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2018
2018
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Abingdon
1
2018-02-06
2018-02-06
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Schomburgk’s Chook
Focusing on the politics of museums, collections and the untold stories of the scientific ‘specimens’ that travelled between Germany and Australia, this article reconstructs the historical, interpersonal and geopolitical contexts that made it possible for the stuffed skin of an Australian malleefowl to become part of the collections of Berlin’s Museum für Naturkunde. The author enquires into the kinds of contexts that are habitually considered irrelevant when a specimen of natural history is treated as an object of taxonomic information only. In case of this particular specimen human and non-human history become entangled in ways that link the fate of this one small Australian bird to the German revolutionary generation of 1848, to Germany’s nineteenth-century colonial aspirations, to settler–Indigenous relations, to the cruel realities that underpinned the production of scientific knowledge in colonial Australia, and to a present-day interest in reconstructing Indigenous knowledges.
Postcolonial Studies
the entangled South Australian collections of a German naturalist
10.1080/13688790.2018.1434749
1368-8790
1466-1888
wos:2018
WOS:000428593300003
Schwarz, A (reprint author), Univ Potsdam, Inst Anglist & Amer Ist, Dept English, Potsdam, Germany., anja.schwarz@uni-potsdam.de
2022-03-31T08:38:52+00:00
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<a href="https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412959">Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe ; 141 </a>
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Anja Schwarz
eng
uncontrolled
German colonialism
eng
uncontrolled
colonial Australia
eng
uncontrolled
natural history collections
eng
uncontrolled
Richard Schomburgk
eng
uncontrolled
malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata)
Englisch, Altenglisch
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Import
38522
2015
2015
eng
529
545
17
4
39
article
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Abingdon
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"The greatest son of our Heimat": reading German Leichhardts across the National Socialist era
The article discusses German commemorations of Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848) in the National Socialist era when officials, journalists, educators and writers, spurred by the double anniversary of the explorer's 125th birthday and the 90th anniversary of his disappearance, began to re-imagine the explorer's life and fate in the light of the ideological imperatives of the day. Our analysis of this period pays particular attention to how these reimagined Leichhardts emphasise or neglect some of the key elements that make up his story to this day, among them: Leichhardt's ethnicity; his sense of attachment to place and home; his homosocial relationships; his evasion of Prussian military service; his role in the British colonial project; and finally, his engagements with Aborigines. On the one hand, our analysis reveals, how Leichhardt was portrayed first on the local and, later, the national level in ways that increasingly sought to elide ambiguous aspects of his life and deeds. However, it also uncovers some of the ideological labour required to render him useful to the National Socialist cause. Often enough, these re-imagined Leichhardts escaped party politics, and cast up some of the logical inconsistencies and limits to key terms in National Socialist thinking.
Journal of Australian studies
10.1080/14443058.2015.1076025
1444-3058
1835-6419
wos:2015
WOS:000366188200008
Hurley, AW (reprint author), Univ Technol Sydney, Sch Int Studies, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia., andrew.hurley@uts.edu.au
Australian Technology Network/Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst
Grant scheme
Andrew Wright Hurley
Anja Schwarz
eng
uncontrolled
Ludwig Leichhardt
eng
uncontrolled
National Socialism
eng
uncontrolled
exploration
eng
uncontrolled
German colonialism
eng
uncontrolled
memory studies
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
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