Catriona Elder
Biographic Data
| ID | 324117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catriona Elder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catriona |
| FAMILY NAME | Elder |
| SIGNATURE | ELDER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2515-595X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Agency, the Family and the Patriarchal State in Archival Documentation of Australian Second World War Brides
This article examines the intersecting social circumstances of Australian women's intimate, international relationships with American and other foreign allied servicemen during the Second World War, including their experiences of romance, marriage, divorce and subsequent child‐maintenance USA. We explore how the widely varying, often highly personalised, perceptions of the women's raced, classed and ethnic status, across differing legal systems, …
Being Australian: Narratives of National Identity
After a century of speculation by writers, filmmakers, travelers and scholars, being Australian' has become a recognisable shorthand for a group of national characteristics. Now, in an era of international terrorism, being seen as un-Australian' has become a potent rhetorical weapon for some, and a badge of honour for others.Catriona Elder explores the origins, meaning and effects of the many stories we tell about ourselves, and how they have cha…
‘Brutal’ and ‘Grisly’: Exploring the (non-Indigenous) critical reception to two Australian postcolonial films of the frontier, The Nightingale (2018) and The Proposition (2005)
This article explores the marketing and non-Indigenous critical responses to the film The Nightingale (2018) by reading it alongside the reception and responses to a similar film, made over a decade earlier, a film that also studies the multi-layers of colonial violence. Using the film The Proposition (2005) as a foil this article considers the ways that violence figured by two non-Indigenous directors working in a postcolonial Australian context…
Being Australian: Narratives of National Identity
Introduction..Part 1: Stories in the making..1 Imagining nations: Telling national tales..2 The working man is everywhere: Class and national identity..3 The invisible woman: Gender and nation..4 Populate or perish: Sexuality and nation..5 White Australia meets multiculturalism: Ethnicity and nation..6 The myth of terra nullius: Indigeneity and nation..Part 2: Ways of being Australian..7 The cultural nation: Art, cinema and music..8 The heart of …
Framing stories of national belonging: The Case of an Historical Adventure-Romance Television Series
This article explores the role of Australian 1970s and 1980s 'quality' historical television series and miniseries in engaging national audiences in discussions about their national history. These programmes - which had a corollary in the United States in the same period - were 'blockbusters'. But the historical miniseries of this period were not designed just to make money for the television networks, rather they had 'designs' on their viewers. …
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…
Domesticating International Military Engagements: Everyday Internationalism Through the Prism of the Malayan Emergency
This article explores media representations of a group of Australians in the period of the Cold War, when a key mode of engagement with Asia was in the form of military regional occupations and interactions. The story that the article analyses centres on overseas military postings in the 1950s and 1960s, during the Malayan Emergency and the Borneo Intervention, emphasising how these internationalised events were experienced in interpersonal ways.…
Anne Monsour, Not Quite White: Lebanese and the White Australia Policy, 1880 to 1947 (Brisbane: Post Pressed, 2010)
Small Screens: Essays on Contemporary Australian Television
Small Screens: Essays on Contemporary Australian Television." Australian Historical Studies, 48(4), pp. 605–606
Repositioning the Racial Gaze: Aboriginal Perspectives on Race, Race Relations and Governance
In Australia, public debate about recognition of the nation’s First Australians through constitutional change has highlighted the complexity and sensitivities surrounding Indigenous/state relations at even the most basic level of legal rights. But the unevenness of race relations has meant Aboriginal perspectives on race relations are not well known. This is an obstacle for reconciliation which, by definition, must be a reciprocal process. It is …
Watching Bran Nue Dae in Japan
While recently teaching in Japan, I used the Australian film Bran Nue Dae (2009), directed by Rachel Perkins, in one of my courses. The mixed, but non-Australian students, were interested to discuss why a film that was partly about family and historical trauma was a comedy. Extending from the interest, this article considers whether there has been a similar response in Australia to Indigenous-themed films. Are Indigenous issues in Australia, toda…
Narratives of national belonging: The domestic, the wild, and the mutant in Australian film
