Of Rinderpest, Famine, Smallpox, and Debt: Land, Tax, Labor, and the Structure of the Conjuncture in 19th c. eastern Africa

Emma Park is an Assistant Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, where she teaches courses on modern Africa, science and technology, global histories of capitalism, and the history of “development.” Her current research uses infrastructure development projects to explore transformations in capitalism and state-craft. Her work mobilizes an ethnographically-informed reading of the cultural politics of infrastructures and work from the twentieth-century through to the present.