Marina Carter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3601452 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Marina Carter |
| PRENOMES | Marina |
| SOBRENOME | Carter |
| ASSINATURA | CARTER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Interrogating Orientalism
Thimithi – the Tamil Hindu fire-walking ceremony has always attracted the attention of the curious and the thrill seeker and remains a tourist attraction as well as the performance of a solemn vow in many parts of the world where it continues to be enacted. A source of much speculation as to the participants’ apparent ability to withstand the pain of walking over hot coals, travellers’ often exaggerated accounts of eye witness attendance at such …
Coolitude, the concept, its resonances and afterlives
Marina Carter is an independent researcher and also works as a cultural heritage
Trust in the Indian Labour Diaspora
This paper investigates the role of trust relationships through a re-examination of the activities of intermediaries (recruiters) in the Indian indentured labour system of the Indian Ocean in the colonial era. A review of the utilisation of trust in development discourse and its applicability to the literature of colonial subaltern migration and to a specific historical context is undertaken. The paper demonstrates that informal trust networks ar…
Kala pani revisited
This article examines the reconstruction and deconstruction of the concept of काला पानी or kālā pānā , meaning the ‘black waters’, which all Indians must cross when migrating overseas. From its origin as a Brahmanic text warning about the dangers of oceanic voyages, through its dissemination as a more generalised stricture against emigration and its use and abuse as a British colonial construction, to its recasting as a historical trope and a lit…
Remigration of Indian Subalterns in the Colonial Indian Ocean
Remigration of Indian Subalterns in the Colonial Indian Ocean Crispin Bates and Marina Carter I beg to say that about 2 and a half years ago I came with my wife (Sinnapona) and two children (Casu-12 years old boy and Perumal sami-11 months old boy) from my country in India to Madras in order to come to Malaya through Immigration Recruit. When we came to Madras there was no Immigration Recruit, and we were about to go back to our country. In Madra…
Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in the Indian Ocean Colonial World
A Case Study of "Indian" Slaves on Mauritius
Strategies of Labour Mobilisation in Colonial India
Studies of indentured migration have assumed either that recruits were obtained by deception or that the mobile unemployed voluntarily engaged, and have not adequately addressed the issue of how the dynamism of recruitment for a bonded labour system was maintained. This article explores the means by which an Indian indentured workforce was recruited for Mauritius and in particular the use of time-expired labourers (returnees) to encourage family …
Forcing the archive
This article examines some marginal stories of subaltern individuals shipped and trans-shipped between the Dutch and British colonial territories of Ceylon, Mauritius and the Cape in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. After addressing the difficulties in retrieving traces of their lives and the ambiguities of categories of classification, the article offers insights into everyday cultural ties forged among diverse groups and looks into acts…
Mutiny at the Margins
Popular and Public Indian Memorials
Towards a workers’ history of the Chagos archipelago
The article presents a critical investigation of the historiography of the Chagos archipelago and in particular the expelled islanders, known as Ilois, and more recently as Chagossians. A brief survey of the discovery and settlement of the atolls is provided, along with a more detailed summary of key events in the history of workers on the archipelago from the late-eighteenth to mid-twentieth century. Finally, the paper discusses the challenges o…
Pulled through Time
This paper discusses the processes through which historical research, visual archives, and artistic production have interacted to produce a series of original artworks capturing some of the complexities of Indian indentured migrants’ experiences and identities. The images from the ‘Coolitude’ series by award-winning artist Danny Flynn apply modern screen-printing techniques to archival photographs of Indian indentured labourers. The artistic reim…
Sirdars as Intermediaries in Nineteenth-century Indian Ocean Indentured Labour Migration
The sirdar (also termed sardar and jobber in Indian historiography)-foreman, recruiter, at once a labour leader and an important intermediary figure for the employers of labour both in India and in the sugar colonies-is reassessed in this article. Tithankar Roy's thoughtful 2007 article looked at how the sirdars' multiple roles represent an incorporation of traditional authority in a modern setting, giving rise to certain contradictions. In 2010 …
