Mark Mckenna
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Mckenna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckenna |
| SIGNATURE | MCKENNA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8129-6530 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Inclusion as disappearance: Truth-telling and contemporary Australia
It seems impossible to write about the challenge of truth-telling in Australia without addressing the political environment that has emerged in the wake of last year's referendum.There is clear evidence that the nation is walking away from the three core principles of the Uluru Statement from the Heart -Voice.Treaty.Truth.Community and institutional initiatives such as Dhoombak Goobgoowana offer some hope for truth-telling continuing to well up '…
High Ground: Beauty amidst the horror on the frontier
The opening scene of High Ground is breathtaking – an aerial view of Nimbuwa Rock, which rises over the expansive plains of western Arnhem Land. Bird calls pierce the early morning stillness, as if
Grace Karskens provides a rich body of local lore
It is difficult to do justice to a book like this in such a short review. Grace Karskens’ history of Dyarubbin (the Hawkesbury-Nepean), follows in the footsteps of The Colony, which was published i
Nah Doongh’s Song: Grace Karskens and Mark McKenna in conversation
at Sydney's Gleebooks for an 'In-conversation' evening to discuss Nah Doongh's story and the historical thinking, sources and methods that made writing her story possible
The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania ’ s Black War
Unmanaged migration and the role of MNEs in reducing push factors and promoting peace: A strategic HRM perspective
Sylvester Stallone and the economics of the ageing film actor
Sylvester Stallone’s stardom has been inexorably linked to notions of youthful masculinity and an image that was constructed more than thirty years ago. Recent academic attention has been largely concerned with the ways in which age is gradually moving the star away from the idealised image that had previously defined his stardom. Exploring how he is negotiating the realities of ageing, the impact this has on the roles available to him, and his a…
Settler colonialism and (re)conciliation: Frontier violence, affective performances, and imaginative refoundings
On 26 February 2018, in the wake of the Turnbull government’s rejection of the “Uluru Statement from the Heart”, Indigenous leader, Peter Yu, delivered the annual Reconciliation Lecture at the Aust
Long History Deep Time: Deepening Histories of Place
Long History Deep Time: Deepening Histories of Place." Australian Historical Studies, 48(1), pp. 120–121
Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism: Land Holding, Loss and Survival in an Interconnected World, ed. Zoe Laidlaw and Alan Lester
This collection, edited by Zoe Laidlaw and Alan Lester, is reflective of a broad trend in the writing of Indigenous history that has been evident for some time now. Historians have moved away from an emphasis on dispossession and violence to a more nuanced understanding of the frontier that highlights the agency of Indigenous people in the face of colonialism. Hence, in the introduction to this valuable collection of essays, Laidlaw and Lester wr…
National Awakening’, Autobiography, and the Invention of Manning Clark
In the late twentieth century, Australian historian Manning Clark (1915–1991) was the nation’s leading historian and public intellectual. Clark published a six-volume history of Australia (1962–1987) and was one of a vanguard of intellectuals striving to articulate a new Australian nationalism in the wake of the British Empire’s decline. His best-known volumes of autobiography were published in quick succession. Puzzles of Childhood (1989), which…
Invisible Compromises: Global Business, Local Ecosystems, and the Commercial Bumble Bee Trade
The purpose of this article is to challenge organizational scholars, management educators, and business leaders to consider more deeply the impact of global business activities on local ecosystems. Drawing on the management, sustainability, and entomology literature, we illustrate the complex relationship between global business and biodiversity loss through the lens of the commercial bumble bee trade. Global firms in this trade rear and supply b…
Emotional stories of war
Review of ' The Home Front: Australia During the First World War ' , Joanne Bach and Jono Lineen, curators, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, From 3 Apri 2015
Tokenism or belated recognition? Welcome to Country and the emergence of Indigenous protocol in Australia, 1991–2014
This article addresses the largely neglected history of the widespread acceptance of Indigenous protocol across Australia since 1991. For the first time, the article seeks to explain the origins, development and historical significance of Indigenous protocol. In particular, it explores the Indigenous perspective. It explains how the protocols emerged largely due to the initiatives of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (1991) and Reconcilia…
A History of Australia
A History of Australia. By Mark Peel and Christina Twomey. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, Pp. 328. A$39.95 paper. In their introduction to A History of Australia Mark Peel and Christina Twomey
Leveraging Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Workplace Harmony: A Conflict Management Tool for International Managers
In the multinational enterprise (MNE), workplace conflict is generally managed within organisational systems adopted from the West. When MNEs operate in emerging economies, there is a potential disconnect between these systems and the conflict management preferences of local employees. We propose that international managers consider using indigenous knowledge to inform the conflict management systems in their subsidiaries in order to enhance and …
