Channelling Mobilities

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Frontier of the Civilising Mission: Mobility Regulation East of Suez, ss: Multiple forms of mobility overlapped in the Canal region; some were accelerated, others slowed down. We learn of steamships and long-distance travel, of military strategies and global trade - but also of camel caravans and Bedouins, of passports and pilgrims to Mecca. This superbly researched book demonstrates that the best global histories are grounded locally. A Short Introduction 'Channelling Mobilities takes up a host of binaries related to historical and analytical values and puts them under rigorous historical examination.

Frederick Cooper, co-author of Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference A sophisticated examination of a variety of global connections and systems of control as they impacted the peoples affected by the opening of the Suez Canal. Sebastian Conrad, author of German Colonialism: A Short Introduction Channelling Mobilities takes up a host of binaries related to historical and analytical values and puts them under rigorous historical examination.

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I was raised in Berlin, which is an interesting place to be in itself. However, I was very intrigued and I enjoyed talking about history with my grandparents and learning about the twentieth century through people I met. Secondly, however, I really developed a passion for travel in my youth. I spent a year in France when I was 16, and I went off from there through other locations.

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Yes, that was part of it. So this experience of living in a city during my studies which was very global, and at a very global university, was quite foundational for the track I chose. It was during my undergraduate studies that I got drawn into British imperial history, obviously Indian history, and living in this post-colonial city was a major factor, too. I worked both with faculty at LSE, but I also tried to branch out to other faculty at other institutions in London at that time. I had some problems with the very traditional definition of the LSE Department of International History , but still, it was a formative time for me.

Joya Chatterjee was teaching me Indian history, and she comes out of a more traditional Cambridge School of imperial history. So in terms of grounding myself in that specific kind of historiography, that was very foundational. There was less of an emphasis on global history as we would see it now, but certainly Chatterjee was of great influence in providing me with the grounding in the sources and literature for Indian history.

I then moved on to Cambridge, not to work with Chris Bayly , which would have perhaps been the obvious move, but to work on European history, in particular with Richard Evans. Evans is, of course, a historian of Germany, but I worked with him less out of an interest in German history and more because I had developed an interest in the history of disease and more particularly the international history of disease.

So, my first foray into global history, if you like, was to pursue a history of international responses to cholera epidemics in the nineteenth century, looking at them as crises that provoked global responses.

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People like Joya Chatterjee, who are very much Indian historians, that is, historians of India, were very formative in terms of developing my interests in this area. I wanted to explore new ways to write history. But you of course pursued your Promotion doctoral degree at the University of Konstanz in Germany. Could you talk a bit about your return, if that is the right word, to Germany, and the ways in which Konstanz shaped your intellectual interests? It was an exciting time, since as in the US and the UK, global history was just emerging as an established field in that period.

Now, in German academia, things were a bit different, at least from the point of view of the organization of Departments. By then, I should add, I had settled on a region and a time, namely Egypt around , but this place, this subject, was very firmly in the hands of scholars of the Middle East and Islamic Studies departments. So I felt that finding a place for myself in history faculties was hard at times. He always had many students working on many different regions, and he always advised us to have another adviser co-advising the doctoral dissertation with him — ideally, someone who was a regional expert, in addition to him as a general mind.

More broadly, for people who are reading this as beginning graduate students or post-docs, whether it was studying Egypt or working with Osterhammel, are there any generalizable lessons you would draw from that period of your career? Now, do I think this is for everyone?

Of course, there are things like intensive language training, which are better in the American graduate system. So it was a bit piecemeal, but I could simply put it all together. It had to be very outward looking. Could you talk a bit about your initial imagination of the Suez Canal, and how that changed? Also, could you discuss the kind of sources you came across during your research? I think that one of the impressive things about Channelling Mobilities is precisely the way that you layer together these different imperial and Egyptian sources with one another, but talk a bit about how you did that.

An drawing of the Suez Canal, showing how it connected the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea via a network of canals and lakes. So, I think there are two questions here — firstly, how I came to study that short stretch of water between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and then secondly, how I came to the answers I reached. As I said, the mids were a very exciting time when it came to global history.

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However, I also felt that there was a lot of theorizing and not enough empirical work, so I decided that I wanted to do this spatially, finding one of these global hubs where a lot of traffic passes through. If the first dissatisfaction was this distinction between theorizing about global history versus actually doing it, then the second was this tendency to write quite uncritically about flows, connections—.

So, I decided to find a space that symbolized this space of connection, but also regimes of regulation and control, as well. So that was my second starting point for studying the Suez Canal. And in order to do that, obviously, you had to write about multiple groups intersecting in a specific location.

So I think this was the third starting point. Right, so not just the Indian hajj , for example. Now, the second question you asked was about the sources themselves, and how I dealt with them. As you said, I had to be quite imaginative and use a lot of different sources. So, I did a little bit of research in other archives, but most of the heavy archival research behind this book is done in the UK and France.

Consular courts, for example, turned out to be particularly useful as a body of sources.