Article ID: CBB318315507

Terra Australis to Oceania: Racial Geography in the 'Fifth Part of the World' (2010)

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This paper is a synoptic history of racial geography in the 'fifth part of the world' or Oceania - an extended region embracing what are now Australia, Island Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. The period in question stretches from classical antiquity to the Enlightenment, to focus on the consolidation of European racial thinking with the marriage of geography and raciology in the early 19th century. The paper investigates the naming of places by Europeans and its ultimate entanglement with their racial classifications of people. The formulation of geographical and anthropological knowledge is located at the interface of metropolitan discourses and local experience. This necessitates unpacking the relationships between, on the one hand, the deductive reasoning of metropolitan savants, and, on the other hand, the empirical logic of voyagers and settlers who had visited or lived in particular places, encountered their inhabitants, and been exposed, often unwittingly, to indigenous agency and knowledge.

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Authors & Contributors
Henry, Matthew
O'Gorman, Emily
Beattie, James
Garden, Don
Douglas, Bronwen
Bostock, Helen C.
Concepts
Climate change
Environment
Geography
Colonialism
Weather
Environmental history
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
17th century
16th century
Places
New Zealand
Australia
Asia
Islands of the Pacific
Micronesia
Melanesia
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