P Read
Biographic Data
| ID | 26899 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Read |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Read |
| SIGNATURE | READ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5108-4369 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Frances Peters-Little (1958–2024)
Reflections on new historical interpretations at the National Stadium, Santiago, Chile
Gordon Briscoe AO (1938–2023)
Stolen Motherhood
Stolen Motherhood: Aboriginal Mothers and Child Removal in the Stolen Generations Era." Australian Historical Studies, 54(2), pp. 366–367
Measurement of resting muscle oxygenation and the relationship with countermovement jumps and body composition in soccer players (Medición de la oxigenación muscular en reposo y la relación con los sa…
The measurement of resting muscle oxygenation capacity is under investigation in team sports. The aim of the current study was to observe the changes after a preseason, in muscle oxygen saturation (SmO2) at rest and the relationship with body composition and jump power in soccer players. 17 soccer players (age 21.8 ± 2.2 years) were enrolled. Body composition, somatotype, countermovement jump (CMJ) and single-leg countermovement jump (SLCMJ) were…
That Was My Home
That Was My Home: Voices from the Noongar Camps in Fremantle and the Western Suburbs." Australian Historical Studies, 51(2), pp. 241–242
Chilean History and the Sine Wave
Continuing their studies of post-Pinochet memorials in Chile, the authors analyse a recent trend in the interpretation of trauma sites in Santiago which regards the need to resolve the tensions raised by the Pinochet years as more important than dwelling in detail on what was visited upon the victims. We argue that this significant shift from previous interpretations is carried by the younger generation of guides who did not undergo the repressio…
When Cultures Divide
We two Australian public historians recently published a history of memorials in Santiago, Chile, to the victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, Narrow but Endlessly Deep: The Struggle for Memorialisation in Chile since the Transition to Democracy. Our different upbringings and experiences (one a migrant from Cuba, the other Anglo-Australian) produced disagreements as to how we should interpret the memorializations. In particular, the found…
The Havana Biltmore and the Buena Vista Social Club two iconic buildings in Havana, Cuba
The authors trace the physical and cultural history of two iconic buildings in Havana, Cuba: the Havana Biltmore Yacht and Country Club and the Buena Vista Social Club. The 'Biltmore', now renamed the Club Havana, flourishes after several periods in which its survival was doubtful. The 'Buena Vista' had already long ceased its original functions at the time the film of that name was made in 1997. The article illuminates the enormous cultural sign…
Eurocommunism and the Concertación
Of the 200,000 exiles who fled Chile after the coup, between one third and one half went to Eastern and Western Europe. They arrived in the midst of some of the most turbulent years in Europe since the Second World War, manifest in both street violence and radical intellectual currents. The European milieu, especially through the more moderate political programs offered by Eurocommunism, attracted many of the refugees, traumatized as they were by…
Gardens of Fire
Cancer patient-reported outcomes assessment using wireless touch screen tablet computers
You have to let out the scream
Some exhibitions on deeds of violence take place on the site where the violence was perpetrated. Here curators, seeking to convey the powerful emotions felt by the survivors, might need no more than plaques, exact site markers and precise descriptions of what occurred ‘just here’. Curators of exhibitions presented in public spaces may be forced to use longer texts, created objects, or atmospherics like sound or lighting to create equivalent feeli…
The disappearing museum
Since its official opening to the public in 2007, the curators of the site of conscience Londres 38 have presented a variety of histories of its past. Gradually, the state has wrested the site's interpretation from the victims and their families, at the cost of particularity in time, place and precise historical detail. We trace the struggles between the civil society colectivos (‘collectives’) and a variety of state agencies for the dominant nar…
And the Dead Remain Behind
In most cultures the dead and their living relatives are held in a dialogic relationship. The dead have made it clear, while living, what they expect from their descendants. The living, for their part, wish to honour the tombs of their ancestors; at the least, to keep the graves of the recent dead from disrepair. Despite the strictures, the living can fail their responsibilities, for example, by migration to foreign countries. The peripatetic Chi…
Film and Radio Reviews
Filling the Void of Trapped Memories
This paper considers a momentous event in Santiago, Chile, on 10 December 2007. On that day an infamous torture and extermination centre known as Londres 38 was for the first time opened to the public. By the end of the day much more had been exposed than the echoing and empty rooms. After examining the context in which Londres 38 may be placed in the history of the dictatorship, we consider the events of that memorable day in 2007. We explore an…
