Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0343132

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0343132

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Female Convicts as Women Travellers: an investigation into how the itineraries of convict experience affected life narratives. For convict women sent to Australia, ?transportation? meant international travel. By mapping the convicts as travellers, this project will afford a new perspective on women whose convict itineraries radically affected the direction of their lives. Alert to the specifics of time and place, the project investigates the carceral and non-carceral experiences of women whose shared voyage as convicts was neither the beginning nor the end of their travels. The research involves a systematic cluster sampling of three ships which sailed to Van Diemen's Land while transportation was at its height: the Harmony (1829), Atwick (1838), and Elizabeth and Henry (1847).

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 03-2003

End Date: 12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $145,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Literary Studies | History: Australian | Australian And New Zealand |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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