Matevž Tomšič
Biographic Data
| ID | 286684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matevž Tomšič |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matevž |
| FAMILY NAME | Tomšič |
| SIGNATURE | TOMŠIČ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2451-9336 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Fraser Paradox: Reconciling Expansive Multicultural Programs with Neoliberal Health Policies
The Fraser government is widely credited for introducing progressive migration and multicultural programs. Concomitantly, it also abolished Whitlam's universal health insurance system, Medibank, and ended Commonwealth funding for community health programs. This paper examines the intersection of migrant settlement and health policies to demonstrate a policy dynamic marked by ideological tension within the Fraser government. To demonstrate this po…
Human Dignity and Transitional Justice in European Post-Conflict Societies
My Book Ideas were Spinning in my Head”: Arts‐Rich Bookmaking Experiences to Create and Sustain Multilingual Children's Meaning Making Flows and Authorial Voices
Important theoretical developments in TESOL education challenge the monolingual mindset, instead valuing and leveraging students' complex linguistic repertoires alongside their funds of knowledge and identity through translanguaging practices to foster literacy development. Through a case study of an arts‐rich book making experience facilitated by community organization, Kids' Own Publishing, this article uses assemblage thinking to examine how c…
Refiguring Refugee Resistance and Vulnerabilities: Hazara Community Publishing in the Australian Resettlement Context
This research focuses on intercultural negotiations and constructions of contemporary ethnic and cultural identity in a Western country of resettlement, through collaborative community publishing with Hazara people, a persecuted cultural and linguistic group. As a research team, primarily using interviews, we examined the multicultural children’s bookmaking project and the intercultural negotiations undertaken between 2018 and 2022 which led to t…
How media pluralism navigates ideological orientations: The case of Slovenia
Introduction Media and its reporting shape public opinion, and doing this can obtain an indirect and significant influence on the course and results of the political process. In this context, media operates as an active element of the political process. Methods The authors use the Janis-Fadner coefficient of imbalance to analyze a total of 1434 media texts published in 10 different Slovenian media outlets. The texts were published between March a…
It’s all about the story: Personal narratives in children’s literature about refugees
Stories are one way that experiences, ideas and culture are shared with children in educational settings. Commercially published books are the standard means in schools for sharing stories. Qualitative content analysis was carried out on 30 personal narrative‐based children's picture books. While the range of stories told in books is vast, our research focuses on refugee stories for children in light of the contemporary political and public focus…
Forced Migration, Oceanic Humanitarianism, and the Paradox of Danger and Saviour of a Vietnamese Refugee Boat Journey
The ocean is a central site of escape, danger, and rescue for refugees. It is also a place where oceanic humanitarianism is enacted. In histories of refugee migration, the combination of the ocean, weather, and climate in determining the fate of refugees has not been adequately examined. This article provides a critical analysis of a Vietnamese refugee boat journey in 1982, to demonstrate the paradoxical nature of the ocean as both a site of dang…
Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia ed. by Kate Darian-Smith and Paula Hamilton
Reviewed by: Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia ed. by Kate Darian-Smith and Paula Hamilton Mary Tomsic (bio) Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia Kate Darian-Smith and Paula Hamilton, editors Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, xix + 357 pp. ISBN 9783030177539, $84.99 paperback. Remembering Migration is an exciting and broad-ranging collection, primarily based in the fields of history, museum studies…
“I feel I am at the stage now of really learning something”: Esma Banner, Post‐Second World War Migration Worker and Photographer
Australian woman Esma Banner (1910–2001) was a keen amateur photographer who worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and the International Refugee Organisation (IRO) between 1945 and 1951. While posted in Germany, Banner kept a diary, wrote over 100 letters to her family, kept official reports, took photographs and collected art and craft by Displaced Persons (DP). In particular, photography and family were …
The Future of Populism in a Comparative European and Global Context
