When migrants fail to stay: new histories on departures and migration
In: New directions in social and cultural history
In: New directions in social and cultural history
In: Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
"Spanning six decades from the formation of the Save the Children Fund in 1919 to humanitarian interventions during the Vietnam War, The Humanitarians maps the national and international humanitarian efforts undertaken by Australians on behalf of child refugees. In this longitudinal study, Joy Damousi explores the shifting forms of humanitarian activity related to war refugee children over the twentieth century, from child sponsorship, the establishment of orphanages, fundraising, to aid and development schemes and campaigns for inter-country adoption. Framed by conceptualisations of the history of emotions, and the limits and possibilities afforded by empathy and compassion, she considers the vital role of women and includes studies of unknown but significant women humanitarian workers and their often-traumatic experience of international humanitarian work. Through an examination of the intersection between racial politics and war refugees, Damousi advances our understanding of humanitarianism over the twentieth century as a deeply racialised and multilayered practice"--
In: The cultural histories series
In: The Cultural Histories Ser.
Intro -- Half-Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- General Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Medical and Scientific Understandings -- 2 Religion and Spirituality -- 3 Music and Dance -- 4 Drama -- 5 The Visual Arts -- 6 Literature -- 7 In Private: The Individual and the Domestic Community -- 8 In Public: Collectivities and Polities -- Notes On Contributors -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Copyright.
Part I: Labelling refugees. ch.1. Australian responses to refugee journeys: matters of perspective and context / Eve Lester ; ch.2. Once a refugee, always a refugee? The haunting of the refugee label in resettlement / Melanie Baak ; ch.3. 'His happy go lucky attitude is infectious': Australian imaginings of unaccompanied child refugees, 1970s-1980s / Jordana Silverstein ; ch.4. 'Foreign infiltration' vs 'immigration country': the asylum debate in Germany / Ann-Kathrin Bartels -- Part II: Flashpoints in Australian refugee history. ch.5. The other Asian refugees in the 1970s: Australian responses to the Bangladeshi refugee crisis in 1971 / Rachel Stevens ; ch.6. Race to the bottom: Constructions of asylum seekers in Australian federal election campaigns, 1977-2013 / Kathleen Blair ; ch.7. Behind the wire: An oral history project about immigration detention / André Dao and Jamila Jafari in conversation -- Part III: Understanding refugee histories and futures. ch.8. From Dahmarda to Dandenong via Denpassar: Hazara stories of settlement, success and separation / Laurel Mackenzie ; ch.9. Step by step: The insidious evolution of Australia's asylum seeker regime since 1992 / Savitri Taylor ; ch.10. Uses and abuses of refugee histories / Klaus Neumann -- Epilogue
In: Cambridge histories online
In: The Cambridge world history of violence
This book explores one of the most intractable problems of human existence - our propensity to inflict violence. It provides readers with case studies of political, social, economic, religious, structural and interpersonal violence from across the entire globe since 1800. It also examines the changing representations of violence in diverse media and the cultural significance of its commemoration. Together, the chapters provide in-depth understanding of the ways that humans have perpetrated violence, justified its use, attempted to contain its spread and narrated the stories of its impacts. Readers also gain insight into the mechanisms by which the parameters about the acceptable limits to and locations of violence have dramatically altered over the course of a few decades. Leading experts from around the world have pooled their knowledge to provide concise, authoritative examinations of the complex phenomenon of human violence. Annotated bibliographies provide overviews of the shape of the research field.
In: Cambridge histories online
In: The Cambridge world history of violence
In the period from 1500 to 1800 the problem of violence necessitated asking fundamental questions and formulating answers about the most basic forms of human organisation and interactions. Violence spoke to critical issues such as the problem of civility in society, the nature of political sovereignty and the power of the state, the legitimacy of conquest and subjugation, the possibilities of popular resistance, and the manifestations of ethnic and racial unrest. It also provided the raw material for profound meditations on humanity and for examining our relationship to the divine and natural worlds. The third volume of The Cambridge World History of Violence examines a world in which global empires were consolidated and expanded, and in which civilisations for the first time linked to each other by trans-oceanic contacts and a sophisticated world trade system.
