Transimperial Trajectories－A Lecture Course

This taught course by Professor Satoshi Mizutani is based on his monograph, Transimperial Trajectories: Colonialism and Anticolonialism across the British and Japanese Empires (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming) [under advanced contract]:

Synopsis

Despite its detailed analysis of historical events and conditions, Transimperial Trajectories is fundamentally an argument for transimperial history as a new approach. It demonstrates both the critical importance of simultaneously examining cooperation, competition, and resistance as three interrelated modes of interaction shaping transimperial formations, and the value of a transimperial perspective for uncovering new dimensions of familiar themes, including diplomacy, knowledge, atrocity narratives, colonial collaboration, anticolonial print culture, and anticolonial solidarity.

Table of Contents

Introduction——Transimperial Entanglements and the Politics of Comparison           

Part I. Cooperation     

Chapter 1. Diplomacy——A Colonial Regime in the Making under Intergovernmental Cooperation   

Chapter 2. Comparative Knowledge——Colonial Internationalism and the Education of ‘Natives’         

Part II. Competition   

Chapter 3. Atrocity Narratives——Imperial Rivalry and the Exceptionalist Politics of Comparison    

Chapter 4. Colonial Collaboration——Anticolonial Nationalism in Entanglement with Transimperialist Expansion    

Part III. Resistance       

Chapter 5. Anticolonial Print Culture——Crosscolonial Resonance and the Oppositional Politics of Comparison

Chapter 6. Anticolonial Solidarity——the Spirit of Worldmaking in the Shadows of Empires           

Conclusion——Transimperial Trajectories in a Multicentric World     

This course is offered through the Graduate School of Global Studies at Doshisha University and is delivered in a hybrid format, with online participation via Zoom. Those interested in attending are invited to contact Professor Mizutani at smizutani [at] mail.doshisha.ac.jp.