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SUMMARY:Governance of and by paper: natural history and the Dutch Empire i
 n Southeast Asia\, 1800–1850 - Andreas Weber (University of Twente)
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CONTACT:Joanne Green
DESCRIPTION:The unruly materiality of 'paper' is an intriguing vehicle to 
 examine the relationship between natural history\, chemistry and governanc
 e in the early 19th-century Dutch Empire. Owing to high costs for imported
  raw materials\, changing patterns of consumption and trade restrictions\,
  civil servants\, printers\, suppliers of writing equipment\, and owners o
 f paper mills were forced to find ways to secure the circulation of paper 
 between Europe and Southeast Asia\, as well as between colonial outposts i
 n the far-flung Malay Archipelago. While government officials in The Hague
  and Batavia tried to streamline paper flows in offices and print shops\, 
 engaged citizens\, entrepreneurs\, naturalists and chemical savants such a
 s Adriaan Rogge\, Jan Kool and Petrus Johannes Kasteleyn started to tinker
  with and reflect upon domestic and colonial surrogates which were suppose
 d to replace costly raw materials (e.g. linen rags) from elsewhere. By con
 ceptualizing governance as the evolving consequence of the circulation of 
 paper-related actors\, expertise and materials\, this paper works towards 
 a history of paper in which a 'mentalist' and a 'materialist' (Latour) app
 roach is combined.
LOCATION:Zoom
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