David Baillargeon is Assistant Professor of History at University of Texas at Arlington, USA. A specialist in the history of Modern Britain and the British Empire, he was a European Research Council (ERC) research associate and research fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK. Jeremy E. Taylor is Associate Professor in Modern Asian History at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas (2011) and has published articles in over 25 journals. Jeremy is Principal Investigator on the European Research Council funded project 'Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia'.
This interdisciplinary collection reveals occupation and colonisation as comparable spatial realms. But these spaces are not motionless: this is a book about mobility and motility. The authors challenge readers to think anew about how occupation changes and controls the movement of, and interactions between, the various bodies within these spaces. * Christine de Matos, Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Arts & Sciences and Business & Law, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Australia * This book provides a fresh and essential perspective on the spatial history of colonial and occupied Asia from the Andamans and Afghanistan to Japan and the Philippines. By employing a broad category of ‘occupation’ across space and varying scales, the authors invite us to rethink our assumptions about power and territory in Asia and beyond. * Su Lin Lewis, Associate Professor in Modern Global History, University of Bristol, UK * Spatial Histories of Occupation is a deeply researched, kaleidoscopic tour de force that ventures into rarely described environments in Southeast Asia and beyond that results in a provocative query on the social and environmental legacies of foreign occupation in Asia. * David Biggs, Professor of History, UC Riverside, USA *