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A transnational history of health control and hygiene onboard of liners (1894-1946)

Descrizione del progetto

Guardare alla storia della salute in mare per capire le pandemie contemporanee

La pandemia di COVID-19 ha messo alla prova la globalizzazione, perché le misure di confinamento e di altro tipo imposte per contenere la diffusione del virus hanno frenato la libera circolazione di persone e merci. Il progetto SHIPPAN (SHIPping PANdemics), finanziato dal programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, studierà questi problemi guardando al passato, più nello specifico al periodo tardo moderno, ossia dalla seconda metà del XIX secolo in poi. Era un’epoca in cui gli imperi coloniali erano al loro apice e dominavano le rotte commerciali. La navigazione a vapore riduceva le distanze e aumentava le possibilità di contagio, mentre i progressi in campo medico e igienico permettevano, se non di curare, almeno di individuare e contenere meglio le epidemie. In questo contesto, SHIPPAN fornirà una storia sociale della salute in mare.

Obiettivo

The Covid-19 pandemic that has shaken the planet since 2020 put mechanisms of globalisation to the test and shows that free movement of people and goods rests on fragile foundations. A better understanding of the societal issues at stake requires a step back to the Late Modern period. From the second half of the 19th century onwards, colonial empires were at their peak, with well-established situations of domination on trade routes. Steam navigation brought people closer together, reducing distances and increasing chances of contagion. Meanwhile, medical and hygienic progress made it possible, if not to cure, at least to better identify and contain epidemics.

This innovative project will provide a social history of health at sea during the first half of the 20th century. A necessary transnational approach to break from the local case studies on a global topic in its essence. The study aims at understanding how empires dealt with pandemics, how sanitary control was managed onboard and wishes to explore how health management was, above all, a personal issue for seafarers and passengers. Such an overlapping of scales allows to study official sanitary regulations as well as concrete hygiene habits, to compare the development of medical station and staff onboard and the implementation of new means of control (health checks and passports, hospital ships, massive vaccinations, etc.). Shipping lines were at the forefront of progress in terms of sanitary risk management.

Global History needs anchors to remain feasible: Hong Kong, Marseille and San Francisco will serve as landmarks. The programme is designed from an excellent knowledge of French and Hong Kong maritime archives, and from the need to explore American material in order to propose a complete and effective approach. The chosen host institution and supervisor are also the driving forces behind this research as they offer an innovative and challenging vision of imperial, social and intersectional history.

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP. Cfr.: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.

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Meccanismo di finanziamento

HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF -

Coordinatore

UNIVERSITE D'ANGERS
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 335 734,08
Indirizzo
RUE DE RENNES 40
49035 Angers Cedex 01
Francia

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Pays de la Loire Pays de la Loire Maine-et-Loire
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Istituti di istruzione secondaria o superiore
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