Transplanted to Savage Shores: Indigenous Australians and British birthright in the mid nineteenth-century Australian colonies
Transplanted to Savage Shores: Indigenous Australians and British birthright in the mid nineteenth-century Australian colonies Mark McKenna Introduction The English "have always been a practical and pragmatic race," having displayed "disaffection from, or dissatisfaction with, all abstract speculation." These are the decisive words of Peter Ackroyd, taken from his conclusion to Albion: The origins of the English imagination, published in 2002. In…
Books
A preference for forgetting: Some reflections on publishing: Looking for Blackfellas’ Point: an Australian history of place
This paper briefly canvasses some of the more casual and everyday (although no less revealing) responses to my recent book, Looking for Blackfellas' Point, a history of south-eastern NSW which is narrated against the backdrop of the politics of Australian history. In light of the Windschuttle saga, I explain how my book was received, critique Windschuttle's concept of history, and offer some thoughts on the way in which we, as historians, might r…
What's Wrong with Anzac: The Militarisation of Australian History
In recent years Anzac - an idea as much as an actual army corps - has become the dominant force within Australian history, overshadowing everything else. The commemoration of Anzac Day is bigger than ever, while Remembrance Day, VE Day, VP Day and other military anniversaries grow in significance each year. Pilgrimages to Gallipoli, the Somme and Kokoda are commonplace and popular military history dominates the bestseller lists. Anzac has seeming…
Australian history and the Australian ‘national inheritance’
Over the last decade, there has been an increasing push from political parties, both conservative and Labor, and sections of the political class—opinion makers, journalists, and private think tanks—to equate knowledge of history with the concept of a ‘national inheritance’. Implicit in this argument is the idea that history is something to which we owe fealty, that it is a body of knowledge, a national canon of events and stories, which we should…
It was really moving, mate’: The Gallipoli Pilgrimage and Sentimental Nationalism in Australia
(2007). ‘It was really moving, mate’: The Gallipoli Pilgrimage and Sentimental Nationalism in Australia. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 38, No. 129, pp. 141-151
From antiquity to the factory floor: Reviving “original dispute resolution” in the Sri Lankan subsidiary of a multinational enterprise
Purpose The purpose of this article is to propose a conceptual framework for elucidating cross‐cultural paradoxes in dispute resolution and present a case study of a hybrid process that combines aspects of interest‐based mediation and indigenous dispute resolution in order to inform the design of conflict management systems in multinational enterprises (MNEs). Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach utilizing participant observation a…
Friends of the People: Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists
A History for our Time? The Idea of the People in Australian Democracy
An attempt is made to re‐appraise the language of popular sovereignty in Australian political history and to signpost some important directions that new research might take. The increasing relevance of popular sovereignty in contemporary politics in both the United Kingdom and Australia is explored. The traditional interpretations of the role of popular sovereignty in Australian political history are outlined: their origins are explained, their c…
It was really moving, mate’: The Gallipoli Pilgrimage and Sentimental Nationalism in Australia
(2007). ‘It was really moving, mate’: The Gallipoli Pilgrimage and Sentimental Nationalism in Australia. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 38, No. 129, pp. 141-151
Tokenism or belated recognition? Welcome to Country and the emergence of Indigenous protocol in Australia, 1991–2014
This article addresses the largely neglected history of the widespread acceptance of Indigenous protocol across Australia since 1991. For the first time, the article seeks to explain the origins, development and historical significance of Indigenous protocol. In particular, it explores the Indigenous perspective. It explains how the protocols emerged largely due to the initiatives of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (1991) and Reconcilia…
Sylvester Stallone and the economics of the ageing film actor
Sylvester Stallone’s stardom has been inexorably linked to notions of youthful masculinity and an image that was constructed more than thirty years ago. Recent academic attention has been largely concerned with the ways in which age is gradually moving the star away from the idealised image that had previously defined his stardom. Exploring how he is negotiating the realities of ageing, the impact this has on the roles available to him, and his a…
Unmanaged migration and the role of MNEs in reducing push factors and promoting peace: A strategic HRM perspective
Inclusion as disappearance: Truth-telling and contemporary Australia
It seems impossible to write about the challenge of truth-telling in Australia without addressing the political environment that has emerged in the wake of last year's referendum.There is clear evidence that the nation is walking away from the three core principles of the Uluru Statement from the Heart -Voice.Treaty.Truth.Community and institutional initiatives such as Dhoombak Goobgoowana offer some hope for truth-telling continuing to well up '…
High Ground: Beauty amidst the horror on the frontier
The opening scene of High Ground is breathtaking – an aerial view of Nimbuwa Rock, which rises over the expansive plains of western Arnhem Land. Bird calls pierce the early morning stillness, as if
