Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120101493
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
The transfer of global hegemony: geopolitical revolutions in world history. Global hegemony is shifting from West to East. This project seeks to highlight another titanic shift in global power that saw the transfer of hegemony from the Turco-Mongol Empires of Inner Asia to Western Europe, which will also have important ramifications for managing our transition into a new phase in world history.
J.G. Crawford: Shaping Australia's Place in the World. Through a study of Sir John Grenfell (J.G.) Crawford, this project will examine transformations in Australian policy during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Crawford was a leading member of a generation of public servants who recast the practices of government, in this case through a particular focus on Australia's role in our region and among developing countries.
The fate of the artisan in revolutionary China: tailors in Beijing, 1930s-1960s. This study of tailors and garment production in mid-twentieth century Beijing explores the effects of Communism on the city's foremost handicraft industry and its practitioners, shedding light on the history of a state, society and industry which were to become surprisingly important to Australia.
Forgotten histories: Vietnamese veterans in Australia. Australia's participation in the Vietnam War left a lasting impact on national consciousness. The Vietnamese community in Australia is a legacy of that war and its aftermath. By focusing on Vietnamese veterans, this study will add vital new insights into Australian war and immigration history and enhance cultural understanding.
Globalising the magic system: a history of advertising industry practices in Australia 1959-1989. Some 40,000 Australians are employed in advertising or related industries. But who are they and how do they come up with the campaigns we see on television? Given the impact of globalisation on the industry, exactly how Australian is the Australian advertising industry.
Extending hospitality and making citizens: a historically and ethnographically informed analysis of the resettlement of refugees in Australia. Australia’s humanitarian program is considered a model of success internationally, but has rarely been subject to close scrutiny. The project is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Australia’s past and present resettlement of refugees. It will inform Australia’s response to the increasingly complex challenges posed by forced migration.
Rethinking the history of Soviet Stalinism. This project will provide a more sophisticated understanding of the complexities of Stalin's Russia by considering critically the data now available in Soviet archives. It will explain how the system evolved in response to real social, economic and international problems, rather than exclusively in response to individual or psychological factors.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE130100979
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$357,630.00
Summary
Sexing scholasticism: gender in medieval thought 1150-1520. This project explores medieval theological debates about why it was necessary that Christ was born as a man. This offers new evidence for understanding the history of gender in the Middle Ages, granting access to ideas about masculinity and femininity held by the elite ruling cultures of western Europe between 1150 and 1520.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150100969
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$340,669.00
Summary
The Chaotic Transition from War to Peace in Soviet-Occupied Europe, 1945-53. Historians are struggling to understand the complexities of the chaotic and violent transition from war to peace in Soviet-occupied Europe after the second World War. This project seeks to apply an innovative methodology to newly declassified archival data so as to compare the experiences of social collapse, famine and reconstruction across this region. This broad comparative approach aims to address the unresolved ques ....The Chaotic Transition from War to Peace in Soviet-Occupied Europe, 1945-53. Historians are struggling to understand the complexities of the chaotic and violent transition from war to peace in Soviet-occupied Europe after the second World War. This project seeks to apply an innovative methodology to newly declassified archival data so as to compare the experiences of social collapse, famine and reconstruction across this region. This broad comparative approach aims to address the unresolved question of why violence against the Soviet state, culminating in insurgency, emerged in some areas and not others. The resulting publications have the potential to change the way we think about the effects of insurgency and counter-insurgency on post-war Soviet development. They will inform and reshape international debates on historical memory and state-building.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140101564
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$389,469.00
Summary
Researching ourselves and changing society: social surveys in twentieth-century Australia. In the twentieth century, a series of social surveys distinguished by their first-person interviews and evidence-based recommendations offered Australians a new form of knowledge about themselves. This project's innovative reading of the raw data of these surveys, which includes interview transcripts, observations and questionnaires, will examine anew the reception of these social scientific methods among ....Researching ourselves and changing society: social surveys in twentieth-century Australia. In the twentieth century, a series of social surveys distinguished by their first-person interviews and evidence-based recommendations offered Australians a new form of knowledge about themselves. This project's innovative reading of the raw data of these surveys, which includes interview transcripts, observations and questionnaires, will examine anew the reception of these social scientific methods among ordinary Australians who acted as research participants and subjects. In doing so, this project advances knowledge of social research's transformation of expertise, social class and the state exploring how research unfolded on the ground, and placing Australian research practices in the context of the global development of social science.Read moreRead less