Mitchell Rolls
Biographic Data
| ID | 1354551 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mitchell Rolls |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mitchell |
| FAMILY NAME | Rolls |
| SIGNATURE | ROLLS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4198-3771 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Australian Studies
“‘More fun than the locals’
In the latter half of the 1990s there was a long-running but unreported conflict over use of a coastal rock platform on the Central Coast of New South Wales, just to the north of Sydney. This multifaceted dispute was between poor Korean Australians from the inner suburbs of Sydney and locals. The source of this conflict was the manner in which the rock platform was being used, how its resources were exploited and the type of social life that acco…
Writing home
Morrisons Writing Home is an important and ambitious work that among other things systematicallycontests two current orthodoxies: one being that Central Australia is an exemplar ofAustralias enduring frontier; the other that settler Australians will always be alien to theland in which they dwell. In picking apart these shibboleths, some will no doubt proclaim Writing Home is controversial and inimical to Aboriginal aspirations and the realisation…
Casuistry, Commentary and Killing Cattle
In 2011, ABC Television’s Four Corners broadcast “A Bloody Business”. The program’s confronting subject was the live cattle trade to Indonesia, and in particular, disturbing slaughtering practices. Notable was repeated use of the phrases “Australian cattle”, “Australian livestock” and “Australian animals”. The inference was that these were “our” cattle, some of which suffered shockingly cruel deaths. The implicit nationalism informing the program…
Australian Indigenous Studies
Travelling Home, 'Walkabout Magazine' and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia
'Travelling Home' provides a detailed analysis of the contribution that the mid twentieth-century 'Walkabout' magazine made to Australia’s cultural history. Spanning five central decades of the twentieth century (1934-1974), 'Walkabout' was integral to Australia’s sense of itself as a nation. By advocating travel—both vicarious and actual—'Walkabout' encouraged settler Australians to broaden their image of the nation and its place in the Pacific …
The changing politics of miscegenation
In an opinion piece in Hobart's Saturday Mercury Henry Reynolds, the noted historian of Aboriginal-settler Australian relations, raised the contentious issue of identity in respect to Tasmanian Aboriginal people of mixed heritage. 1 In reclaiming and asserting a defiant Aboriginality, many Tasmanian Aborigines (and mainlanders too) obfuscate and/or ignore the fact that they are of mixed descent. Their identity, both cultural and personal, is subs…
Why didn’t you listen
If, however, the question 'why weren't we told' is more obfuscatory than revelatory about the extent of knowledge vis--vis the nature of Aboriginal-settler conflict then it is clear that the reputed desire 'to face up to our history' comes with some constraints. The phrase 'People now want to know' (my emphasis) is 1
Finding fault
The popular middlebrow magazine Walkabout was published between 1934 and 1974. Its principle aim was to promote travel to and within Australia and to educate Australians about their continent. It aspired to be an Australian geographic magazine, and to this end it focussed on inland and remote Australia, and natural history. For this reason, and because it was published throughout a period, particularly in the early decades, when only those Aborig…
Picture imperfect
The representation of Aborigines in the popular Australian magazine Walkabout has attracted the attention of a small number of scholars. For the most part their analyses draw a distinction between the portrayals of primitive natives and those of the emergent modernising Australian nation. It is argued that Aborigines appear as debased, as noble savages, or as bearers of an idealised and imagined traditional culture. These representational strateg…
Robert Lawlor tells a ‘white’ lie
A casual browse through almost any bookshop reveals a growing interest in Aborigines and their cultures, not because of their importance and significance in their own right, but because of their perceived utility in satisfying Western needs and desires. There is hardly a complaint, problem (be they personal or symptomatic of wider issues) or variant of spiritual questing to which elements from Aboriginal cultures have not been applied. Although t…
CulturalColonisation
In their subscription to the myths of alienation from self and landscape and the spiritual emptiness which all non-indigenous Australians allegedly suffer,and/or to the notion of a derivative culture lacking local reflection and relevance, many authors, artists and assorted commentators are reconstructing Aboriginal heritage in such a way that it is made to offer solutions to these supposed national afflictions,' Beyond these parochial concerns, …
Australian Indigenous Studies
Robert Lawlor tells a ‘white’ lie
A casual browse through almost any bookshop reveals a growing interest in Aborigines and their cultures, not because of their importance and significance in their own right, but because of their perceived utility in satisfying Western needs and desires. There is hardly a complaint, problem (be they personal or symptomatic of wider issues) or variant of spiritual questing to which elements from Aboriginal cultures have not been applied. Although t…
