School of Historical and Philosophical Studies - Theses

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    Planned communities and unplanned realities: a comparative history of 'community mindedness' in Greenbelt and Levittown
    Anderson, Clemency ( 2015)
    This thesis is a comparative history of Greenbelt, Maryland and Levittown, New York; two planned communities that were built in the mid-twentieth century. The aim of this study is to uncover the forces at work in these suburbs that affected the ability of residents to be community-minded. As this essay demonstrates, Greenbelt residents were resoundingly more communal than their Levittown descendants. A comparative study shows how variables such as state government, tax levels, education systems, transport infrastructure and popular culture each played a role in fostering community. The ongoing relevance of Environmental Determinism in suburban planning is confirmed. This thesis also attempts to negotiate the schism between pre and post-World War Two America, as the legacy of Greenbelt towns is written into the trajectory of postwar suburbia for one of the first times.
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    Sustaining the resistance: the role of Australian activist organisations in resisting the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, 1975 - 1991
    Clancy, Michael ( 2014)
    This thesis focuses on the activities of Melbourne based activist groups ACFOA and AETA as representative aid and solidarity organisations as defined in transnational activist literature. It explores their early activities, and how they responded to changing circumstances through the 1970s and 1980s inside the territory, within Australia, and internationally. It will show how activist efforts evolved from solidarity to advocacy, from expressions of outrage to considered framing of issues, and how a nexus between the two organisations developed that facilitated them playing complementary and effective roles in sustaining the idea of continued resistance within Australian politics, media, and international civil society. It does not attempt to chart the entire history of the organisations, or that of the independence struggle. Instead, through ACFOA and AETA it seeks to provide the first account of specific Australian activism in the under-explored period of 1975 - 1991. (From introduction)