CALL for PAPERS New Zealand South Asia Centre/Macmillan Brown Centre University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Joint Workshop Health, Labour and Migration in the 19-20 th century South Pacific Date: 5 June 2014 Location: Room 208, Macmillan Brown Centre, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ. From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century the high price of sugar drove the expansion of plantation agriculture into the Australian Tropical north and the West coast of Viti Levu, Fiji. The Colonial Sugar Refinery dominated the manufacture of sugar and the management of labour in the Pacific region, supporting colonialism in Fiji with revenue flow, management of immigration and control of labour. This workshop focuses on issues of labour, health and citizenship in the South Pacific region. Existing research into the experience of Indian indentured labour migration to plantations on the Pacific island of Fiji has discussed morbidity and mortality on the sea voyages from Indian ports to the Fijian plantations. There has also been some investigation of the causes of death on plantations. However there is no systematic analysis of health and disability as aspects of plantation experience and of disease as a factor in discourses of exclusion within the plantation communities themselves. Similarly research into the movement of Pacific laborers to the sugar plantations of Australia has tended to neglect health and stigmatization of disease as elements in both the well-being of plantation workers and in the configuration of their exclusion from Australian society. This workshop brings a medical history perspective to the Pacific experience of labour migration. It encourages exploration of health and disability as aspects of indentured and laboring experience and argues that disease, particularly stigmatizing diseases such as leprosy, contributed to the marking of labouring populations as excluded from community and citizenship both within plantations and in the emerging political cultures of Australia and Fiji. The core papers presented will situate the history of migration and labour in the South Pacific within the broader perspective of indenture and plantation history. Other papers will then take up moments in the history of Indian and Pacific labourers’ experience to explore the interconnections of health migration and labour in the formation of new communities in new lands. Publication of selected workshop papers as an edited book or special issue is planned. Papers are invited relating to the themes: ‘A new type of slavery? Plantation labour in global perspective Identity and citizenship Migration and community in the South Pacific Health, indenture and identity in the South Pacific Gender, health and labour migration in the South Pacific Post-Graduate students are particularly encouraged to contribute. Confirmed participants include: Professor Anand Yang, International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle Professor Brij Lal, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra Dr Rajsekhar Basu, History, Univeristy of Kolkatta, Kolkatta Dr Jo Robertson, University of Queensland, Brisbane Professor Biswamoy Patti, Associate Professor, History, University of Delhi, New Delhi Katherine Foi, MA, History, University of the South Pacific, Suva Dr Jane Buckingham, History and New Zealand South Asia Centre, University of Canterbury, Christchurch Dr Gwen Parsons, History, University of Canterbury, Christchurch Scholars interested in contributing to the workshop and/or a future publication, please send a 200 word abstract and short CV by 28 May 2014 for consideration to Gwen Parsons. [email protected] We look forward to your contributions! Jane Buckingham [email protected] Jane Buckingham History Department University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch New Zealand [email protected]
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