Coolie Woman
This unusual book opens with a three page Preface entitled ‘The C-Word’ which offers a very useful summary of ‘coolie’ through its etymology to its deployment in the colonial era to encompass a bro
Indians in Singapore 1819–1945
PART ONE: PIONEERS AT THE FRONTIER - 1819-1867 PART TWO: DIASPORIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE AGE OF MASS MIGRATION - 1867-1941 PART THREE: THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION & THE INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY
Empire and locality
The Indian Uprising of 1857–59, during which thousands of Indian soldiers serving in the British army mutinied, joined by many civilians, led to the identification of a vast number of ‘rebels’ and discussions as to the most appropriate means of punishing them. The wholesale transportation of insurgents was considered a likely scenario in the charged atmosphere of late 1857. The uprising coincided with dramatic increases in the world market price …
Ocean of Letters, Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora
Ocean of Letters, Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 38(1), pp. 159–160
Abacus and Mah Jong
This work aims to engage with the complexities surrounding evaluations of ethnic and national identity - a focus of recent interest by scholars from a range of disciplines including political science, anthropology and economics - through a case study of Chinese migration to and settlement in Mauritius. The book investigates the complex mechanisms and processes involved in the transplantation of groups of people within the colonial context, and in…
Slavery and Unfree Labour in the Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean, a relatively neglected and unexplored theatre of the slave trade, has only belatedly drawn the attention of historians, for so long preoccupied with its Atlantic counterpart. Recent studies have emphasized the African dimension of the trade to the almost complete exclusion of Asian sources of supply and have therefore done little to probe the diverse and unique features of slavery in the region. In particular, the presence and r…
Coolitude
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Indian Indentured Migration and the Forced Labour Debate
The migrants who left India to work on colonial sugar plantations in the nineteenth century have been variously categorised as neo-slaves or as voluntary black settlers. This paper assesses some of the recent historical claims and revisionist interpretations of Indian indentured labour and takes up a number of themes based on the Mauritian case to highlight important aspects of this colonial labour diaspora
Lakshmi's Legacy
Etat et communautarisme
Les amateurs d'exotisme ont retenu plus souvent l'idylle de Paul et Virginie que les rudes pages sur la socit coloniale, qu'crivit Bernardin de Saint-Pierre dans le Voyage l'le de France. Les touristes font de mme et, quand ils arrivent Maurice, voient surtout ce que la publicit leur a promis : l'le paradisiaque o, sous la houlette d'un Etat dbonnaire, toutes les ethnies vivent en heureuse harmonie. Sans rejeter cette image, des Mauriciens la com…
The transition from Slave to indentured labour in Mauritius
Strategies of labour mobilisation in colonial India
1992). Strategies of labour mobilisation in colonial India: The recruitment of indentured workers for Mauritius. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 19, Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia, pp. 229-245
Ocean of Letters, Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora
Ocean of Letters, Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 38(1), pp. 159–160
Slavery and Unfree Labour in the Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean, a relatively neglected and unexplored theatre of the slave trade, has only belatedly drawn the attention of historians, for so long preoccupied with its Atlantic counterpart. Recent studies have emphasized the African dimension of the trade to the almost complete exclusion of Asian sources of supply and have therefore done little to probe the diverse and unique features of slavery in the region. In particular, the presence and r…
Sirdars as Intermediaries in Nineteenth-century Indian Ocean Indentured Labour Migration
The sirdar (also termed sardar and jobber in Indian historiography)-foreman, recruiter, at once a labour leader and an important intermediary figure for the employers of labour both in India and in the sugar colonies-is reassessed in this article. Tithankar Roy's thoughtful 2007 article looked at how the sirdars' multiple roles represent an incorporation of traditional authority in a modern setting, giving rise to certain contradictions. In 2010 …