Picture imperfect
The representation of Aborigines in the popular Australian magazine Walkabout has attracted the attention of a small number of scholars. For the most part their analyses draw a distinction between the portrayals of primitive natives and those of the emergent modernising Australian nation. It is argued that Aborigines appear as debased, as noble savages, or as bearers of an idealised and imagined traditional culture. These representational strateg…
CulturalColonisation
In their subscription to the myths of alienation from self and landscape and the spiritual emptiness which all non-indigenous Australians allegedly suffer,and/or to the notion of a derivative culture lacking local reflection and relevance, many authors, artists and assorted commentators are reconstructing Aboriginal heritage in such a way that it is made to offer solutions to these supposed national afflictions,' Beyond these parochial concerns, …
Robert Lawlor tells a ‘white’ lie
A casual browse through almost any bookshop reveals a growing interest in Aborigines and their cultures, not because of their importance and significance in their own right, but because of their perceived utility in satisfying Western needs and desires. There is hardly a complaint, problem (be they personal or symptomatic of wider issues) or variant of spiritual questing to which elements from Aboriginal cultures have not been applied. Although t…
Picture imperfect
The representation of Aborigines in the popular Australian magazine Walkabout has attracted the attention of a small number of scholars. For the most part their analyses draw a distinction between the portrayals of primitive natives and those of the emergent modernising Australian nation. It is argued that Aborigines appear as debased, as noble savages, or as bearers of an idealised and imagined traditional culture. These representational strateg…
Finding fault
The popular middlebrow magazine Walkabout was published between 1934 and 1974. Its principle aim was to promote travel to and within Australia and to educate Australians about their continent. It aspired to be an Australian geographic magazine, and to this end it focussed on inland and remote Australia, and natural history. For this reason, and because it was published throughout a period, particularly in the early decades, when only those Aborig…
The changing politics of miscegenation
In an opinion piece in Hobart's Saturday Mercury Henry Reynolds, the noted historian of Aboriginal-settler Australian relations, raised the contentious issue of identity in respect to Tasmanian Aboriginal people of mixed heritage. 1 In reclaiming and asserting a defiant Aboriginality, many Tasmanian Aborigines (and mainlanders too) obfuscate and/or ignore the fact that they are of mixed descent. Their identity, both cultural and personal, is subs…
Why didn’t you listen
If, however, the question 'why weren't we told' is more obfuscatory than revelatory about the extent of knowledge vis--vis the nature of Aboriginal-settler conflict then it is clear that the reputed desire 'to face up to our history' comes with some constraints. The phrase 'People now want to know' (my emphasis) is 1
Travelling Home, 'Walkabout Magazine' and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia
'Travelling Home' provides a detailed analysis of the contribution that the mid twentieth-century 'Walkabout' magazine made to Australia’s cultural history. Spanning five central decades of the twentieth century (1934-1974), 'Walkabout' was integral to Australia’s sense of itself as a nation. By advocating travel—both vicarious and actual—'Walkabout' encouraged settler Australians to broaden their image of the nation and its place in the Pacific …
“‘More fun than the locals’
In the latter half of the 1990s there was a long-running but unreported conflict over use of a coastal rock platform on the Central Coast of New South Wales, just to the north of Sydney. This multifaceted dispute was between poor Korean Australians from the inner suburbs of Sydney and locals. The source of this conflict was the manner in which the rock platform was being used, how its resources were exploited and the type of social life that acco…
Writing home
Morrisons Writing Home is an important and ambitious work that among other things systematicallycontests two current orthodoxies: one being that Central Australia is an exemplar ofAustralias enduring frontier; the other that settler Australians will always be alien to theland in which they dwell. In picking apart these shibboleths, some will no doubt proclaim Writing Home is controversial and inimical to Aboriginal aspirations and the realisation…
Casuistry, Commentary and Killing Cattle
In 2011, ABC Television’s Four Corners broadcast “A Bloody Business”. The program’s confronting subject was the live cattle trade to Indonesia, and in particular, disturbing slaughtering practices. Notable was repeated use of the phrases “Australian cattle”, “Australian livestock” and “Australian animals”. The inference was that these were “our” cattle, some of which suffered shockingly cruel deaths. The implicit nationalism informing the program…
Australian Indigenous Studies
Australian Studies
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