Insiders and outsiders, winners and losers: such familiar oppositions in Australian history. CFP for themed issue. Abstracts due 30 October 2023. To know more: https://t.co/JQNCd4yj7n #callforpapers#elites#criticalelitehistory
In this (open access !!!) article @matildakeynes traces the convergence of state redress and the educational construction of citizenship from the 1990s onwards in Australia.
It examines how successive settler political leaders used the education of a historical consciousness—settler citizens’ relation to past, present and future—as a core strategy to seek resolution of Australia’s problematic national past.
🔓Open access: Andrew Singleton’s article charts the history of the world’s oldest continuously running Spiritualist organisation, the Victorian Spiritualists’ Union (est. 1870).
Exploring the unexpected survival of Spiritualism in Australia, he argues it's one of Australia’s largest and most resilient alternative religious movements, not simply a Victorian-era curio.
Winners of 2022 John Barrett Award for Australian Studies https://t.co/UZg9uGCeFp via @aus_journal
I worked with Professor Bruce Bennett on Australian Studies leading to the Windows onto Worlds proposal for an Australia Abroad Council, established in DFAT but closed by Howard.
Research article: 'Difference within Identity: Recognition, Growth and the Circularity of Indigenous Knowledge' – Samuel Curkpatrick
https://t.co/W5MADvIk0h
to approach epistemology through this metaphor is to anticipate identity by difference and underscore the autonomy of knowledge within bounded cultural coordinates.
This was a lovely surprise - thanks so much to the judges of the John Barrett Prize and @aus_journal. This was one of those projects that was delayed and almost derailed by covid lockdowns, which makes this recognition even sweeter:
https://t.co/4dwMA7tLrY
Since 2003, archaeologist John Hayward has shared an artist studio space in an old institute building in SA's Mid North. In his article, Hayward traces the stories of the travelling performers who appeared on the institute stage during the first half of the 20th century.
Crossing dimensions of colonialism, tourism, atomic science & geology @LizTynanTSV & @lilithburridge tell the entangled human & geological story of the SA atomic test site, Maralinga & propose a new way of looking at the site and wider environment as a place of heterotopic crisis
Trending in #CulturalStudies:
https://t.co/aazwtoRUDe
1) Trump administration’s framing of the MS-13 gang
2) Autumn de Wilde's EMMA
3) Files, Families & the Nation (@aus_journal)
4) A Typology of Metagamers
5: ‘Être vraiment vrai’: truth & migration in Morocco (@IDjnl)