EMMA REISZ
Biographic Data
| ID | 5755959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | EMMA REISZ |
| GIVEN NAMES | EMMA |
| FAMILY NAME | REISZ |
| SIGNATURE | REISZ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7366-5092 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Collecting ambiguity
This paper considers material culture as a prism through which to understand lived experiences of colonialism and empire in Northern Ireland and suggests that examining connections to meaningful objects both inside and outside museums provides a powerful tool for considering how empire has been understood and made personal. We consider privately held possessions, symbols in the landscape and the public materiality of empire as represented in muse…
Photoanthropocene
Photography—what Barthes called “the living image of a dead thing”—is often overlooked in discussions of cultural heritage decolonization. This paper focuses on a historical photograph attributed to the Hong Kong commercial photographer Lai Fong 黎芳, also known as Afong, that documents the aftermath of the Tianjin massacre of 1870. A photographic print of the image is held in the Robert Hart collection, a little‐known collection of historical phot…
Projecting the Road
This article examines photography of the Sino-Burmese border at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on the road between Tengyue (Tengchong) in Yunnan and Bhamo in Burma, the article considers a photographic series by Albert Pichon of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs to explore how the frontier was perceived and understood in the context of imperial expansion, infrastructural transformation and foreign-mediated globalization. The Mari…
New Lenses on China
Photography was from its beginnings not only a global medium, but a medium of globalization. On 19 August 1839, when the Academie des Sciences in Paris announced the details of Louis Daguerre’s pho
Postcolonial Urbanism
In the market-driven cities of contemporary Singapore and Malaysia, gardens are usually understood by urban geographers as semiotic voids. Gardens are seen as urban lungs where air can circulate, necessary to the survival of the city as a whole, but deficient in internal structure and divorced from the city’s fundamental economic functions—they are located within the physical space of the city, but outside its conceptual space. 1 This view was bo…
Curiosity and Rubber in the French Atlantic
This article argues that the networks and culture of French Atlantic science played a decisive role in introducing rubber from the Americas to the scholars and engineers of Europe. Though known to the earliest European travellers in Central and South America, rubber aroused no interest among scholars until Charles-Marie de la Condamine encountered it in 1736. Nevertheless, French scientific connections to South America were characterized by their…
Recovering post-colonial tropicalities from a “fervid inflorescence” of metaphor
Projecting the Road
This article examines photography of the Sino-Burmese border at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on the road between Tengyue (Tengchong) in Yunnan and Bhamo in Burma, the article considers a photographic series by Albert Pichon of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs to explore how the frontier was perceived and understood in the context of imperial expansion, infrastructural transformation and foreign-mediated globalization. The Mari…
Recovering post-colonial tropicalities from a “fervid inflorescence” of metaphor
Recovering post-colonial tropicalities from a “fervid inflorescence” of metaphor
Curiosity and Rubber in the French Atlantic
This article argues that the networks and culture of French Atlantic science played a decisive role in introducing rubber from the Americas to the scholars and engineers of Europe. Though known to the earliest European travellers in Central and South America, rubber aroused no interest among scholars until Charles-Marie de la Condamine encountered it in 1736. Nevertheless, French scientific connections to South America were characterized by their…
Postcolonial Urbanism
In the market-driven cities of contemporary Singapore and Malaysia, gardens are usually understood by urban geographers as semiotic voids. Gardens are seen as urban lungs where air can circulate, necessary to the survival of the city as a whole, but deficient in internal structure and divorced from the city’s fundamental economic functions—they are located within the physical space of the city, but outside its conceptual space. 1 This view was bo…
Projecting the Road
This article examines photography of the Sino-Burmese border at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on the road between Tengyue (Tengchong) in Yunnan and Bhamo in Burma, the article considers a photographic series by Albert Pichon of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs to explore how the frontier was perceived and understood in the context of imperial expansion, infrastructural transformation and foreign-mediated globalization. The Mari…
New Lenses on China
Photography was from its beginnings not only a global medium, but a medium of globalization. On 19 August 1839, when the Academie des Sciences in Paris announced the details of Louis Daguerre’s pho
Photoanthropocene
Photography—what Barthes called “the living image of a dead thing”—is often overlooked in discussions of cultural heritage decolonization. This paper focuses on a historical photograph attributed to the Hong Kong commercial photographer Lai Fong 黎芳, also known as Afong, that documents the aftermath of the Tianjin massacre of 1870. A photographic print of the image is held in the Robert Hart collection, a little‐known collection of historical phot…
Collecting ambiguity
This paper considers material culture as a prism through which to understand lived experiences of colonialism and empire in Northern Ireland and suggests that examining connections to meaningful objects both inside and outside museums provides a powerful tool for considering how empire has been understood and made personal. We consider privately held possessions, symbols in the landscape and the public materiality of empire as represented in muse…
Archaeology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Photography (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Art history (2 works)