Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2023.2229887
Sianan Healy
Abstract Using oral histories with women born between 1946 and 1980, this article explores experiences and memories of infertility and pregnancy loss in the post-women’s liberation era. Infertility had a lasting impact on participants’ relationships with their bodies, expressed often in terms of ambivalence towards their physical selves and an embodied ‘broken-ness’. I historically contextualise these expressions of broken-ness to show the ongoing resilience of socially-constructed narratives that link womanhood with reproductive ability. The resilience of these attitudes suggests a continued need for critically interrogating cultural norms about gender and infertility in Australian society.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2023.2228359
C. Waters
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2023.2236155
Yves Rees
Interdisciplinarity: easy to like, hard to do. (And to pronounce.) Despite decades of university rhetoric urging interdisciplinary scholarship, it remains an elusive and widely misunderstood objective. ‘Everyone wants interdisciplinary research but very few understand how it is produced’, as Claire E.F. Wright puts it in her debut monograph (2). In Australian Economic History, Wright sets out to examine the structures and conditions that enable (or not) interdisciplinary research, through the example of economic history – one of the oldest interdisciplinary fields. Over six chapters, Wright tracks Australian economic history from its origins with statistician Sir Timothy Coghlan in the late nineteenth century, to the twenty-first-century resurgence of interest in the material dimensions of the past – a revival that has produced ‘new histories of capitalism’ both here and overseas. Australian Economic History is almost two books in one: both a chronological history of the field of Australian economic history and an analysis of interdisciplinary knowledge production written with an eye to university policy. While the latter will be of great interest and relevance to anyone working in higher education, the former has a more niche appeal. The introduction and conclusion foreground the question of interdisciplinarity, yet the substantive chapters at times drift deep into the weeds of economic historiography – a hangover, perhaps, from the more empirical PhD that formed the basis of this book. That said, both the history and analysis are carried off with aplomb – no mean feat, given that the book (minus references and appendices) comes in at a slim 190 pages. Wright is not the first to tell the story of economic history in Australia, with the topic canvassed in various articles over the years. But in this pioneering book-length study of the topic, Wright presents a revisionist history that challenges the accepted ‘rise and fall’ narrative. The conventional story goes like this: after early forays in the interwar period, there was a postwar explosion in economic history, led by the ‘great man’ Noel Butlin, who founded the ‘orthodox’ school based at the Australian National University (ANU). As higher education expanded, economic history departments proliferated. By the 1980s, there was a peak of 50 dedicated economic historians nationwide. Then, in the wake of the Dawkins reforms, and the rise of the neoliberal university, the ‘departmental era’ collapsed. Student numbers plummeted, departments closed, retiring academics were not replaced. The few remaining
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2023.2231509
B. Kercher
Abstract Bruce Kercher began undergraduate study in arts and law at Sydney University in the late 1960s, at the beginning of the rapid rise of university places in Australia. He later spent most of his academic career at Macquarie University when the study of law was changing from staid positivism to a rich engagement with the place of law in society. His discovery of legal history and the joys of archival research allowed him to see the distinctive place of Australia in the common law world, and law’s impact on those from whom the land had been dispossessed.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2023.2236157
Miranda Johnson
