Settler literature's environmental themes have generally been treated as a backdrop to questions of national identity and belonging, but that body of writing also has the potential to offer unique insights into the human dimensions of environmental change. The aim of this project is to reassess settler poems, novels, and travel narratives as a form of environmental knowledge that allowed colonial society to define the limits of its responsibility to the natural world.
Marsden Fund Standard Grant (NZ$657,000)
Marsden Fund Council and Royal Society Te Apārangi
Co-Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Teresa Shewry (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Associate Investigator: Associate Professor Margaret Forster (Massey University)
Project website: settlerenvironments.org
Marsden Fund Council and Royal Society Te Apārangi
Co-Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Teresa Shewry (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Associate Investigator: Associate Professor Margaret Forster (Massey University)
Project website: settlerenvironments.org