The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped International Order

Date: 

Monday, November 28, 2022, 9:30am to 11:00am

Location: 

via Zoom

This presentation will outline the main arguments of The Ideal River (Manchester University Press, 2022), which
examines the geographical imaginaries that underpinned the international efforts to create the first international organizations along the Rhine, Danube, and Congo Rivers. It will focus on the ways these imaginaries helped constitute the early international order in the 19th century and continue to underpin modern global governance into the 21st.

Joanne Yao is is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London and
Co-Convenor of the Global Politics Unbound research group. Her research centers on environmental history and politics, historical international relations, international hierarchies and orders, and the development of early international organizations. Her first book, The Ideal River (Manchester University Press, 2022) examines the construction of the ‘ideal river’ in the European geographical imagination and the establishment of the first international organizations. Joanne’s next project focuses on the history of Antarctica and early outer space exploration.

 

To join this talk via Zoom, please use this link: https://ntu-sg.zoom.us/j/2968371708. The Zoom Meeting ID is 296 837 1708 and the passcode is AGPT2022.

 

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