Periodic Reporting for period 4 - COTCA (Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth-century Asia)
Berichtszeitraum: 2021-01-01 bis 2022-06-30
Stream 2 – ‘Sounds of Occupation’ – was led by Postdoc1 and involved PhD2. Postdoc1 undertook language training at Madison-Wisconsin to prepare him for fieldwork in the Philippines, which he undertook in 2018, when he was affiliated with Ateneo de Manila University. The results of Postdoc1’s research were published in a series of 3 articles (i. ‘Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education’, ii. ‘Southeast Asia Research’ and, iii ‘Sound Studies’). He also organised the ‘Resonating Occupations’ Workshop. In addition, he was the lead editor on the volume ‘Sonic Histories of Occupation’ (Bloomsbury 2022). PhD2 successfully completed her PhD her thesis in 2022 under this Stream.
Stream 3 was led by Postdoc2, who also undertook a case study based on the Malayan Emergency. He undertook field research for this in 2018 and 2019, resulting in a series of 3 articles (in i. ‘Enterprise and Society’, ii. 'Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History', and iii. ‘Journal of Historical Geography’). He also built the Malayan Emergency Digital Mapping Case Study on the COTCA Digital Archive. PhD3, working on ‘spaces of consumption in Hong Kong’ in Stream 3, has published some of her findings in ‘Urban History’ (2022).
In September 2019, the PI recruited Postdoc3, whose work could link various streams. She started on her own case study, ‘Bodies of Occupation’. Postdoc3 undertook a period of research in Cambodia in January 2020. As a result of that fieldwork, she produced a number of articles and chapters, such as her papers in ‘Southeast Asia Research’ (2021) and ‘International Criminal Law Review’ (2022). She was also responsible for the 'Spatial Politics of Identity in Cambodia' case study on the Digital Archive, which went live in 2022.
COTCA Project resulted in 2 international conferences, 2 seminar series, 4 international workshops and 2 on-line databases. In terms of publications, outputs include 4 books, 2 PhD theses and 16 peer-reviewed chapters/journal articles (with more output 'forthcoming'). In June 2022, the PI recorded a video presentation in which he reflected on the major achievements of the COTCA Project: https://mediaspace.nottingham.ac.uk/media/t/1_j3a6exz8.
There have also been important methodological and conceptual advances in each in each of the 3 streams. In Stream 1, for example, the PI’s work has shown how visual sources highlight all kinds of nuanced cultural expression that earlier studies on, for example, literature or cinema under occupation, have overlooked. Such ideas w articulated in the PI's concept of the 'occupied gaze' (developed in his book ‘Iconographies of Occupation’).
Stream 2 developed methods around the use of a sonic perspective to understand the cultural effects of foreign occupation. A good example here is PhD2’s notion of ‘treasonous repertoires’ (articulated in her recently completed PhD), in which she combined musicological and historical approaches to uncover the ways in which music and sound could be used both as a tool of control. Stream 2’s achievements have been noted by major figures in the field. In his testimonial for the volume ‘Sonic Histories of Occupation’, Professor Viet Erlmann noted that ‘from now on [i.e. after the publication of this book], histories of the trauma, dispossession and destruction wrought by colonial and imperialist rule that do not consider sound will be considered insufficient’.
In Stream 3, Postdoc2’s study of the Malayan Emergency (displayed on the www.cotca.org Digital Archive as well as in his article in ‘Journal of Historical Geography’) helped to move that field beyond the histories of colonial violence that have shaped so much of extant literature. In addition, the approaches in this stream adopted by Postdoc2 and Postdoc3 have emphasised the importance of the ways in which different spatial geographies emerged, were adapted and were transformed in the occupation context, and how occupation and colonial rule were shaped, and gave shape to, new typologies of space.
Verwandte Dokumente
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- Bodies of Occupation Seminar Poster.jpeg
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- Horizon Booster Webinar 2021.jpeg
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- COTCA Seminar Nov 16 Poster.jpg
- COTCA Workshop 2 2018 Poster.jpg
- Spatial Histories volume cover.jpg
- 2019 Histories of Occupation China Workshop Poster.jpeg
- Sonic Histories volume cover.jpg
- COTCA Seminar Dec 2017 poster.jpg
- COTCA Conference 1 2018 Poster.jpg