This article deals with the recent rise of populist tendencies and their meaning in contemporary democracies within the EU, including Eastern Europe. It stresses the importance of two interrelated and interconnected processes that provide a fertile ground for the emergence of different types of populism – crisis of parliamentary multi-party democracy and pressures of supranational integration and globalisation. Populism has the ambition to addres…
The politics of picture books: Stories of displaced children in twenty-first-century Australia
This article uses cultural representations to write refugee history. It examines twenty-first-century picture books about displaced children, alongside published responses to them, to explore how refugee experiences and histories are constructed, both for and about children, in an Australian context. The visual literary form of picture books as political texts is examined as a space for discussion and dialogue. Published responses to them, howeve…
Information Society and its Manifestations: Economy, Politics, Culture
Decline of Elite Consensus and Destabilization of Political Space in East-Central Europe
The article deals with recent developments in terms of elite configuration and its impact on political stability in post-communist countries from East-Central Europe, especially with regard to the structure of political/party space. The author observes that none of the countries from this region has a political space that matches those of established democracies, where the key role is played by two parties, one on the left and another on the righ…
Human Dignity as the Foundation of Democratic Political Culture: Legal and Philosophical Perspective
The presence of the concept of human dignity has been increasing worldwide and it seems to be a fundamental concept in the democratic societies. The article introduces the meaning of human dignity not only as a philosophical and legal concept but as the common ground of democratic political culture as well. By explaining Kant’s theory and emphasizing the existence of the two dimensions of human dignity, it reveals a great significance of human di…
Picturing and Re-picturing Bonegilla
Historian Bruce Pennay’s Picturing and Re-picturing Bonegilla is “an illustrated history of the Bonegilla Reception and Training Centre, Australia’s largest and longest-lasting post-war migrant acc
Happiness again’: Photographing and narrating the arrival of Hungarian child refugees and their families 1956–1957
The Australian government has long been involved in creating, collecting and circulating photographs of newly arrived immigrants, displaced people and refugees. Many of these images have been used for internal and external promotional/propaganda purposes. In this article I use news reports and visual photographic material depicting Hungarian refugee children and their families, alongside an analysis of government agendas and communication strateg…
Elites in the New Democracies
The Rise of Person-Based Politics in the New Democracies: The Czech Republic and Slovenia
In the article, the authors address certain recent political developments in two former communist countries, the Czech Republic and Slovenia. They focus on the rise of personalized politics, i.e. the type of political conduct that is driven predominantly by the personal character of political leaders (much more than by programs and ideologies). Specifically, the authors look at the weak political partisanship in East-Central Europe as one of the …
Person-based politics in Italy and Slovenia: Comparing Cases of Leadership's Individualisation
Između neoliberalizma i neokorporativizma: Estonija i Slovenija u komparativnoj perspektivi
Pocinjemo s tezom da institucionalna i ekonomska ucinkovitost neke države, odnosno drustva zavisi od povijesnog naslijeđa (path dependence), od strateskih interakcija elite te međunarodnog okruženja. Estonija i Slovenija važe ne samo kao gospodarski nego i institucionalno prodorne i relativno uspjesne postkomunisticke države, odnosno nove clanice Europske unije. Pa ipak, razvile su dva potpuno razlicita – u nekim bitnim vidicima cak i dijametraln…
Wewillinvent Ourselves, the Age of the New Image Is at Hand: Creating, Learning and Talking With Australian Feminist Filmmaking
Women’s Memories of Cinema-Going: More than ‘The Only Thing Left to do’ in Victoria’s Western District
This article uses women’s memories of rural cinema-going in the Western District of Victoria to explore the role of cinema as both a physical site of entertainment and as a personal site of memory. Not only do these stories reveal the accessible nature of film as entertainment, but they also allow insights into the social constructions of gender, social class and narratives of growing-up. The primary evidence is from an oral history project, base…
Elite (Re)configuration and Politico-economic Performance in Post-socialist Countries
POLITICAL ELITES IN POST-SOCIALIST SOCIETIES are made up of individuals and groups of various social and historical origins and ideological orientations: former dissidents of diverse provenance, more or less reformist members of the ex-communist nomenklatura, members of professional groups (so-called technocrats), people from the sphere of the Church and even some members of pre-war political elites.' According to some analysts, transitional poli…