In: Cambridge histories online
In: The Cambridge world history of violence
The first in a four-volume set, The Cambridge World History of Violence, volume I provides a comprehensive examination of violence in prehistory and the ancient world. Covering the period through to the end of classical antiquity, the chapters take a global perspective spanning sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, Europe, India, China, Japan and Central America. Unlike many previous works, this book does not focus only on warfare but examines violence as a broader phenomenon. The historical approach complements, and in some cases critiques, previous research on the anthropology and psychology of violence in the human story. Written by a team of contributors who are experts in each of their respective fields, this volume will be of particular interest to anyone fascinated by archaeology and the ancient world.
In: Cambridge histories online
In: The Cambridge world history of violence
Violence permeated much of social life across the vast geographical space of the European, American, Asian and Islamic lands and through the broad sweep of what is often termed the Middle Millennium (roughly 500 to 1500). Focusing on four contexts in which violence occurred across this huge area, the contributors to this volume explore the formation of centralised polities through war and conquest; institution building and ideological expression by these same polities; control of extensive trade networks; and the emergence and dominance of religious ecumenes. Attention is also given to the idea of how theories of violence are relevant to the specific historical circumstances discussed in the volume's chapters. A final section on the depiction of violence, both visual and literary, demonstrates the ubiquity of societal efforts to confront meanings of violence during this longue durée.
In: Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
"In an engaging and original contribution to the field of memory studies, Joy Damousi considers the enduring impact of war on family memory in the Greek diaspora. Focusing on Australia's Greek immigrants in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Greek Civil War, the book explores the concept of remembrance within the larger context of migration to show how inter-generational experience of war and trauma transcend both place and nation. Drawing from the most recent research in memory, trauma and transnationalism, Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War deals with the continuities and discontinuities of war stories, assimilation in modern Australia, politics and activism, child migration and memories of mothers and children in war. Damousi sheds new lights on aspects of forgotten memory and silence within families and communities, and in particular the ways in which past experience of violence and tragedy is both negotiated and processed"--
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 65, Heft 4, S. 549-565
ISSN: 1467-8497
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 65, Heft 4, S. 513-515
ISSN: 1467-8497
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 64, Heft 2, S. 211-226
ISSN: 1467-8497
Between 1957 and 1968, the Prime Minister Robert Menzies and several of his ministers, including Alexander Downer, the Minister for Immigration from 1958 to 1963, were inundated with hundreds of letters of protest demanding that action be taken to assist Japanese children fathered by Australian soldiers who had been stationed in Japan during the Allied occupation and beyond it between 1946 and 1956. The response from the Australian public forms the basis of this article to consider how attempts for the transnational movement of children in the postwar period point to understandings of humanitarianism at this time. The response to the predicament of the Japanese‐Australian children offers, I argue, an intriguing narrative of postwar humanitarianism that articulates the beginning of several historic shifts. The incident points to the growing challenge to the White Australia Policy, paradoxically on racialised and paternalistic grounds to bring white Australian children to Australia. The government shifted the discussion from one of immigration to foreign aid as a way of diffusing the public response and in doing so positioned itself in the new narrative about supporting rehabilitation and development. The media was crucial in evoking a response that depoliticized the issue of responsibility by reducing it to an emotional reaction.
In: MUP academic
This book explores the multifaceted impact of the League of Nations. Capturing interest generated by the internationally acclaimed 2015 work of Susan Pedersen, The Guardians, and her finely grained study of the Permanent Mandates Commission, this book adds additional layers to the picture she presented of the League. This book offers dynamic and fresh histories of the League from multiple perspectives and geographic vantage points demonstrating its impact and raising new questions and providing rich insights into the League of Nations' highly contested legacies
In: Knowledge Unlatched Frontlist Collection 2016
In: History
This volume tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and the life sciences. A History of the Case Study takes the reader on a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siécle Central Europe to the interwar metropolises of Weimar Germany, and to the United States of America in the post-war years. Foregrounding the figures of case study pioneers, and highlighting their radical engagements with the genre, the work scrutinises the case writing practices of Sigmund Freud and his predecessor sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing; writers such as Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Weimar intellectuals such as Erich Wulffen. There result new insights into the continuing legacy of such writers, and into the agency increasingly claimed by the readerships that emerged with the development of modernity— from readers who self-identified as masochists, to conmen and female criminals.