Archive for the ‘Australia’ Category
Robert Paul Hogg, ‘”A Hand Prepared to be Red”: Manliness and Violence on Britain’s Colonial Frontiers’, Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies 15, 1 (2010). Abstract On the frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia in the mid-nineteenth century, a culture of violence prevailed. Frontier men accommodated violence in their lives as a routine and normal part […]
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aboriginal history 34 (2010)
Aboriginal History 34 (2010), available online at the ANU E-Press. Why didn’t you listen: white noise and black history Controlling marriages: Friedrich Hagenauer and the betrothal of Indigenous Western Australian women in colonial Victoria Shamrock Aborigines: the Irish, the Aboriginal Australians and their children Defining disease, segregating race:Sir Raphael Cilento, Aboriginal health and leprosy management […]
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‘sacred site toilet’
The Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority has lost its Supreme Court appeal against a company that built a toilet on a sacred site, reports ABC News.
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A Newcastle University Professor says there is much to learn from Europe’s indigenous entrepreneurs when it comes to small business and the economy. Professor Dennis Foley will spend several months in Ireland later this year, studying that country’s native community, known as the Travellers. His research will investigate the similarities between the Irish and Australian […]
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Joanna Cruickshank, ‘Race, History, and the Australian Faith Missions’, Itinerario 34 (2010). Abstract: In 1901, the parliament of the new Commonwealth of Australia passed a series of laws designed, in the words of the Prime Minister Edmund Barton, “to make a legislative declaration of our racial identity”. An Act to expel the large Pacific Islander […]
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Helen Bethea Gardner, ‘From Site to Text: Australian Aborigines and The Origin of the Family’, Itinerario 34 (2010). Abstract: Missions were not simply sites of modernity, they were also the source of key data for the modernist theories of human progress. The idea that so called “primitive peoples” provided a window to the origins of […]
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john french on the construction of self and other in south africa, australia and the united states
John Mark French, ‘Native, narrative, and nation: The construction of self and other in European settler colonies’. Ph.D. diss. (UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, 2010). Abstract: A new theory is presented which uses the work of Michel Foucault to link the appearance of national identity to the development of the modem state. Drawing on thinkers […]
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Andrew Markus and Moshe Semyonov (ed.), Immigration and Nation Building: Australia and Israel Compared (Edward Elgar Publishing 2010). Contents: Introduction 1. Demography – Trends and Composition Karin Amit, Sergio Della Pergola and Allan Borowski 2. Immigration Laws Na’ama Carmi and Susan Kneebone 3. Integration into the Labor Market of Host Societies Yitzhak Haberfeld and Anne […]
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Meredith Lake, ‘Samuel Marsden, Work, and the Limits of Evangelical Humanitarianism’, History Australia 7, 3 (2010). Abstract: Scholars have emphasised the contribution of evangelical humanitarianism to the debate over British settler colonialism, especially around the time of the Select Committee on Aborigines in British Settlements (1835–7). This article draws attention to another strand of evangelical […]
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art/intervention
Hat tip to Tessa. K
Filed under: art, Australia, Political developments | Closed
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