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Mikko Toivanen

@mtoiv.bsky.social

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Historian of colonialism and modern SE Asia @UTU.fi｜🌲 Currently working on transimperial histories of forestry 🌲｜Previously: colonial cities 🏛️ and travel 🚢｜PhD from EUI｜📚 occasionally writes about books and films 🎞️

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 21d

It's publication day! 🎉🥳 Very soon I won't need to post about this anymore, but in the meantime, if you're interested in the colonial roots of modern tourism, or the role of leisure travel in producing knowledge about the world, check it out. Also as e-book on JSTOR: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.31...

Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · Sep 2

Author copies have arrived! The book is demonstrably real! Official publication date in about two weeks but I've heard it will already be available at ENIUGH next week. Check out the full info over at: lup.nl/publications...

Three copies of my monograph Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka on a table, with a Leiden University Press postcard saying "Congratulations!" on top.

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Reetta Humalajoki @reettaeh.bsky.social · 16h

Etsimme tutkijatohtoria hankkeeseemme 'Omia, lainata, varastaa? Alkuperäiskansakulttuurien käyttö Suomessa läpi 1900-luvun'! Hanketta rahoittaa @koneensaatio.fi ja luvassa olisi 16 kuukauden työskentelyapuraha. Hakuilmoitusta saa jakaa ja minulta saa lisätietoja.

agricolaverkko.fi/ilmoitukset/...

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 9h

And there goes my global forestry article into the gentle hands of the reviewers, let's see how my reinvention as an environmental historian works out.

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Matthew Hurst @mrmhurst.bsky.social · 7d

British colonial officials destroyed countless files before decolonisation. But one colony has been neglected by the literature: Hong Kong. My latest paper in @jich.bsky.social examines the past, present and future of Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park

Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 1d

A great new post on researching the history of former Ascari in Eritrea by our own @camilleriana.bsky.social. colvet.eu/338-2/

Dr Nicola Camilleri, ‘Former Eritrean Soldiers in the Italian Colonial Army: Fragments of Life and Documentation’. | Colvet.eu

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Double page spread with a photo of diorama

Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 2d

got way more into horror these past years for precisely this reason

Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 2d

"man is born free and..."

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Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 13d

Very pleased that my piece 'Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity' has been published in @urbanhistory.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S096...
Many thanks to @mctom.bsky.social for organising the roundtable that got these thoughts going back in 2023! #UrbanHist #EnvHums

Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity | Urban History | Cambridge Core

Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 8d

I'd moan about far less. Hope there's progress soon.

Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 8d

First of all, this is really bad, sorry you have to deal with it. Secondly, that's some cruel irony that you, of all people, have to deal with such a blatant public space / local governance failure.

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 8d

Hey you can get 30% off our edited volume Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950! Or you know what's even better? You can actually get the e-book for free, it's Open Access! www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social · 8d

Only 5 days left to take 30% off all books during our sitewide sale!

📚💡 https://bit.ly/45gv1aT

#BookSky

Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 9d

Remember that once you share something on the internet it's going to be out there forever, except for this one pamphlet published as a pdf by the Hessen Forest Administration in 2016, that's totally gone, irretrievable, mere whispers of its name echoing in the furthest reacher of the aether.

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 11d

For some strange reason like 80% of the notable new albums this year have been by women artists, and the trend isn't exactly turning with the new Cate Le Bon and Neko Case releases this week.

Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 12d

Turns out @michaelyeo.bsky.social is now also on Bluesky!

Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 12d

Of course, if you're interested in histories of colonial and/or port cities you might also find it worthwhile to check out the *previous* @urbanhistory.bsky.social special issue, including a little something by yours truly:

An invitation to a party? Staging urban proximity and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia | Urban History | Cambridge Core

An invitation to a party? Staging urban proximity and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 12d

Big fan of this work by Michael Yeo that attempts an urban history from the perspective of (serially) failed settlements.

Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

🚢 Michael Yeo, 'Before the port city: coastal settlements and colonialism in Borneo'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

Title and abstract for the linked article

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 12d

Oh cool! I had the privilege to take part in various bits of the process that eventually yielded this special issue and I can assure you there's some great stuff in there.

Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

📣 New special issue "Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn" out now on #FirstView

🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 12d

It just refers to the author's acknowledgments, which are printed at the bottom of the page before the first footnote. There's no reason for it to be there! And even if they want to keep it, there's absolutely no reason to include it in the metadata!

Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 12d

You expect to check the bottom of the page and it's like
"*Article actually only covers 1860-62 and 1925-28. Global is a subjective term. Conditions may apply."

Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 12d

This looks great! Can't wait to read. But, uh, I can't be the only one who thinks that the P&P asterisk makes all their articles look like a dodgy ad for mobile contracts or something, with the small print hidden away. Like, by this point some editor there must just be holding on to it out of spite.

Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928*

Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 13d

You know the thing about how the US space programme was built on coding done by women left out of all historical narratives? Well, the closest thing Finland has to a space programme is the first national forest survey done in the 1920s. And guess who did all the maths and stats for that? Yup.

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 13d

This could be my project! It would probably get more funding than the project I'm actually doing. I could sell the tv rights! Producers pls get in touch by DM.

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations! This looks super interesting, can't wait to check it out.

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 13d

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5

#envhist #energysky

Book cover of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" by Katja Bruisch. A black and white photograph shows a woman with a headscarf stacking peat

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