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Eleonor Marcussen

@eleonormarcus.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in History South Asia, environment, disasters, aid, colonialism, postcolonial studies, #infrastructure Member #concurrences Author of Acts of Aid: Politics of Relief and Reconstruction...(CUP, 2023)

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New book: City, Frontier and Empire: A Spatial History of British Assam, 1826-1946 by Evy Mehzabeen #urbanhistory #southasia #borderlands
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New webpage for our recently launched project on the Swedish match industry in South Asia in the 20th century which examines how industrialisation and #business developed in colonial markets and postcolonial network. #history #technology #timber #colonialism polycolonialmatches.org?fbclid=IwT01...
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Polycolonial Matches
Visit the post for more.
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Radhika Krishnan (IIIT Hyderabad) is presenting her work on coal mining and labour in India in our seminar series tomorrow at 14:15-16:00. Send a message for the zoom link: 'Red’ and ‘Green’ Imaginations: Rethinking Technology, Identity and Ecology in Labour Narratives www.lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1
A screenshot of the advertisement with an AI image of Lindsey and a brain, with text that says: YOUR BODY HAS A HISTORY. ASK ABOUT IT."
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Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I'm launching a new project with @joguldi.bsky.social today: Working Papers in Critical Search. Today we're publishing the first working paper: "Why a Working Paper Series on Critical Search Now" #digitalhistory #digitalhumanities working-papers-in-critical-search.github.io/paper-001-in...
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Why a Working Paper Series on Critical Search Now – Working Papers in Critical Search
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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Armed and Bureaucratic Violence: Forms of British imperial conquest in Southeast Asian Contested Tracts
Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies and the Annual Lecture of the Cluster for Colonial Connections and Comparisons!
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Annual lecture by Gunnel Cederlöf, Professor of History at Linnaeus University - possible to join on zoom by registering via link:
Annual lecture, LNU Centre Concurrences cluster Colonial Connections and Comparisons:
Armed and Bureaucratic Violence: Forms of British imperial conquest in Southeast Asian Contested Tracts
Gunnel Cederlöf
Professor of History at Linnaeus University
Thursday 21 May 2026, 14:15-16:00
Join via zoom
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A generous review of my book by a scholar with many years of experience working from in disaster relief and reconstruction in Nepal. RVW: Acts of Aid: Politics of Relief and Reconstruction in the 1934 Bihar-Nepal Earthquake in Journal of Disaster Studies (#OA) muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Day 2 - and ended with me presenting some results from my project about infrastructure and railways in western and central India in the 19th century, specifically on the relationship between coal and expanding the railway network.
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Day 2 - and continued with Aparajita Mukhopadhyay who presented a paper on coal extraction for the East Indian Railways railways.
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
And day 2 - Started with Per Högselius on the relationship between extractivism, technology and infrastructural systems.
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Day 1 - and Camelia Dewan on wetlands, fluid commons and soaking ecologies from research carried out in the southwest coastal zone of the delta and along the eastern coastline of Bangladesh - combined with archival work.
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Day 1 - Mitul Baruah on embankment ecologies in the Brahmaputra in colonial and postcolonial Assam.
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Day 1 - with Iva Lucic on railways, timber and the wider role of infrastructure for the state in Yugoslavia.
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Concept, programme and abstracts for a workshop this week, part of my project on the environmental context of #railways and #infrastructure in western and central #India in the late nineteenth century. #envhist 📷: #coal transport in Jharkhand, 2008 lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
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Ecologies of Infrastructure
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Our new research project, starting next year & funded by the #SwedishResearchCouncil From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks: The Swedish Match Industry and the Reconfiguration of Global Trade in South Asia, c. 1920–1970. Read more here, for now: lnu.se/en/meet-linn... @niladri4u.bsky.social
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Concept, programme and abstracts for a workshop next week, part of my #research project on the environmental context of #railways and other #infrastructures in western and central #India in the late nineteenth century. 📷: mine of #coal transporters in Jharkhand, 2008. lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
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Ecologies of Infrastructure
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
#linnaeusuniversity @lnuccon.bsky.social #ecology #disaster #infrastructures
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Very glad to have Mitul Baruah from Ashoka U visiting us for 2 weeks, teaching in our master' programme in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, participating a workshop which I'm organising - Ecologies of Infrastructure - and also giving a talk in the LNUCC seminar series on his book "Slow Disaster."
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Happy to have two PhD students from Ashoka University with us this semester! Institutional collaboration at its best.
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The 8th ENIUGH Congress has started, or rather arrived - it's wonderful to have so many colleagues visiting LNU for discussions and sharing new ideas and research! @lnuccon.bsky.social 🌏
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Årets stora evenemang för allmänheten äger rum på Huseby bruk i Småland med Malin Lennartsson (LNU), Gunnel Cederlöf (LNU) och Arun Kumar (Nottingham University) - organiserat av projektet "Vändpunkter" om entreprenörskap sedan 1860-talet. ☀️ 🌿 🌲
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Critical nature-society relations in Palestine/Israel: A Virtual Special issue journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Congratulations - this looks amazing!! Very much looking forward to book talks and introducing it to the ma-students in postcolonial studies - and of course and the course Race and racism: a postcolonial perspective.
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Had to leave the #ESEH early for a meeting and simultaneously visited Sweden's 3rd oldest oak, the Stufvenäs oak: 800 years! An oak grows for 300 years, lives for 300 years and dies for 300 years according to the sign.
Sweden's 3rd oldest oak, 800 years old, the Stufvenäs oak outside Vimmerby
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Sorry to have missed this, had to leave the conference early for a meeting.
