Spatial Histories of Occupation

David Baillargeon is Assistant Professor of History at University of Texas at Arlington, USA. A specialist in the history of Modern Britain and the British Empire, he was a European Research Council (ERC) research associate and research fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK. Jeremy E. Taylor is Associate Professor in Modern Asian History at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas (2011) and has published articles in over 25 journals. Jeremy is Principal Investigator on the European Research Council funded project 'Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia'.

This interdisciplinary collection reveals occupation and colonisation as comparable spatial realms. But these spaces are not motionless: this is a book about mobility and motility. The authors challenge readers to think anew about how occupation changes and controls the movement of, and interactions between, the various bodies within these spaces.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Spatial Histories of Foreign Occupation and ColonialismDavid Baillargeon and Jeremy E. TaylorPart I: Urban SpacesChapter 1. Displacement, Urban Transformations and Resistance in Indonesian-occupied Dili, East TimorVannessa HearmanChapter 2. Displacing the Laws of the Indies with the City Beautiful: Daniel Burnham’s 1905 Plan for ManilaIan MorleyPart II: Inland and Rural SpacesChapter 3: Conflicting Modes of Colonial Occupation in British Malaya, 1874–95Joanna LeeChapter 4. The Unsuccessful Development of Southern Burmese Tin Mines in the Nineteenth CenturyYi LiChapter 5. Mapping China under Japanese Occupation: Spatial Configurations of State Power during Wartime (1937–45)David SerfassPart III: Island and Maritime SpacesChapter 6. Corral and Confine: Colonial Occupation and the Politics of Space in the Andaman IslandsVishvajit Pandya and Madhumita MazumdarChapter 7. Occupation at Sea: Rethinking the ‘In-Between’ Spaces of Empire in Colonial Indonesia and ChinaKris AlexandersonChapter 8. Hydroponic Imperialism: Race, Hygiene and Agro-Technology in Occupied Japan, 1945–60Abhishek NanavatiChapter 9. From Military Base to Conservation Site: Reimagining the Demilitarization of the Yambaru Forest in OkinawaSayaka Sakuma