Strategies of labour mobilisation in colonial India
1992). Strategies of labour mobilisation in colonial India: The recruitment of indentured workers for Mauritius. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 19, Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia, pp. 229-245
Lakshmi's Legacy
Forcing the archive
This article examines some marginal stories of subaltern individuals shipped and trans-shipped between the Dutch and British colonial territories of Ceylon, Mauritius and the Cape in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. After addressing the difficulties in retrieving traces of their lives and the ambiguities of categories of classification, the article offers insights into everyday cultural ties forged among diverse groups and looks into acts…
Kala pani revisited
This article examines the reconstruction and deconstruction of the concept of काला पानी or kālā pānā , meaning the ‘black waters’, which all Indians must cross when migrating overseas. From its origin as a Brahmanic text warning about the dangers of oceanic voyages, through its dissemination as a more generalised stricture against emigration and its use and abuse as a British colonial construction, to its recasting as a historical trope and a lit…
Covert Slaves and Coveted Coolies in the Early 19th Century Mascareignes
Indians in Singapore 1819–1945
PART ONE: PIONEERS AT THE FRONTIER - 1819-1867 PART TWO: DIASPORIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE AGE OF MASS MIGRATION - 1867-1941 PART THREE: THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION & THE INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY
Empire and locality
The Indian Uprising of 1857–59, during which thousands of Indian soldiers serving in the British army mutinied, joined by many civilians, led to the identification of a vast number of ‘rebels’ and discussions as to the most appropriate means of punishing them. The wholesale transportation of insurgents was considered a likely scenario in the charged atmosphere of late 1857. The uprising coincided with dramatic increases in the world market price …
Abacus and Mah Jong
This work aims to engage with the complexities surrounding evaluations of ethnic and national identity - a focus of recent interest by scholars from a range of disciplines including political science, anthropology and economics - through a case study of Chinese migration to and settlement in Mauritius. The book investigates the complex mechanisms and processes involved in the transplantation of groups of people within the colonial context, and in…
The transition from Slave to indentured labour in Mauritius
Towards a workers’ history of the Chagos archipelago
The article presents a critical investigation of the historiography of the Chagos archipelago and in particular the expelled islanders, known as Ilois, and more recently as Chagossians. A brief survey of the discovery and settlement of the atolls is provided, along with a more detailed summary of key events in the history of workers on the archipelago from the late-eighteenth to mid-twentieth century. Finally, the paper discusses the challenges o…
Covert Slaves and Coveted Coolies in the Early 19th Century Mascareignes
Strategies of labour mobilisation in colonial India
1992). Strategies of labour mobilisation in colonial India: The recruitment of indentured workers for Mauritius. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 19, Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia, pp. 229-245
The transition from Slave to indentured labour in Mauritius
Etat et communautarisme
Les amateurs d'exotisme ont retenu plus souvent l'idylle de Paul et Virginie que les rudes pages sur la socit coloniale, qu'crivit Bernardin de Saint-Pierre dans le Voyage l'le de France. Les touristes font de mme et, quand ils arrivent Maurice, voient surtout ce que la publicit leur a promis : l'le paradisiaque o, sous la houlette d'un Etat dbonnaire, toutes les ethnies vivent en heureuse harmonie. Sans rejeter cette image, des Mauriciens la com…
Lakshmi's Legacy
Indian Indentured Migration and the Forced Labour Debate
The migrants who left India to work on colonial sugar plantations in the nineteenth century have been variously categorised as neo-slaves or as voluntary black settlers. This paper assesses some of the recent historical claims and revisionist interpretations of Indian indentured labour and takes up a number of themes based on the Mauritian case to highlight important aspects of this colonial labour diaspora
Coolitude
Book summary page views Book summary page views help Close Book summary page views help Book summary views reflect the number of visits to the book and chapter landing pages. Total views: 0 * Loading metrics...
