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Fellow during the summer term 2019
Project: Die Expansion und das Objekt. Materielle Kultur in der Geschichte des europäischen Kolonialismus, 1750-1950
While in Munich (March 2019) Benedikt Stuchtey will be working on a book on the materiality of the European colonial expansion between 1750 and 1950. Naturally, the British Empire is playing a prominent role for this project which is looking at objects such as tea-cups, coins, post-cards, or wedding rings. Thus, it is important that the chosen objects are part of every day life and not collected by museums. Their material culture is seen as representing special aspects of European colonialism like slavery and migration, racism and finance imperialism, but also gender and emotion, the "other" and the civilising mission. The book is taking a variety of European forms of imperial rule into consideration. By comparing them through the lens of objects British imperialism will be integrated in a European history of expansionism neither ignoring its undisputed special historical dimension nor underestimating the many potentials of entanglements and transfers.