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Humanising the Squatter: Photography in the Service of Resettlement in Emergency-era Malaya (2022)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (2022). Humanising the Squatter: Photography in the Service of Resettlement in Emergency-era Malaya. History of Photography, 46(2-3), 164-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2023.2199651

This article explores the ways in which photography was used by the colonial state in Malaya to promote the supposed success of resettlement–the counterinsurgency scheme through which around half a million people were forcibly moved into camps, later... Read More about Humanising the Squatter: Photography in the Service of Resettlement in Emergency-era Malaya.

“To Cleanse the Countryside We Must First Cleanse Hearts’: The Culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China (2022)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (2022). “To Cleanse the Countryside We Must First Cleanse Hearts’: The Culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China. Cultural and Social History, 19(3), 265-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2022.2069205

Contributing to a growing literature on the transnational history of ‘collaborationism’ under wartime occupation, this paper examines ‘Rural Pacification’–the counterinsurgency campaigns that were prosecuted from 1941 to 1943 in Japanese-occupied Chi... Read More about “To Cleanse the Countryside We Must First Cleanse Hearts’: The Culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China.

Spatial Histories of Occupation: Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia (2022)
Book
Baillargeon, D., & Taylor, J. (2022). J. E. Taylor, D. Baillargeon, & J. Taylor (Eds.). Spatial Histories of Occupation: Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350257023

This open access book explores how different spatial geographies emerged, adapted or were transformed in various occupied and colonial settings around Asia, showing how the experiences of those living under occupation shaped and was shaped by new int... Read More about Spatial Histories of Occupation: Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia.

Sonic Histories of Occupation: Experiencing Sound and Empire in a Global Context (2022)
Book
Skelchy, R. P., & Taylor, J. E. (Eds.). (2022). Sonic Histories of Occupation: Experiencing Sound and Empire in a Global Context. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232310

This open access book examines how auditory environments in different contexts have contributed to understanding foreign occupation and colonialism, and how they have given rise to historical music cultures. How are sound and music implicated in the... Read More about Sonic Histories of Occupation: Experiencing Sound and Empire in a Global Context.