Project description
Travel literature as a source of sustainability practices
Understanding the relationship between humans and the environment is critical in elaborating current and future practices aiming at the sustainable development of marine resources. Travel writings from the late 18th and early 19th centuries offer valuable information for understanding the evolution of culturally informed values of the environment. The EU-funded COASTAL ROUTES project investigates the human-environment relationship along the Atlantic coasts of Ireland and Scotland through the analysis of Romantic travel writing between 1770 and 1840. The project will conduct a comparative study of Irish and Scottish travel texts to understand how tourists established the environment as a resource and reflected changing attitudes, and it will reveal how environmental narratives matured around specific areas.
Objective
COASTAL ROUTES explores the deep history of human-environment relationships along the environmentally fragile Atlantic coasts of Ireland and Scotland through an interdisciplinary analysis of travel writing between 1770 and 1840. Offering the first comparative study of a neglected archive of Irish and Scottish travel texts from the period, COASTAL ROUTES will energise literary criticism beyond a nation-centred and imperial context by remapping the environmental geography of archipelagic Romanticism. It innovatively combines Environmental Humanities, Archipelagic Criticism and Geocriticism in order to contrast and examine the ways in which tourists construct landscape as a resource; consider how they reflect changing attitudes and values; and demonstrate how environmental narratives grew up around particular locations. COASTAL ROUTES makes a timely contribution to the UN’s Agenda 2030 as it sits at the nexus of Goals relating to sustainable economic growth, consumption and production patterns as well as sustainable development of marine resources. Understanding the historical development of culturally-informed values of the environment as developed in Romantic travel writing allows critical reflection on contemporary practices and future directions. As part of the dissemination plan, project findings will be communicated to the public via social media and a virtual exhibition. COASTAL ROUTES aims at intersectoral knowledge transfer by creating two travel e-brochures made freely available to Visit Scotland and Tourism Ireland for wider dissemination. Through the action, the ER will widen her research expertise, establish a new international network, and develop new skills in public engagement and impact to foster interdisciplinary and intersectoral knowledge transfer to strengthen the knowledge-base of the European Research Area.
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- humanities history and archaeology history
- humanities languages and literature literature studies literary theory literary criticism
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2019
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EH8 9YL Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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