Harriet Mercer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harriet Mercer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harriet |
| FAMILY NAME | Mercer |
| SIGNATURE | MERCER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World
Imperialism, colonialism, and climate change science
Historical studies of the influence of imperialism and colonialism on climate science have yet to be brought together into a critical synthesis. This advanced review offers a critical overview of the key themes of this literature with the primary intention of enabling historians and other scholars to recognize, specify, and acknowledge the roles of imperial and colonial processes in shaping scientific framings of climate. Following a brief overvi…
Visions of Nature
Journal Article Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism. By Jarrod Hore Get access Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism Jarrod Hore (Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. ix + 333 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95, paper.) Harriet Mercer Harriet Mercer University of CambridgeCambridge, United Kingdom [email protected] Search for other works …
Atmospheric Archives
There is a rich cache of letters detailing the production of climate knowledge at Tasmania's Hobart Observatory in the early nineteenth century. By contrast, a mere handful of sentences survive in the written record to describe the production of climate knowledge outside the Hobart Observatory, in Tasmania's north-east. In this paper, I confront the question of what to do with these unbalanced archival remains. I draw on the work of social and cu…
Citizens of empire and nation
The history of Australian feminism remains well known for the early success of white women’s right to vote and stand for election to federal parliament. Yet much less well known is the story of how, for much of the first half of the twentieth century, Australian women could be and were involuntarily stripped of the very nationality which guaranteed those political rights. This paper draws fresh attention to the story of nationality loss, demonstr…
Imperialism, colonialism, and climate change science
Historical studies of the influence of imperialism and colonialism on climate science have yet to be brought together into a critical synthesis. This advanced review offers a critical overview of the key themes of this literature with the primary intention of enabling historians and other scholars to recognize, specify, and acknowledge the roles of imperial and colonial processes in shaping scientific framings of climate. Following a brief overvi…
Atmospheric Archives
There is a rich cache of letters detailing the production of climate knowledge at Tasmania's Hobart Observatory in the early nineteenth century. By contrast, a mere handful of sentences survive in the written record to describe the production of climate knowledge outside the Hobart Observatory, in Tasmania's north-east. In this paper, I confront the question of what to do with these unbalanced archival remains. I draw on the work of social and cu…
Citizens of empire and nation
The history of Australian feminism remains well known for the early success of white women’s right to vote and stand for election to federal parliament. Yet much less well known is the story of how, for much of the first half of the twentieth century, Australian women could be and were involuntarily stripped of the very nationality which guaranteed those political rights. This paper draws fresh attention to the story of nationality loss, demonstr…
Atmospheric Archives
There is a rich cache of letters detailing the production of climate knowledge at Tasmania's Hobart Observatory in the early nineteenth century. By contrast, a mere handful of sentences survive in the written record to describe the production of climate knowledge outside the Hobart Observatory, in Tasmania's north-east. In this paper, I confront the question of what to do with these unbalanced archival remains. I draw on the work of social and cu…
Imperialism, colonialism, and climate change science
Historical studies of the influence of imperialism and colonialism on climate science have yet to be brought together into a critical synthesis. This advanced review offers a critical overview of the key themes of this literature with the primary intention of enabling historians and other scholars to recognize, specify, and acknowledge the roles of imperial and colonial processes in shaping scientific framings of climate. Following a brief overvi…
Visions of Nature
Journal Article Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism. By Jarrod Hore Get access Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism Jarrod Hore (Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. ix + 333 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95, paper.) Harriet Mercer Harriet Mercer University of CambridgeCambridge, United Kingdom [email protected] Search for other works …
Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World
History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · History (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Climate change (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)