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Podcast: The Indian Ocean World Podcast
Episode: Steven Serels - Animal Diseases as Threats to State Power in the SRSR
Description: Dr. Steven Serels (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient) discusses his research into animal diseases as threats to state power in the history of the Southern Red Sea Region (SRSR). The discussion weaves around diseases to camels, horses, and cattle, and brings up key themes of human-environment interaction, military uses for animals, colonial rule, and global climatic anomalies.Â
More details of Dr. Serels work can be found at: https://www.zmo.de/personen/dr-steven-serels
Please also check out especially his two monographs:
The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral 1640-1945 (Cham, CH: Palgrave, 2018): https://www.palgrave.c...