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Project: The Borders of Humanity: Linnaean Natural Historians and the Colonial Legacies of the Enlightenment In this project we explore how the formation of ethnographic knowledge gave rise to an idea…
Project: The Aru Islands: Trade, beliefs and colonial encounters on the fringe of Indonesia The project focuses on a part of the Moluccas in present-day Indonesia, the Aru Islands. These islands are…
Project: Sovereignty and the Suppression of Piracy in Maritime Southeast Asia, c.1850-1910 The suppression of piracy and other forms of maritime violence was a keystone in the colonisation of…
Project: Shaping foreignness. The effects of state agency on social categorization processes in colonial Latin America, 1590-1700 This project in global migration history investigates the role of…
Project: Reprisal and retribution: Economic warfare and its concurrent effects in New Spain, 1635-1698 The project will assess the political significance of the American provinces in Spain’s global…
Project: Northern Sweden as a colony and as utopia The colonization and decolonization of Northern Sweden (Norrland) was intensely discussed during some decades in the late 19th and early 20th…
Project: Mapping Trajectories of Slavery and Bondage: Slave Routes and Zones of Coerced Labour in Eastern Maritime Southeast Asia, 1500-1900 The project analyses slavery and slave trade in the eastern…
Project: Mapping Lived Religion: Medieval cults of saints in Sweden and Finland This five-year project aims to build a comprehensive, online database providing open-access to data (both textual and…
Project: Making mission families The purpose of this project is to investigate how ideas and practises concerning family, household and home are constructed and negotiated within Scandinavian…
Project: Kashmir from the Margins: Violence, Identity and Memory in Conflicted Spaces In this research project, I study emerging literature written in English from a conflicted space, Kashmir and how…
Project: Intermediaries in Imperial Expansion: Connections and Encounters on the U.S. Frontiers, 1876–1916 The project focuses on a U.S. Cavalry officer, Hugh Lenox Scott (1853–1934), a…
Project: Infrastructure and environmental impacts in colonial India Local constructions, global ideas: engineering and colonial infrastructure in Khandesh and Berar in the nineteenth century By…
Project: Imperial Expansion and Intercultural Diplomacy: Treaty-making in Southeast Asia, c.1750−1920 This collaborative research project in Global and Diplomatic History investigates the often…
Project: Huseby in the World Joseph Stephens was one of many young Scandinavian men in the 1860s who chose to make a career in colonial India. The British Empire’s large work market, characterized by…
Project: History and moral encounters (HiME) The aim of the four year project is to increase knowledge about intersections of historical consciousness and moral consciousness for the purpose of…
Project: Future Food Cultures in the Anthropocene The dominant global diet is a major contributor to the climate crisis. A transformation faces considerable practical problems, but is also a major…
Project: Exception and emergency: British imperial governance in Asian frontier tracts This historical project studies an economically and politically key region in Asia under the pressures of global…
Project: Encountering Diplomacy in Early Modern Southeast Asia: Actors, Practices, Translation This project examines negotiations and cross-cultural communication in maritime Southeast Asia between…