This article explores understandings of postcolonial national belonging through an analysis of cinematic representations of humans, animals and the environment. It does so by analyzing a series of Australian films about plants, animals or people who are out of place or out of control. The article registers some of the changing representations of Australian flora, fauna and, by association people, as native, domesticated, simpatico, feral and wild…
Kowal, Emma: Trapped in the Gap. Doing Good in Indigenous Australia
Anthropos , Seite 273 - 274
Data and archives: The Internet as site and subject
The Internet has changed the nature of the archive from a paper-based treasure trove overseen by the trained archivist to one of an open, multi-vocal, democratic source with no one in control. New forms of archives have emerged – for example, the haphazard collection of ephemeral – and they now exist alongside the formal public record that has more traditionally been understood as the archive. This article analyses what these changes mean to soci…
Books
Colonialism and Indigenous dispossession in Against the Wind
This article undertakes a revisionist reading of the mini-series Against the Wind (1979) in order to explore the absence of a narrative of Indigenous dispossession. In doing so it seeks to explore the type of history about land, belonging, and nation that was produced in this late 1970s historical Australian television drama. The analysis focuses on a reading of a particular set of publicity materials and the DVD of the series and considers caref…
Re-reading the Australian imaginary
Diggers’ Waifs’: Desire, anxiety and immigration in Post‐1945 Australia
After the occupation of Japan by Australian servicemen in the 1940s and 1950s, there was a small group of Japanese‐Australian children living in the Kure district where the troops had been stationed. In the late 1950s a discussion took place in Australia about what to do about these children. There were calls from members of the public that the children, as ‘half Australian, should be brought to this country. However, the government's White Austr…
Running Race: Reconciliation, Nationalism and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
This article examines how the idea of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians became entwined with the Sydney 2000 Olympics. It does this by undertaking a critical reading of media stories on the twin issues of Cathy Freeman's 400 m race, and the fear of Indigenous protest disrupting the games. We argue the Olympic Games helped to reinforce a discourse of reconciliation that best suited non-Indigenous peoples, and that th…
Entanglement and the Modern Australian Rhythm Method: Lantana’s Lessons in Policing Sexuality and Gender
Film in Australia, as with many other nations, is often seen as an important cultural medium where national stories about belonging and identity can be (re)produced in pleasurable and, at times, complicated ways. One such film is Ray Lawrence’s Lantana. Although striking a chord in Australia as a good film about ‘ basically good people’, people that rang ‘brilliantly’ true (Lantana DVD 2002), this paper argues that, at the same time as it produce…
Ambivalent utopias: Representing colonisation and assimilation in naked under capricorn
(2001). Ambivalent utopias: Representing colonisation and assimilation in naked under capricorn. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 25, Scatterlings of Empire, pp. 135-143
Book
Convict Women. By Kay Daniels. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. Pp. xi + 276. $24.95 paper. Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Labour Forced Migration. Edited by Ian Duffield and James Bradley. Leicester University Press, London, 1997. Pp. xxii + 224. £49.95 cloth. Irish Women in Colonial Australia. Edited by Trevor McClaughlin. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. Pp. xvii + 229. $24.95 paper. Catherine: On Catherine Currie's Diary, 1878–190…
The question of the unmarried: Some meanings of being single in Australia in the 1920s and 1930s
Running Race: Reconciliation, Nationalism and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
This article examines how the idea of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians became entwined with the Sydney 2000 Olympics. It does this by undertaking a critical reading of media stories on the twin issues of Cathy Freeman's 400 m race, and the fear of Indigenous protest disrupting the games. We argue the Olympic Games helped to reinforce a discourse of reconciliation that best suited non-Indigenous peoples, and that th…
Repositioning the Racial Gaze: Aboriginal Perspectives on Race, Race Relations and Governance
In Australia, public debate about recognition of the nation’s First Australians through constitutional change has highlighted the complexity and sensitivities surrounding Indigenous/state relations at even the most basic level of legal rights. But the unevenness of race relations has meant Aboriginal perspectives on race relations are not well known. This is an obstacle for reconciliation which, by definition, must be a reciprocal process. It is …
The question of the unmarried: Some meanings of being single in Australia in the 1920s and 1930s
