K Darian-Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 27578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Darian-Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Darian-Smith |
| SIGNATURE | DARIAN-SMITH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7773-1205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Shrinking Nation—Response
Beyond bully beef: Soldiers, food and transcultural interactions in World War I
Important recent scholarship has highlighted the social, cultural, religious and emotional significance of food, drink and hunger in wartime. Much of this work has taken World War I as its focus. However, the particular effects of eating as an intercultural encounter is an area so far underexplored in the history of World War I. This article examines these aspects of daily life in war time through the records of diaries, memoirs, soldier newspape…
Children, Comforts and Intercultural Exchanges for Australians in Both World Wars
Despite the importance of the production and supply of food during times of conflict, little scholarly attention has been paid to food in the everyday experience of soldiers and civilians, including children, during both World Wars. Drawing upon diaries, oral histories, material culture, and histories of the emotions, from an Australian perspective, this article traces how children and young people played a key role in the exchange of food and dr…
Young people and the world wars: Visuality, materiality and cultural heritage
In 2019, the United Nations celebrated thirty years since the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), recognising its historic milestones in combatting violence against ch
University Education and the Quest for the Professionalisation of Journalism in Australia between the World Wars
The crisis of World War I, including the challenges of reporting from the fighting front, sparked public discussion about the reliability and status of journalism. In response, unprecedented changes to the education of journalists were introduced around the world, including in Australia. By the 1920s, the majority of Australian universities offered a Diploma in Journalism, developed in collaboration with the Australian Journalists’ Association (A…
Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia
This book provides the first comprehensive study of diverse migrant memories and what they mean for Australia in the twenty-first century. Drawing on rich case studies, it captures the changing political and cultural dimensions of migration memories as they are negotiated and commemorated by individuals, communities and the nation. Remembering Migration is divided into two sections, the first on oral histories and the second examining the complex…
Are We Internationally Minded?” Everyday Cultures of Australian Internationalism in the mid-20th Century
On 22 August 1932, Australian activist Mildred Muscio, an advocate for world peace and disarmament, presented a radio broadcast on Sydney’s station 2BL as part of the League of Nations Week organised by the League of Nations Union. The substance of her talk, titled “Are We Internationally Minded?”, was reprinted in the Sydney Morning Herald over the next two weeks. In her broadcast, Muscio, who emphasised the importance of pacifism as the interco…
Australian Universities, Expertise and Internationalism After World War I
This article explores the impact of World War I on Australian university communities, its contribution to innovations and knowledge in some of the traditional professions, and influence on the interwar growth of national associations that regulated professional groups and sought to extend their influence. The experiences of World War I advanced professional expertise and vocational training, including through the AIF Education Scheme, and strengt…
Special Issue on History and Heritage
This special issue on History and Heritage explores exciting new directions inheritage practice and interpretation, and the intersections between heritagestudies and Australian history. In line with recent scholarly thinking in thefield of critical heritage studies, this issue features articles that historicise andextend mainstream notions of heritage beyond sites and movable objects, toexplore broader questions around cultural knowledges, perfor…
Histories of Struggle and Reform in Modern Australia
This issue of Australian Historical Studies opens with two articles that explore thestruggles for the recognition of human rights, including the protection offeredfor women and children, in Australias recent history. But it is also sobering to see that many of the concernsabout the status and safety of women and children that were expressed almostfive decades ago have not been fully addressed in 2018. One lesson we candraw from the past is that s…
Untidy Histories and ‘Truth-Telling’ in Australia
This issue of Australian Historical Studies is the final one in our editorial tenure of the journal from 2015 to 2018. During this time, it has been a privilege to publish a range of fascinating articles in Australian history, and to support new historical work that examines Australia’s place in the world, and the international, transnational and localised connections that have shaped national historical experiences. This includes special issues …
Approaching the Past
This May 2018 issue of Australian Historical Studies brings together varied but fresh approaches to the study of Australia's past, including from early career scholars. It also features the winning entry in the Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize, which is for the strongest paper presented by a graduate student at the annual Australian Historical Association Conference and then submitted to AHS for review. The prize, named in honour of the late Ken Ing…