Leveraging Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Workplace Harmony: A Conflict Management Tool for International Managers
In the multinational enterprise (MNE), workplace conflict is generally managed within organisational systems adopted from the West. When MNEs operate in emerging economies, there is a potential disconnect between these systems and the conflict management preferences of local employees. We propose that international managers consider using indigenous knowledge to inform the conflict management systems in their subsidiaries in order to enhance and …
Transplanted to Savage Shores: Indigenous Australians and British birthright in the mid nineteenth-century Australian colonies
Transplanted to Savage Shores: Indigenous Australians and British birthright in the mid nineteenth-century Australian colonies Mark McKenna Introduction The English "have always been a practical and pragmatic race," having displayed "disaffection from, or dissatisfaction with, all abstract speculation." These are the decisive words of Peter Ackroyd, taken from his conclusion to Albion: The origins of the English imagination, published in 2002. In…
A preference for forgetting: Some reflections on publishing: Looking for Blackfellas’ Point: an Australian history of place
This paper briefly canvasses some of the more casual and everyday (although no less revealing) responses to my recent book, Looking for Blackfellas' Point, a history of south-eastern NSW which is narrated against the backdrop of the politics of Australian history. In light of the Windschuttle saga, I explain how my book was received, critique Windschuttle's concept of history, and offer some thoughts on the way in which we, as historians, might r…
From antiquity to the factory floor: Reviving “original dispute resolution” in the Sri Lankan subsidiary of a multinational enterprise
Purpose The purpose of this article is to propose a conceptual framework for elucidating cross‐cultural paradoxes in dispute resolution and present a case study of a hybrid process that combines aspects of interest‐based mediation and indigenous dispute resolution in order to inform the design of conflict management systems in multinational enterprises (MNEs). Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach utilizing participant observation a…
The Captive Republic: A History of Republicanism in Australia 1788-1996
Introduction 1. The piratical republic: 1788-1833 2. The stockmen's republic: 1833-1848 3. The last resort: 1848-1856 4. Bunyip aristocracy 5. A Victorian republic 6. Quieta non movere: 1856-1880 7. A white man's republic: 1880-1887 8. Nation and republic: 1887-1891 9. The common weal - republicanism and Federation 10. The Imperial mardi gras: 1901-1963 11. The end of the affair: 1963-1995
The Australian Republic
Touchstone—How Radical Is Radical
September 01 2001 Touchstone—How Radical Is Radical? Mark McKenna, Mark McKenna Artistic Director and Ensemble Member Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Sara Brady, Sara Brady Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Touchstone Theatre Touchstone Theatre Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Mark McKenna Artistic Director and Ense…
A History for our Time? The Idea of the People in Australian Democracy
An attempt is made to re‐appraise the language of popular sovereignty in Australian political history and to signpost some important directions that new research might take. The increasing relevance of popular sovereignty in contemporary politics in both the United Kingdom and Australia is explored. The traditional interpretations of the role of popular sovereignty in Australian political history are outlined: their origins are explained, their c…
I Wonder Whether I Belong’: Manning Clark and the Politics of Australian History 1970–2000
This article focuses on the role Manning Clark played in popularising a critical reading of Australian history, especially between the early 1970s and his death in 1991. It also discusses Clark's influence on Paul Keating, Labor Prime Minister from 1991 to 1996. Finally, it explains the antipathy of Australian conservatives towards Clark; largely in light of Clark's views concerning ‘civilisation’, British ‘heritage’ and the dispossession of Abor…
Friends of the People: Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists
It was really moving, mate’: The Gallipoli Pilgrimage and Sentimental Nationalism in Australia
(2007). ‘It was really moving, mate’: The Gallipoli Pilgrimage and Sentimental Nationalism in Australia. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 38, No. 129, pp. 141-151
From antiquity to the factory floor: Reviving “original dispute resolution” in the Sri Lankan subsidiary of a multinational enterprise
Purpose The purpose of this article is to propose a conceptual framework for elucidating cross‐cultural paradoxes in dispute resolution and present a case study of a hybrid process that combines aspects of interest‐based mediation and indigenous dispute resolution in order to inform the design of conflict management systems in multinational enterprises (MNEs). Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach utilizing participant observation a…
Australian history and the Australian ‘national inheritance’
Over the last decade, there has been an increasing push from political parties, both conservative and Labor, and sections of the political class—opinion makers, journalists, and private think tanks—to equate knowledge of history with the concept of a ‘national inheritance’. Implicit in this argument is the idea that history is something to which we owe fealty, that it is a body of knowledge, a national canon of events and stories, which we should…
What's Wrong with Anzac: The Militarisation of Australian History
