Journal of Australian Studies articles from September 2006

Journal of Australian Studies archives from September 2006

Colour, movement and jostling in public.
September 1, 2006... Since colonial times, Australians have used public spaces for a wide variety of demonstrative purposes, sometimes in affirmation of the existing social order, and sometimes in displays of dissent. The middle classes have promenaded in parks and...

'Better than a play': street processions, civic order and the rhetoric of landscape.(City overview)
September 1, 2006

Performing military manhood: the wartime head of the river races in Melbourne, 1915-1918.
September 1, 2006... Melbourne's Head of the River On Friday 8 May 1915, on a calm autumn afternoon, the preliminary heats for the Victorian public schools' Head of the River rowing races took place on Melbourne's Upper Yarra, over what was known as the Henley...

Promenading and picnicking: the performance of middle-class masculinity in nineteenth-century Sydney.
September 1, 2006... One of the great achievements of recent historians of gender has been to expose masculinity to historical inquiry and thereby define it as a gendered position, as opposed to somehow universal or gender-neutral. (1) This approach has helped to...

Be-medalled and be-ribboned: soldiers and civilians on Brisbane's streets in World War II.(City overview)
September 1, 2006... Brisbane's daily newspaper's front page of 25 March 1941 declared that 'Brisbane Was Never Like This Before'. (1) World War II signalled significant social change for the city and both soldiers and civilians alike took to the streets to embody...

Rebellion and remembrance: the Vietnam veterans motorcycle club rides into history.
September 1, 2006

Greer, bad language and performative emotions in protests.(Germaine Greer)
September 1, 2006... Street Protests This discussion of street demonstrations and emotions frames protesting in relation to theoretical concepts of embodied speech and emotions, and then considers the implications of a shift from smiles to anger during the...

Theatre of protest: the magnifying effects of theatre in direct action.
September 1, 2006... The first act of imagination required of any social change activist is the vision of a better world. The next challenge is to imagine ways to convey this vision to others. In its broadest sense, political theatre is the act of conveying this...

Contesting the injuries of class.(identity politics)
September 1, 2006... The notion of 'identity', according to Amory Starr, has become a resource, a frame and a political opportunity. It has reshaped notions of constituency, constrained solidarity, and created a new language of legitimacy: 'But most importantly, it...

Dress for dissent: reading the almost unreadable.
September 1, 2006... Dress is a significant material practice we use to signal our cultural boundaries, social separations, continuities and, for the present purposes, political dissidences. The intention here is to inquire into the changing ways clothing in...

Contemporary sex worker cultural practice in Australia: sex workers' use of sex industry skills in public protest and performance.
September 1, 2006... The organised public presence of sex worker communities in recent times in Australia is a reflection of contemporary Australian sex work practices. These practices include exacting control and caution over the disclosure of one's identity, the...

Nimbin's MardiGrass: protest and celebration.
September 1, 2006... Every year in May, a tiny village in north-eastern New South Wales is overrun by the thousands of visitors who arrive for Nimbin's MardiGrass. (1) The MardiGrass differs markedly from other Australian festivals in that the focus is an illicit...

Referendums and reconciliation marches: what bridges are we crossing?
September 1, 2006... Shortly after the 'People's walk for reconciliation' in May 2000, the Age reported: Since the 1967 referendum that gave the Commonwealth power to legislate on indigenous affairs, and especially since the High Court's Mabo...

We shall fight them on the beaches: protesting cultures of white possession.
September 1, 2006... We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the...