Indigenous Intermediaries: New perspectives on exploration archives

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and has also published articles on Australian mission history, gender and heritage, and women in business, including in History Australia and Law and History Review. Len Collard is Professor with the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia. He is a Whadjuk Noongar and a Traditional Owner of the Perth Metropolitan area, its surrounding lands, rivers, swamps and ocean, and its culture. He has a background in literature and communications and his research interests are in the area of Aboriginal Studies, including Noongar interpretive histories and Noongar theoretical and practical research models. Len has conducted research funded by the Australian Research Council, the National Trust of Western Australia, the Western Australian Catholic Schools, the Swan River Trust and many other organisations. Len's research has allowed the broadening of the understanding of the many unique characteristics of Australia's Aboriginal people and has contributed enormously to improving the appreciation of Aboriginal culture and heritage of the southwest of Australia. Len's groundbreaking theoretical work has put Noongar cultural research on the local, national and international stages. Bronwen Douglas was a Fellow and Senior Fellow in Pacific and Asian History at The Australian National University for 16 years and is an Adjunct Associate Professor in 'retirement'. She is a historian of the interplay of race, geography, and practical encounters with people and places in Oceania. Her research IndIgenous IntermedIarIes xii interests include the identification of traces of Indigenous agency and the power of place in colonial and elite representations and the use of visual materials and maps as ethnohistorical texts. She is author of Across the Great Divide (Harwood

Conversations along the Mbwemkuru: Foreign Itinerants and Local Agents in German East Africa

“…” This discussion has also continued in more recent years with an extended global perspective. See the collected essays in Konishi, Nugent, and Bryden, Indigenous Intermediaries ; Thomas, Expedition into Empire ; and Raj, Relocating Modern Science. The link between Royal Holloway College and the RGS is a continuing one.…”

Counter Networks of Empires: Reading unexpected people in unexpected places

“…At other times these connections were made out of European purview and earshot. 12 This analytic focus on mobility has gone together with the transnational turn hand to glove, or "body to world," more aptly. If a focus on mobility enables a view of people's racialized and gendered access to move in local and global space, and thereby form connections and power, then a focus on networks enables historians to bring into focus the shapes and forms of such connections, including those that are not necessarily formal, enduring, or easily mapped in archives.…”

Escalando por la Ciencia y el Hielo: De Hans Kinzl y Montañismo- Glaciología a Ciencia Ciudadana en la Cordillera Blanca

“…Peruvian porters, by contrast, generally participate in mountaineering not for recreation but rather for the job, out of economic necessity for employment rather than during free time or for leisure, thereby revealing differences in motivation and capacity for citizen science programs. The contrasts between mountaineers and local groups are thus crucial considerations in citizen science programs because of several factors: mountaineers' unique access to both equipment and free-time for recreation and citizen science projects, the different type of knowledge and information they can collect that contrasts with local knowledges, their access to particular constituencies such as policymakers and NGOs in Peru and internationally, and the fact that local porters and guides work with and assist most mountaineers, thereby co-producing the data and environmental observations even when porters and guides do not necessarily write the reports, compile the data in Excel, or give public lectures in Huaraz or Lima (Driver, 2000;Konishi, Nugent and Shellam, 2015;Livingstone, 2003;Raj, 2007;Ortner, 1999). Finally, the type of knowledge from the mountaineering community is only one aspect of the many knowledges created and circulated, but it can nonetheless contribute to broader understandings of glacier change and mountain hazards.…”