How our forebears lived’: The modern nation, its folklore and ‘living’ heritage in twentieth-century Australia
This article examines the creation of the Swan Hill Folk Museum, which opened in 1966 following an upsurge of interest in Australia’s pioneer and environmental history and heritage. Initially designed by the modernist architect Roy Grounds in collaboration with Eric Westbrook, the director of the National Gallery of Victoria, the Folk Museum offered an innovative interpretation of the past aimed to bolster regional development and tourism. We exa…
Punishments, Bodies and Environments in Historical Focus
As the last issue of Australian Historical Studies for 2017, this November volume begins by showcasing new work in legal history with two articles analysing the penal past in New South Wales. In his close focus on transportation within the colony during its foundation years, David Andrew Roberts argues that Judge Advocates such as David Collins, Richard Dore and Richard Atkins chose to go beyond the punishments strictly available to them, regardl…
Looking Back and Looking Out: New Stories in Australian History
In this issue of Australian Historical Studies , recent scholarship highlights the waysthat Australia and Australians have been shaped by global connections and influences so that looking back to our history is also an exercise in looking out tothe world. In the opening section on Music and Dance, two articles chart thehistory of international connections and local adaptations that occurred in thearts across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
War, Colonialism and the Emotions in Australian History
This issue of Australian Historical Studies features new research highlighting how key historical events have been a force in shaping Australian society and its nation-building efforts from the colonial period to the present
Back in Fashion? Economic History and the ‘New Materialism’ in the Writing of Australian History
This issue of Australian Historical Studies opens with two articles that discuss thestate of economic history in Australia. In their important overview, Simon Villeand Claire Wright argue that following years in the wilderness, economichistory is back in fashion. Australian universities after World War II establishedseparate departments of economic history, with the discipline serving to connectthe social sciences and humanities. But over time, a…
Australian‐Asian Sociability, Student Activism, and the University Challenge to White Australia in the 1950s
During the 1950s, staff, students and graduates of Australian universities were increasingly critical of the racial restrictions on immigration, and their activism contributed to a broader government and community reassessment of the White Australia Policy. Personal experiences of cross‐cultural interactions between Australian students and an increasing number of international students from Asia, including those sponsored by the Australian govern…
Oral History and Australian Generations
The articles in this theme issue of Australian Historical Studies use interviews from the Australian Generations Oral History Project to explore a range of issues in Australian social and cultural history and about the documentation, interpretation and use of oral history. Digital technologies are transforming access to and use of oral history. Digital indexing has made it easier for researchers to search for relevant material within interviews a…
New Directions in Australian History
This issue of Australian Historical Studies leads with a landmark article by Shurlee Swainentitled Enshrined in Law: Legislative Justifications for the Removal of Indigenous andNon-Indigenous Children in Colonial and Post-Colonial Australia. Australian historiographyconcerned with the state removal of children from their families has generally separatedthe legislation directed at Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, as well as thesubsequent…
In This Issue
One of our ambitions as editors for Australian Historical Studies has been toexplore and highlight Australia in the world, including its myriad transnationaland international connections. Accordingly, this issue showcases a Forum onBig Data and Australian History, which reveals the ways that digital data isradically reshaping historical research, and serves to locate Australian historywithin its networked transnational and global developments. Th…
The 'girls: Women press photographers and the representation of women in Australian newspapers
In 1975, Fairfax News commemorated International Women's Year by appointing Lorrie Graham as its first female cadet photographer. Women only joined the photographic staff of newspapers in significant numbers from the 1980s and were more likely to be employed on regional newspapers than the metropolitan dailies. This article draws on interviews with male and female press photographers collected for the National Library of Australia's oral history …
Childhood, youth and emotions in modern history: National, colonial and global perspectives
This important collection demonstrates how to do a history of childhood and emotions (p. 1), combining these areas of scholarship to examine more deeply the experiences and feelings of children across historical times and in various locations. Its chapters, and their case studies, span Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Pacific. They bring national and colonial perspectives to bear on key questions about childrens agency and emotional exp…
