Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0557783

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0557783

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The Humanities beyond Humanism: Race, Nature and the Human in Australia from Enlightenment to Federation. This Project injects much needed specificity into the emotive and circular logic of racism that characterises accounts of settler/indigenous history in Australia. In so far as Australia's Aboriginal people defied enlightenment/colonial ideas about humans as separate from nature, they shook the very foundations of western humanism. In crediting Aboriginal people with this impact on European knowledge and self-regard, the Project carries forward the critique of Australia's settlement from a fresh perspective. It challenges the persistent tendency of Australians to write Aborigines into nature, and forces a novel revision in thought about what it means to be 'properly human'.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 18-01-2005

End Date: 30-08-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $135,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Cultural Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | Historical Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | Cultural Studies | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

National identity | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander development and welfare

Other Keywords

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander development and welfare | Cultural Studies | Cultural Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | Historical Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | National identity | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies | Understanding Australia'S Past

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