Kew's imperisl srchiie: Cstsloguing Economic Botsny in the Miscellaneous Reports, 1841-1928

Kew的帝国档案：1841-1928年杂类报告中的经济植物学编目在范围上，这个项目将调查杂文报告在揭示1841-1928年期间标志着人与植物关系的态度方面的意义。我的方法将集中在探索这些收藏如何帮助人们理解殖民植物的使用，以及这些殖民项目如何与当代的环境正义问题相关。通过从文学生态批评的角度仔细阅读这些卷，可以从它们的殖民、历史意义和持续价值两个方面来解读它们，作为我们目前与植物建立关系的方式和原因的例子。我会从经济价值的角度分析用来描述地理位置和植物的语言。除了语言问题，诸如信件中信息的顺序表明某些段落的感知重要性的结构性问题将提供另一条线索。在形式上，考虑到收藏中不同项目之间的差异，将能够比较可能针对更广泛公众的媒体报道中对经济植物学的看法，以及针对对这些领域感兴趣的读者的旅行写作和植物杂志。这一项目的广泛主题领域将是环境人文科学，因为作为殖民档案文本集合的对杂项报告的跨学科研究将包括生态批评文学研究、环境研究和殖民史。在发展现有工作方面，《杂项报告》中材料形式的独特组合将为档案非殖民化、环境正义和气候变化等当前关注的问题提供新的视角，建立在罗布·尼克松关于缓慢暴力的工作、邦妮·鲁斯和亚历克斯·亨特的后殖民时期的绿色以及更广泛的黑人生活也是运动的工作的基础上。在生物多样性危机时期，对人类利用植物的殖民和工业起源的洞察将继续影响我们的方法。对代际正义和传统生态知识的研究在知识挪用方面将是有用的，正如Ted Jojoll的工作所概述的那样。这项研究的一个中心目标将是通过洞察19世纪末和20世纪初的组织方式，评估《杂项报告》关于Kew Gardens在殖民全球知识转移中所起作用的迹象。这将鼓励人们反思这些发现如何为该机构内部的当代活动提供信息，以及Kew如何通过解决其殖民影响并支持其他机构这样做来继续引领植物学研究。

Kew's imperial archive: Cataloguing Economic Botany in the Miscellaneous Reports, 1841-1928In terms of scope, this project would investigate the significance of the Miscellaneous Reports in uncovering the attitudes which marked the relationship between humans and plants in the period 1841-1928. My approach would be centred on exploring how this collection can inform understandings of colonial plant usage, and how such colonial projects relate to contemporary issues of environmental justice. Through a close reading of the volumes from a literary ecocritical perspective, they can be unpacked both in terms of their colonial, historic significance and their ongoing value as examples of how and why our current relationship with plants was established. I would analyse the language used to describe geographical locations and plants in terms of economic value. Beyond issues of language, structural questions such as what the order of information within correspondence suggests about the perceived importance of certain passages would offer an additional line of enquiry. In terms of form, considering the differences between the various items within the collection will enable comparisons to be drawn between perceptions of economic botany in media reports perhaps aimed at the wider public, and travel writing and botanical magazines aimed at readers actively interested in these respective areas.The broad subject area of this project would be the environmental humanities, as an interdisciplinary study of the Miscellaneous Reports as a collection of colonial archival texts would encompass ecocritical literary studies, environmental studies and colonial history. In terms of developing upon existing work, the unique combination of forms of the materials in the Miscellaneous Reports will offer new perspectives on current concerns such as archive decolonisation, environmental justice, and climate change, building on Rob Nixon's work on slow violence, Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt's Postcolonial Green and more widely the work of the Black Lives Matter movement. The insights into the colonial and industrial origins of human uses of plants which continue to influence our approach will be essential in a time of biodiversity crises. Studies of intergenerational justice and traditional ecological knowledge would be useful here in terms of knowledge appropriation, as outlined in the work of Ted Jojola.A central aim of the research would be to evaluate the Miscellaneous Reports' indications about the roles Kew Gardens played in colonial global knowledge transfer through insights into how this was organised during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This would encourage reflections on how the findings inform contemporary activities within the institution and how Kew can continue to lead the way in botanical research by addressing its colonial influence and supporting other institutions in doing the same.