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...History in several of its varieties is represented here: no primitive neo-conservative crudities that abhor nuance and ambiguity; no over-reliance on postmodernist puns that suggest a lack of awareness of Christopher Norris’s demolition of Derrida; no half-understood poststructuralist mutterings that show ignorance of Andrew Scull’s recent demolition of Foucault’s scholarship: just good, incisive scholarship―and interesting stories.
Tony Taylor, Monash University
Articles
‘Ticking the Faith Box’: Reinterpreting the place of conservative Christianity in Australian electoral politics
Gareth Sobey, School of Historical Studies
Winner, Traffic prize
A Past Re-imagined for the Geisha: Saviour of the 1950’s Japanese Sex Industry
Caroline Norma, Asia Institute
Highly Commended
The Ned Kelly memory dispositif, 1930 to 1960: Identity Production
Laura Basu, School of Culture and Communication
Autonomy Without Care: The History and Theory of Advance Care Plans
Dr Kate Robins-Browne, General Practice
‘Each time I'm reminded of it, I feel as though I need therapy’: Australian Football, Tragedies and the Question of Catharsis
Matthew Klugman, School of Historical Studies
Really-Existing Nostalgia? Remembering East Germany in Film
Ben Gook, Ashworth Program in Social Theory
Multiple Supervisors from Multiple Disciplines: Lessons from the Past As Multidisciplinary Supervision Becomes the Way of the Future
Amy E Nisselle and Rony E Duncan, Department of Paediatrics
Past difference—future possibility: Re-reading the Early Brecht
Jena Zelezny, Theatre Studies
Eugenic Image and Ideology: The Past Rewritten―A Future Imagined
Kate Rogers, History
Drag King: Camp Acts, Queer Bodies, Desiring Audiences
Genevieve Berrick, School of Culture and Communication
Another Country
Bryan Cooke, School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Social Inquiry
Winner of the History prize,
provided by the State Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
Re-imagining the Female Hysteric: Hélène Cixous’ Portrait of Dora
Dr Sarah French, Theatre Studies
Zippers, Scissors and Xeroxes: From Unravelling the Double Helix to Reading the Blueprint
Trisha Lee Downing, Botany
Going On Together Beyond the Foundation: Primary school pasts in a new epistemic climate
Vicki Macknight, History and Philosophy of Science
Reviews
A conversation between Arnold Zable and Tina Giannoukos at the inaugural Crime & Justice Festival, Melbourne, July 2008
Phyllis Richardson, XS Small Structures Green Architecture
Reviewer: Matt Pirie
Christine Jackman, Inside Kevin07: The people. The plan. The prize.
Reviewer: Reece Kirwin
John R Z Abela and Benjamin L Hankin (eds), Handbook of Depression in Children and Adolescents
Reviewer: Maria McKenzie
Glenn D’Cruz (ed.), Class Act: Melbourne Worker’s Theatre, 1987-2007
Reviewer: Jay Daniel Thompson
Xiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Reviewer: Lucy Butler
Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
Reviewer: Sofia Ahlberg
Charles Taylor, A Secular Age
Reviewer: Bernd Bartl
Jacques Rancière, The Future of the Image (trans. Gregory Elliott) & Gerald Raunig, Art and Revolution: Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century (trans. Aileen Derieg)
Reviewer: Veronica Tello