Anna Cole Anna Cole i(A90058 works by)
Born: Established: 1969
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
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1 Sue Taffe’s Complex History of Torch-bearer Mary Montgomerie Bennett Anna Cole , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 18 no. 2 2021; (p. 412-413)

— Review of A White Hot Flame : Mary Montgomerie Bennett – Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice Sue Taffe , 2018 single work biography

'Sue Taffe first heard of Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881–1961), or ‘Mimi’, while conducting oral history interviews with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal activists for an earlier book about the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Their term for Bennett, ‘spiritual mother’, stuck with the author. In this book, Taffe provides a detailed and convincing biographical interpretation of a young woman growing up between two worlds. The book focuses for almost half its length on Bennett’s early life, between her pioneer Scottish pastoralist father in Australia and her London artist mother in England and Europe.' (Introduction) 

1 ‘The History That Has Made You’. Ego-Histoire, Autobiography and Postcolonial History Anna Cole , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 16 no. 4 2019; (p. 527-538)

'This article takes inspiration from the methodology of ego-historie, where political or intellectual history, institutional affiliations and research trajectories are interwoven with personal reflection, to make connections between context and content. In his essay on ego-histoire (2014) John Docker writes of the ‘marrano-like’ figure, the stranger as evoked by Georg Simmel, both inside and outside a group, disturbing it by a kind of abstraction, a freedom to question what others in the group take as given. Here I employ my insider/outsider status as a British migrant and a ‘naturalised’ Australian to reflect on the ambivalent at best and deliberately ignorant, at worst, relationship between contemporary Britain and postcolonial Australia. As the child of immigrants to Australia, who has returned to the ‘mother-country’ as an adult, I use aspects of my autobiography to reconsider the dynamics of colonialism and post-colonialism in these two countries.' (Introduction)

1 Introduction: ‘Ngapartji Ngapartji: In Turn, In Turn’—Ego-histoire and Australian Indigenous Studies Vanessa Castejon , Anna Cole , Oliver Haag , Karen Hughes , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Ngapartji Ngapartji, in Turn, in Turn : Ego-histoire, Europe and Indigenous Australia 2014; (p. 3-19)

'These are stories, histories. They emerged in part from encounters between scholars from Australia and Europe that offered a transnational way to think about culture, class, ethnicity, identity, inbetweenness and whiteness in Australian Indigenous studies. Our intention was to weave together professional and personal accounts of studies that have Australia and Indigeneity at their heart. The origins of this book lie in a discussion between Anna Cole and Vanessa Castejon that took place after a European Australian Studies conference at the Universitat de Barcelona’s Centre d’Estudis Australians in 2008. Over breakfast they wondered why many of the Australian scholars speaking on Indigenous topics at the conference did not reflect on their role in representing Indigenous Australia in and to Europe, despite the achievements of self-determination and self-reflexivity. That this conversation took place one morning in Barcelona—the place that Vanessa’s parents had been exiled from during the Spanish civil war—was significant. The power of place to unlock stories and to allow them to be felt and have an impact was something we had learned to articulate from working alongside Indigenous Australian historians and cultural custodians. So Vanessa and Anna started with themselves, trying to understand more about how their histories fed their motivations to work in Australian Indigenous history. Subsequently Anna and Vanessa were invited by John Docker, Ann Curthoys and Frances Peters-Little to publish these ego-histoires in Passionate Histories (Peters-Little, Curthoys & Docker, 2010) and so began the process of taking ego-histoire out of its strictly European origins and into ‘a broader history of colonialism and postcolonialism’ (Curthoys, 2012).' (Introduction)

1 1 y separately published work icon Ngapartji Ngapartji, in Turn, in Turn : Ego-histoire, Europe and Indigenous Australia Vanessa Castejon (editor), Anna Cole (editor), Oliver Haag (editor), Karen Hughes (editor), Acton : Australian National University Press , 2014 8146885 2014 selected work criticism essay

''These are stories, histories. They emerged in part from encounters between scholars from Australia and Europe that offered a transnational way to think about culture, class, ethnicity, identity, inbetweenness and whiteness in Australian Indigenous studies. Our intention was to weave together professional and personal accounts of studies that have Australia and Indigeneity at their heart. The origins of this book lie in a discussion between Anna Cole and Vanessa Castejon that took place after a European Australian Studies conference at the Universitat de Barcelona’s Centre d’Estudis Australians in 2008.' (Source: Introduction)' (Source: Introduction)

1 Untitled Anna Cole , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 34 no. 2010; (p. 235-237)

— Review of Tripping over Feathers : Scenes in the Life of Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams : A Narrative of the Stolen Generations Peter Read , 2009 single work biography
1 Dancing with the Prime Minister Anna Cole , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 2 no. 1 2008; (p. 5-13)
1 4 y separately published work icon Uncommon Ground : White Women and Aboriginal History Anna Cole (editor), Fiona Paisley (editor), Victoria Haskins (editor), Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press , 2005 Z1207044 2005 anthology biography Uncommon Ground is a unique exploration of the complex roles played by white women in Australian Indigenous histories. it showcases some of the latest and most interesting work in Australia on gender and cross-cultural history. Within a particular historical context, each chapter highlights the work of a woman involved in Aboriginal issues, and with Aboriginal people. Well-known as well as less prominent public figures, are included. There is a mix of activists, writers, and workers in missionary groups and administration as well as Pearl Gibbs, the leading Aboriginal woman activist who worked closely with contemporary white feminists. (Libraries Australia record).
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