Gillian Mathys (University of Ghent) joins Philip Gooding to discuss her newly published book "Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands: Conflicts, connections and mobility in Central Africa"

Scholar Profile: https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/gillian.mathys

Book: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fractured-pasts-in-lake-kivus-borderlands/28EE1FFBB2BDDA8814964DD39656B959

Bukavu Series: https://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/podcasts/the-bukavu-expo

The Indian Ocean World podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sofia O’Reilly, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership, “Appraising Risk, Past and Present.”

Music: “Nam Nhi-tu” by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con.

Eric Jennings (University of Toronto) joins Philip Gooding to discuss his newly published book "Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean"

Scholar profile: https://www.history.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/eric-jennings

Book: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300264531/vanilla/

The Indian Ocean World podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sofia O’Reilly, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership, “Appraising Risk, Past and Present.”

Music: “Nam Nhi-tu” by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con.

Kundai Manamere (University of the Free State) joins Philip Gooding to discuss her newly published book "Malaria on the Move: Rural Communities and Public Health in Zimbabwe, 1890-2015."

Scholar profile: https://www.ssrc.org/fellows/f1b62cd1-500a-eb11-a813-000d3a3be5cf/

Book: https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425862/malaria-on-the-move/

The Indian Ocean World podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sofia O’Reilly, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership, “Appraising Risk, Past and Present.”

Music: “Nam Nhi-tu” by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con.

Everjoy Grace Chiimba (University of Bonn) joins Philip Gooding to discuss her ongoing paper, which explores youth narratives and organization following Cyclone Idai.

Scholar profile: https://kulturgeographie-mainz.de/team/everjoy-chiimba/

The Indian Ocean World podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sofia O’Reilly, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership, “Appraising Risk, Past and Present.”

Music: “Nam Nhi-tu” by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con.

Prof. Devika Shankar (The University of Hong Kong) joins Philip Gooding to discuss her new book, An encroaching sea : nature, sovereignty and development at the edge of British India 1860-1950(Cambridge University Press, 2025).

Scholar profile: https://history.hku.hk/staff-d-shankar/

Book: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/an-encroaching-sea/F95A7CEFEDC145611A2E27DC2751A5D7

The Indian Ocean World podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sofia O’Reilly, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership, “Appraising Risk, Past and Present.”

Music: “Nam Nhi-tu” by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con.

Prof. Fiona Williamson (Singapore Management University) joins Dr. Philip Gooding to discuss her recently published monograph: Imperial Weather Meteorology, Science, and the Environment in Colonial Malaya (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025). Their discussion covers the development of meteorological science under British rule in colonial Singapore and Malaya, with real implications for how the impacts of global warming are understood in the present.

A specialist in the environmental history of southeast Asia and the wider Indian Ocean World, Prof. Williamson has particular interest in the history of the climate, meteorology and extreme weather in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

Scholar profile: https://faculty.smu.edu.sg/profile/fiona-clare-williamson-1066

Book: https://faculty.smu.edu.sg/profile/fiona-clare-williamson-1066

The Indian Ocean World podcast is hosted by D. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sam Gleave Riemann and Sofia O’Reilly, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership, “Appraising Risk, Past and Present.”

Music: “Nam Nhi-tu” by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con

Prof. Alastair McClure (Hong Kong) joins Dr. Philip Gooding (IOWC, McGill) to discuss his first monograph, Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Terror and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922 (Cambridge UP, 2024). Their conversation covers state violence, coercive mercy, and Indian national politics under the British Raj.

A specialist in South Asian legal history, Prof. McClure is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Hong Kong.

Links:

University Profile: https://history.hku.hk/staff-a-mcclure/

Book: https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/history/south-asian-history/trials-sovereignty-mercy-violence-and-making-criminal-law-british-india-18571922?site_view=desktop

The Indian Ocean World Podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sam Gleave Riemann, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership "Appraising Risk, Past and Present."

Music: "Nam Nhi-tu" by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con

Dr. Philip Gooding (IOWC, McGill) is joined by Adam Bobbette (Glasgow) to discuss his 2023 book, The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java, published by Duke University Press. Their conversation covers the history of plate tectonic theory, human-earth systems relationships, and how to live and do research in the Anthropocene.

Dr. Adam Bobbette is Lecturer in Political Geology in the School of Geographical & Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow. The Pulse of the Earth is his first monograph and is currently being translated into Indonesian. In addition, he has co-edited four books on the academic press; contributed to The London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Cabinet, N+1, and e-flux; and collaborated creatively with filmmakers, architects, and visual artists.

Links:

University Profile: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/adambobbette/#biography,publications,audio

The Pulse of the Earth: https://dukeupress.edu/the-pulse-of-the-earth

The Indian Ocean World Podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced by Sam Gleave Riemann, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership "Appraising Risk, Past and Present."

Music: "Nam Nhi-tu" by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con