Histories of play
Children, observed Colin Ward in his influential 1978 study, The child in the city, will playanywhere and with anything (1978, p. 86). An apparently universal impulse, play has evenbeen argued by some scholars to transcend history as an activity older than culture (Huizinga,1949, p. 1). The historians natural inclination is to historicise such contentions, alert to factorsof geography as well as chronology and to intersections including age, gend…
Educational Spaces and the ‘Whole’ Child: A Spatial History of School Design, Pedagogy and the Modern Australian Nation
This article combines perspectives from architectural history, educational history and social history to examine the development of Australian schooling in the 20th century, with a particular emphasis on the period following World War II to the 1970s. In these decades, there was increased interest in Australia and internationally in pedagogical approaches that embraced the development of the ‘whole’ child, and fresh ideas about the design of scho…
Australian children's play in historical perspective: Continuity and change on the school playground
In the 1950s, the visiting American folklorist Dorothy Howard was the first scholar to research and analyse children's play in Australian primary schools. Subsequent studies have since observed children's school playground activities, documenting how their play has been influenced by such factors as bureaucratic and pedagogical practices, the impact of new technologies and demographic changes in the ethnic and cultural composition of the Australi…
Up the country: Histories and communities
During the 1990s the issues confronting rural Australia have more often than not been collapsed into a simplistic and undifferentiated set of problems within political and media discussion. This article examines the mobilisation of concepts of history and community in rural Australia and the challenges this poses for historians
Histories of play
Children, observed Colin Ward in his influential 1978 study, The child in the city, will playanywhere and with anything (1978, p. 86). An apparently universal impulse, play has evenbeen argued by some scholars to transcend history as an activity older than culture (Huizinga,1949, p. 1). The historians natural inclination is to historicise such contentions, alert to factorsof geography as well as chronology and to intersections including age, gend…
Memory and history in twenty-first century Australia: A survey of the field
This essay surveys the fields of oral history and memory studies in Australia since the publication of the landmark volume Memory and History in Twentieth-Century Australia in 1994. It argues that the practice of oral history has been central to memory studies in Australia, and explores key texts relating to the memory and commemoration of war, colonialism, Indigenous histories, trauma and witnessing in Australian society
Children, Comforts and Intercultural Exchanges for Australians in Both World Wars
Despite the importance of the production and supply of food during times of conflict, little scholarly attention has been paid to food in the everyday experience of soldiers and civilians, including children, during both World Wars. Drawing upon diaries, oral histories, material culture, and histories of the emotions, from an Australian perspective, this article traces how children and young people played a key role in the exchange of food and dr…
University Education and the Quest for the Professionalisation of Journalism in Australia between the World Wars
The crisis of World War I, including the challenges of reporting from the fighting front, sparked public discussion about the reliability and status of journalism. In response, unprecedented changes to the education of journalists were introduced around the world, including in Australia. By the 1920s, the majority of Australian universities offered a Diploma in Journalism, developed in collaboration with the Australian Journalists’ Association (A…
The 'girls: Women press photographers and the representation of women in Australian newspapers
In 1975, Fairfax News commemorated International Women's Year by appointing Lorrie Graham as its first female cadet photographer. Women only joined the photographic staff of newspapers in significant numbers from the 1980s and were more likely to be employed on regional newspapers than the metropolitan dailies. This article draws on interviews with male and female press photographers collected for the National Library of Australia's oral history …
Educational Spaces and the ‘Whole’ Child: A Spatial History of School Design, Pedagogy and the Modern Australian Nation
This article combines perspectives from architectural history, educational history and social history to examine the development of Australian schooling in the 20th century, with a particular emphasis on the period following World War II to the 1970s. In these decades, there was increased interest in Australia and internationally in pedagogical approaches that embraced the development of the ‘whole’ child, and fresh ideas about the design of scho…
Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870–1914
Books worth (re)reading
