The Laboratory of Modernity: Knowledge Formation and the Australian Settler Colonies (1788-1900)

现代性实验室：知识形成和澳大利亚定居者殖民地（1788-1900）

• 批准号: FT130100625
• 负责人: Prof Anna Johnston
• 金额: $ 57.5万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-02-02 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT130100625
• 关键词: Laboratory; Modernity; Knowledge; Formation; Australian

Colonial Australia was a laboratory in which European ideas could be tested, raw data collected, and social experiments trialled, especially in managing settler, convict, and Aboriginal populations. This literary historical project will analyse the production and circulation of colonial knowledge, by focusing on texts and print culture, and will map their influence on European thought and modern social theory. Grounded in meticulous archival and textual analysis, this project will trace the ways in which knowledge created in the settler colonies was produced by individuals and circulated by correspondence, institutions, and publication through imperial networks. This project will produce new insights into Australia’s literary and cultural history.

殖民地时期的澳大利亚是一个实验室，在这里可以测试欧洲的想法，收集原始数据，进行社会实验，特别是在管理定居者，罪犯和土著人口方面。这个文学历史项目将通过关注文本和印刷文化来分析殖民知识的生产和流通，并将绘制它们对欧洲思想和现代社会理论的影响。以细致的档案和文本分析为基础，该项目将追踪在殖民地创造的知识是如何由个人产生的，并通过帝国网络通过信件、机构和出版物传播的。该项目将为澳大利亚的文学和文化历史提供新的见解。