These two lavishly illustrated, imaginative books centring M aori histories of place, dispossession, and reclamation register the decolonial turn in history-writing in Aotearoa. They are both written for diverse public audiences. M aori readers are explicitly addressed and the books tune in to specific ethical expectations these audiences might have. The authors are careful to explain their relationships to knowledge-holders of Indigenous communities and, in Lucy Mackintosh’s book, with others too. The now two-decades-old injunctive to decolonise methodologies has involved a lot of ‘should-ing’. These authors have done the work. The benefit of years-long engagement with individuals, communities, and collections is clear in the depth of local knowledge that lies behind the crisp prose and carefully selected, plentiful images, including artwork, landscape photography and portraiture, as well as maps and images of archival documents. Mackintosh’s ‘deep histories’ of T amaki Makaurau (Auckland) examines places often overlooked in a city that has ‘erased much of its history’ (1). Such erasures are not complete. At the edges of the city, for instance, in the Otuataua Stonefields, now close to Auckland airport on the Manukau Harbour and location of a high-profile land occupation over the past few years, arrangements of volcanic stones tell histories of human efforts to tame, claim, and contest land over generations. Even in what is now the centre of the city, at Pukekawa or Auckland Domain – the location of the Auckland War Memorial Museum – unexpected stories can be excavated from the colonial and oral historical record. Mackintosh rebuilds a story of a cottage built for the Waikato rangatira P otatau Te Wherowhero now no longer extant but locatable on early colonial maps. The land was originally offered to Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson by the Ng ati Wh atua in 1840, an inducement to establish the seat of the colonial government there. On the ‘in-between’ space of the Domain, then at the edge of the garrison town, Governor Fitzroy ordered a European style cottage for Te Wherowhero – whose iwi already had established diplomatic
这两本插图丰富、富有想象力的书以毛利人的地方、剥夺和开垦历史为中心，记录了奥特阿瓦历史写作的非殖民化转向。它们都是为不同的公众受众而写的。毛利的读者得到了明确的回应，这些书也迎合了这些读者可能有的特定道德期望。作者们小心翼翼地解释了他们与土著社区知识拥有者的关系，在露西·麦金托什的书中，也解释了他们与其他人的关系。这种已有20年历史的非殖民化方法包含了很多“应该”。这些作者已经完成了这项工作。多年来与个人、社区和收藏者的接触所带来的好处是，在简洁的散文和精心挑选的大量图像(包括艺术品、风景摄影和肖像，以及地图和档案文件图像)背后，对当地知识的深入了解是显而易见的。麦金托什(Mackintosh)关于T amaki Makaurau(奥克兰)的“深刻历史”考察了在一个“抹去了大部分历史”的城市中经常被忽视的地方(1)。这种抹去并不完整。例如，在城市边缘的奥图阿陶瓦石场(Otuataua Stonefields)，现在靠近奥克兰机场和马努考港(Manukau Harbour)，在过去几年里，这里发生了引人注目的土地侵占事件。在这里，火山岩的排列讲述了人类几代人努力征服、主张和争夺土地的历史。即使在现在的城市中心，在Pukekawa或奥克兰地区(奥克兰战争纪念博物馆的所在地)，也可以从殖民和口述历史记录中挖掘出意想不到的故事。麦金托什重建了一个为怀卡托rangatira P otatau the Wherowhero建造的小屋的故事，现在已经不存在了，但可以在早期的殖民地图上找到。这块土地最初是在1840年由吴棣华人提供给副总督威廉·霍布森(William Hobson)，作为在那里建立殖民政府所在地的诱因。在“领地”的“中间”空间，也就是驻军城镇的边缘，菲茨罗伊总督为“哪里哪里”订了一座欧洲风格的小屋——我已经在那里建立了外交关系
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Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2023.2208623
J. Brett
It is very gratifying to have Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People included in History Australia’s Landmarks series, and I thank the editors for the honour and Sybil Nolan for her thoughtful discussion of the book and its reception. I thank her too for publishing a second edition in 2007 with Melbourne University Press which has kept the book in print. I wrote a long introduction to this second edition, in which I reflected on the book’s origins in a course I was teaching on political parties at the University of Melbourne in 1980. Back then, I was looking for readings on the Liberal Party – its history, what it stood for and the reasons for its electoral success. Everything I found was from the left, describing the party as a vehicle for capital and the ruling class. I wanted something from inside, which captured the party’s self-understandings, when I found a copy of Menzies’ 1942 radio broadcast, ‘The Forgotten People’, in the basement of the Baillieu Library. I had just finished my PhD on the fin-de-si ecle Austrian writer, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which used a close reading of Hofmannsthal’s writing to develop a psycho-biographical argument about his transition from a gifted young lyric poet to Richard Strauss’s librettist. I was good at close reading, and I started to apply my skill to Menzies’ broadcast, mostly to the ‘Forgotten People’ broadcast itself but also to other of his writing, including his occasional verse. At the beginning I was not especially interested in the place of the broadcast in Menzies’ biography but in reading it as ideology – as a paradigmatic example of the imagined