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SUMMARY:Technological Innovations and Changing Temporalities in Colonial Southeast Asia
LOCATION:Room 0.19
DESCRIPTION:The expansion of colonial capitalism and the emergence of new t
 echnologies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries led to rad
 ical transformations of local life worlds. Infrastructure projects such as 
 road and railway construction, telegraph lines, and the advent of electric 
 lighting and power distribution initiated a steady increase in time-space c
 ompression and acceleration, but also processes of exclusion and marginaliz
 ation. The rise of the capitalist mode of production and its implementation
  in mines, plantations and factories arguably engendered novel experiences 
 of temporality and disruptions of people’s sense of place that affected loc
 al communities in complex and uneven ways. The objective of this panel is t
 o explore new approaches to the study of socio-technological ruptures under
  colonialism. In particular, we ask how technological innovations (re)shape
 d local social relations and mobilities, perceptions of time and space, and
  seasonal rhythms of life. We aim to discuss not only the disruptive effect
 s of new technologies, but also investigate social and cultural practices o
 f appropriation, avoidance, or even subversion. Creatively combining histor
 ical and anthropological approaches, the panel will address questions of ho
 w technological innovations moved from the metropole to the colonies or wer
 e even (re-)invented within colonial settings, and how they gained traction
  and affected local lifeworlds in unforeseen, contingent ways. We welcome c
 ontributions from a microhistorical perspective dealing with (but not limit
 ed to) the following questions:\n\n· How did local communities respond to t
 he changing speed, rhythm, and noise of everyday life?\n· How did social ac
 tors navigate the challenges posed by new infrastructures of mobility and c
 ommunication?\n· How did the advent of electricity transform the visual exp
 erience of urban dwellers and their understandings of nocturnal urbanity?\n
 · How did new (architectural) forms and spaces act upon bodies and subjecti
 vities (of both colonizer and colonized)?\n· How did local communities crea
 tively appropriate and experiment with new technological innovations, and h
 ow did this affect colonial governmentality and practices of social control
 ?
URL:https://euroseas2022.org/panels/technological-innovations-and-changing-temporalities-in-colonial-southeast-asia
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