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The Memorialisation of Hector Vasyli: Civilisational Prestige, Imperial Association and Greek Migrant Performance
No full textMigrant Nation: Australian Culture, Society and Identity
No full textWho are the hidden faces that have contributed to the formation of an Australian identity? In what ways have individuals and groups been “excluded, neglected, or simply forgotten” in the dogged drive to narrate a cohesive story of identity‐making in Australia (p.2)? Such questions are addressed in this timely and comprehensive edited collection. As the volume's editor Paul Longley Arthur notes, the book sets out to uncover the “historical blind spots” that have been persistently concealed in the quest to uphold an “Australian settler dream” (pp.2‐3). Drawing upon a wide array of historical materials and approaches, this volume brings to the page histories of people who have been cast as peripheral to, or at odds with, commonplace Australian identity narratives. The uneasy colonial and gendered politics of the “official” archive, along with the complex interplays that exist between migration, memory, biography and belonging, are explored by an assortment of talented scholars who — when assessed as a whole — reveal the methodological richness of Australian historical inquiry and how it can interact with the conceptually robust disciplines of cultural and literary studies.No Full Tex
Locality and legacy in Indigenous history now
No full textOver the past decade there has been a burgeoning interest in compiling material that looks back at early settler-colonial interactions with Indigenous peoples. There has also been an increased interest in historically examining the protest movements that defined Indigenous politics from the 1960s onwards. In visual and performing arts, in novels and poems, in documentary and feature films and in public and academic history, investiga-tions have focused, with more critical lenses, on the localised specificities and cultural leg-acies of Indigenous experiences. In Living with Locals: Early Europeans’ Experience of Indigenous Life by John Maynard and Victoria Haskins, and A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off by Charlie Ward, two very different explorations of Indigenous history are presented. One centres on localised examples of early European settlers who lived with Indigenous peoples. The other focuses on the cultural legacy left behind by the Gurindji people’s struggle for economic, political and cultural self-determin-ation. Each, in its own distinct way, is a welcome and refreshing addition to Indigenous historical inquiry. They are both balanced, intriguing and sophisticated, and there is little doubt that they are important contributions to a historical field that is comfortably expanding.Full Tex
Greek Settlers: Race, Labour, and the Making of White Australia, 1890s-1920s
No full textSubmission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY to the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Commerce, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Victoria
Politics of Forgetting: New Zealand, Greece and Britain at War
No full textPolitics of Forgetting: New Zealand, Greece and Britain at War . By Martyn Brown. (Australian Scholarly Publishing, London/New York, 2018), pp.408, 21 figures, AU$49.95 (pb).
Examining triangular relationships between nation‐states has become a growing topic of interest in historical studies. Such a frame of analysis has typically centred on reciprocal communications shared between three states and the different spheres where past interactions have taken place. Martyn Brown's examination of the “multiple connections” shared between New Zealand, Greece, and Britain during the Second World War contributes to this trend (p.3). In the first detailed study of New Zealand's military engagements in Greece, he offers new insights into the nationalist dynamics of “official” war history and the loaded politics of war remembrance. Brown is interested in the question of “what has been forgotten in the process” of remembering war and sets out to right the wrongs of historical silencing (p.2). The book sets the story of New Zealand's military involvement in Greece and attempts to place military exchanges alongside the complicated politics of conflict, humanitarianism, and the role Britain had in demarcating the contours of the New Zealand‐Greek relationship. Drawing on a wide range of archival materials in New Zealand, Greece, Britain, and the United States, Brown is interested in what is ignored or deliberately left out in New Zealand's Official War History Project.No Full Tex
Migrant Labour and Their “Capitalist Compatriots”: Towards a History of Ethnic Capitalism
No full textThe relationship between migration and Australian capitalism has long been a topic of robust scholarly debate in sociology and economics. Researchers in those fields have highlighted how migration has left an indelible imprint on Australian capitalism. By contrast, Australian migration histories have given scant attention to the role ethnic groups played in Australian capitalism. This lack of attention is particularly curious in historical studies of Greek Australia given the significance of small business in facilitating migration and settlement. From Federation onwards, Greek ethnic capitalism - or, more precisely, the relations between Greek migrant labourers and their petite bourgeoisie employers - became a topic of media coverage. In fact, the relations between Greek workers and employers were so important that newspapers routinely reported on the subject. This article examines this media coverage, its racialist and criminalising connotations, and historical relevance. It concludes with some observations on how histories of capitalism can productively engage with the histories of ethnicisation.Full Tex
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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