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Kew Garden作为一种日用品作物在咖啡发展中的作用，利用Kew的广泛档案来揭示KEWS与咖啡作为一种商品的历史关系，以及围绕咖啡的农业、政治和经济文化。这项研究是与Kew Gardens和Goldsmiths University合作的项目，我对种族等级制度和殖民做法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造成地理不平衡和资源、劳动力和土地以及文化和存在模式的不平等分配。因此，这项研究的框架将寻求发展一段空间历史--一段穿越空间和时间的非线性和碎片化的旅程--邱园对殖民地咖啡生产的发展和全球咖啡供应链的出现的影响。此外，这个项目恰逢邱园的棕榈屋--原址上的热带温室，也是KEWS最著名的温室之一--的修复。因此，这项研究将有助于在Kew Gardens中进行新的解释和展示，提供新的方式，使殖民实践和非殖民化知识更加透明，并为更广泛的公众，特别是那些有殖民生活或祖先经历的人提供/代表。

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.