The Rise of Person-Based Politics in the New Democracies: The Czech Republic and Slovenia
In the article, the authors address certain recent political developments in two former communist countries, the Czech Republic and Slovenia. They focus on the rise of personalized politics, i.e. the type of political conduct that is driven predominantly by the personal character of political leaders (much more than by programs and ideologies). Specifically, the authors look at the weak political partisanship in East-Central Europe as one of the …
The Future of Populism in a Comparative European and Global Context
This article deals with the recent rise of populist tendencies and their meaning in contemporary democracies within the EU, including Eastern Europe. It stresses the importance of two interrelated and interconnected processes that provide a fertile ground for the emergence of different types of populism – crisis of parliamentary multi-party democracy and pressures of supranational integration and globalisation. Populism has the ambition to addres…
Human Dignity as the Foundation of Democratic Political Culture: Legal and Philosophical Perspective
The presence of the concept of human dignity has been increasing worldwide and it seems to be a fundamental concept in the democratic societies. The article introduces the meaning of human dignity not only as a philosophical and legal concept but as the common ground of democratic political culture as well. By explaining Kant’s theory and emphasizing the existence of the two dimensions of human dignity, it reveals a great significance of human di…
Forced Migration, Oceanic Humanitarianism, and the Paradox of Danger and Saviour of a Vietnamese Refugee Boat Journey
The ocean is a central site of escape, danger, and rescue for refugees. It is also a place where oceanic humanitarianism is enacted. In histories of refugee migration, the combination of the ocean, weather, and climate in determining the fate of refugees has not been adequately examined. This article provides a critical analysis of a Vietnamese refugee boat journey in 1982, to demonstrate the paradoxical nature of the ocean as both a site of dang…
Elite (Re)configuration and Politico-economic Performance in Post-socialist Countries
POLITICAL ELITES IN POST-SOCIALIST SOCIETIES are made up of individuals and groups of various social and historical origins and ideological orientations: former dissidents of diverse provenance, more or less reformist members of the ex-communist nomenklatura, members of professional groups (so-called technocrats), people from the sphere of the Church and even some members of pre-war political elites.' According to some analysts, transitional poli…
My Book Ideas were Spinning in my Head”: Arts‐Rich Bookmaking Experiences to Create and Sustain Multilingual Children's Meaning Making Flows and Authorial Voices
Important theoretical developments in TESOL education challenge the monolingual mindset, instead valuing and leveraging students' complex linguistic repertoires alongside their funds of knowledge and identity through translanguaging practices to foster literacy development. Through a case study of an arts‐rich book making experience facilitated by community organization, Kids' Own Publishing, this article uses assemblage thinking to examine how c…
The politics of picture books: Stories of displaced children in twenty-first-century Australia
This article uses cultural representations to write refugee history. It examines twenty-first-century picture books about displaced children, alongside published responses to them, to explore how refugee experiences and histories are constructed, both for and about children, in an Australian context. The visual literary form of picture books as political texts is examined as a space for discussion and dialogue. Published responses to them, howeve…
Happiness again’: Photographing and narrating the arrival of Hungarian child refugees and their families 1956–1957
The Australian government has long been involved in creating, collecting and circulating photographs of newly arrived immigrants, displaced people and refugees. Many of these images have been used for internal and external promotional/propaganda purposes. In this article I use news reports and visual photographic material depicting Hungarian refugee children and their families, alongside an analysis of government agendas and communication strateg…
Person-based politics in Italy and Slovenia: Comparing Cases of Leadership's Individualisation
Između neoliberalizma i neokorporativizma: Estonija i Slovenija u komparativnoj perspektivi
Pocinjemo s tezom da institucionalna i ekonomska ucinkovitost neke države, odnosno drustva zavisi od povijesnog naslijeđa (path dependence), od strateskih interakcija elite te međunarodnog okruženja. Estonija i Slovenija važe ne samo kao gospodarski nego i institucionalno prodorne i relativno uspjesne postkomunisticke države, odnosno nove clanice Europske unije. Pa ipak, razvile su dva potpuno razlicita – u nekim bitnim vidicima cak i dijametraln…