When the first book-length study of Australian childrens rhymes, Cinderella Dressed in Yella,was published in 1969, it was greeted with excited interest. Here was a collection that carefullydocumented the everyday chants and verbal lore of the playground, and took the activities of childrenseriously. Such an approach resonated among an Australian population increasingly aware ofthe origins and existence of a rich national folklore, and open to pr…
Beauty Contest for British Bulldogs? Negotiating (Trans)national identities in Suburban Melbourne
Notwithstanding the absence of bulldogs, Britfest with its re-creation and representation of Britishness provides an entry point for investigating the complex meanings within the transitional narratives of migrancy, ethnicity and 'belonging' among British migrants in modern Australia. The identification and promotion of Britishness at this event reflects recent trends in the re-imagining of that Britishness, which has also become the focus of pop…
From queen of agriculture to miss showgirl: Embodying rurality in twentieth‐century Australia
The judging of the inaugural Victorian Miss Showgirl competition was held onThursday 19 September 1957 in Centenary Hall at the Melbourne Showgrounds.Crowds gathered to see almost a hundred entrants parade the narrow stage toexhibit their 'personality, dress sense and grooming'. This state-wide competitionwas organised by the Victorian Royal Agricultural Society as a new 'highlight ofthe show', and was promoted by its co-sponsor, the Sun-News-Pic…
On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime 1939-1945
This engaging book is an essential insight into how the Second World War transformed daily life in Australia .Kate Darian-Smith s imaginative research and her wonderful eye for the detail animate every page. Michael Cathcart What really happened on the Australian home front during the Second World War? For the people of Melbourne these were years of social dislocation and increased government interference in all aspects of daily life. On the Home…
Maybanke Anderson: Sex, Suffrage & Social Reform
Books
The Meagre Harvest: The Australian Women's Movement, 1950s‐1990s. By Gisela Kaplan. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996. Pp. xiii + 242. $29.95 paper. The Christesen Romance. By Judith Armstrong. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996. $29.95. Pp. 225 paper. The Politics of Australian Child Care: From Philanthropy to Feminism. By Deborah Brennan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994. Pp. xii + 242. $29.95 paper. Fair Enough: Egalitarianism in…
Books
Anzac Remembered: Selected Writings of K.S. Inglis. Edited by John Lack. History Department, University of Melbourne, 1998. Pp. v + 269. $20.00 (plus postage) paper. Anzacs, the Media, and the Great War. By John F. Williams. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1999. Pp. x + 302. $35.00 paper. Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape. By Ken Inglis assisted by Jan Brazier. The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press,…
Object lessons
From queen of agriculture to miss showgirl: Embodying rurality in twentieth‐century Australia
The judging of the inaugural Victorian Miss Showgirl competition was held onThursday 19 September 1957 in Centenary Hall at the Melbourne Showgrounds.Crowds gathered to see almost a hundred entrants parade the narrow stage toexhibit their 'personality, dress sense and grooming'. This state-wide competitionwas organised by the Victorian Royal Agricultural Society as a new 'highlight ofthe show', and was promoted by its co-sponsor, the Sun-News-Pic…
Exhibitions
The Constitutional Centre. West Perth, permanent exhibition. Entry free. National Museum of Australia. Opened 11 March 2001. Canberra, permanent exhibition. Entry free. Tide Federation Roadshow: A history, a mystery, a bird's eye view. Curated by Viv Szekeres, Christine Finnimore, Kate Walsha and Bill Seager. The Migration Museum, Adelaide and various venues in regional SA. October 2000–April 2002. Entry free. Queensland 1901. Curator Judith McKa…
Books
Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia. Edited by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook and Andrew Reeves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 344. $49.95 cloth. Colonial Consorts: The Wives of Victoria's Governors 1839–1900. By Marguerite Hancock. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii + 324. $59.95 cloth. Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist. By Patricia Clar…
Up the country: Histories and communities
During the 1990s the issues confronting rural Australia have more often than not been collapsed into a simplistic and undifferentiated set of problems within political and media discussion. This article examines the mobilisation of concepts of history and community in rural Australia and the challenges this poses for historians
Remembering: Writing Oral History
With the ever-growing enthusiasm for genealogy and social history, this book on the practice and use of oral history will have considerable appeal. It falls into two parts, the first exploring some of the general issues that arise for those embarking on oral histories, such as confidentiality, transcribing from oral to written form, and the particular situation of Maori oral history; the second part deals with a fascinating variety and range of p…
Introduction: Rural Cultural Studies
This themed section of Australian Humanities Review seeks to establish the emerging field of 'rural cultural studies' firmly on the agenda of the contemporary humanities and social sciences. This is a timely intervention as rural Australia has featured increasingly over the last decade and especially over the last few years as a topic of national policy attention, public commentary and social analysis. If the notion of a crisis in rural Australia…
