Jane Haggis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1035220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Haggis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Haggis |
| SIGNATURE | HAGGIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2384-8720 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Limits and Possibilities of a Cosmopolitics of Friendship: The Cosmopolitan Thought Zones of S.K. Datta 1900—1942
This paper explores the cosmopolitan thought zones that informed the life and work of S.K. Datta, an Indian Christian, nationalist and internationalist from 1900 to 1942. I draw on Priyamvada Gopal's use of the dialogical to grasp the contingency of friendship in imperial contexts to reveal the possibilities of a cosmopolitan shared ground as well as its limits within imperial and post-imperial Christian internationalisms. The term cosmopolitics …
Introduction to "The Cosmo-politics of Friendship in Imperial Contact Zones 1870 - 1950," special issue of JCCH
Introduction to "The Cosmo-politics of Friendship in Imperial Contact Zones 1870 – 1950," special issue of JCCH Margaret Allen and Jane Haggis1 Leela Gandhi has posited "friendship' as the lost trope in anti-colonial thought,"2 exploring the associations and relationships of a number of anti-colonial metropolitan intellectual activists and radicals around the turn of the twentieth century. Such relationships could disrupt rigid binaries between c…
The politics of friendship and cosmopolitan thought zones at the end of empire: Indian women’s study tours to Europe 1934–38
This article considers one of the first series of study tour groups for young Indian women in the mid-1930s, organised under the auspices of the Geneva-based International Student Service. Led by Mrs Alexandrena Datta, wife of the Indian Christian nationalist leader S.K. Datta, the tours took groups of 20 women students and young professionals from diverse faith, caste and ethnic backgrounds on four-month study tours across Europe, visiting progr…
White women and colonialism: Towards a non-recuperative history
This chapter draws authors own experiences of researching and writing about British women missionaries in South India during the nineteenth century. Writing a feminist history of white women and colonialism sensitive to issues of difference involves more than capturing the complex qualities of hierarchy embedded in past narratives. The missionary texts recount a story about Indian women and the efforts of British 'ladies' to emancipate them from …
Cosmopolitan Lives on the Cusp of Empire: Interfaith, Cross-Cultural and Transnational Networks, 1860-1950
This book looks back to the period 1860 to 1950 in order to grasp how alternative visions of amity and co-existence were forged between people of faith, both within and resistant to imperial contact zones. It argues that networks of faith and friendship played a vital role in forging new vocabularies of cosmopolitanism that presaged the post-imperial world of the 1950s. In focussing on the diverse cosmopolitanisms articulated within liberal trans…
Rethinking difference and sex education: From cultural inclusivity to normative diversity
This paper aimed to problematise what is meant by ‘difference’ and consider what such a reinterpretation might mean for methodological interventions in sex education research. Our concern is the tendency for sex education research to treat difference as a set of categories to be ‘added-on’, such as religious difference, cultural difference and sexual plurality. The danger of this is that it leaves the normative unchallenged, confirming the hegemo…
What an 'Archive Rat' Reveals to Us About Storying Theory and the Nature of History
This paper takes the work by Professor Margaret Allen on the transnational connections between India and Australia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reflect on the relationship between history, facts and fiction. It does this by discussing recent contributions by David Christian, Dirk Moses and Carolyn Steedman to debates over history as an empirical science or a literary genre. The article draws on Joan Scott's recent explicatio…
The Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race
Epistles to Emails: Letters, Relationship Building and the Virtual Age
Until the late twentieth century the letter was still a central form of communication within the private and public spheres and across their somewhat fluid boundary. Not all letters survive but they do have a tangible form and even the epistles of the very ordinary can turn up in a descendant's attic, ripe for socio-historical analysis. This paper explores the shift away from letters and towards email and mobile phone messaging as forms of commun…
Contemporary Perspectives on Epistolarity
