Tamara Fernando
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamara Fernando |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamara |
| FAMILY NAME | Fernando |
| SIGNATURE | FERNANDO T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-2702-671X |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Making science of things: Objects and knowledge in, between, and beyond the sciences
Things and collections of things are among the most ubiquitous forms of scientific evidence, inducing the very concept itself – from the Latin evidentia , obvious to the mind or eye – into the physical realm. Things also tend to stick around; that which was acquired for research purposes is eventually transferred to storage, where it either disintegrates, or ages and accumulates. This obduracy of being renders things subject to almost infinite af…
Flows of History
What does it mean to write the history of water? In this virtual issue we set out to explore how articles published in Past and Present, a journal of social history, have addressed the topic of water through time, with a caveat that several important conversations on water have also taken place in other scholarly venues. Within the arbitrary constraint of a specific journal’s archives, the articles reviewed date mostly from the year 2000 onwards,…
Mapping Oysters and Making Oceans in the Northern Indian Ocean, 1880-1906
At the turn of the twentieth century, most of the world's pearls were extracted from rich oyster and coral reefs on the northern Indian Ocean rim. This paper returns to the sites of extraction, studying imperial maps made from 1889-1925 to delineate oyster reefs on the seafloor. Building from the submarine up, I draw on environmental, animal, and history of science studies to explore the work of mapping oceanic, animate space. Attending to the ro…
Seeing Like the Sea: A Multispecies History of the Ceylon Pearl Fishery 1800-1925
The pearl fishery of Ceylon was a lucrative source of pearls as well as a theatre of colonial power. But instead of narrating a story of abstracted governmentality, this paper dives below the waves, braiding Tamil poetry with scientific material relating to the oyster and state sources concerning fishery administration. Taken together, these unearth a multi-species history of the human relationship to the seas. In the same way that pearl divers' …
American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700, written by Molly A. Warsh
Columbus encountered the rich pearl beds of the Caribbean on his third voyage into the archipelago in 1498.Over the next decades, thousands of pearls flowed from this tropical seabed into European markets, leaving an indelible trace in early modern art.American Baroque uses pearls as a heuristic to explore Spanish imperialism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.By reconstructing the dynamics of labor and capital on the "Costa de Perlas" al…
Seeing Like the Sea: A Multispecies History of the Ceylon Pearl Fishery 1800-1925
The pearl fishery of Ceylon was a lucrative source of pearls as well as a theatre of colonial power. But instead of narrating a story of abstracted governmentality, this paper dives below the waves, braiding Tamil poetry with scientific material relating to the oyster and state sources concerning fishery administration. Taken together, these unearth a multi-species history of the human relationship to the seas. In the same way that pearl divers' …
Mapping Oysters and Making Oceans in the Northern Indian Ocean, 1880-1906
At the turn of the twentieth century, most of the world's pearls were extracted from rich oyster and coral reefs on the northern Indian Ocean rim. This paper returns to the sites of extraction, studying imperial maps made from 1889-1925 to delineate oyster reefs on the seafloor. Building from the submarine up, I draw on environmental, animal, and history of science studies to explore the work of mapping oceanic, animate space. Attending to the ro…
Flows of History
What does it mean to write the history of water? In this virtual issue we set out to explore how articles published in Past and Present, a journal of social history, have addressed the topic of water through time, with a caveat that several important conversations on water have also taken place in other scholarly venues. Within the arbitrary constraint of a specific journal’s archives, the articles reviewed date mostly from the year 2000 onwards,…
American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700, written by Molly A. Warsh
Columbus encountered the rich pearl beds of the Caribbean on his third voyage into the archipelago in 1498.Over the next decades, thousands of pearls flowed from this tropical seabed into European markets, leaving an indelible trace in early modern art.American Baroque uses pearls as a heuristic to explore Spanish imperialism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.By reconstructing the dynamics of labor and capital on the "Costa de Perlas" al…
Seeing Like the Sea: A Multispecies History of the Ceylon Pearl Fishery 1800-1925
The pearl fishery of Ceylon was a lucrative source of pearls as well as a theatre of colonial power. But instead of narrating a story of abstracted governmentality, this paper dives below the waves, braiding Tamil poetry with scientific material relating to the oyster and state sources concerning fishery administration. Taken together, these unearth a multi-species history of the human relationship to the seas. In the same way that pearl divers' …
Flows of History
What does it mean to write the history of water? In this virtual issue we set out to explore how articles published in Past and Present, a journal of social history, have addressed the topic of water through time, with a caveat that several important conversations on water have also taken place in other scholarly venues. Within the arbitrary constraint of a specific journal’s archives, the articles reviewed date mostly from the year 2000 onwards,…
Mapping Oysters and Making Oceans in the Northern Indian Ocean, 1880-1906
At the turn of the twentieth century, most of the world's pearls were extracted from rich oyster and coral reefs on the northern Indian Ocean rim. This paper returns to the sites of extraction, studying imperial maps made from 1889-1925 to delineate oyster reefs on the seafloor. Building from the submarine up, I draw on environmental, animal, and history of science studies to explore the work of mapping oceanic, animate space. Attending to the ro…
Making science of things: Objects and knowledge in, between, and beyond the sciences
Things and collections of things are among the most ubiquitous forms of scientific evidence, inducing the very concept itself – from the Latin evidentia , obvious to the mind or eye – into the physical realm. Things also tend to stick around; that which was acquired for research purposes is eventually transferred to storage, where it either disintegrates, or ages and accumulates. This obduracy of being renders things subject to almost infinite af…
Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Fishery (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works) · Pearl (2 works) · Archipelago (1 works)