Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1094562

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP1094562

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Naming Oceania: geography, raciology and local knowledge in the 'fifth part of the world', 1511-1920. A history of the marriage of space and race in our region restores Australia to regional histories and wider Oceania to global histories. It offers a grounded basis to grasp how regional, national and local nomenclatures and identities mutated over 400 years, in contexts of European exploration, imperialism, colonisation, emergence of the science of race and intensifying face-to-face encounters. By uncovering traces of past naming systems, Indigenous and foreign, the research will show how present names and boundaries of states, places and people are constructs rather than eternal truths. It will cast light on the antecedents to modern Australian regional interventions, neighbourly relations and conceptions of racial or ethnic differences.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 30-09-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $175,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies | History: Australian | History: Pacific | History And Philosophy Of Science And Technology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

Historical Studies | History And Philosophy Of Science And Technology | History: Australian | History: Pacific | Understanding Australia'S Past | Understanding the Pasts of Other Societies

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