Lachlan Fleetwood

And we have a cover! Out in May with @CambridgeUP...

This week, the Lunchtime #Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Lachlan Fleetwood, titled “#Environmental Determinism, Climatic Stability, and Imperial Imaginaries of Habitability in #CentralAsia.”

Quick reminder: just over a week left to get your abstracts in for this workshop! #histenv #histsci #histgeog #envhums

Many thanks @EdArmston for this generous commentary, and great to be 'in conversation' with you on why studying exploration should matter to historians, geographers and historians of science!

New Online 1st Book Review “Making margins visible” by Thomas Simpson doi.org/10.1177/204382…

New Online 1st Book Review “Why study the history of exploration?” by Edward Armston-Sheret (@EdArmston) doi.org/10.1177/204382…

@global_discnct is organizing a fantastic #workshop on “Climate Change, Empire, and the Legacies of Environmental Determinism” in March 2024. More information: globaldisconnect.org/10/18/18-19-ma…. #rccnews #climatechange #environmentaldeterminism

CFP: "Climate Change, Empire and the Legacies of Environmental Determinism," LMU Munich, 18-19 March 2024. Please circulate and/or get in touch if this is of interest! @LMU_Muenchen

When I visited Chimborazo in Ecuador's Andean Mts, upon realizing I'm #Tibetan a few natives asked which Mt I thought is taller, Everest or Chimborazo? This book gets into that & the intersection of the making of western scientific know. of Mts & western Empire.

New article 'Histories of Habitability from the Oikoumene to the Anthropocene' now out in @WIREs_Reviews Available open access here: doi.org/10.1002/wcc.840 With thanks to @MSCActions @LMU_Muenchen @global_discnct #habitability #envhist #envhums #histgeog

I'm very proud to have an essay in this brilliant new book edited by my colleagues Alison Bashford, Emily Kern, and Adam Bobbette. New Earth Histories is 'a kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth.' Preorder now via this link: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Coming this month with @CUPAcademic - my first book! It traces the contested development of strategies of indirect rule in the EIC and includes chapters on rumour, violence, material culture, go-betweens, and women in palace politics.

Another in our series of #mountainresearch posts, this time turning the spotlight onto @jpitches68, in which he shares details of his fascinating practice-led research into mountain culture. #mountainhumanities @StA_Classics mountains.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2023/03/03/mou…

#longread For @Himalistan, I review John Keay's Himalaya, Erika Fatland's High, & @calmandfearless' Himalaya: A Human History, arguing that ways of seeing the Himalaya must shift from the colonialist discourse to emphasise indigenous histories. himalmag.com/himalaya-keay-…

And here is the first of our #mountainresearch spotlights - with enormous thanks to Lachlan Fleetwood @lachlanfleet for sharing his thoughts on the 'mountain humanities'. @StA_Classics mountains.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2023/02/27/mou…

We are excited to be launching a new blog series of #mountainresearchspotlights, showcasing the work of colleagues who joined us to discuss the 'past, present, and future' of the mountain humanities in December last year. @StA_Classics @JasonKonig1 tinyurl.com/2ke8vf7v

The journal is seeking to appoint two new members to its editorial collective, to work with Co-Editors in Chief Nicola Thomas and Stephen Legg. Deadline for applications: 13 March Details here: bit.ly/3jMdGBT

#CfP: Excited to be organizing "Making Science of Things: Objects in and between the Natural and Human Sciences" w Brooke Penaloza-Patzak! Deadline: 4 March Workshop dates: Vienna, 29 Jun - 1 July 2023 Please share/RT #sts #histsci #materialculture #twitterstorians

"Despite mountains of trash, increasingly severe overcrowding, and growing ethical debates around labour and risk, the allure of Everest remains undimmed." From August 2022: @lachlanfleet on science, labour and the rise of altitude to measure mountains. himalmag.com/why-does-evere…

@moritzmihatsch @netflix Ha! Well I'm sure they can find my email if they wanted to...

@amhuss27 Thanks Mobeen - there is indeed quite a bit on labour in the article, hope it's of some use... and looking forward to learning more about your new research too of course!

New article now published in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History! "Empire, Exploration and ‘Failure’: The Euphrates Expedition and the Route to India that Never Was" Available online here: doi.org/10.1080/030865… #histsci #histenv #histgeo