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ItemEditorial: Refugees: Past and Present(Wiley, 2019-12)
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ItemFrom the Modern to the Digital World: New Order, New Emotions(Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)Across six volumes, A Cultural History of the Emotions explores how emotions have changed over the course of human history, but also how emotions have themselves created and changed history. Emotions underpin our everyday lives and shape our mental, physical and social well-being. This collection shows how emotions can offer a unique insight into the historical thought and function of different societies.
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ItemContesting Australian History. Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake(Monash University Publishing, 2019)One of Australia's leading scholars and a highly distinguished professor of history, Marilyn Lake forged a career that spanned several decades across a number of universities. Her books and other scholarly writings have significantly advanced our understandings not only of Australian social, cultural and political history but also of the interdependence of that history with those of Britain, the US and the Asia–Pacific. Lake's intellectual endeavours have encompassed many subjects over her illustrious career. She has made significant contributions to multiple fields including the impact of war and the history of Anzac, the history of feminism and women's history, gender, post-colonialism, race relations and racial identities, transnationalism and internationalism, human rights, biography, labour history, progressivist social reform, and settler colonialism. The chapters in this book span the breadth of Lake's scholarly influence on the directions historical research is taking today, and are based on papers by Australian colleagues and scholars presented at a Festschrift held at the University of Melbourne over two days in December 2016. Lake has made an outstanding contribution to the history discipline, to the Australian academy, and to the community in promoting Australian history nationally and internationally. This volume is a tribute to her work and a recognition of her enduring influence and leadership in the profession.
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ItemTransforming Australian History: Humanitarianism and Transnationalism(Monash University Publishing, 2019)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableDiversity in Leadership: Australian women, past and present(ANU Press, 2014)While leadership is an over-used term today, how it is defined for women and the contexts in which it emerges remains elusive. Moreover, women are exhorted to exercise leadership, but occupying leadership positions has its challenges. Issues of access, acceptable behaviour and the development of skills to be successful leaders are just some of them. Diversity in Leadership: Australian women, past and present provides a new understanding of the historical and contemporary aspects of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women’s leadership in a range of local, national and international contexts. It brings interdisciplinary expertise to the topic from leading scholars in a range of fields and diverse backgrounds. The aims of the essays in the collection document the extent and diverse nature of women’s social and political leadership across various pursuits and endeavours within democratic political structures.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableA cultural history of sound, memory, and the senses(Routledge, 2017)The past 20 years have witnessed a turn towards the sensuous, particularly the aural, as a viable space for critical exploration in History and other Humanities disciplines. This has been informed by a heightened awareness of the role that the senses play in shaping modern identity and understanding of place; and increasingly, how the senses are central to the memory of past experiences and their representation. The result has been a broadening of our historical imagination, which has previously taken the visual for granted and ignored the other senses. Considering how crucial the auditory aspect of life has been, a shift from seeing to hearing past societies offers a further perspective for examining the complexity of historical events and experiences. Historians in many fields have begun to listen to the past, developing new arguments about the history and the memory of sensory experience. This volume builds on scholarship produced over the last twenty years and explores these dimensions by coupling the history of sound and the senses in distinctive ways: through a study of the sound of violence; the sound of voice mediated by technologies and the expression of memory through the senses. Though sound is the most developed field in the study of the sensorium, many argue that each of the senses should not be studied in isolation from each other, and for this reason, the final section incorporates material which emphasizes the sense as relational.
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ItemSounds and Silence of War: Dresden and Paris during World War II(Taylor & Francis, 2017)In February 2015, the seventieth anniversary of the bombing of Dresden (13-15 February 1945) was commemorated with great solemnity around the world. Public mourning and official recognition marked the commemoration of the event by German and British governments. In deeply moving and emotional scenes of survivors and their families, as well as sombre speeches by political leaders, there was widespread acknowledgement of the brutality and violence unleashed by this event that has since become one of the iconic symbols of the tragic destruction of World War II. 1 Military historians have extensively examined the impact of the bombings in many detailed accounts; the event has been identified as one of the key turning points in the course of the war. It has remained controversial for the bombing of a city, which was aimed specifically at women, children and the elderly rather than military targets. Over time, aspects of the narrative about the event have highlighted the German victims of the war. 2 More broadly, as events in military history have increasingly become the focus of examination by cultural and social historians, war has been re-interpreted as a cultural and not exclusively a military phenomenon. 3 In this methodological shift, the experiences of war by individuals, including how they remembered the bombings, have recently come to frame historical accounts of war. It is within this framework that I seek to analyse the impact and centrality of sound in survivor accounts of the bombings. 4 Based on interviews undertaken in Dresden in 2015, 5 this chapter seeks to examine the enduring nature of sound in the memory of the event and the emotional connection to the bombings through sound. The nexus between memory, sound and war is powerfully illustrated in these interviews, and the intersection of these three concepts informs the discussion of the bombings.
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ItemUniversities and Conscription: The Yes Campaign and the University of Melbourne(Monash University Publishing, 2016)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Greek Civil War, Child Removal and Traumatic Pasts in Australia(Berghahn Books, 2017)