In recent years Anzac - an idea as much as an actual army corps - has become the dominant force within Australian history, overshadowing everything else. The commemoration of Anzac Day is bigger than ever, while Remembrance Day, VE Day, VP Day and other military anniversaries grow in significance each year. Pilgrimages to Gallipoli, the Somme and Kokoda are commonplace and popular military history dominates the bestseller lists. Anzac has seeming…
Books
A preference for forgetting: Some reflections on publishing: Looking for Blackfellas’ Point: an Australian history of place
This paper briefly canvasses some of the more casual and everyday (although no less revealing) responses to my recent book, Looking for Blackfellas' Point, a history of south-eastern NSW which is narrated against the backdrop of the politics of Australian history. In light of the Windschuttle saga, I explain how my book was received, critique Windschuttle's concept of history, and offer some thoughts on the way in which we, as historians, might r…
Transplanted to Savage Shores: Indigenous Australians and British birthright in the mid nineteenth-century Australian colonies
Transplanted to Savage Shores: Indigenous Australians and British birthright in the mid nineteenth-century Australian colonies Mark McKenna Introduction The English "have always been a practical and pragmatic race," having displayed "disaffection from, or dissatisfaction with, all abstract speculation." These are the decisive words of Peter Ackroyd, taken from his conclusion to Albion: The origins of the English imagination, published in 2002. In…
A History of Australia
A History of Australia. By Mark Peel and Christina Twomey. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, Pp. 328. A$39.95 paper. In their introduction to A History of Australia Mark Peel and Christina Twomey
Leveraging Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Workplace Harmony: A Conflict Management Tool for International Managers
In the multinational enterprise (MNE), workplace conflict is generally managed within organisational systems adopted from the West. When MNEs operate in emerging economies, there is a potential disconnect between these systems and the conflict management preferences of local employees. We propose that international managers consider using indigenous knowledge to inform the conflict management systems in their subsidiaries in order to enhance and …
Tokenism or belated recognition? Welcome to Country and the emergence of Indigenous protocol in Australia, 1991–2014
This article addresses the largely neglected history of the widespread acceptance of Indigenous protocol across Australia since 1991. For the first time, the article seeks to explain the origins, development and historical significance of Indigenous protocol. In particular, it explores the Indigenous perspective. It explains how the protocols emerged largely due to the initiatives of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (1991) and Reconcilia…
Invisible Compromises: Global Business, Local Ecosystems, and the Commercial Bumble Bee Trade
The purpose of this article is to challenge organizational scholars, management educators, and business leaders to consider more deeply the impact of global business activities on local ecosystems. Drawing on the management, sustainability, and entomology literature, we illustrate the complex relationship between global business and biodiversity loss through the lens of the commercial bumble bee trade. Global firms in this trade rear and supply b…
Emotional stories of war
Review of ' The Home Front: Australia During the First World War ' , Joanne Bach and Jono Lineen, curators, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, From 3 Apri 2015
National Awakening’, Autobiography, and the Invention of Manning Clark
In the late twentieth century, Australian historian Manning Clark (1915–1991) was the nation’s leading historian and public intellectual. Clark published a six-volume history of Australia (1962–1987) and was one of a vanguard of intellectuals striving to articulate a new Australian nationalism in the wake of the British Empire’s decline. His best-known volumes of autobiography were published in quick succession. Puzzles of Childhood (1989), which…
Long History Deep Time: Deepening Histories of Place
Long History Deep Time: Deepening Histories of Place." Australian Historical Studies, 48(1), pp. 120–121
Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism: Land Holding, Loss and Survival in an Interconnected World, ed. Zoe Laidlaw and Alan Lester
This collection, edited by Zoe Laidlaw and Alan Lester, is reflective of a broad trend in the writing of Indigenous history that has been evident for some time now. Historians have moved away from an emphasis on dispossession and violence to a more nuanced understanding of the frontier that highlights the agency of Indigenous people in the face of colonialism. Hence, in the introduction to this valuable collection of essays, Laidlaw and Lester wr…
Settler colonialism and (re)conciliation: Frontier violence, affective performances, and imaginative refoundings
On 26 February 2018, in the wake of the Turnbull government’s rejection of the “Uluru Statement from the Heart”, Indigenous leader, Peter Yu, delivered the annual Reconciliation Lecture at the Aust
The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania ’ s Black War
Unmanaged migration and the role of MNEs in reducing push factors and promoting peace: A strategic HRM perspective
Sylvester Stallone and the economics of the ageing film actor
Sylvester Stallone’s stardom has been inexorably linked to notions of youthful masculinity and an image that was constructed more than thirty years ago. Recent academic attention has been largely concerned with the ways in which age is gradually moving the star away from the idealised image that had previously defined his stardom. Exploring how he is negotiating the realities of ageing, the impact this has on the roles available to him, and his a…
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