This special issue opens an interdisciplinary space to reflect on the deceptively simple question: ‘what is a letter?’ The idea for the issue emerged out of a symposium hosted by the Department of
Refugees, settlement processes and citizenship making: An Australian case study
This article seeks to contribute to the modest stock of empirical research on citizenship by exploring how refugees in Australia approach citizenship through the prism of their experiences of arrival and settlement. Their narratives support research elsewhere which argues that citizenship remains crucial to refugees' claims to a full set of human rights. They also demonstrate that territorialised citizenship, closely tied to national identity, no…
Imperial Emotions: Affective Communites of Mission in British Protestant Women's Missionary Publications c1880-1920
Jane Haggis, Margaret Allen; Imperial Emotions: Affective Communites of Mission in British Protestant Women's Missionary Publications c1880–1920, Journal o
Books
This book makes me wonder why Australian \nhistorians have so readily agreed to \na history that starts at 1788. Perhaps the \nFirst Fleet's entertaining publishing enterprises \nhave been too seductive. Whereas \nhistorians may doubt that it is possible \nto write history without archival word \nmiddens, archaeologists doubt that one \ncan write without material discoveries. \nSources and methodological expertise \nhave created a major chasm bet…
Culture and development: A Critical Introduction
"This book introduces students to new ways of thinking about culture and development. The book integrates the recent scholarship in the area of cultural studies within the existing frameworks of development studies, which have primarily focused on issues of political economy and structural transformation. Rather than viewing culture as simply an attribute of the societies undergoing development, this text critically examines how "development" its…
'White Women and Colonialism Towards a Non-Recuperative History'
Migrancy, Multiculturalism and Whiteness: Re-charting Core Identities in Australia
Recent debates in Australia on Asian immigration, Indigenous reconciliation and multiculturalism have been accompanied by a re-emergence of racism after a quarter century of multicultural policy. In reflecting on current attempts to make sense of these debates, we argue that two issues tend to be ignored. The first relates to the difficulty Australians have in bringing an everyday awareness of difference into a vision of national community. This …
Exhibitions
The Lady Nelson Discovery Centre. Consultant curator Christine O'Brien. Mount Gambier, South Australia, permanent exhibition. Entry adult $7.70, family $18.70, concession $3.30/$6.60. Bunjilaka: The Aboriginal Centre at Museum Victoria. Indigenous Cultures Program Director, Gaye Sculthorpe. Museum Victoria, Melbourne, permanent exhibition. Entry $6.00 adults, $3.30 children, $4.50 concession, $16.00 family. The Perth Mint. Perth, permanent exhibi…
The Social Memory of a Colonial Frontier
Meaning Well and Global Good Manners: Reflections on White Western Feminist Cross-cultural Praxis
2000). Meaning Well and Global Good Manners: Reflections on White Western Feminist Cross-cultural Praxis. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 15, No. 33, pp. 387-399
Ironies of Emancipation: Changing Configurations of 'Women's Work' in the 'Mission of Sisterhood' to Indian Women
On her arrival in Travancore in 1819 Mrs Mault, as wife of the new missionary, immediately set about establishing a school for convert girls and a 'lace industry' to employ convert women. Her actions reflect that pattern of activism and organization historians of gender and imperialism have identified as the 'mission of domesticity' conducted by European and North American Christian missionary women to their non-Christian 'sisters' in the colonia…
Reconstructing Femininities: Colonial Intersections of Gender, Race, Religion and Class
Narrating lives, narrating whiteness: A research note
‘Good wives and mothers’ or ‘dedicated workers’? Contradictions of domesticity in the ‘mission of sisterhood’, Travancore, south India
Recent feminist reassessments of the historiography of European colonialism have identified a gendered quality intrinsic to colonizing endeavours across a range of imperial settings (see for example Callaway 1987; Chaudhuri and Strobel 1992; Grimshaw 1989; Hunter 1984; Jolly and Macintyre 1989; Knapman 1986; Strobel 1991). In particular, these studies have revealed a cultural agenda directed at transforming the ideologies and practices of indigen…
Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific
