Descripción del proyecto
Las prácticas de cuarentena en el océano Índico durante el siglo XIX
La potencial amenaza de las enfermedades como consecuencia de la migración desde los países no europeos surgió durante la última crisis migratoria. Sin embargo, dichas preocupaciones y prácticas como la cuarentena se aplicaron en otros periodos de la historia. El proyecto ISLand, financiado con fondos europeos, planea ofrecer una nueva manera de percibir las interacciones humanas dentro de los imperios coloniales y vincular los estudios coloniales con la historia médica y el concepto emergente de «panorama sanitario». El proyecto combina la historia, la arqueología y la antropología para estudiar las instalaciones de cuarentena en el océano Índico durante el periodo del siglo XIX, que fue crucial para los imperios europeos en la región y un punto de inflexión para la conceptualización de la salud pública moderna. La práctica de la cuarentena se analizará desde la perspectiva de los cambios ecológicos, políticos y sociales de este periodo.
Objetivo
The proposed research presents an experimental and completely novel investigation within the historical archaeology,
applied to isolated contexts. The main objective of ISLand is to provide a new way of thinking about human interactions
within colonial empires and bringing colonial studies into dialogue with medical history and the emerging concept of
healthscaping. It seeks to do so by studying quarantine facilities in the Indian Ocean World during the long nineteenth
century, a crucial period for the history of European empires in that region and a flashpoint for the conceptualization of
modern public health. Quarantine, traditionally viewed as merely a mechanism for the control of disease, will be analyzed as
the outward material response to important changes taking place socially, ecologically, and politically at the time.
The project is a part of an international, interdisciplinary effort, combining history, archaeology, and anthropology. The
researcher will tap numerous archival sources and archaeological data from selected sites, examine them through social and
spatial analysis, and systematically analyze a test case in Mauritius through the most innovative methods that target
landscape and standing archaeology.
The broader impacts of ISLand have relevance for current European approaches to the migration crisis, where the threat of
disease has been ignited as a potentially debilitating consequence of immigration from extra-European countries. The
training-through-research project at the Stanford University, the top institution where acquiring knowledge and skills in
historical archaeology, will allow the applicant to develop into a position of professional maturity with a specific
interdisciplinary set of skills. With the support of the host institutions in EU, the researcher will promote historical archaeology
in European academy, stimulating new approaches in usual archaeological research and an interdisciplinary approach with
cultural anthropology.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
1012WX Amsterdam
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