Fashioning Georgian Englishness: Race, National Identity, and Codes of Proper Behaviour

Projektinformationen

FaGEng

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 707225

DOI 10.3030/707225

Das Projekt endete am 31 August 2018

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 23 Februar 2016

Startdatum 1 Januar 2017

Enddatum 31 Dezember 2018

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Gesamtkosten € 195 454,80

EU-Beitrag € 195 454,80

Koordiniert durch

QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
United Kingdom

Ziel

The proposed research project ‘Fashioning Georgian Englishness: Race, National Identity, and Codes of Proper Behaviour’ examines the interconnectedness of nationality, race, and conduct within an eighteenth-century colonial perspective. The interdisciplinary project argues that race played a vital but ambiguous role in the construction of the nascent English national identity in the Georgian era (1714–1830); however, since race was a fluid and heterogeneous concept, the racial and/or national status of English subjects was constructed through the vocabulary and practices of decency, propriety, refinement, and good conduct. Articulations and practices of class- and gender-based ‘proper behaviour’ were thus used to create a naturalised English national character that had a racial foundation.
The project employs an interdisciplinary methodology that combines cultural and intellectual historical methods with constructionist and postcolonial perspectives; through this approach, it examines race and national character as deeply performative, fictive constructions, created through internalising discursive knowledge. The project makes a significant and novel contribution to the history of eighteenth-century English nationalism, which has thus far ignored the importance of race for the construction of a national identity. Moreover, the questions and themes the research addresses also offer a highly fruitful point of comparison to recent processes of cultural interaction and exchange, and the structures of racism and nationalism in present-day Europe.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• humanities › history and archaeology › history
• social sciences › sociology › social issues › social inequalities › racial inequality
• social sciences › sociology › anthropology › ethnology
• social sciences › sociology › demography › human migrations
• humanities › philosophy, ethics and religion › religions

Schlüsselbegriffe

• Eighteenth-century Britain
• identity
• nationality
• ethnicity
• race
• intersectionalism
• performativity

Programm/Programme

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Thema/Themen

• MSCA-IF-2015-EF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF)

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

H2020-MSCA-IF-2015

Finanzierungsplan

MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)

Koordinator

QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 195 454,80
• Adresse: 327 MILE END ROAD ; E1 4NS London ; Vereinigtes Königreich
• Region: London › Inner London — East › Tower Hamlets
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 195 454,80