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Dissertation Hammel: Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818-1899): A History of Knowledge, Gender and Natural History
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Project title |
Dissertation Hammel: Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818-1899): A History of Knowledge, Gender and Natural History |
Principal Investigator(s) |
Tischler, Julia
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Project Members |
Hammel-Aschwanden, Tanja
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Organisation / Research unit |
Departement Geschichte / Geschichte Afrikas (Tischler) |
Project start |
01.01.2012 |
Probable end |
31.12.2017 |
Status |
Completed |
Abstract |
At the beginning of the 21st century, knowledge systems about nature face severe challenges. While science is heralded as a key contributor to future solutions of environmental problems, it is also investigated as a cause of nature’s destruction. In order to better understand the position and potential of scientific knowledge in the present crisis, there is a new need to examine the foundation period of natural science, its historical context and inherited structures. This project contributes to a wider debate on the development of scientific knowledge and environmental consciousness in the second half of the nineteenth century through a rigorous archival-based historical case study that examines the role of gender, locality and subjectivity in the transnational making of knowledge about nature. Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818-1899) was an exceptional British born and South African-based naturalist. In her pursuit of Humboldtian science, she transgressed gender boundaries, borders between the colony and the metropolis, and between local and cosmopolitan knowledge networks. |
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Other funds
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