The Biocultural Diaspora of Tea in the 21st Century

21 世纪茶的生物文化散居

• 批准号: 2886590
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway 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-2886590
• 关键词: Biocultural; Diaspora; Tea; 21st; Century

Developed in partnership with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this PhD research project addresses new geographies of tea production in the 21st Century. Tea cultivation is experiencing a renaissance in Europe and North America, with an expanding number of tea growers and makers supplying niche specialty teas to consumers globally, chiefly facilitated via internet marketing. The project examines the implications of this phenomenon for cultures of tea production, our understanding of tea's geographies, and tea's biodiversity. Empirically, the research will engage with craft tea growers and makers in the UK and USA on their sourcing and development of tea plant stocks, their production practices, their marketing discourses, and their key consumer markets.This project has grown out of research by the candidate into the historic tea specimens in the Economic Botany collection at Kew. This work highlighted the significance of these specimens in documenting successive introductions of tea cultivation, first in Assam, then in Sri Lanka, Jamaica, Kenya and other colonies. The doctoral research builds on this to investigate contemporary introductions of tea in the United Kingdom and the United States. As a collaborative project it draws on complementary intellectual strengths:Kew's commitment to using colonial specimens and their history to address contemporary issues, and Royal Holloway's strength in food geographies and plant humanities. Kew also brings specialist expertise in relevant botanical topics such as seed banking and intellectual property. In turn, Kew will benefit from the student's input into interpretation of living and research collections; the project's programme of public engagement activity; and the initiation of a 21st Century tea collection at Kew of a similar calibre to that developed in the19th Century.

这项博士研究项目是与英国皇家植物园合作开发的，旨在解决21世纪茶叶生产的新地理问题。茶叶种植在欧洲和北美正在经历复兴，越来越多的茶农和生产商向全球消费者提供利基特产茶，这主要是通过互联网营销促进的。该项目考察了这一现象对茶叶生产文化、我们对茶叶地理和茶叶生物多样性的理解的影响。在经验上，这项研究将与英国和美国的茶树种植者和制造者接触，研究他们的茶树库存的来源和开发，他们的生产实践，他们的营销话语，以及他们的主要消费市场。这个项目是由候选人对Kew经济植物学收藏中的历史茶叶标本进行的研究而发展起来的。这项工作突出了这些标本在记录连续引进茶叶种植方面的重要性，首先是在阿萨姆邦，然后是斯里兰卡、牙买加、肯尼亚和其他殖民地。博士研究建立在此基础上，调查英国和美国当代茶的引进情况。作为一个合作项目，它利用了互补的智力优势：Kew致力于使用殖民标本及其历史来解决当代问题，以及Royal Holloway在食品地理和植物人文方面的优势。Kew还带来了相关植物学主题的专业知识，如种子银行和知识产权。反过来，Kew将受益于学生对生活和研究收藏的解读；该项目的公共参与活动计划；以及在Kew发起与19世纪开发的类似质量的21世纪茶叶收藏。