Elite (Re)configuration and Politico-economic Performance in Post-socialist Countries
POLITICAL ELITES IN POST-SOCIALIST SOCIETIES are made up of individuals and groups of various social and historical origins and ideological orientations: former dissidents of diverse provenance, more or less reformist members of the ex-communist nomenklatura, members of professional groups (so-called technocrats), people from the sphere of the Church and even some members of pre-war political elites.' According to some analysts, transitional poli…
Women’s Memories of Cinema-Going: More than ‘The Only Thing Left to do’ in Victoria’s Western District
This article uses women’s memories of rural cinema-going in the Western District of Victoria to explore the role of cinema as both a physical site of entertainment and as a personal site of memory. Not only do these stories reveal the accessible nature of film as entertainment, but they also allow insights into the social constructions of gender, social class and narratives of growing-up. The primary evidence is from an oral history project, base…
Wewillinvent Ourselves, the Age of the New Image Is at Hand: Creating, Learning and Talking With Australian Feminist Filmmaking
Između neoliberalizma i neokorporativizma: Estonija i Slovenija u komparativnoj perspektivi
Pocinjemo s tezom da institucionalna i ekonomska ucinkovitost neke države, odnosno drustva zavisi od povijesnog naslijeđa (path dependence), od strateskih interakcija elite te međunarodnog okruženja. Estonija i Slovenija važe ne samo kao gospodarski nego i institucionalno prodorne i relativno uspjesne postkomunisticke države, odnosno nove clanice Europske unije. Pa ipak, razvile su dva potpuno razlicita – u nekim bitnim vidicima cak i dijametraln…
Person-based politics in Italy and Slovenia: Comparing Cases of Leadership's Individualisation
Elites in the New Democracies
The Rise of Person-Based Politics in the New Democracies: The Czech Republic and Slovenia
In the article, the authors address certain recent political developments in two former communist countries, the Czech Republic and Slovenia. They focus on the rise of personalized politics, i.e. the type of political conduct that is driven predominantly by the personal character of political leaders (much more than by programs and ideologies). Specifically, the authors look at the weak political partisanship in East-Central Europe as one of the …
Information Society and its Manifestations: Economy, Politics, Culture
Decline of Elite Consensus and Destabilization of Political Space in East-Central Europe
The article deals with recent developments in terms of elite configuration and its impact on political stability in post-communist countries from East-Central Europe, especially with regard to the structure of political/party space. The author observes that none of the countries from this region has a political space that matches those of established democracies, where the key role is played by two parties, one on the left and another on the righ…
Human Dignity as the Foundation of Democratic Political Culture: Legal and Philosophical Perspective
The presence of the concept of human dignity has been increasing worldwide and it seems to be a fundamental concept in the democratic societies. The article introduces the meaning of human dignity not only as a philosophical and legal concept but as the common ground of democratic political culture as well. By explaining Kant’s theory and emphasizing the existence of the two dimensions of human dignity, it reveals a great significance of human di…
Picturing and Re-picturing Bonegilla
Historian Bruce Pennay’s Picturing and Re-picturing Bonegilla is “an illustrated history of the Bonegilla Reception and Training Centre, Australia’s largest and longest-lasting post-war migrant acc
Happiness again’: Photographing and narrating the arrival of Hungarian child refugees and their families 1956–1957
The Australian government has long been involved in creating, collecting and circulating photographs of newly arrived immigrants, displaced people and refugees. Many of these images have been used for internal and external promotional/propaganda purposes. In this article I use news reports and visual photographic material depicting Hungarian refugee children and their families, alongside an analysis of government agendas and communication strateg…
The politics of picture books: Stories of displaced children in twenty-first-century Australia
This article uses cultural representations to write refugee history. It examines twenty-first-century picture books about displaced children, alongside published responses to them, to explore how refugee experiences and histories are constructed, both for and about children, in an Australian context. The visual literary form of picture books as political texts is examined as a space for discussion and dialogue. Published responses to them, howeve…
“I feel I am at the stage now of really learning something”: Esma Banner, Post‐Second World War Migration Worker and Photographer
