Fashioning a Scientific Persona in a Colonial Borderland : The Many Identities of William Smith Clark in 1870s Colonial Hokkaido
Hennessey, John LU
(2021)
p.55-81
- Abstract
- In the 1870s, William Smith Clark was a successful botanist and president of Massachusetts Agricultural College. Nevertheless, frustrated by university politics, financial difficulties, and perhaps a midlife crisis, Clark was recruited by the Japanese government to establish an agricultural college on the northeast Asian island of Hokkaido, where Japan had recently begun an ambitious settler colonial project. In this mutable context, Clark skillfully combined numerous masculine identities, including scientist, missionary, teacher, and explorer, to craft a flamboyant persona that won him lasting respect in Japan. Less suited to Massachusetts, Clark’s inflated persona destroyed his academic and scientific career after his return, however.... (More)
- In the 1870s, William Smith Clark was a successful botanist and president of Massachusetts Agricultural College. Nevertheless, frustrated by university politics, financial difficulties, and perhaps a midlife crisis, Clark was recruited by the Japanese government to establish an agricultural college on the northeast Asian island of Hokkaido, where Japan had recently begun an ambitious settler colonial project. In this mutable context, Clark skillfully combined numerous masculine identities, including scientist, missionary, teacher, and explorer, to craft a flamboyant persona that won him lasting respect in Japan. Less suited to Massachusetts, Clark’s inflated persona destroyed his academic and scientific career after his return, however. This chapter explores the construction of personae in “home” and “abroad” contexts and the tensions and opportunities that emerge from travel between them. (Less)
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- author
- Hennessey, John
LU
- publishing date
- 2021
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- William Smith Clark, persona, Hokkaido, settler colonialism
- host publication
- Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona : Incarnations and Contestations - Incarnations and Contestations
- editor
- Niskanen, Kirsti and Barany, Michael J.
- pages
- 26 pages
- publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85150583203
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-49605-0
- 978-3-030-49606-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-49606-7_3
- language
- English
- LU publication?
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- 1e6093b9-e9a4-4816-9027-7c4f8061d71f
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- 2021-06-29 14:55:20
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author = {{Hennessey, John}},
booktitle = {{Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona : Incarnations and Contestations}},
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keywords = {{William Smith Clark; persona; Hokkaido; settler colonialism}},
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publisher = {{Palgrave Macmillan}},
title = {{Fashioning a Scientific Persona in a Colonial Borderland : The Many Identities of William Smith Clark in 1870s Colonial Hokkaido}},
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