Scaling the Rural: Reflections on Rural Cultural Studies
How can cultural analysis be brought to bear on the rural? This central question for rural cultural studies prompts our exploration of how the rural has been delineated and interpreted in the developed West, as a departure for thinking about new intellectual approaches to rurality that span spaces, times and academic disciplines. In this paper we adopt a broad schema, discussing insights from rural studies, cultural geography and history. As Mich…
Australia's Empire
Australias Empire . Companion Series to the Oxford History of theBritish Empire. Edited by Deryck M. Schreuder and StuartWard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.Pp. xiii + 416. $99.95 cloth
Books
Australian children's play in historical perspective: Continuity and change on the school playground
In the 1950s, the visiting American folklorist Dorothy Howard was the first scholar to research and analyse children's play in Australian primary schools. Subsequent studies have since observed children's school playground activities, documenting how their play has been influenced by such factors as bureaucratic and pedagogical practices, the impact of new technologies and demographic changes in the ethnic and cultural composition of the Australi…
Memory and history in twenty-first century Australia: A survey of the field
This essay surveys the fields of oral history and memory studies in Australia since the publication of the landmark volume Memory and History in Twentieth-Century Australia in 1994. It argues that the practice of oral history has been central to memory studies in Australia, and explores key texts relating to the memory and commemoration of war, colonialism, Indigenous histories, trauma and witnessing in Australian society
Sydney: The Making of a Public University
Sydney: The Making of a Public University , by Juha Home and Geoffrey Sherington, The Miegunyah Press, Carlton, Victoria, 2012, 356 pp., (hardback), ISBN 9780522861211. University Unlimited: The Monash Story , by Graeme Davison and Kate Murphy, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2012, 385 pp., $36.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781742378664
Books worth (re)reading
When the first book-length study of Australian childrens rhymes, Cinderella Dressed in Yella,was published in 1969, it was greeted with excited interest. Here was a collection that carefullydocumented the everyday chants and verbal lore of the playground, and took the activities of childrenseriously. Such an approach resonated among an Australian population increasingly aware ofthe origins and existence of a rich national folklore, and open to pr…
Beauty Contest for British Bulldogs? Negotiating (Trans)national identities in Suburban Melbourne
Notwithstanding the absence of bulldogs, Britfest with its re-creation and representation of Britishness provides an entry point for investigating the complex meanings within the transitional narratives of migrancy, ethnicity and 'belonging' among British migrants in modern Australia. The identification and promotion of Britishness at this event reflects recent trends in the re-imagining of that Britishness, which has also become the focus of pop…
Social Research and the Privacy and Participation of Children: Reflections on Researching Australian Children's Playlore
Social research into the daily activities of children is important if we are to understand how children perceive themselves in relationship to their world. Ethically managed social research that allows children to speak as informed and competent subjects is thus vital. However, research regulatory bodies may be more concerned with protecting the privacy of children than facilitating their participation in research projects. In a context where pub…
The American Occupation of Australia, 1941–45: A Marriage of Necessity
The American Occupation of Australia, 194145:A Marriage of Necessity. By John McKerrow. Newcastle upon Tyne:Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. Pp. 254.44.99 cloth
Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870–1914
In the Stars: Astrology, Psychic Powers and the Australian Media
Although astrological divinations, demonstrations of psychic powers and the teachings of non-conventional and New Age spirituality have had a ubiquitous presence in the Australian print and broadcast media for almost a century, they have attracted scant attention from media scholars. This article surveys the history of astrological and psychic content in the Australian media from the 1920s, arguing that such content generated new genres of progra…
Educational Spaces and the ‘Whole’ Child: A Spatial History of School Design, Pedagogy and the Modern Australian Nation
This article combines perspectives from architectural history, educational history and social history to examine the development of Australian schooling in the 20th century, with a particular emphasis on the period following World War II to the 1970s. In these decades, there was increased interest in Australia and internationally in pedagogical approaches that embraced the development of the ‘whole’ child, and fresh ideas about the design of scho…
Exhibition Reviews
We Are the Dead Men: Albert Tuckers War Kendrah Morgan, curator Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Victoria, 15 March 7 September 2014. Entry: free with general museum admission
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