Australian woman Esma Banner (1910–2001) was a keen amateur photographer who worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and the International Refugee Organisation (IRO) between 1945 and 1951. While posted in Germany, Banner kept a diary, wrote over 100 letters to her family, kept official reports, took photographs and collected art and craft by Displaced Persons (DP). In particular, photography and family were …
The Future of Populism in a Comparative European and Global Context
This article deals with the recent rise of populist tendencies and their meaning in contemporary democracies within the EU, including Eastern Europe. It stresses the importance of two interrelated and interconnected processes that provide a fertile ground for the emergence of different types of populism – crisis of parliamentary multi-party democracy and pressures of supranational integration and globalisation. Populism has the ambition to addres…
Forced Migration, Oceanic Humanitarianism, and the Paradox of Danger and Saviour of a Vietnamese Refugee Boat Journey
The ocean is a central site of escape, danger, and rescue for refugees. It is also a place where oceanic humanitarianism is enacted. In histories of refugee migration, the combination of the ocean, weather, and climate in determining the fate of refugees has not been adequately examined. This article provides a critical analysis of a Vietnamese refugee boat journey in 1982, to demonstrate the paradoxical nature of the ocean as both a site of dang…
Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia ed. by Kate Darian-Smith and Paula Hamilton
Reviewed by: Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia ed. by Kate Darian-Smith and Paula Hamilton Mary Tomsic (bio) Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia Kate Darian-Smith and Paula Hamilton, editors Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, xix + 357 pp. ISBN 9783030177539, $84.99 paperback. Remembering Migration is an exciting and broad-ranging collection, primarily based in the fields of history, museum studies…
It’s all about the story: Personal narratives in children’s literature about refugees
Stories are one way that experiences, ideas and culture are shared with children in educational settings. Commercially published books are the standard means in schools for sharing stories. Qualitative content analysis was carried out on 30 personal narrative‐based children's picture books. While the range of stories told in books is vast, our research focuses on refugee stories for children in light of the contemporary political and public focus…
How media pluralism navigates ideological orientations: The case of Slovenia
Introduction Media and its reporting shape public opinion, and doing this can obtain an indirect and significant influence on the course and results of the political process. In this context, media operates as an active element of the political process. Methods The authors use the Janis-Fadner coefficient of imbalance to analyze a total of 1434 media texts published in 10 different Slovenian media outlets. The texts were published between March a…
My Book Ideas were Spinning in my Head”: Arts‐Rich Bookmaking Experiences to Create and Sustain Multilingual Children's Meaning Making Flows and Authorial Voices
Important theoretical developments in TESOL education challenge the monolingual mindset, instead valuing and leveraging students' complex linguistic repertoires alongside their funds of knowledge and identity through translanguaging practices to foster literacy development. Through a case study of an arts‐rich book making experience facilitated by community organization, Kids' Own Publishing, this article uses assemblage thinking to examine how c…
Refiguring Refugee Resistance and Vulnerabilities: Hazara Community Publishing in the Australian Resettlement Context
This research focuses on intercultural negotiations and constructions of contemporary ethnic and cultural identity in a Western country of resettlement, through collaborative community publishing with Hazara people, a persecuted cultural and linguistic group. As a research team, primarily using interviews, we examined the multicultural children’s bookmaking project and the intercultural negotiations undertaken between 2018 and 2022 which led to t…
Human Dignity and Transitional Justice in European Post-Conflict Societies
The Fraser Paradox: Reconciling Expansive Multicultural Programs with Neoliberal Health Policies
The Fraser government is widely credited for introducing progressive migration and multicultural programs. Concomitantly, it also abolished Whitlam's universal health insurance system, Medibank, and ended Commonwealth funding for community health programs. This paper examines the intersection of migrant settlement and health policies to demonstrate a policy dynamic marked by ideological tension within the Fraser government. To demonstrate this po…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · History (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · History (5 works)