Robert M Rouphail
Biographic Data
| ID | 1213126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert M Rouphail |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert M |
| FAMILY NAME | Rouphail |
| SIGNATURE | ROUPHAIL R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7686-1064 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mandarin of the Ecological Modern
In the early 1960s, the Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy traveled throughout West Africa as part of the City of the Future (COF) research project, which aimed to collect data on urban life across the world. This essay examines Fathy’s writings about postcolonial Africa as part of the COF project. It suggests that this work set him apart from a broader consensus among technocratic elites and postcolonial political leaders about the human relationsh…
Philip Gooding. On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World
The Madagascar Youths
In 1974, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, the prime minister of independent Mauritius, observed that in the wake of the decolonization of East Africa and South and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean was “no longer a European lake.”1 This defiant observation, which he couched in the spirit of Afro-Asian solidarity that sought to dismantle the political and economic binds that the British Empire had established across the ocean, has been echoed repeatedly …
Werewolves and warning signs
The role that culture plays in the way different groups experience, respond to, and recover from disasters has been widely discussed. Yet, while there is a considerable (and growing) literature of case study evidence for the need to account for culture in disasters, comparatively few studies take a long-term perspective on cultural interactions with disasters, resulting in a lack of exploration into the diachronic nature of these cultural respons…
Disaster in a ‘Plural Society’
In February of 1960, the most powerful cyclone in Mauritian history, Carol, made landfall. In its wake, the British colonial state embarked on a reconstruction effort that would reshape the island for decades to come. This study examines how Afro-descendant Creole Mauritians understood Carol at the moment of its landfall and produced social meaning in the reconstruction efforts that followed. It sheds light in particular on the construction of ci…
Cyclonic Ecology
Tropical cyclones posed unique challenges to the mobility and durability of British colonial capital in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Indian Ocean world. Although a veritable community of scientists studying these storms in the Bay of Bengal and the Mascarene Islands developed in the second half of the nineteenth century, knowledge about cyclone generation, movement, and internal makeup remained opaque. This article analyzes on…
Cyclonic Ecology
Tropical cyclones posed unique challenges to the mobility and durability of British colonial capital in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Indian Ocean world. Although a veritable community of scientists studying these storms in the Bay of Bengal and the Mascarene Islands developed in the second half of the nineteenth century, knowledge about cyclone generation, movement, and internal makeup remained opaque. This article analyzes on…
Werewolves and warning signs
The role that culture plays in the way different groups experience, respond to, and recover from disasters has been widely discussed. Yet, while there is a considerable (and growing) literature of case study evidence for the need to account for culture in disasters, comparatively few studies take a long-term perspective on cultural interactions with disasters, resulting in a lack of exploration into the diachronic nature of these cultural respons…
Disaster in a ‘Plural Society’
In February of 1960, the most powerful cyclone in Mauritian history, Carol, made landfall. In its wake, the British colonial state embarked on a reconstruction effort that would reshape the island for decades to come. This study examines how Afro-descendant Creole Mauritians understood Carol at the moment of its landfall and produced social meaning in the reconstruction efforts that followed. It sheds light in particular on the construction of ci…
Cyclonic Ecology
Tropical cyclones posed unique challenges to the mobility and durability of British colonial capital in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Indian Ocean world. Although a veritable community of scientists studying these storms in the Bay of Bengal and the Mascarene Islands developed in the second half of the nineteenth century, knowledge about cyclone generation, movement, and internal makeup remained opaque. This article analyzes on…
Disaster in a ‘Plural Society’
In February of 1960, the most powerful cyclone in Mauritian history, Carol, made landfall. In its wake, the British colonial state embarked on a reconstruction effort that would reshape the island for decades to come. This study examines how Afro-descendant Creole Mauritians understood Carol at the moment of its landfall and produced social meaning in the reconstruction efforts that followed. It sheds light in particular on the construction of ci…
Werewolves and warning signs
The role that culture plays in the way different groups experience, respond to, and recover from disasters has been widely discussed. Yet, while there is a considerable (and growing) literature of case study evidence for the need to account for culture in disasters, comparatively few studies take a long-term perspective on cultural interactions with disasters, resulting in a lack of exploration into the diachronic nature of these cultural respons…
The Madagascar Youths
In 1974, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, the prime minister of independent Mauritius, observed that in the wake of the decolonization of East Africa and South and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean was “no longer a European lake.”1 This defiant observation, which he couched in the spirit of Afro-Asian solidarity that sought to dismantle the political and economic binds that the British Empire had established across the ocean, has been echoed repeatedly …
Philip Gooding. On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World
Mandarin of the Ecological Modern
In the early 1960s, the Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy traveled throughout West Africa as part of the City of the Future (COF) research project, which aimed to collect data on urban life across the world. This essay examines Fathy’s writings about postcolonial Africa as part of the COF project. It suggests that this work set him apart from a broader consensus among technocratic elites and postcolonial political leaders about the human relationsh…
Colonialism (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Empire (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Indian ocean (3 works) · Oceanography (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works)