Eleonor Marcussen
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Eleonor Marcussen
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Senior Lecturer in History
South Asia, environment, disasters, aid, colonialism, postcolonial studies, #infrastructure
Member #concurrences
Author of Acts of Aid: Politics of Relief and Reconstruction...(CUP, 2023)
Day 2 - and ended with me presenting some results from my project about infrastructure and railways in western and central India in the 19th century, specifically on the relationship between coal and expanding the railway network.
December 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Day 2 - and continued with Aparajita Mukhopadhyay who presented a paper on coal extraction for the East Indian Railways railways.
December 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
And day 2 - Started with Per Högselius on the relationship between extractivism, technology and infrastructural systems.
December 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Day 1 - and Camelia Dewan on wetlands, fluid commons and soaking ecologies from research carried out in the southwest coastal zone of the delta and along the eastern coastline of Bangladesh - combined with archival work.
December 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Day 1 - Mitul Baruah on embankment ecologies in the Brahmaputra in colonial and postcolonial Assam.
December 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Day 1 - with Iva Lucic on railways, timber and the wider role of infrastructure for the state in Yugoslavia.
December 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Sorry to have missed this, had to leave the conference early for a meeting.
August 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Congratulations! Looking forward to reading it.
June 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM