Decolonising Female Missionary Photography

女性传教士摄影的非殖民化

• 批准号: 2862715
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Birkbeck, University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2862715
• 关键词: Decolonising; Female; Missionary; Photography

My research will contribute to decolonising feminist art history through a study of photographs made by Britishfemale missionaries working in Africa. European archives of missionary photography constitute one of the largestvisual collections of the late nineteenth-century colonial encounter yet photographs of and by missionary womenremain strangely absent from histories of photography; women's work; and colonialism. From a decolonialperspective, my research will examine how female missionary photography gave aesthetic shape to colonialideologies of difference by mobilising evangelical sentiment and at the same time created a space of agency forthemselves as European women. In studying photographs by missionary women, I aim to explore contradictionsbetween post-colonial and feminist approaches, examples will include images of and by missionaries working in theCongo, Togo, Nigeria and Zambia between 1876 and 1931: Alice Seeley Harris, Rebecca Wareham, Mary Slessorand Mabel Shaw

我的研究将通过对在非洲工作的不列颠富特宣教士的照片进行研究，从而有助于使女性主义艺术史取消。欧洲宣教摄影档案构成了十九世纪末期殖民地遭遇的最大藏品之一，但宣教妇女的照片和摄影史奇怪地缺席了。妇女的工作；和殖民主义。从非殖民时期的角度来看，我的研究将研究女性传教摄影是如何通过动员福音派情感来赋予殖民地差异的审美形状的，同时又创造了代理人的空间。在研究传教士女性的照片时，我的目的是探索后殖民和女权主义方法之间的矛盾之处，例如在1876年至1931年之间在Thecongo，Togo，Togo，Togo，Nigeria和Zambia工作的传教士和宣教士的图像和1931年之间的图像。