Project description
Quarantine practice in 19th-century Indian Ocean
The potential threat of disease as a consequence of migration from non-European countries emerged during the recent migration crisis. However, such concerns and practices such as quarantine were applied in past periods of history. The EU-funded ISLand project intends to deliver a new way of perceiving human interactions within colonial empires and link colonial studies with the medical history and the emerging concept of healthscaping. The project combines history, archaeology and anthropology to study quarantine facilities in the Indian Ocean world during the 19th-century period that was crucial for the European empires in the region and a turning point for the conceptualisation of modern public health. The quarantine practice will be analysed from the perspective of the social, political and ecological changes of this period.
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Call for proposal
H2020-MSCA-IF-2019
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Funding Scheme
MSCA-IF-GF - Global FellowshipsCoordinator
1012WX Amsterdam
Netherlands
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94305 2004 Stanford
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