"Mountain Revolutions and Global Circulations" Project

This project expands the study of mountain revolutions—a concept developed in the course of my doctoral dissertation—to other spaces and other moments in history. Its aim is to examine mountains as sites of political autonomy, refuge, solidarity, and revolt, bringing together the local, transnational, and global scales. The project is part of a geohistorical approach to the commons on a global scale.

This research focuses in particular on the Lin Shuangwen revolt in Taiwan in 1788 and on revolutionary circulations between Europe and Asia. It also informs a comparative reflection on the history of slavery in the Pacific and on the role of mountains as spaces of resistance.

A few notes on choices you may want to adjust for your target audience:

"Mountain revolutions" is a literal rendering of révolutions montagnardes; if your dissertation already has an established English term for this concept, use that instead. "Highland revolutions" is another possibility, though it carries a more specifically British/Scottish connotation.

For biens communs, I used "the commons," which is the standard term in English-language scholarship (as in the commons/enclosure literature). If you mean it in a more contemporary political-theory sense, "common goods" is an alternative.

I rendered circulations révolutionnaires as "revolutionary circulations," which is now fairly standard in transnational and global history writing in English; "revolutionary exchanges" or "revolutionary flows" would read more naturally to a non-specialist.