Description du projet
Les pratiques de quarantaine dans l’océan Indien du XIXe siècle
La récente crise migratoire a fait apparaître la menace potentielle de maladies liées aux migrations à partir de pays non européens. Toutefois, ces inquiétudes ainsi que les pratiques telles que la quarantaine ont déjà eu cours à d’autres périodes de notre histoire. Le projet ISLand financé par l’UE souhaite proposer une nouvelle perception des interactions humaines au sein des empires coloniaux, et relier les études coloniales à l’histoire médicale ainsi qu’au concept émergent de «healthscaping». Le projet combine les domaines de l’histoire, de l’archéologie et de l’anthropologie afin d’étudier les installations de quarantaine dans la zone de l’océan Indien au cours du XIXe siècle: une composante essentielle pour les empires européens présents dans la région et un tournant pour la conceptualisation de la santé publique moderne. Les pratiques en matière de quarantaine seront analysées du point de vue des changements sociaux, politiques et écologiques de la période.
Objectif
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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