Shaping Natural History and Settler Society: Mary Elizabeth Barber and the Nineteenth-Century Cape

Explores the intertwined relationship between science, gender and settler colonialism in the nineteenth century. Reconstructs the neglected history of Mary Elizabeth Barber’s scientific work in South Africa, shining light on the work of an important woman naturalist. Contributes to growing research on the involvement of the South in global knowledge networks and the role of knowledge production in colonial dispossession