Industrial Afterlives: Governing Labour Regimes through Ecology in India
Ankit Chowdhury explores how ecological conditions function not merely as embedded elements of industrial production, but as structural mechanisms of violence that produce and stabilise relations of strong asymmetrical dependency, drawing on examples from two public-sector steel towns in India.
Unequal Mobility as a Case Study: Understanding Everyday Life in the Roman Empire
Jakob Jung examines mobility in the Roman Empire to highlight the importance, and the challenges, of reconstructing everyday life and recovering the experiences of ordinary people more than 2,000 years ago.
Coffee Boom: Cash Crops and Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies in Rural Sumatra
Muhammad Reza Halomoan analyses how the introduction of coffee as a development strategy reshaped patron–client relations between the indigenous Serampeh and inland migrants.
Archaeology, Material Culture and Slavery in East Africa
Neema Clement Munisi shows how archaeological excavation of material culture, in combination with museum materials, archival data and oral traditions, can both reproduce colonial erasures and serve as a tool of restorative justice by documenting strong asymmetrical dependencies in contexts of slavery.
Beyond the Colonial Archive: Women’s Voices and the Abolition of Slavery in the Gold Coast, 1874–1940s
Anita K. Pobi recovers marginalised women’s experiences by drawing on indigenous knowledge systems that had been suppressed by the colonial archive - such as oral traditions, kinship narratives, proverbs, drumming, and ritual - in order to reposition Ghanaian women as active agents in the gendered process of emancipation.