Dear all,
Following Denis Linehan's prompting, I feel I ought to step from the
shadows...
I am a first year Ph.D. student at the Geography Department of the
University of Cambridge. I am working with Dr. James Duncan. My interests
include post-colonial theory, the "new" cultural geography, historical
geography and the philosophy/methods of geography.
More specifically, my thesis (provisionally entitled "Black slaves, white
degenerates: contested identities in colonial Barbados, c.1770-1870") is
an attempt to explore the assertion, construction and contestation of a
whole series of identities in the context of the long-running debates on
slavery which occurred in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Such debates
were conducted in official reports, contemporary histories, travel
accounts, open letters, missionary pamphlets etc.
My research draws on recent work within geography (particularly that by
Clive Barnett, Alan Lester, Alistair Bonnett, Cheryl McEwan and Karen
Morin) and beyond its disciplinary boundaries (especially that of Ann
Stoler). Some of the themes in which I am interested include (historical)
geographies of "whiteness", the complexity of colonial encounters, and the
interplay between various forms of subjectivity (race/class/gender...).
Overall, I would identify myself as a cultural/historical geographer,
whose current aim is a career in academia.
Yours,
David Lambert
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David Lambert
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Department of Geography, Sidney Sussex College,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge,
Downing Site, CB2 3HU, UK.
Cambridge,
CB2 3EN, UK.
Tel: (01223) 740878 or 360570 (home)
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