As part of my PhD study, I am investigating and tracing the history of the island communities of the Ruapuke Mission Station in the Foveaux Strait in southern New Zealand and of the Loyalty Islands north-east of New Caledonia.
Continue reading ‘No Shows’ and Other Forms of Refusal: Reading Missionary Letters about the Loyalty IslandsAuthor: Sarah Maria Noske
Sarah Maria Noske is a PhD candidate in history at the Justus-Liebig University Giessen and the Université Clermont Auvergne. In her PhD project, which is funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, she is working on the colonial histories of New Zealand and New Caledonia with a focus on interactions with Indigenous communities. Publications include ‘Cartographier les îles: Représentations d’Aotearoa Nouvelle-Zélande après sa re-découverte’, in Jean-Luc Piermay et al. (eds.), Faire connaître le monde en découverte: Explorer, représenter, diffuser les savoirs sur les mondes réels et imaginaires (Rennes, 2023).