Kew's imperisl srchiie: Cstsloguing Economic Botsny in the Miscellaneous Reports, 1841-1928

基尤的帝国档案：1841- 1928年《杂项报告》中的经济植物学编目就范围而言，本项目将调查《杂项报告》在揭示1841-1928年期间人类与植物之间关系的态度方面的重要性。我的方法将集中在探索如何收集可以告知殖民植物使用的理解，以及如何将这些殖民项目与当代环境正义问题。通过从文学生态批评的角度仔细阅读这些卷，可以从它们的殖民地，历史意义和它们作为我们目前与植物的关系是如何以及为什么建立的例子的持续价值两个方面来解读它们。我会从经济价值的角度分析用来描述地理位置和植物的语言。除了语言问题之外，结构性问题，如通信中信息的顺序表明某些段落的感知重要性，将提供额外的调查路线。就形式而言，考虑到收藏品中各种物品之间的差异，将能够比较媒体报道中对经济植物学的看法，也许是针对更广泛的公众，而旅游写作和植物学杂志则是针对对这些领域感兴趣的读者。这个项目的广泛主题领域是环境人文，作为一个跨学科的研究杂项报告作为一个收集殖民档案文本将包括生态批评文学研究，环境研究和殖民历史。在现有工作的发展方面，杂项报告中材料形式的独特组合将为当前关注的问题提供新的视角，如档案非殖民化，环境正义和气候变化，建立在Rob尼克松关于缓慢暴力的工作，Bonnie鲁什和Alex Hunt的后殖民绿色以及更广泛的Black Lives Matter运动的工作基础上。在生物多样性危机的时代，对人类利用植物的殖民和工业起源的深入了解将是至关重要的，这将继续影响我们的方法。研究代际正义和传统生态知识将有助于在这里的知识挪用，概述了在Ted Jojola的工作。一个中心的研究目标是评估杂项报告中的邱园在殖民地的全球知识转移中发挥的作用，通过洞察这是如何组织在十九世纪末和二十世纪初。这将鼓励人们思考这些发现如何为该机构的当代活动提供信息，以及基尤如何通过解决其殖民影响并支持其他机构这样做来继续引领植物学研究。

Kew's imperial archive: Cataloguing Economic Botany in the Miscellaneous Reports, 1841-1928In terms of scope, this project would investigate the significance of the Miscellaneous Reports in uncovering the attitudes which marked the relationship between humans and plants in the period 1841-1928. My approach would be centred on exploring how this collection can inform understandings of colonial plant usage, and how such colonial projects relate to contemporary issues of environmental justice. Through a close reading of the volumes from a literary ecocritical perspective, they can be unpacked both in terms of their colonial, historic significance and their ongoing value as examples of how and why our current relationship with plants was established. I would analyse the language used to describe geographical locations and plants in terms of economic value. Beyond issues of language, structural questions such as what the order of information within correspondence suggests about the perceived importance of certain passages would offer an additional line of enquiry. In terms of form, considering the differences between the various items within the collection will enable comparisons to be drawn between perceptions of economic botany in media reports perhaps aimed at the wider public, and travel writing and botanical magazines aimed at readers actively interested in these respective areas.The broad subject area of this project would be the environmental humanities, as an interdisciplinary study of the Miscellaneous Reports as a collection of colonial archival texts would encompass ecocritical literary studies, environmental studies and colonial history. In terms of developing upon existing work, the unique combination of forms of the materials in the Miscellaneous Reports will offer new perspectives on current concerns such as archive decolonisation, environmental justice, and climate change, building on Rob Nixon's work on slow violence, Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt's Postcolonial Green and more widely the work of the Black Lives Matter movement. The insights into the colonial and industrial origins of human uses of plants which continue to influence our approach will be essential in a time of biodiversity crises. Studies of intergenerational justice and traditional ecological knowledge would be useful here in terms of knowledge appropriation, as outlined in the work of Ted Jojola.A central aim of the research would be to evaluate the Miscellaneous Reports' indications about the roles Kew Gardens played in colonial global knowledge transfer through insights into how this was organised during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This would encourage reflections on how the findings inform contemporary activities within the institution and how Kew can continue to lead the way in botanical research by addressing its colonial influence and supporting other institutions in doing the same.