Sharing the country
Belonging to the land, to most Indigenous Australians, is one area of Aboriginal iden tity which seems fairly straightforward. Not so to the growing num ber of non-Aboriginal Australians w ho worry that the moral basis of their sense of belonging is not secure. Nugget Coombs believed that not until a legal agreement was draw n up would the sta tus of the non-Indigenous be illegitimate.1 Judith Wright felt that the moral gulf between owners and oc…
Breaking up these camps entirely’
In my paper 'A rape of the soul so profound' I sketched out what seemed to me to have been the major theme of European/Aboriginal relationships in New South Wales this century: the attempts of successive governments to disperse Aborigines from their living areas and from each other, and the Aborigines' response to that policy.1 I des cribed two principal techniques of dissociation -the removal of children from their parents, and the expulsion of …
Fathers and sons
This paper is concerned with the lives of five men who had a close connection with Erambie Aboriginal Station, West Cowra, New South Wales. In the course of recorded conversations during 1979 they told me of their lives, attitudes and opinions. Their names are Frank Broughton (born at Brungle Aboriginal Station, near Tumut, in 1895), Paul Coe (Senior) (born in Cowra in 1900),'Locky Ingram (born at Narrandera in 1903), Sam Kennedy (born at Junee i…
The stolen generations, the historian and the court room
The Stolen Generations, the historian and the
The price of tobacco
Engineer Jack Japaljarri is a Warlmala Warlpiri (Walbiri) whose country lies between Winnecke Creek and Hooker Creek in the Northern Territory. In about 1910 he was born in the desert. For some eighteen years he lived the life of his Warlpiri ancestors, interrupted by occasional meetings with itinerant white men. His hunter-gatherer existence, and that of the group of about fifty Warlmala with whom he lived, was brought abruptly to an end in 1928…
Modelling regional markets for co-produced timber and biofuel
The Cemetery, the State and the Exiles
One of the unsuspected costs of exile is the inability to care for the family tombs for which, especially in Latin American countries, one may feel a sharp personal responsibility. The desecration of such tombs renders the pain of exile sharper still. We examine the ways in which the Cuban State has abandoned responsibility for the care of the tombs of the exiles in the island’s largest cemetery, Cementerio Cristóbal Colón in Havana. Many exiles …
From State Terrorism to State Errorism
Patio 29 lies in the northern sector of Santiago's General Cemetery. To the naked eye, it is a grim unweeded field of some twelve hundred rusted tin crosses. But to the families of the 1,197 detained-disappeared during Augusto Pinochet's brutal dictatorship, Patio 29 is both a site of horror and a site of hope. Its story begins in September-December 1973 when 320 early victims of the repression were brought there in makeshift wooden crates that h…
The price of tobacco
Engineer Jack Japaljarri is a Warlmala Warlpiri (Walbiri) whose country lies between Winnecke Creek and Hooker Creek in the Northern Territory. In about 1910 he was born in the desert. For some eighteen years he lived the life of his Warlpiri ancestors, interrupted by occasional meetings with itinerant white men. His hunter-gatherer existence, and that of the group of about fifty Warlmala with whom he lived, was brought abruptly to an end in 1928…
The return of the stolen generation
(1998). The return of the stolen generation. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 22, Who will look after the children?, pp. 8-19
Putting Site Back into Trauma Studies
Modern states often find it convenient to silence the victims of torture and terror by silencing the memory of sites of violence, or by obliterating the sites themselves. Through a study of five sites of state violence in Santiago, Chile, we consider the importance of place in the healing of individual and collective trauma. Survivors of terror and torture, their families, the families of the disappeared, and subsequent generations each have spec…
The Truth That Will Set Us All Free
Aborigines and other Australians have not met with amity. Memorials to the Aboriginal people of Australia are not common and some of the more prominent are regularly damaged. Eddies of past tempests slap disturbingly at modern day memorials thousands of kilometres and several generations removed from the eye of furious storms. This article traces a difficult story of what seems at first sight to be blind racism, at a second sight, a rampant colon…
Breaking up these camps entirely’
In my paper 'A rape of the soul so profound' I sketched out what seemed to me to have been the major theme of European/Aboriginal relationships in New South Wales this century: the attempts of successive governments to disperse Aborigines from their living areas and from each other, and the Aborigines' response to that policy.1 I des cribed two principal techniques of dissociation -the removal of children from their parents, and the expulsion of …
Remembering Dead Places
