Host: The Association of Japanese Geographers
Name : Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Autumn 2020
Date : October 10, 2020 - November 22, 2020
This paper explores how new knowledge and practices were produced by the encounter between colonial foresters and local ecology and societies in the British Empire. In particular, it will focus on the development of the taungya method, which was created as a hybrid of local shifting cultivation and European forestry model in colonial India. This method was first attempted in Burma in the late 1850s and employed in other parts of the British Empire by the 1930s. This paper will examine the process in which taungya became widespread in the empire and consider the nature of empire forestry.