Dr. Harrison Croft is going to give a lecture about "Local Resistances to Environmental Degradation and Imperialism in the Long 19th Century" as part of the lecture course “Die Aufteilung der Erde – Eine Imperialismusgeschichte“.

The imperialism that defined Britain’s relationship with its colonies throughout the nineteenth century was so often characterised by environmental degradation, extractivism, and exploitation. Commodities were removed from their social and ecological contexts in India, Canada, and Australia, and used to increase the riches in the metropole. Plants and animals were deliberately and sometimes accidentally relocated; and minerals and other valuable commodities were removed from the global south at the same time as noxious and other unsavoury industries wereestablished there.And this period of imperial violence also heralded a climate now changed by human actions. But these aggressive actions were not without opposition, and this lecture draws attention to the many local resistances complicating the settler colonial project on the ground.