University's student residences. It was squat, ugly, and made of aluminium. Its roof was so hot in summer that the residents, in defiance of every principle of environmental conservation, kept a sprinkler running on the roof all day. They knew it as Corinne. At the end of 1993, the Chateau was demolished. Almost immediately the words appeared on a wooden bench nearby, This seat is dedicated to memories of the Chateau. On the old fuse box was draw…
Eurocommunism and the Concertación
Of the 200,000 exiles who fled Chile after the coup, between one third and one half went to Eastern and Western Europe. They arrived in the midst of some of the most turbulent years in Europe since the Second World War, manifest in both street violence and radical intellectual currents. The European milieu, especially through the more moderate political programs offered by Eurocommunism, attracted many of the refugees, traumatized as they were by…
The disappearing museum
Since its official opening to the public in 2007, the curators of the site of conscience Londres 38 have presented a variety of histories of its past. Gradually, the state has wrested the site's interpretation from the victims and their families, at the cost of particularity in time, place and precise historical detail. We trace the struggles between the civil society colectivos (‘collectives’) and a variety of state agencies for the dominant nar…
Fathers and sons
This paper is concerned with the lives of five men who had a close connection with Erambie Aboriginal Station, West Cowra, New South Wales. In the course of recorded conversations during 1979 they told me of their lives, attitudes and opinions. Their names are Frank Broughton (born at Brungle Aboriginal Station, near Tumut, in 1895), Paul Coe (Senior) (born in Cowra in 1900),'Locky Ingram (born at Narrandera in 1903), Sam Kennedy (born at Junee i…
The stolen generations, the historian and the court room
The Stolen Generations, the historian and the
From State Terrorism to State Errorism
Patio 29 lies in the northern sector of Santiago's General Cemetery. To the naked eye, it is a grim unweeded field of some twelve hundred rusted tin crosses. But to the families of the 1,197 detained-disappeared during Augusto Pinochet's brutal dictatorship, Patio 29 is both a site of horror and a site of hope. Its story begins in September-December 1973 when 320 early victims of the repression were brought there in makeshift wooden crates that h…
Cultural Geographies in Practice
Clio or Janus? Historians and the stolen generations
In history 'central truths' that define the parameters of the stories being told are often augmented by 'smaller truths', variations on these stories which may appear to run counter to the larger truths but in the end add to, rather than undermine them. Australian historians face complex difficulties and responsibilities in addressing the truths, both large and small, of Aboriginal dispossession and the Stolen Generations
The Northern Territory
In 1975 we were preparing a source book of the Northern Territory for the Northern Territory Curriculum Branch. There was a thick book at the end of it, but it was evident to us that only one section of the population was represented. That was the European, and only the literate part of that. The Aboriginal view of the past was simply not available from history books, nor, except to Aboriginal children, from anywhere else. It was obvious, that to…
Recovery. The Politics of Aboriginal Reform
Returning to Nothing
Feelings about lost or destroyed places rouse our deepest emotions. Losing a home or a suburb or leaving a homeland can be like losing a loved one. This book examines what it means to lose a place forever and why we return, and keep on returning, to these places so large in our memories. It considers many lost towns, suburbs, and homes: Darwin after Cyclone Tracy, the flooding of the town of Adaminaby in New South Wales, the inundation of Lake Pe…
Remembering Dead Places
University's student residences. It was squat, ugly, and made of aluminium. Its roof was so hot in summer that the residents, in defiance of every principle of environmental conservation, kept a sprinkler running on the roof all day. They knew it as Corinne. At the end of 1993, the Chateau was demolished. Almost immediately the words appeared on a wooden bench nearby, This seat is dedicated to memories of the Chateau. On the old fuse box was draw…
Food, fuel, fibre and faces to feed. Simulation studies of land use change for sustainable development in the 21st century
Being, Belonging and Possessing
The return of the stolen generation
(1998). The return of the stolen generation. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 22, Who will look after the children?, pp. 8-19
The Destruction of Mahers Road Beecroft
Leaving home
The Farmer and the Bushman
We identify two distinct forms of masculinity, Australian and Cuban. The first is best expressed in the nineteenth century bushman's ballads, which celebrated wandering, mateship, independence of bosses, sardonic acceptance of fate, the absence of women and uninterest in the physical landscape. The values of the Cuban guajiro or rural labourer, expressed in the songs of the first half of the twentieth century, celebrated permanence, individualism…
