<i>Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company</i>: A Roundtable Response

Ward, Kerry

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“…The extent of these transformations' novelty, finally, needs to be inserted in long-term processes of state development and transformations that, since colonial times, have shaped the continuously changing social and territorial location of borders across the world. In Southern Africa, for example, long-term processes of formal institutional integration began with colonial powers' labour exchanges 128 , while informal processes of integration 129 and identity construction 130 , have, since then, continuously shaped border management practices, as they were being shaped by them. In South East Asia, since colonial times borders have functioned as mechanisms for the regulation of labour migration flows 131 , and much as they bend and are stretched in response to global economic imperatives 132 , their significance needs to be set in relation to long term patterns of regional migration.…”

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Placing Borders in Development

Novak

2016

Geopolitics

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Development is inextricably related to the state-centred cartography of world spaces defined by borders, both in its historical trajectory and contemporary entanglements. Yet the multiplicity of channels and directions characterising their articulation are scarcely explored. This article contributes to this emerging field of enquiry. It delineates the essential traits of the borders and development nexus by establishing a systematic dialogue between the fields of Border Studies and Development Studies, a dialogue framed by concerns with scalar politics. More specifically, the paper places borders in development in two ways. First, it places borders in Development Studies: it identifies borders as a useful analytical vantage point that lay at the intersection between state-and non-state centred geographies of development. Second, it places Border Studies in development: focusing on the tension between borders and bordering processes, it interrogates economic growthand poverty-related policies. Three contributions to the study of development arising from placing borders in development in this way are highlighted. The paper also expands the emerging field of enquiry concerned with the relation between borders and development, by considering development policies not yet been examined through the prism of borders, and by emphasising the hierarchical and yet unpredictable nature of the borders and development articulation. At its broadest, the discussion dis-entangles the multiplicity of scales and directions in which borders, bordering and the development process intersect. It is at this scalar intersection that the force of development, and the potentials for engaging, opposing, avoiding, or subverting it, lay. IntroductionConcerns with space and the spatiality of social relations emerged more than forty years ago at the margins of radical social theory, but are now de rigueur across the social sciences. Development Studies is no exception: contemporary academic work and policy-making documents use an extensive spatial imaginary and vocabulary, as they (more or less casually) deploy terms such as "horizontal and vertical" inequalities, cross-border "flows", "de-/re-territorialisation", or "de-/rebordering". In line with the objectives of this Special Issue, the following pages engage with these scalar concerns, as they investigate the complex spatiality of development though the prism of borders.In particular, the paper delineates the essential traits of the borders and development nexus by establishing a systematic dialogue between the fields of Border Studies and Development Studies, a dialogue framed by a concern with scalar politics. In order to harness the potentialities offered by the intersection between these two fields, the following discussion places borders in development, in two ways. First, it places borders in Development Studies: that is, it examines contemporary development's discourses, policies and practices, to locate borders at the scalar intersection of development processes that unfold ...

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Section: Economic Growth and (Multi-scalar) Integrationmentioning

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Placing Borders in Development

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2016

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“…James Armstrong subsequently revealed the existence of 33 VOC-sponsored slaving expeditions to Madagascar between 1654 and 1786 (Armstrong, 1983-84, p. 211-233). Éric Saugera's study of Bordeaux as a slaving port, José Capela's work on slave exports from Mozambique, and Kerry Ward's research on forced labor networks in the Dutch East Indies has further expanded our understanding of European slave trading in this oceanic world (Saugera, 1995;Capela, 2002;Ward, 2009). So has an expanding body of scholarly articles.…”

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Ending the history of silence: reconstructing European Slave trading in the Indian Ocean

Allen

2017

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Thirty-eight years ago, Hubert Gerbeau discussed the problems that contributed to the "history of silence" surrounding slave trading in the Indian Ocean. While the publication of an expanding body of scholarship since the late 1980s demonstrates that this silence is not as deafening as it once was, our knowledge and understanding of this traffic in chattel labor remains far from complete. This article discusses the problems surrounding attempts to reconstruct European slave trading in the Indian Ocean between 1500 and 1850. Recently created inventories of British East India Company slaving voyages during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and of French, Portuguese, and other voyages involving the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius and Réunion between 1670 and the 1830s not only shed light on the nature and dynamics of British and French slave trading in the Indian Ocean, but also highlight topics and issues that future research on European slave trading within and beyond this oceanic world will need to address.

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“…We know very little about slavery and slave trading in the French Compagnie des Indes' comptoirs in India such as Chandernagore, Karikal, Mahé, Pondichéry, and Yanam even though these settlements funneled an estimated 24,000 enslaved Indians towards the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius and Réunion between the late seventeenth century and 1810 (Allen, 2004, p. 41). While the VOC's experience with slavery is a subject of ever greater scholarly interest (e.g., Vink, 2003;Raben, 2008;Van Welie, 2008;Ward, 2009;Jones, 2010), many aspects of this activity remain hidden from view.…”

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“…The VOC had pioneered the use of such labor in the Indian Ocean world by shipping Ceylonese, Chinese, and Javanese prisoners to the Cape of Good Hope within several years of that colony's establishment in 1652, a practice that continued well into the eighteenth century (Ward, 2009;Armstrong, 2012). The British were also no strangers to using such labor, having transported some 50,000 convicts to their American colonies between 1718 and 1775 (Grubb, 2000;Forster, 2002).…”

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Slavery in a Remote but Global Place: the British East India Company and Bencoolen, 1685-1825

Allen¹

2018

HSE

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Histories of the British East India Company usually ignore the company’s use of slave labor. Records from its factory at Bencoolen in Sumatra provide an opportunity to examine company attitudes and policies toward its chattel work force in greater detail. These sources reveal that the company drew slaves from a global catchment area to satisfy the demand for labor in its far-flung commercial empire, shed light on policies and practices regarding the treatment of company slaves, and illustrate the company’s role in the development of increasingly interconnected free and forced labor trades during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Bencoolen case study also highlights the need to examine colonial migrant labor systems in the Indian Ocean and maritime Asia worlds in more fully developed contexts.

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Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company: A Roundtable Response

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Ending the history of silence: reconstructing European Slave trading in the Indian Ocean

Slavery in a Remote but Global Place: the British East India Company and Bencoolen, 1685-1825

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