Feminist theories have focused on contemporary, Western, middle-class experiences of maternity. This 1998 volume brings other mothers, from Asia and the Pacific, into scholarly view, aiming to show that birthing and mothering can be a very different experience for women in other parts of the world. The contributors document a wide variety of conceptions of motherhood, and drawing on ethnographic and historical research, they explore the relations…
Postcolonialism, Identity, and Location: Being White Australian in Asia
In this paper we explore the nature and degree to which Australian imaginings of self in Asia have altered since the 1960s. We do this in two ways. First, an analysis of Christopher Koch's two novels, The Year of Living Dangerously and Highways to a War, is used to establish the parameters of change in Australian imaginings of themselves in Asia. This analysis of literary texts, we argue, can be used to develop an analytical framework for conside…
Meaning Well and Global Good Manners: Reflections on White Western Feminist Cross-cultural Praxis
2000). Meaning Well and Global Good Manners: Reflections on White Western Feminist Cross-cultural Praxis. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 15, No. 33, pp. 387-399
Gendering colonialism or colonising gender
Refugees, settlement processes and citizenship making: An Australian case study
This article seeks to contribute to the modest stock of empirical research on citizenship by exploring how refugees in Australia approach citizenship through the prism of their experiences of arrival and settlement. Their narratives support research elsewhere which argues that citizenship remains crucial to refugees' claims to a full set of human rights. They also demonstrate that territorialised citizenship, closely tied to national identity, no…
Imperial Emotions: Affective Communites of Mission in British Protestant Women's Missionary Publications c1880-1920
Jane Haggis, Margaret Allen; Imperial Emotions: Affective Communites of Mission in British Protestant Women's Missionary Publications c1880–1920, Journal o
A heart that has felt the love of god and longs for others to know it: Conventions of Gender, Tensions of Self and Constructions of Difference in Offering to Be a Lady Missionary
The article is based on a detailed study of the applications of female candidates who applied to the London Missionary Society for consideration as missionaries to serve in the foreign field, from 1875 to 1900. Drawing on the candidates' own letters, formal applications and the selection process as revealed in the archives of the Ladies' Committee of the Society, the article describes the process of professionalisation of the female missionary's …
The Social Memory of a Colonial Frontier
Contemporary Perspectives on Epistolarity
This special issue opens an interdisciplinary space to reflect on the deceptively simple question: ‘what is a letter?’ The idea for the issue emerged out of a symposium hosted by the Department of
Postcolonialism, Identity, and Location: Being White Australian in Asia
In this paper we explore the nature and degree to which Australian imaginings of self in Asia have altered since the 1960s. We do this in two ways. First, an analysis of Christopher Koch's two novels, The Year of Living Dangerously and Highways to a War, is used to establish the parameters of change in Australian imaginings of themselves in Asia. This analysis of literary texts, we argue, can be used to develop an analytical framework for conside…
By the teeth: A critical examination of James Scott's The moral economy of the peasant
Ironies of Emancipation: Changing Configurations of 'Women's Work' in the 'Mission of Sisterhood' to Indian Women
On her arrival in Travancore in 1819 Mrs Mault, as wife of the new missionary, immediately set about establishing a school for convert girls and a 'lace industry' to employ convert women. Her actions reflect that pattern of activism and organization historians of gender and imperialism have identified as the 'mission of domesticity' conducted by European and North American Christian missionary women to their non-Christian 'sisters' in the colonia…
Epistles to Emails: Letters, Relationship Building and the Virtual Age
Until the late twentieth century the letter was still a central form of communication within the private and public spheres and across their somewhat fluid boundary. Not all letters survive but they do have a tangible form and even the epistles of the very ordinary can turn up in a descendant's attic, ripe for socio-historical analysis. This paper explores the shift away from letters and towards email and mobile phone messaging as forms of commun…
Reconstructing Femininities: Colonial Intersections of Gender, Race, Religion and Class
What an 'Archive Rat' Reveals to Us About Storying Theory and the Nature of History