Buried Country
Clio or Janus? Historians and the stolen generations
In history 'central truths' that define the parameters of the stories being told are often augmented by 'smaller truths', variations on these stories which may appear to run counter to the larger truths but in the end add to, rather than undermine them. Australian historians face complex difficulties and responsibilities in addressing the truths, both large and small, of Aboriginal dispossession and the Stolen Generations
Cultural Geographies in Practice
Picasso the Real Family Story
A discussion of the events following Picasso's death, issues surrounding his estate and commercial exploitation of the Picasso trademark
The Great Parade Portrait of the Artist as Clown
A review of an exhibition catalogue, discussing how from the eighteenth century to the present artists have identifed with clowns (rootless, outcast, happy and sad entertainers) and have used circus as a subject for their art. This tradition is similarly strong in literature
Murder, Revenge and Reconciliation on the North Eastern Frontier
Professor Peter Read delivered this paper as the Keynote Address at the Annual Meeting of the Australian Historical Association, July 2005. References have been added but the text of the paper remains in the form of a spoken address.The original research for the paper was undertaken at the request of the Australian National Archives, Canberra, for the production of ‘Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda’ in the website biographical feature Uncommon Lives. The auth…
Remembering the Soviets
At the base of the South Tower of St Johns Cathedral, Brisbane, are installed two splendid stained glass windows, memorials to the Australian-American alliance during the Second World War. They depict an American bald-eagle and an Australian wedge-tailed eagle flying towards ‘a greater union’. The plaque reads
Memory and a Hard Place
Raul and Manolo are two Cuban men in their late sixties. Manolo left soon after Castro’s triumph to become a television celebrity in Miami. He returned in 1991 to make a clandestine film about the city which once was his. Raul never left his decaying city. He applauded the revolution, but little by little his enthusiasm soured. The paper examines the relationship of the two men to what was once the ultra modern Central Havana of the mid-1950s. Ma…
Putting Site Back into Trauma Studies
Modern states often find it convenient to silence the victims of torture and terror by silencing the memory of sites of violence, or by obliterating the sites themselves. Through a study of five sites of state violence in Santiago, Chile, we consider the importance of place in the healing of individual and collective trauma. Survivors of terror and torture, their families, the families of the disappeared, and subsequent generations each have spec…
The Truth That Will Set Us All Free
Aborigines and other Australians have not met with amity. Memorials to the Aboriginal people of Australia are not common and some of the more prominent are regularly damaged. Eddies of past tempests slap disturbingly at modern day memorials thousands of kilometres and several generations removed from the eye of furious storms. This article traces a difficult story of what seems at first sight to be blind racism, at a second sight, a rampant colon…
Where are you Uncle John
The author examines his and others' feelings towards a family member killed during the Second World War. He ponders the meaning of secrecy, grief and long-term mourning within the family, and re-assesses his own feelings towards his Uncle John in the light of what he now realises were the lessons that he was supposed to absorb
Reconciliation, Trauma and the Native Born
How should non-Indigenous Australians \nreconcile with Indigenous people? The \nAboriginal Reconciliation Council \nurges newcomers to view the land through \nthe eyes of the Indigenous owners. \nKeith Windschuttle insists that the narrative \nof frontier violence has been greatly \nexaggerated. Mainstream country musicians \nreconcile their place in Australia by a kind of \nbelonging-in-parallel justified by hard rural \nwork while Indigenous mu…
Modelling regional markets for co-produced timber and biofuel
The Cemetery, the State and the Exiles
One of the unsuspected costs of exile is the inability to care for the family tombs for which, especially in Latin American countries, one may feel a sharp personal responsibility. The desecration of such tombs renders the pain of exile sharper still. We examine the ways in which the Cuban State has abandoned responsibility for the care of the tombs of the exiles in the island’s largest cemetery, Cementerio Cristóbal Colón in Havana. Many exiles …
From State Terrorism to State Errorism
Patio 29 lies in the northern sector of Santiago's General Cemetery. To the naked eye, it is a grim unweeded field of some twelve hundred rusted tin crosses. But to the families of the 1,197 detained-disappeared during Augusto Pinochet's brutal dictatorship, Patio 29 is both a site of horror and a site of hope. Its story begins in September-December 1973 when 320 early victims of the repression were brought there in makeshift wooden crates that h…
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