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CATEGORIES:Cabinet of Natural History
SUMMARY:Governance of and by paper: natural history and th
 e Dutch Empire in Southeast Asia\, 1800–1850 - And
 reas Weber (University of Twente)
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/156886
DESCRIPTION:The unruly materiality of 'paper' is an intriguing
  vehicle to examine the relationship between natur
 al history\, chemistry and governance in the early
  19th-century Dutch Empire. Owing to high costs fo
 r imported raw materials\, changing patterns of co
 nsumption and trade restrictions\, civil servants\
 , printers\, suppliers of writing equipment\, and 
 owners of paper mills were forced to find ways to 
 secure the circulation of paper between Europe and
  Southeast Asia\, as well as between colonial outp
 osts in the far-flung Malay Archipelago. While gov
 ernment officials in The Hague and Batavia tried t
 o streamline paper flows in offices and print shop
 s\, engaged citizens\, entrepreneurs\, naturalists
  and chemical savants such as Adriaan Rogge\, Jan 
 Kool and Petrus Johannes Kasteleyn started to tink
 er with and reflect upon domestic and colonial sur
 rogates which were supposed to replace costly raw 
 materials (e.g. linen rags) from elsewhere. By con
 ceptualizing governance as the evolving consequenc
 e of the circulation of paper-related actors\, exp
 ertise and materials\, this paper works towards a 
 history of paper in which a 'mentalist' and a 'mat
 erialist' (Latour) approach is combined.
LOCATION:Zoom
CONTACT:Joanne Green
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