Karen Twigg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3063866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Twigg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Twigg |
| SIGNATURE | TWIGG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-1104-7255 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Saving Hattah Lakes
Hattah Lakes is a network of lakes in Victoria’s north-west in a region known as the Mallee. This article focuses on three white men who were critical to saving the Lakes: a bushman, a naturalist, and a scientist. All recognised the unique nature of the Lakes and each operated within changing understandings of masculinity as they sought to protect the Lakes from development. These three men viewed the Lakes as a place of natural beauty and abunda…
The Long, Continued Dry’
Droughts are a canonical feature of Australian history and climate, and Australia’s paleoclimate and colonial past is dotted with extended periods of low rainfall. The Federation Drought was one such period. The result of a series of El Niño events, it parched much of Australia between 1895 and 1903 and remains one of the most significant and prolonged periods of rainfall deficiency since European colonisation. It also coincided with, and fuelled…
Dust, dryness and departure’
The environmental instability that marked the WWII drought profoundly shaped human lives. Integrating gender and environmental history, this article investigates the emotional, sensory and social dimensions of settlers’ experience and illuminates how the meanings of dust and drought were gendered. While dominant norms of masculinity placed a high value on stoic endurance and framed departure as ‘failure’, parallel tropes of rural femininity evoke…
The Green Years
This article offers one of the first studies to pay attention to the influence of abundant rain in advancing postwar agendas and shaping new constructions of rural femininity. Enriching an understanding of modernity, I use oral history testimony and private archives to illuminate women's emotional, social and sensory responses to plentiful water and the possibilities it fostered. While previous tropes had warned that close engagement with the ele…
Grazing was not mining
The great land rush of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw vast swathes of temperate grazing land around the world pass into private hands. Commons and common lands, however, provided a vital interim mechanism in this shift from state control to private property ownership. Commons ensured continued and widespread access to natural resources, including water, minerals, soil, grass, and timber, that was integral to the colonial settler proj…
Constructing Australian bodies
(1994). Constructing Australian bodies: Social normalisation and school medical inspection, 1909–1919. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 18, No. 40, pp. 57-74
The Green Years
This article offers one of the first studies to pay attention to the influence of abundant rain in advancing postwar agendas and shaping new constructions of rural femininity. Enriching an understanding of modernity, I use oral history testimony and private archives to illuminate women's emotional, social and sensory responses to plentiful water and the possibilities it fostered. While previous tropes had warned that close engagement with the ele…
Constructing Australian bodies
(1994). Constructing Australian bodies: Social normalisation and school medical inspection, 1909–1919. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 18, No. 40, pp. 57-74
Grazing was not mining
The great land rush of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw vast swathes of temperate grazing land around the world pass into private hands. Commons and common lands, however, provided a vital interim mechanism in this shift from state control to private property ownership. Commons ensured continued and widespread access to natural resources, including water, minerals, soil, grass, and timber, that was integral to the colonial settler proj…
Dust, dryness and departure’
The environmental instability that marked the WWII drought profoundly shaped human lives. Integrating gender and environmental history, this article investigates the emotional, sensory and social dimensions of settlers’ experience and illuminates how the meanings of dust and drought were gendered. While dominant norms of masculinity placed a high value on stoic endurance and framed departure as ‘failure’, parallel tropes of rural femininity evoke…
The Green Years
This article offers one of the first studies to pay attention to the influence of abundant rain in advancing postwar agendas and shaping new constructions of rural femininity. Enriching an understanding of modernity, I use oral history testimony and private archives to illuminate women's emotional, social and sensory responses to plentiful water and the possibilities it fostered. While previous tropes had warned that close engagement with the ele…
The Long, Continued Dry’
Droughts are a canonical feature of Australian history and climate, and Australia’s paleoclimate and colonial past is dotted with extended periods of low rainfall. The Federation Drought was one such period. The result of a series of El Niño events, it parched much of Australia between 1895 and 1903 and remains one of the most significant and prolonged periods of rainfall deficiency since European colonisation. It also coincided with, and fuelled…
Saving Hattah Lakes
Hattah Lakes is a network of lakes in Victoria’s north-west in a region known as the Mallee. This article focuses on three white men who were critical to saving the Lakes: a bushman, a naturalist, and a scientist. All recognised the unique nature of the Lakes and each operated within changing understandings of masculinity as they sought to protect the Lakes from development. These three men viewed the Lakes as a place of natural beauty and abunda…
Archaeology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Australian History and Society (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works)