Kate McDonald on Asian Mobility History as Labor History - New Books Network
"Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Kate McDonald, Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, about her fascinating research on the history of mobility in Asia and how it looks different when we approach it as a history of work and labor. The pair traverse McDonald’s career from her current project,
The Rickshaw and the Railroad: Human-Powered Transport in the Age of the Machine, to her first book,
Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan (U California Press, 2017) to digital humanities projects she has helped lead. Along the way, they talk about the craft of historical research and what we can learn by revisiting classic texts with mobility and the work of transportation in mind."
Har en hel del intressanta små o stora grejer man kan ta inspiration över rörande transport i sen-1800-tals till 1970-tals miljö (eller påhittade världar med de nivåerna av teknologi), transport i Japan o deras närområden under dessa perioder. Har också en intressant diskussion rörande våran tendens att ha ett utveckling framåt-narrativ o att det gamla blir utslaget av det nya-narrativ när det många gånger är en fråga om att det gamla existerar tillsammans med det nya under lång tid, i vissa fall fortfarande.
Också, från en annan intervju med Kate McDonald:
From rickshaw to railroad, a scholar navigates Japan’s history of transportation | The Current
Tryck av Utagawa Kunisada, 1872, som visar olika transportmedel i Japan: