In a few weeks, we'll be discussing the Amazon on the Planetary Embassy program of Swissnex Boston/NY Come join us! shorturl.at/pivSu with Claudia Tomateo, Livio Silva and Mauricio Fontes.

Tomorrow!

Next week! Join me at Brown (CLACS & STS Colloquium) for my talk on insects & capitalism: “Weevils and Bollworms in Latin America: Cotton Empires and the Ecologies of Global Capitalism, c. 1880–1940”

Publication day! My article examines the Bolivian history of coca(ine) research across Italian and Germanophone scientific networks. 🌱🌱🌱🌱
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This special issue on imperial masculinities, edited by my friends and colleagues Bernhard Schär and Tomás Bartoletti, is well worth a look!

Image titled, in English, “Grand Sight of the Open Working Fushun Colliery. ” In the Japanese text below, there is an additional phrase, “limitless treasure house”, which appeals to the then widely held notion that Fushun’s coal resources were so bountiful as to be essentially inexhaustible. This image comes from a postcard that dates to the early 1930s. [Postcard from the author's collection.]

New article from Tomás Bartoletti, Samuël Coghe and Victor Seow.

‘[T]echnocracy operates […] as an ideology that not only describes the system itself, but also the sets of ideas that animate the emergence of the system.’

Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu.... #CFI

I very much enjoyed speaking to Tomás Bartoletti and Samuël Coghe about Carbon Technocracy and the world in the mine. ⛏️ The transcript of our conversation is now out in the latest issue of Commodity Frontiers.

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#histstm #histtech #envhist #envhum 🧪

Rez. Ex: Naming Natures – Natural History and Colonial Legacy

https://www.hsozkult.de/exhibitionreview/id/reex-154874

Neuchâtel, 15.12.2024-18.08.2025, Tomás Bartoletti, Denise Bertschi, Natural History Museum in Neuchâtel (MHNN), Neuchâtel Centre d’Art (CAN)

tomás bartoletti speaking about insect pest control and the gospel of modern agriculture: economic entomology in the global south, ca. 1880-1940

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History All journal articles featured in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History vol 52 issue 2

Finally out:

Formative Spaces of Empire: Masculinities and Outdoor Experiences c. 1860-1960

Special Issue 2024 for the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Co-edited with Tomás Bartoletti

Case Studies on India, Malaysia, Sumatra, Iran

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

Hunting and Masculine Knowledge: A Swiss Naturalist in South America and the Coloniality of Nineteenth-Century Science | Isis: Vol 115, No 4 Abstract During the mid-nineteenth century, the shifting boundaries of natural history and hunting practices were at the core of debates about general and practical knowledge, science and leisure, hun...

This week at @stsucl.bsky.social History of Science Reading Group we discussed Tomas Bartoletti @tomasbarto12.bsky.social, “Hunting and Masculine Knowledge: a Swiss Naturalist in South America and the Coloniality of Nineteenth-Century Science”, @isisjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1086/733157

Thank you 2024! I can't ask for more! An exhibition, several publications and conferences, a new book of poetry, great new colleagues and fabulous students. And last week I was honored with an award for my career at ETH Zurich Cheers and peace to all!