This paper takes the work by Professor Margaret Allen on the transnational connections between India and Australia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reflect on the relationship between history, facts and fiction. It does this by discussing recent contributions by David Christian, Dirk Moses and Carolyn Steedman to debates over history as an empirical science or a literary genre. The article draws on Joan Scott's recent explicatio…
The Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race
By the teeth: A critical examination of James Scott's The moral economy of the peasant
Gendering colonialism or colonising gender
‘Good wives and mothers’ or ‘dedicated workers’? Contradictions of domesticity in the ‘mission of sisterhood’, Travancore, south India
Recent feminist reassessments of the historiography of European colonialism have identified a gendered quality intrinsic to colonizing endeavours across a range of imperial settings (see for example Callaway 1987; Chaudhuri and Strobel 1992; Grimshaw 1989; Hunter 1984; Jolly and Macintyre 1989; Knapman 1986; Strobel 1991). In particular, these studies have revealed a cultural agenda directed at transforming the ideologies and practices of indigen…
Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific
Feminist theories have focused on contemporary, Western, middle-class experiences of maternity. This 1998 volume brings other mothers, from Asia and the Pacific, into scholarly view, aiming to show that birthing and mothering can be a very different experience for women in other parts of the world. The contributors document a wide variety of conceptions of motherhood, and drawing on ethnographic and historical research, they explore the relations…
Postcolonialism, Identity, and Location: Being White Australian in Asia
In this paper we explore the nature and degree to which Australian imaginings of self in Asia have altered since the 1960s. We do this in two ways. First, an analysis of Christopher Koch's two novels, The Year of Living Dangerously and Highways to a War, is used to establish the parameters of change in Australian imaginings of themselves in Asia. This analysis of literary texts, we argue, can be used to develop an analytical framework for conside…
A heart that has felt the love of god and longs for others to know it: Conventions of Gender, Tensions of Self and Constructions of Difference in Offering to Be a Lady Missionary
The article is based on a detailed study of the applications of female candidates who applied to the London Missionary Society for consideration as missionaries to serve in the foreign field, from 1875 to 1900. Drawing on the candidates' own letters, formal applications and the selection process as revealed in the archives of the Ladies' Committee of the Society, the article describes the process of professionalisation of the female missionary's …
Narrating lives, narrating whiteness: A research note
Meaning Well and Global Good Manners: Reflections on White Western Feminist Cross-cultural Praxis
2000). Meaning Well and Global Good Manners: Reflections on White Western Feminist Cross-cultural Praxis. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 15, No. 33, pp. 387-399
Ironies of Emancipation: Changing Configurations of 'Women's Work' in the 'Mission of Sisterhood' to Indian Women
On her arrival in Travancore in 1819 Mrs Mault, as wife of the new missionary, immediately set about establishing a school for convert girls and a 'lace industry' to employ convert women. Her actions reflect that pattern of activism and organization historians of gender and imperialism have identified as the 'mission of domesticity' conducted by European and North American Christian missionary women to their non-Christian 'sisters' in the colonia…
Reconstructing Femininities: Colonial Intersections of Gender, Race, Religion and Class
Migrancy, Multiculturalism and Whiteness: Re-charting Core Identities in Australia
Recent debates in Australia on Asian immigration, Indigenous reconciliation and multiculturalism have been accompanied by a re-emergence of racism after a quarter century of multicultural policy. In reflecting on current attempts to make sense of these debates, we argue that two issues tend to be ignored. The first relates to the difficulty Australians have in bringing an everyday awareness of difference into a vision of national community. This …
Exhibitions
The Lady Nelson Discovery Centre. Consultant curator Christine O'Brien. Mount Gambier, South Australia, permanent exhibition. Entry adult $7.70, family $18.70, concession $3.30/$6.60. Bunjilaka: The Aboriginal Centre at Museum Victoria. Indigenous Cultures Program Director, Gaye Sculthorpe. Museum Victoria, Melbourne, permanent exhibition. Entry $6.00 adults, $3.30 children, $4.50 concession, $16.00 family. The Perth Mint. Perth, permanent exhibi…
The Social Memory of a Colonial Frontier
