Journal of Australian Studies@aus_journal

JAS is a fully refereed, international journal which publishes scholarly articles on Australian life, culture, history and politics.

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Insiders and outsiders, winners and losers: such familiar oppositions in Australian history. CFP for themed issue. Abstracts due 30 October 2023. To know more: criticalelites.net/2023/09/2… #callforpapers #elites #criticalelitehistory
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In this (open access !!!) article @matildakeynes traces the convergence of state redress and the educational construction of citizenship from the 1990s onwards in Australia.
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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.
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Rhetoric of Redress: Australian Political Speeches and Settler Citizens' Historical Consciousness

This article 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 t...

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ContempHistories@Contemp_History
30 Aug 2023
If you were at our seminar today and wanted to hear more about Andrew's research, here is your opportunity! 👇👇👇
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🔓Open access: Andrew Singleton’s article charts the history of the world’s oldest continuously running Spiritualist organisation, the Victorian Spiritualists’ Union (est. 1870).
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🔓Open access: Andrew Singleton’s article charts the history of the world’s oldest continuously running Spiritualist organisation, the Victorian Spiritualists’ Union (est. 1870).
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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.
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The Victorian Spiritualists’ Union and the Surprising Survival of Spiritualism in Australia

The new religion of Spiritualism emerged in the mid-19th century. Through mediumship, Spiritualists contacted the dead, believing them to have “passed over” to another plane of existence. It spread...

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Dr Denis Blight AO@denis_blight
21 Aug 2023
Winners of 2022 John Barrett Award for Australian Studies inasa.org/blog/winners-of-20… 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.

Winners of 2022 John Barrett Award for Australian Studies

Background Dr John Barrett (1931-1997) established this award by way of a bequest to La Trobe University in 1987. Dr John Barrett was a lecturer and reader at La Trobe University from 1969 until hi…

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Research article: 'Difference within Identity: Recognition, Growth and the Circularity of Indigenous Knowledge' – Samuel Curkpatrick tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Difference within Identity: Recognition, Growth and the Circularity of Indigenous Knowledge

The concept of circular thinking is readily attributed to patterns of Indigenous knowledge, characterised as distinct from the supposed linearity of Western epistemology; to approach epistemology t...

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to approach epistemology through this metaphor is to anticipate identity by difference and underscore the autonomy of knowledge within bounded cultural coordinates.
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Difference within Identity: Recognition, Growth and the Circularity of Indigenous Knowledge

The concept of circular thinking is readily attributed to patterns of Indigenous knowledge, characterised as distinct from the supposed linearity of Western epistemology; to approach epistemology t...

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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.
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And it's open access🔓🔓🔓 Read online now: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

The Hoyleton Institute Stage Door Inscriptions and the Ghosts of Forgotten Travelling Performers

This article provides an archaeologist’s reflection on some forgotten cultural and historical artefacts. Since the early 1920s, performing artists and variety acts who visited the Hoyleton Institut...

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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
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Untangling Maralinga: Spatial and Temporal Complexities of Australia’s Atomic Anthropocene

Reflecting on the atomic test sites in the South Australian desert, this article analyses the bisociation of cultural and historical spaces with geographical and geological formations. We expand Mi...

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Trending in #CulturalStudies: ooir.org/index.php?field=Art… 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)
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Jordy Silverstein@jordana_s_
4 Aug 2023
very lovely to have this out, online first, in @aus_journal, & exceptionally grateful to @MMierowsky for inviting me to give the seminar paper that became this article. you can find it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
screenshot of black text on white background, showing the title, abstract, keywords of the article, DOI, that can all be found in full at the hyperlink in the tweet. The article is called 'Files, Families and the Nation: An Archival History, Perhaps' and it's by me, Jordana Silverstein

ALT screenshot of black text on white background, showing the title, abstract, keywords of the article, DOI, that can all be found in full at the hyperlink in the tweet. The article is called 'Files, Families and the Nation: An Archival History, Perhaps' and it's by me, Jordana Silverstein

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Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social@amywayness
2 Aug 2023
If you were awarded your PhD thesis last year, this year, or WILL receive it later in 2023, consider applying for the Lyndall Ryan Thesis Prize! A fantastic award for the interdisciplinary field of Australian Studies🤓 @aus_journal inasa.org/home/lyndall-ryan-…
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