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SUMMARY:Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime ass
 emblage\, 1799–1925 - Tamara Fernando (Faculty of History)
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CONTACT:Jules Skotnes-Brown
DESCRIPTION:This paper argues that the pearl fishery of colonial Ceylon\, 
 which has featured in key economic and state-centric analyses of imperiali
 sm in South Asia\, may also be read as a multi-species assemblage where th
 e non-human – sharks\, molluscs and bluebottle flies\, for instance – 
 have new causal and agential power to shape emergent capitalist forms. Imp
 ortantly\, however\, this consideration of the non-human above and below t
 he waves of the sea also compels the parsing apart of the 'human'\, reveal
 ing a system of multiple\, overlapping regimes of labour. Thus\, contrary 
 to the model of Raubwirtschaft [plunder economy]\, which homogenises and f
 lattens both the natural world and those who inhabit it\, the fishery repr
 esents a tiered and variegated system where overseers\, divers\, and inden
 tured workers interacted with and produced the ocean and its maritime occu
 pants in independent but intersecting ways.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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