The Economics of Birds: Colonial Australia's Relationship to Native Species

该项目旨在对澳大利亚殖民地文化、科学和经济生活中的本土鸟类物种进行首次全面分析。它希望产生关于澳大利亚环境想象、身份和实践的新知识，在当地、全国和全球。预期的结果包括对物种和物种知识的流通、文化意义和使用的新见解，以及对鸟类的创造性、情感和物质反应的魅力和实用主义之间的紧张关系。通过绘制澳大利亚与鸟类的历史关系，并对当今紧迫的生态问题产生新的见解，这将极大地有助于理解澳大利亚的过去和现在。

This project aims to produce the first comprehensive analysis of native bird species in the cultural, scientific, and economic life of colonial Australia. It expects to generate new knowledge about Australia’s environmental imagination, identity and practices locally, nationally and globally. Anticipated outcomes include new insights into the circulation, cultural meanings and uses of species and species knowledge and the tensions between enchantment and pragmatism in creative, affective and material responses to birdlife. This should significantly benefit understandings of Australia’s past and present by mapping its historical relationships to bird species and producing new insights into the pressing ecological concerns of today.