A Century of International Labour Organising for Maritime Safety and Economic Justice. This project aims to undertake an innovative history of Australian maritime unionists and their contribution to developing international standards for the world's seafarers. It will assess how important their international work has been, how the role of Australian unionists developed at the International Labour Organisation and in the International Transport Workers Federation. It will trace the relationships ....A Century of International Labour Organising for Maritime Safety and Economic Justice. This project aims to undertake an innovative history of Australian maritime unionists and their contribution to developing international standards for the world's seafarers. It will assess how important their international work has been, how the role of Australian unionists developed at the International Labour Organisation and in the International Transport Workers Federation. It will trace the relationships forged with other unions in the Asia-Pacific region. The outcome of the study aims to provide a new understanding of the role of Australian unionists as international and regional players for maritime labour standards, and to demonstrate the value of historical research for insights to inform training and future strategies.Read moreRead less
Australia and Anti-Slavery: Humanitarianism and Popular Culture from 1890 to the present. This project explains how ’anti-slavery’ discourse shaped humanitarian campaigns in Australia, including Aboriginal rights, indenture, forced labour, trafficking and sexual slavery, by investigating the transmission of ideas and campaigns through international humanitarian networks in Britain, Europe and Australia. The significance of this project lies in its focus on popular culture and the visual represen ....Australia and Anti-Slavery: Humanitarianism and Popular Culture from 1890 to the present. This project explains how ’anti-slavery’ discourse shaped humanitarian campaigns in Australia, including Aboriginal rights, indenture, forced labour, trafficking and sexual slavery, by investigating the transmission of ideas and campaigns through international humanitarian networks in Britain, Europe and Australia. The significance of this project lies in its focus on popular culture and the visual representation of slavery, their influence upon public opinion and debate nationally and internationally throughout the long 20th century into our present. This project explores the role of anti-slavery history in shaping contemporary attitudes towards slavery and forced labour.Read moreRead less
German-speakers in the Australian indigenous encounter: ethnographers, collectors, missionaries. This project will generate a website and accompanying scholarly book to provide easy access to otherwise intractable sources show-casing the vast contribution of German speakers to the mission and ethnographic effort in the Australian colonies. These will be useful resources for history teaching and a contribution to intercultural understanding.
An international history of Australian democracy: the impact of Australian innovation overseas and of international human rights in Australia. This project will chart the international career of Australian democracy and the impact of innovations such as manhood suffrage, the Australian ballot, women's rights and industrial arbitration overseas. It will also investigate the impact of new international definitions of human rights on re-shaping Australian democracy after World War Two.
Worldly encounters: Australian internationalists and the future of world civilization in the twentieth century Pan-Pacific. This project investigates Australian contributions to debate about world citizenship through the role of citizen internationalists in the Pacific and asks what their encounters with a community of peers in the twentieth century reveals about the role of Australia in the history of internationalism in our region and beyond.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120100593
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
Protecting the peace: protectors and the legal transformation of the British Empire, 1820-1850. This project will examine the impact of two new imperial offices, the Protector of Slaves and Protector of Aborigines on the legal constitution of the British Empire at a moment of rapid transformation. It will show these offices operated both as new weapons both of legal imperialism and of intimate colonial governance.
Personal liberty, British identity and surveillance in the antipodes, 1780s - 1830s. By studying surveillance in colonial Australia and South Africa, this project will come to a new understanding of what defined British liberty. It will demonstrate that our country's history lies at the centre of one of the most pressing questions of our time-how far do concepts of freedom remain tied to national and cultural particularity?
Countering the Cold War: interactions between Australia and India, through the lens of the women's movements, 1945 - 1975. This project traces how international interactions between Australian and Indian women's activists were sustained and expanded during the Cold War. Understanding these nuanced interactions in difficult circumstances offers insights into how to nurture today's relationships between students, businesses and the cultural industries of both countries.
Convicts, empire and order, 1783-1857. This project shows how convicts changed and challenged ideas about law and authority in British Empire between 1783 and 1857. It uses detailed study of everyday conflict over convict legal status and rights in Bermuda and New South Wales to demonstrate the importance of convict transportation to the constitution of empire in the colonies.
Remaking the British world after 1815. This project aims to examine the pivotal role of commissions of inquiry in reforming law throughout the British Empire from 1815–1840. Using traditional methods and digital tools, this project will investigate the design, instantiation and impact of inquiry on colonial law, the imperial constitution and the mechanisms of imperial governance across the empire. The outcomes will include enhancement of our understanding of law reform, the historical functions ....Remaking the British world after 1815. This project aims to examine the pivotal role of commissions of inquiry in reforming law throughout the British Empire from 1815–1840. Using traditional methods and digital tools, this project will investigate the design, instantiation and impact of inquiry on colonial law, the imperial constitution and the mechanisms of imperial governance across the empire. The outcomes will include enhancement of our understanding of law reform, the historical functions of commissions of inquiry, and the legacy of British imperial rule throughout the world.Read moreRead less