Culture and development: A Critical Introduction
"This book introduces students to new ways of thinking about culture and development. The book integrates the recent scholarship in the area of cultural studies within the existing frameworks of development studies, which have primarily focused on issues of political economy and structural transformation. Rather than viewing culture as simply an attribute of the societies undergoing development, this text critically examines how "development" its…
'White Women and Colonialism Towards a Non-Recuperative History'
Books
This book makes me wonder why Australian \nhistorians have so readily agreed to \na history that starts at 1788. Perhaps the \nFirst Fleet's entertaining publishing enterprises \nhave been too seductive. Whereas \nhistorians may doubt that it is possible \nto write history without archival word \nmiddens, archaeologists doubt that one \ncan write without material discoveries. \nSources and methodological expertise \nhave created a major chasm bet…
Imperial Emotions: Affective Communites of Mission in British Protestant Women's Missionary Publications c1880-1920
Jane Haggis, Margaret Allen; Imperial Emotions: Affective Communites of Mission in British Protestant Women's Missionary Publications c1880–1920, Journal o
Refugees, settlement processes and citizenship making: An Australian case study
This article seeks to contribute to the modest stock of empirical research on citizenship by exploring how refugees in Australia approach citizenship through the prism of their experiences of arrival and settlement. Their narratives support research elsewhere which argues that citizenship remains crucial to refugees' claims to a full set of human rights. They also demonstrate that territorialised citizenship, closely tied to national identity, no…
Epistles to Emails: Letters, Relationship Building and the Virtual Age
Until the late twentieth century the letter was still a central form of communication within the private and public spheres and across their somewhat fluid boundary. Not all letters survive but they do have a tangible form and even the epistles of the very ordinary can turn up in a descendant's attic, ripe for socio-historical analysis. This paper explores the shift away from letters and towards email and mobile phone messaging as forms of commun…
Contemporary Perspectives on Epistolarity
This special issue opens an interdisciplinary space to reflect on the deceptively simple question: ‘what is a letter?’ The idea for the issue emerged out of a symposium hosted by the Department of
What an 'Archive Rat' Reveals to Us About Storying Theory and the Nature of History
This paper takes the work by Professor Margaret Allen on the transnational connections between India and Australia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reflect on the relationship between history, facts and fiction. It does this by discussing recent contributions by David Christian, Dirk Moses and Carolyn Steedman to debates over history as an empirical science or a literary genre. The article draws on Joan Scott's recent explicatio…
The Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race
Rethinking difference and sex education: From cultural inclusivity to normative diversity
This paper aimed to problematise what is meant by ‘difference’ and consider what such a reinterpretation might mean for methodological interventions in sex education research. Our concern is the tendency for sex education research to treat difference as a set of categories to be ‘added-on’, such as religious difference, cultural difference and sexual plurality. The danger of this is that it leaves the normative unchallenged, confirming the hegemo…
White women and colonialism: Towards a non-recuperative history
This chapter draws authors own experiences of researching and writing about British women missionaries in South India during the nineteenth century. Writing a feminist history of white women and colonialism sensitive to issues of difference involves more than capturing the complex qualities of hierarchy embedded in past narratives. The missionary texts recount a story about Indian women and the efforts of British 'ladies' to emancipate them from …
Cosmopolitan Lives on the Cusp of Empire: Interfaith, Cross-Cultural and Transnational Networks, 1860-1950
This book looks back to the period 1860 to 1950 in order to grasp how alternative visions of amity and co-existence were forged between people of faith, both within and resistant to imperial contact zones. It argues that networks of faith and friendship played a vital role in forging new vocabularies of cosmopolitanism that presaged the post-imperial world of the 1950s. In focussing on the diverse cosmopolitanisms articulated within liberal trans…
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