colonialism shifted under particular spatial typologies, particularly in urban, maritime and rural settings. Revealing the similarities, differences and connections that existed between and across different spaces of foreign occupation and colonialism in modern Asian history, this book shows how a focus on historical geography and ‘space’ can revise our broader categories and conceptualisations related to occupation; be it under colonial, wartime or Cold War powers. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The European Research Council.

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Author:   David Baillargeon (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) ,  Jeremy E. Taylor (University of Nottingham, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9781350252608

ISBN 10:   1350252603
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   07 April 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Spatial Histories of Foreign Occupation and Colonialism David Baillargeon and Jeremy E. Taylor Part I: Urban Spaces Chapter 1. Displacement, Urban Transformations and Resistance in Indonesian-occupied Dili, East Timor Vannessa Hearman Chapter 2. Displacing the Laws of the Indies with the City Beautiful: Daniel Burnham’s 1905 Plan for Manila Ian Morley Part II: Inland and Rural Spaces Chapter 3: Conflicting Modes of Colonial Occupation in British Malaya, 1874–95 Joanna Lee Chapter 4. The Unsuccessful Development of Southern Burmese Tin Mines in the Nineteenth Century Yi Li Chapter 5. Mapping China under Japanese Occupation: Spatial Configurations of State Power during Wartime (1937–45) David Serfass Part III: Island and Maritime Spaces Chapter 6. Corral and Confine: Colonial Occupation and the Politics of Space in the Andaman Islands Vishvajit Pandya and Madhumita Mazumdar Chapter 7. Occupation at Sea: Rethinking the ‘In-Between’ Spaces of Empire in Colonial Indonesia and China Kris Alexanderson Chapter 8. Hydroponic Imperialism: Race, Hygiene and Agro-Technology in Occupied Japan, 1945–60 Abhishek Nanavati Chapter 9. From Military Base to Conservation Site: Reimagining the Demilitarization of the Yambaru Forest in Okinawa Sayaka Sakuma

Reviews

An urgent and necessary project, this volume defines and rethinks 'the political.' Comprised of essays by some of the smartest theorists, historians, and scholars of India, it elaborates how we might imagine new political futures and imaginaries that offer radical and revolutionary possibilities. * Durba Ghosh, Professor of History, Cornell University, U.S.A. *

An urgent and necessary project, this volume defines and rethinks 'the political.' Comprised of essays by some of the smartest theorists, historians, and scholars of India, it elaborates how we might imagine new political futures and imaginaries that offer radical and revolutionary possibilities. * Durba Ghosh, Professor of History, Cornell University, USA * Spatial Histories of Occupation is the first collection of essays decolonizing sound studies on a global scale. From now on, histories of the trauma, dispossession and destruction wrought by colonial and imperialist rule that do not consider sound will be considered insufficient. * Veit Erlmann, University of Texas at Austin and Editor, Sound Studies, USA * This interdisciplinary collection reveals occupation and colonisation as comparable spatial realms. But these spaces are not motionless: this is a book about mobility and motility. The authors challenge readers to think anew about how occupation changes and controls the movement of, and interactions between, the various bodies within these spaces. * Dr Christine de Matos Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Arts & Sciences and Business & Law, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Australia *

Author Information

David Baillargeon is Assistant Professor of History at University of Texas at Arlington, USA. A specialist in the history of Modern Britain and the British Empire, he was a European Research Council (ERC) research associate and research fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK. Jeremy E. Taylor is Associate Professor in Modern Asian History at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas (2011) and has published articles in over 25 journals. Jeremy is Principal Investigator on the European Research Council funded project 'Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia'.

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