Small Screens: Essays on Contemporary Australian Television
Small Screens: Essays on Contemporary Australian Television." Australian Historical Studies, 48(4), pp. 605–606
Data and archives: The Internet as site and subject
The Internet has changed the nature of the archive from a paper-based treasure trove overseen by the trained archivist to one of an open, multi-vocal, democratic source with no one in control. New forms of archives have emerged – for example, the haphazard collection of ephemeral – and they now exist alongside the formal public record that has more traditionally been understood as the archive. This article analyses what these changes mean to soci…
Diggers’ Waifs’: Desire, anxiety and immigration in Post‐1945 Australia
After the occupation of Japan by Australian servicemen in the 1940s and 1950s, there was a small group of Japanese‐Australian children living in the Kure district where the troops had been stationed. In the late 1950s a discussion took place in Australia about what to do about these children. There were calls from members of the public that the children, as ‘half Australian, should be brought to this country. However, the government's White Austr…
The question of the unmarried: Some meanings of being single in Australia in the 1920s and 1930s
Book
Convict Women. By Kay Daniels. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. Pp. xi + 276. $24.95 paper. Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Labour Forced Migration. Edited by Ian Duffield and James Bradley. Leicester University Press, London, 1997. Pp. xxii + 224. £49.95 cloth. Irish Women in Colonial Australia. Edited by Trevor McClaughlin. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. Pp. xvii + 229. $24.95 paper. Catherine: On Catherine Currie's Diary, 1878–190…
Ambivalent utopias: Representing colonisation and assimilation in naked under capricorn
(2001). Ambivalent utopias: Representing colonisation and assimilation in naked under capricorn. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 25, Scatterlings of Empire, pp. 135-143
Entanglement and the Modern Australian Rhythm Method: Lantana’s Lessons in Policing Sexuality and Gender
Film in Australia, as with many other nations, is often seen as an important cultural medium where national stories about belonging and identity can be (re)produced in pleasurable and, at times, complicated ways. One such film is Ray Lawrence’s Lantana. Although striking a chord in Australia as a good film about ‘ basically good people’, people that rang ‘brilliantly’ true (Lantana DVD 2002), this paper argues that, at the same time as it produce…
Running Race: Reconciliation, Nationalism and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
This article examines how the idea of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians became entwined with the Sydney 2000 Olympics. It does this by undertaking a critical reading of media stories on the twin issues of Cathy Freeman's 400 m race, and the fear of Indigenous protest disrupting the games. We argue the Olympic Games helped to reinforce a discourse of reconciliation that best suited non-Indigenous peoples, and that th…
Diggers’ Waifs’: Desire, anxiety and immigration in Post‐1945 Australia
After the occupation of Japan by Australian servicemen in the 1940s and 1950s, there was a small group of Japanese‐Australian children living in the Kure district where the troops had been stationed. In the late 1950s a discussion took place in Australia about what to do about these children. There were calls from members of the public that the children, as ‘half Australian, should be brought to this country. However, the government's White Austr…
Re-reading the Australian imaginary
Colonialism and Indigenous dispossession in Against the Wind
This article undertakes a revisionist reading of the mini-series Against the Wind (1979) in order to explore the absence of a narrative of Indigenous dispossession. In doing so it seeks to explore the type of history about land, belonging, and nation that was produced in this late 1970s historical Australian television drama. The analysis focuses on a reading of a particular set of publicity materials and the DVD of the series and considers caref…
Data and archives: The Internet as site and subject
The Internet has changed the nature of the archive from a paper-based treasure trove overseen by the trained archivist to one of an open, multi-vocal, democratic source with no one in control. New forms of archives have emerged – for example, the haphazard collection of ephemeral – and they now exist alongside the formal public record that has more traditionally been understood as the archive. This article analyses what these changes mean to soci…
Books
Repositioning the Racial Gaze: Aboriginal Perspectives on Race, Race Relations and Governance
In Australia, public debate about recognition of the nation’s First Australians through constitutional change has highlighted the complexity and sensitivities surrounding Indigenous/state relations at even the most basic level of legal rights. But the unevenness of race relations has meant Aboriginal perspectives on race relations are not well known. This is an obstacle for reconciliation which, by definition, must be a reciprocal process. It is …