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Christina Petterson @crankychris.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Very excited to receive the paperback of my book, which was published last year. It is a study of the varying economic practices of the Moravian (Herrnhuter) missionaries in St. Thomas, Bethlehem (PA), and Greenland.
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
#Uppsala #ESEH2025
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter
Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"The central working assumption of PEN America and of the State Department—that the liberal American can teach the seriously swarming races what is meant by democracy—has been annihilated." harpers.org/archive/2025...
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Speaking Reassurance to Power, by Pankaj Mishra
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Congratulations! Looking forward to reading it.
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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🌿 On Friday 30 May 2025, @maguiregeoff.bsky.social and @julesod.bsky.social host 'Sexual ecologies: Space, nature and queer cinema', a workshop focussing on the queer turn in ecocritical media. 1/4
Sexual Ecologies: Space, nature and queer cinema.
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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 20/05/2025
We are hiring a new PhD student in the history group @unistavanger.bsky.social. There are several possible topics, including «Intersections between history education and education for sustainable development/environmental citizenship», which should be interesting for the #envhist #envhum crowd.
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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Don't miss tomorrow's seminar by the fabulous @nathanbossoh.bsky.social: Making Colonial Laboratories: Investigating the Role of Suggestions and Instructions in Managing the Aburi Botanic Gardens. 21 May, 15.00-16.00 CET. Please note time dif.To register please email instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
For faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research to sign: #uppsaladeclaration uppsaladeclaration.se
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
... and chaired by Rebecca Duncan (Linnaeus U) Here is a link for those of you based in Sweden:https://www.svtplay.se/video/KrJYagL/no-other-land
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Ended the work day with a screening of the documentary No Other Land (2024)on the forceful eviction & violence against Palestinian villagers in the West Bank, followed by panel discussion w Nina Gren (Lund U), Wafa Jamil (film director) and Anders Persson (Linnaeus U). Highly recommend it...
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Quote of the day: What Is AI? Neither Artificial nor Intelligent (Crawford, The Atlas of AI)
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Four-leaf clover anno 1867 pressed in notebook of Joseph Stephens at Huseby Bruk.
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Recently we published an illustrated booklet by the collaborative pilot project "Welcome Re-Course": "Welcoming Refugee, Migrant and International Students" The training booklet also available for downloading in French, Spanish, Italian and Swedish. 📗 📚 📝 lnu.se/en/research/...
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Project: Welcome Re-Course: Co-produced Online Training to Support the Inclusion of Refugee, Migrant and International Students
Welcome Re-Course is a co-produced online training to support the inclusion of refugee, migrant, and international students in order to improve well-being within universities and society.
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Me too! These are by the studio photographer Olivia Wittberg (1844-1908) based in Visby, Gotland, probably some time in the 1880s.
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I'm planning to start a #topothek/#topotek/#topotheque for a #citizenscience project as a part of a larger project - does anyone have experiences to share or other recommendations? Suggestions and input much appreciated. Olivia's portraits of cats: Tessa with triplets: gotland.topotek.se?doc=1108829
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Olivias porträtt av katter - Datering okänd
Tessa, husdjur, katter, kattungar, Olivia Wittberg
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Happy to host PhD student Joseph Manock from Manchester University at LNUC #Concurrences this spring - arrived on campus Växjö with spring and a clear blue sky. ☀️🌻
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Today we have "A Degrowth Theorist in the Nineteenth Century? Eugène Huzar and the Dangers of Scientific and Industrial Growth" by @benst.bsky.social This is the third post in the Historicizing Adaptation blog series, edited by @stundenbower.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/03/20/a... #envhist
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A Degrowth Theorist in the Nineteenth Century? Eugène Huzar and the Dangers of Scientific and Industrial Growth
Eugène Huzar warned that industrial science-driven growth threatened Earth's balance, advocating global oversight but recognizing its limits, foreseeing degrowth's necessity.
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Delighted to read this short story translated by Sarah Irving in The Book of Gaza. Part of literary readings in continuation of last year's history seminars on disasters and politics during the 20th cent. #bookclub @drtermagant.bsky.social
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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Excited that the first article of my ongoing research project on the history of Indian women in rural development has been published in Comparativ. If you cannot access it and are interested to read, let me know. @unierfurt.bsky.social @emleake.bsky.social www.comparativ.net/v2/article/v...
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Gendered Development Work and Non-State Primary Healthcare Provisions: The Skippo Medical Van Scheme in Rural India, c. 1940s to mid-1970s
This article focuses on gendered rural development work in late colonial and early post-colonial India. Next to the question of livelihood generation and education, the issue of health and hence of wo...
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Very excited to have my first article published! It's about why British mountaineers travelled to Norway in the nineteenth century and the transnational networks they formed. Open access in Studies in Travel Writing here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🏔️
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William Cecil Slingsby and Elizabeth Le Blond in Norway: transnational mountaineering, modernity and temporality, 1870–1910
In both William Cecil Slingsby’s Norway. The Northern Playground (1904) and Elizabeth Le Blond’s Mountaineering in the Land of the Midnight Sun (1908), Norway is presented as an alternative destina...
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
‘(...) It not only illuminates a critical historical event but also underscores the significance of disaster history to inform future policies and strategies for disaster preparedness and response.' By Vipul Singh, in Environment and History Publisher's update: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
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Acts of Aid
Cambridge Core - Environmental History - Acts of Aid
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I usually love the German combination words, but I have to say "cringe quake" is absolutely perfect
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Just finished the latest by @quinnslobodian.com. Offers a lot of historical clarity on the right-libertarian/neoliberal to hard right pipeline that's been broadly speculated on. The chapters on IQ and race...
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