Srijana Mitra Das

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Emily Thomas is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University. She tells Srijana Mitra Das at TE about the nature of travel:Emily Thomas is sitting in her living room, its windows giving a glimpse into the afternoon sunshine which, in an English summer, can’t decide if, slipping between leafy filigree, it wants to sparkle like a diamond or gleam like green-tinted gold. Yet, as TE spoke with her, the philosopher’s discussion was not about homelands but places far away.

6 days ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Srijana Mitra Das

NewsWorld NewsTimes Evoke News‘Tourism was an affluent privilege — it’s now becoming a working-class right’TrendingModern tourism, evolving from pilgrimages, surged with the Industrial Revolution, driven by a yearning for authentic experiences amidst rapid change. Post-WWII, tourism became more accessible, even an object of international negotiation, impacting economies and environments.

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NewsIndia NewsTimes Evoke News‘Colonialism impacted Africa’s animals — it disrupted traditions of respectful distance’TrendingNancy J. Jacobs is Professor of History at Brown University. Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , she discusses animals in times of capture — and freedom:What is the core of your research?My work is at the intersection of social and environmental history. I was trained as a South Africanist in the 1980s-90s. The most powerful form of history then was social history.

3 weeks ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Srijana Mitra Das

Stephen Tuffnell is Associate Professor of Modern United States History at Oxford University. Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , he discusses how gold shaped the modern world:You’ve co-edited ‘A Global History of Gold Rushes’ — which are some profound ones?■ California is one of the most important — it fires the starting gun for a series of rushes that continued uninterrupted until Klondike which ended at the turn of the 20 th century.

1 month ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Srijana Mitra Das

NewsIndia NewsTimes Evoke News‘South Africa once excluded black people from land — the state now seeks peaceful reform’TrendingProfessor William Beinart debunks claims of white farmers being targeted in South Africa, highlighting the historical dispossession of Black South Africans from their land. He notes land reform efforts post-Apartheid and the growth of commercial agriculture. Beinart also addresses climate change impacts, including reduced rainfall and urban water crises.