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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... vol. 54 no. 2 2023 of Australian Historical Studies est. 1988-1989 Australian Historical Studies
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'This themed issue aims to investigate the role of visual culture in defining, contesting and advancing ideas of Australian citizenship and its attendant rights, from white settlement to the present  Acknowledging, but looking beyond, the legal status of citizenship, these articles seek to explore the broader processes through which this cultural category is constituted and deployed. This question is timely in an era when global networks such as economic and business processes, communication, and the movement of people are increasingly interconnected, and yet simultaneously we see both the resurgence of hypernationalism, as well as the assertion of rights based on difference within, against and across the nation state. Important recent research has focused upon the role of visual culture within geopolitical processes, from climate change disaster to the impact of the Covid pandemic, and especially the challenges shared by many nations, such as new nationalisms, the escalation of anti-immigrant rhetoric, the revitalisation of white supremacist movements, economic inequality both domestically and globally, and threats to democracy such as ‘fake news’. Many of these global challenges have contributed to the recent interest in how visual culture helps to both assert and challenge the meanings of citizenship.' (Jane Lydon, Editorial introduction)

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2023 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
[Review] Trailblazing Women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945–1975, Jennifer Bowen , single work review
— Review of Trailblazing Women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945-1975 Kylie Andrews , 2022 multi chapter work criticism ;

'The candid photograph on the cover of this new history of women in Australian broadcasting sums it up eloquently. A woman and a man are shown behind the camera during an ABC film shoot. The woman stands with her arms folded, gazing intently ahead; beside her, the man squints at the same scene through the lens of a camera. The woman sees the bigger picture while he sees only a portion. So it was that many later accounts of the start of broadcast media perpetuated a restricted view that omitted women’s achievements from history.' (Introduction)

(p. 377-378)
[Review] Emperors in Lilliput: Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland, Roger Osborne , single work review
— Review of Emperors in Lilliput : Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland Jim Davidson , 2022 single work biography ;

'Periodicals of all formats provide insight into the times in which they were produced. This is especially so for long-lived periodicals with similarly long-lived editors whose influence reaches well beyond their editorial desk and into the culture they are compelled to transform. The periodicals shelves of our libraries provide a quiet space in which the long runs of Meanjin and Overland can be found in their physical form, sometimes facing each other across the aisle, or sometimes closer together in smaller libraries like mine. But this silence belies the dynamic and sometimes uncomfortable processes that preceded each issue. Through close personal connections to these processes and supported by a wealth of archival evidence, Jim Davidson’s Emperors in Lilliput brings these two magazines and their founding editors to life in vivid detail.' (Introduction)

(p. 378-380)
[Review] The Alert Grey Twinkling Eyes of C.J. DeGaris, Jenny Gregory , single work review
— Review of The Alert Grey Twinkling Eyes of C. J. DeGaris David Nichols , 2022 single work biography ;

'Australia has had its fair share of entrepreneurs. This is the biography of a failed entrepreneur – C.J. (Jack) DeGaris, a household name in the early 1920s and now largely forgotten. Except perhaps in two rural towns: Mildura on the Murray River in Victoria and Kendenup in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia.'(Introduction) 

(p. 380-381)
[Review] Idling in Green Places: A Life of Alec Chisholm, Ruby Ekkel , single work review
— Review of Idling in Green Places : A Life of Alec Chisholm Russell McGregor , 2019 single work biography ;

'Do birds play? When a lyrebird performs its virtuosic mimicry or the bowerbird decorates its bower in brilliant shades of blue, should we perceive a mindless following of evolutionarily ingrained impulses towards procreation, or rather evidence of joy, vivacity and artistic sensibility? The question of bird playfulness was a vexed one in conservationist and ornithological circles in the 1940s and 1950s, but for Alec Chisholm, the answer was a resounding and intransigent yes. He was frustrated by what he saw amongst his scientific peers as the ‘matter-of-fact viewpoint that persists in limiting all bird-motives to a utilitarian basis’ (95). In contrast to these ‘stodgy scientists’, Chisholm depicted birds as perfectly capable of ‘purposeless pleasure’, ‘bird-games’ and ‘zest for life’ (106). Birds who mimicked, like the lyrebird, did so because they were ‘sound-lovers’ brimming with irrepressible ‘joie-de-vivre’ (106). He would steadfastly defend birds’ capacity for play throughout his long and celebrated career.' (Introduction)

(p. 381-382)

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