Watching Bran Nue Dae in Japan
While recently teaching in Japan, I used the Australian film Bran Nue Dae (2009), directed by Rachel Perkins, in one of my courses. The mixed, but non-Australian students, were interested to discuss why a film that was partly about family and historical trauma was a comedy. Extending from the interest, this article considers whether there has been a similar response in Australia to Indigenous-themed films. Are Indigenous issues in Australia, toda…
Narratives of national belonging: The domestic, the wild, and the mutant in Australian film
This article explores understandings of postcolonial national belonging through an analysis of cinematic representations of humans, animals and the environment. It does so by analyzing a series of Australian films about plants, animals or people who are out of place or out of control. The article registers some of the changing representations of Australian flora, fauna and, by association people, as native, domesticated, simpatico, feral and wild…
Kowal, Emma: Trapped in the Gap. Doing Good in Indigenous Australia
Anthropos , Seite 273 - 274
Anne Monsour, Not Quite White: Lebanese and the White Australia Policy, 1880 to 1947 (Brisbane: Post Pressed, 2010)
Small Screens: Essays on Contemporary Australian Television
Small Screens: Essays on Contemporary Australian Television." Australian Historical Studies, 48(4), pp. 605–606
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…
Domesticating International Military Engagements: Everyday Internationalism Through the Prism of the Malayan Emergency
This article explores media representations of a group of Australians in the period of the Cold War, when a key mode of engagement with Asia was in the form of military regional occupations and interactions. The story that the article analyses centres on overseas military postings in the 1950s and 1960s, during the Malayan Emergency and the Borneo Intervention, emphasising how these internationalised events were experienced in interpersonal ways.…
Being Australian: Narratives of National Identity
After a century of speculation by writers, filmmakers, travelers and scholars, being Australian' has become a recognisable shorthand for a group of national characteristics. Now, in an era of international terrorism, being seen as un-Australian' has become a potent rhetorical weapon for some, and a badge of honour for others.Catriona Elder explores the origins, meaning and effects of the many stories we tell about ourselves, and how they have cha…
‘Brutal’ and ‘Grisly’: Exploring the (non-Indigenous) critical reception to two Australian postcolonial films of the frontier, The Nightingale (2018) and The Proposition (2005)
This article explores the marketing and non-Indigenous critical responses to the film The Nightingale (2018) by reading it alongside the reception and responses to a similar film, made over a decade earlier, a film that also studies the multi-layers of colonial violence. Using the film The Proposition (2005) as a foil this article considers the ways that violence figured by two non-Indigenous directors working in a postcolonial Australian context…
Being Australian: Narratives of National Identity
Introduction..Part 1: Stories in the making..1 Imagining nations: Telling national tales..2 The working man is everywhere: Class and national identity..3 The invisible woman: Gender and nation..4 Populate or perish: Sexuality and nation..5 White Australia meets multiculturalism: Ethnicity and nation..6 The myth of terra nullius: Indigeneity and nation..Part 2: Ways of being Australian..7 The cultural nation: Art, cinema and music..8 The heart of …
Framing stories of national belonging: The Case of an Historical Adventure-Romance Television Series
This article explores the role of Australian 1970s and 1980s 'quality' historical television series and miniseries in engaging national audiences in discussions about their national history. These programmes - which had a corollary in the United States in the same period - were 'blockbusters'. But the historical miniseries of this period were not designed just to make money for the television networks, rather they had 'designs' on their viewers. …
Agency, the Family and the Patriarchal State in Archival Documentation of Australian Second World War Brides
This article examines the intersecting social circumstances of Australian women's intimate, international relationships with American and other foreign allied servicemen during the Second World War, including their experiences of romance, marriage, divorce and subsequent child‐maintenance USA. We explore how the widely varying, often highly personalised, perceptions of the women's raced, classed and ethnic status, across differing legal systems, …
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (15 works) · History (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Media studies (13 works) · Australian History and Society (12 works) · History (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Art (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works)