The Palm House and the Plantationocene: Kew's role in the emergence of the global tropical commodity system and its legacies

我正在研究基尤园在咖啡作为商品作物发展中的作用，利用基尤广泛的档案来揭示基尤与咖啡作为商品的历史关系，以及围绕咖啡的农业、政治和经济文化。这项研究是与邱园和金史密斯大学的合作项目。我对种族等级制度和殖民实践产生的空间特别感兴趣，特别是殖民主义和后来的资本主义如何创造不均衡的地理和资源，劳动力和土地的不平等分配，以及文化和存在模式。因此，该研究的框架将寻求发展一个空间历史--一个穿越空间和时间的非线性和碎片化的旅程--基尤花园对殖民地咖啡生产发展和全球咖啡供应链出现的影响。此外，该项目恰逢邱园棕榈屋的修复，这是现场的热带温室，仍然是基尤最知名的温室之一。因此，这项研究将有助于新的解释和展示在邱园，提供新的方法，使殖民实践和非殖民知识更加透明，并访问/代表更广泛的公众，特别是那些生活或祖先的殖民经验。

I am researching Kew Garden's role in the development of coffee as a commodity crop, using Kew's extensive archive to uncover Kews' historical relationship to coffee as a commodity as well as the agricultural, political and economic cultures surrounding coffee. This research is a collaborative project with Kew Gardens and Goldsmiths University.I am particularly interested in the spaces racial hierarchies and colonial practices produces, particularly how colonialism and, later, capitalism created uneven geographies and unequal distribution of resources, labour and land, as well as cultures and modes of being. So, the framework for the research would seek to develop a spatial history - a non-linear and fragmented journey through spaces and times - of Kew Garden's influence on the development of coffee production across the colonies and the emergence of global coffee supply chains.In addition, this project coincides with the restoration of Kew Gardens' Palm House, the tropical glasshouse on site and still one of Kews' most well-known. As such, this research will contribute to new interpretation and display in Kew Gardens that provides new ways to make colonial practice and decolonial knowledge more transparent, and accessible to / representative of the wider public, in particular those with lived or ancestral experience of colonisation.