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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP170100948
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Disaster, human suffering and Colonial photography. This project aims to investigate how photography shaped modern understandings of disaster. During the period modern European empires were at their most expansive, they became increasingly interventionist in indigenous environments and societies. The project will use rich but largely neglected sources from colonial Indonesia (c.1840-1950) to study how images of human suffering in different disaster contexts evolved since the invention of photography. Understanding how and why European expansion shaped modern ideas about disasters, and how photography has developed to communicate human suffering, is expected to benefit community and scholarly awareness of environmental disaster, war and their effects.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2017
End Date: 05-2023
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $211,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Historical Studies | Asian History | European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman)
