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SUMMARY:Indian plague maps and the colonial urban - Nicholas Evans\, Postd
 octoral Research Associate\, CRASSH\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20150511T150000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines two disease maps\, produced 7 years apart 
 by medical authorities in late 19th/early 20th century India\, and asks ho
 w understandings of infection interlinked with colonial imaginaries of urb
 an space. In the first map\, from 1899\, the urban is presented as a seemi
 ngly smooth surface across which disease – in this case plague – is ge
 nerated and moves. Colonial health officials here understood plague as a '
 total' disease of the city in which the problematic feature of the urban i
 s its seeming lack of barriers to transmission. The second map\, from 1906
 \, presents a quite different view\; disease is no longer a problem of tot
 al space\, but rather of social barriers and boundaries\, which produce sp
 ecificities of transformation not imagined in the earlier image. This pape
 r considers how colonial science was productive both of particular ways of
  seeing the urban\, and of ways of imagining a future urban: each of these
  maps has its own utopian end-point\, which is premised upon a particular 
 model of Indian urban space as revealed through ideas of the transmission\
 , contagion\, and the movement of disease.
LOCATION:S2 Seminar Room\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Rd.
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