representation of the real experience of the mid-twentieth-century Australian middle class. The linguistic turn was well underway, with its focus on understanding the way patterns of representation shaped the social world and the selves which inhabit it. Nolan has pointed to the influence of British cultural studies on the book. Also important were American literary critic Kenneth Burke on rhetoric and anthropologist Clifford Geertz on ideology as a cultural system. I want to take this opportunity to reflect on another, less obvious influence: the work of the French anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss. Before I embarked on my PhD, I studied for a postgraduate Diploma of Social Anthropology at Oxford University. My supervisor was Rodney Needham who, along with Mary Douglas and Edmund Leach, introduced the ideas of the French structural anthropologists to British social anthropology. The first essay question he set me was ‘What is a person?’ The second was on left and right, and the foundational role of binary oppositions in
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Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2023.2208620
Sybil Nolan
Abstract This article investigates the reception of Judith Brett’s landmark study, Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People, on its publication in 1992, a moment when many Australians living under neoliberal economic reform and recession were rethinking what it meant to be middle class. Brett argued that Menzies thought it meant individuals living the best lives they could, lives defined by independence and the possession of superior moral qualities. Her account resonated with contemporary Australian experience and remains highly influential. Yet within political history, reviews were mixed as traditionalists resisted the psychoanalytic theory Brett employed to understand Menzies’ public language. Her strategic defence of her interdisciplinary approach has ultimately helped to keep the idea of moral liberalism alive in political discourse.
摘要:本文考察了1992年朱迪思·布雷特里程碑式的研究《被遗忘的人》(Robert Menzies ' s Forgotten People)出版后的接受情况。当时，许多生活在新自由主义经济改革和经济衰退下的澳大利亚人正在重新思考什么是中产阶级。布雷特认为，孟席斯认为幸福意味着个人过着他们所能过的最好的生活，这种生活由独立和拥有优越的道德品质所定义。她的叙述与当代澳大利亚的经历产生了共鸣，至今仍极具影响力。然而，在政治史上，评论褒贬不一，因为传统主义者抵制布雷特用来理解门席斯公共语言的精神分析理论。她对自己跨学科方法的战略性辩护，最终帮助道德自由主义的理念在政治话语中保持了活力。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2023.2203727
Fiona Paisley
Abstract During the 1930s and into the 1940s, the League of Coloured Peoples in London, part of the Black diaspora with links to the West Indies, included Aboriginal Australia among its global concerns. This article sets out to investigate the LCP’s efforts, through its newsletter and by direct appeals to Australian governments, to promote the rights of Indigenous Australians. It did so as one aspect of its larger agenda as a Black organisation to shape the future of the British Commonwealth and end white racism globally. This hitherto overlooked aspect of the League’s history was informed in part by its interactions with the Anti-Slavery Society and the British Commonwealth League, two networks with Australian participants based in London that are more usually associated with internationalising the Aboriginal cause in this era. At the same time as the LCP was claiming to speak for Aboriginal Australia, however, Indigenous activists were promoting their own reform agendas and actively engaging in internationalism largely from within Australia.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-05DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2023.2214586
Jodie Boyd
Abstract This article follows the story of prohibited immigrant Noory Aziz and the long battle between Department of Immigration officials and Tasmanian Liberal MP Michael Hodgman over his residency status. It examines how Hodgman and the Department presented competing narratives around Aziz with each narrative informed by the shifting racial politics and social contexts of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Drawing on the Department’s detailed archival record, it is argued that each contending side in this battle constructed a concept of ‘immigrant’ that represented, on the one hand, the undeserving migrant of poor character and, on the other, the ideal migrant, exemplary of the ‘type’ of immigrant that Australia ought to favour.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2023.2202693
J. Gibson
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