Slavery and Unfree Labour in the Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean, a relatively neglected and unexplored theatre of the slave trade, has only belatedly drawn the attention of historians, for so long preoccupied with its Atlantic counterpart. Recent studies have emphasized the African dimension of the trade to the almost complete exclusion of Asian sources of supply and have therefore done little to probe the diverse and unique features of slavery in the region. In particular, the presence and r…
Abacus and Mah Jong
This work aims to engage with the complexities surrounding evaluations of ethnic and national identity - a focus of recent interest by scholars from a range of disciplines including political science, anthropology and economics - through a case study of Chinese migration to and settlement in Mauritius. The book investigates the complex mechanisms and processes involved in the transplantation of groups of people within the colonial context, and in…
Empire and locality
The Indian Uprising of 1857–59, during which thousands of Indian soldiers serving in the British army mutinied, joined by many civilians, led to the identification of a vast number of ‘rebels’ and discussions as to the most appropriate means of punishing them. The wholesale transportation of insurgents was considered a likely scenario in the charged atmosphere of late 1857. The uprising coincided with dramatic increases in the world market price …
Ocean of Letters, Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora
Ocean of Letters, Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 38(1), pp. 159–160
Coolie Woman
This unusual book opens with a three page Preface entitled ‘The C-Word’ which offers a very useful summary of ‘coolie’ through its etymology to its deployment in the colonial era to encompass a bro
Indians in Singapore 1819–1945
PART ONE: PIONEERS AT THE FRONTIER - 1819-1867 PART TWO: DIASPORIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE AGE OF MASS MIGRATION - 1867-1941 PART THREE: THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION & THE INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY
Mutiny at the Margins
Popular and Public Indian Memorials
Towards a workers’ history of the Chagos archipelago
The article presents a critical investigation of the historiography of the Chagos archipelago and in particular the expelled islanders, known as Ilois, and more recently as Chagossians. A brief survey of the discovery and settlement of the atolls is provided, along with a more detailed summary of key events in the history of workers on the archipelago from the late-eighteenth to mid-twentieth century. Finally, the paper discusses the challenges o…
Pulled through Time
This paper discusses the processes through which historical research, visual archives, and artistic production have interacted to produce a series of original artworks capturing some of the complexities of Indian indentured migrants’ experiences and identities. The images from the ‘Coolitude’ series by award-winning artist Danny Flynn apply modern screen-printing techniques to archival photographs of Indian indentured labourers. The artistic reim…
Sirdars as Intermediaries in Nineteenth-century Indian Ocean Indentured Labour Migration
The sirdar (also termed sardar and jobber in Indian historiography)-foreman, recruiter, at once a labour leader and an important intermediary figure for the employers of labour both in India and in the sugar colonies-is reassessed in this article. Tithankar Roy's thoughtful 2007 article looked at how the sirdars' multiple roles represent an incorporation of traditional authority in a modern setting, giving rise to certain contradictions. In 2010 …
Forcing the archive
This article examines some marginal stories of subaltern individuals shipped and trans-shipped between the Dutch and British colonial territories of Ceylon, Mauritius and the Cape in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. After addressing the difficulties in retrieving traces of their lives and the ambiguities of categories of classification, the article offers insights into everyday cultural ties forged among diverse groups and looks into acts…
Strategies of Labour Mobilisation in Colonial India
Studies of indentured migration have assumed either that recruits were obtained by deception or that the mobile unemployed voluntarily engaged, and have not adequately addressed the issue of how the dynamism of recruitment for a bonded labour system was maintained. This article explores the means by which an Indian indentured workforce was recruited for Mauritius and in particular the use of time-expired labourers (returnees) to encourage family …
Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in the Indian Ocean Colonial World
A Case Study of "Indian" Slaves on Mauritius
Trust in the Indian Labour Diaspora
This paper investigates the role of trust relationships through a re-examination of the activities of intermediaries (recruiters) in the Indian indentured labour system of the Indian Ocean in the colonial era. A review of the utilisation of trust in development discourse and its applicability to the literature of colonial subaltern migration and to a specific historical context is undertaken. The paper demonstrates that informal trust networks ar…
Kala pani revisited
This article examines the reconstruction and deconstruction of the concept of काला पानी or kālā pānā , meaning the ‘black waters’, which all Indians must cross when migrating overseas. From its origin as a Brahmanic text warning about the dangers of oceanic voyages, through its dissemination as a more generalised stricture against emigration and its use and abuse as a British colonial construction, to its recasting as a historical trope and a lit…
Remigration of Indian Subalterns in the Colonial Indian Ocean
Remigration of Indian Subalterns in the Colonial Indian Ocean Crispin Bates and Marina Carter I beg to say that about 2 and a half years ago I came with my wife (Sinnapona) and two children (Casu-12 years old boy and Perumal sami-11 months old boy) from my country in India to Madras in order to come to Malaya through Immigration Recruit. When we came to Madras there was no Immigration Recruit, and we were about to go back to our country. In Madra…
Interrogating Orientalism
Thimithi – the Tamil Hindu fire-walking ceremony has always attracted the attention of the curious and the thrill seeker and remains a tourist attraction as well as the performance of a solemn vow in many parts of the world where it continues to be enacted. A source of much speculation as to the participants’ apparent ability to withstand the pain of walking over hot coals, travellers’ often exaggerated accounts of eye witness attendance at such …
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