Ellen Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9369-3584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1911 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Navigating Sexualization by Clients: Critical and Clinical Perspectives
A challenging aspect of practice for social work students is the client's expression of sexual feelings for them. From a feminist perspective, sexualization by clients may be seen as an expression of gendered power dynamics. Historically, the emergence of sexual feelings on the part of the client has been conceptualized as erotic transference. This article presents a conceptual framework to help students explore the range of potential meanings of…
Pregnant with the Interests of Life and Death: Family Correspondence and the British Imperial News Sphere during the 1857 Indian Rebellion
In September 1857, extracts from letters written in Gwalior and Agra, India, by an elite British “lady,” Wilhelmina “Minnie” Murray (1834–1912), were published as part of the “correspondence” sections of The Times 's coverage of the 1857–58 Indian Rebellion. Through the letters she documented her escape from Gwalior to Agra. She described encounters with the maharajah and “fanatic” “ghazis,” and her experience navigating inversions of racial and …
Distant Communications: Beyond Death
calling not able to fully replace emotional and physical needs and desires. 3 Concerns over miscommunications, worries over the health and wellbeing of loved ones out of sight still exist within modern societies. 4 Online, there is still the issue of language barriers, with the most common shared language, English, only being understood by 15% of the world's population. 5 This is complicated by the emergence of distance or social media languages,…
‘We Went Bravely On … ’: The Theatre and Spectacle of Everyday Life in British Written Representations of Colonial South Asia
Analysing how British women and men in nineteenth and twentieth-century colonial South Asia made ‘theatre’ or ‘spectacles’ of everyday life in personal correspondence, this article examines the foundations of a particular kind of imagery of empire which often survived beyond decolonisation. It examines constructions of the quotidian in different arenas of the colonial experience – the ship, the environment and climate, and the household – to cons…
Colexification of ‘Enough’, ‘Able’ and ‘Until’ in Tok Pisin and Papapana: Independent or Contact-induced Change
Considerable research has concerned the influence of Papua New Guinea’s Oceanic languages on the development of the pidgin/creole Tok Pisin, but little research has considered linguistic influence in the opposite direction. This paper adds to both bodies of research by investigating whether the colexification of ‘enough’, ‘able’ and ‘until’ in Papapana (Oceanic) and Tok Pisin results from internal or contact-induced change. Such a colexification …
Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London by Stephen Legg (review)
Reviewed by: Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London by Stephen Legg Ellen Smith Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London By Stephen Legg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Stephen Legg's impressive book provokes a very necessary and major reconceptualisation of what we have come to accept were the strategies and experiences of international diplomacy …
Fathers in a Motherland: Imagining Fatherhood in Colonial India by Swapna M. Banerjee (review)
Reviewed by: Fathers in a Motherland: Imagining Fatherhood in Colonial India by Swapna M. Banerjee Ellen Smith Fathers in a Motherland: Imagining Fatherhood in Colonial India. By Swapna M. Banerjee. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2022. This welcome book carves out a prominent space in the expanding literature on family, selfhood, gender and masculinity in the history of colonial South Asia. Banerjee's primary provocation for the text was to …
Queer Desire and the Anthropological Imagination: Randolph Stow and Bronislaw Malinowski in the Trobriand Islands
Queer Desire and the Anthropological Imagination:Randolph Stow and Bronislaw Malinowski in the Trobriand Islands Ellen Smith (bio) Australian writer Randolph Stow arrived in New Guinea's Trobriand Islands in 1959 with Bronislaw Malinowski's Trobriand ethnographies under his arm: Argonauts of the Western Pacific, Coral Gardens and their Magic and The Sexual Life of Savages. The 24-year-old was a Cadet Patrol Officer for the Australian colonial adm…
Widows, Violence and Death: The Construction of Imperial Identity and Memory by Women in Mourning across British India, 1857–1926
This article examines the work of British widows in the construction of their husbands’ memory following their violent deaths in British India, during the nineteenth and early‐twentieth centuries. Exploring the collections of a military, missionary and Indian Civil Service widow, it suggests that a specifically feminised culture of mourning nurtured imperial narratives. It moves between personal correspondence, to published accounts of frontier ‘…
Don’t feel obligated, lest it be undesirable: The relationship between prohibitives and apprehensives in Papapana and beyond
This paper analyses the preverbal morpheme te, used in both apprehensive ‘precautioning’ sentences and in one of two prohibitive constructions in Papapana (papa1265, Austronesian, Oceanic; Papua New Guinea). I aim to establish whether there is a diachronic relationship between the two functions of te , and in which direction, how and why semantic change may have occurred. This requires consideration of the synchronic differences between Papapana …
On Not Having Sex: Sumner Locke Elliott and Queer History
This essay argues that we need ways to read unexpressed queer desire and the absence of sex in writing by gay authors that donâ t fall back on the trope of the closet. It makes this argument through pairing Sumner Locke Elliottâ s 1948 play Rusty Bugles with his 1990 â coming outâ novel Fairyland, two texts that draw upon Elliottâ s time at an ordinance depot during the Second World War. Elliottâ s work has often been read as out of step with the…
History, Myth and Memory: Temporalities Past and Present
Historical Blind Spots
Re-presenting the Past
Remapping Capricornia: Xavier Herbert's Cosmopolitan Imagination
Since its publication in 1938 critics have generally read Xavier Herbert's Capricornia as a nationalist novel, even when its nationalism is seen to be structured by contradiction. But little attention has been given to the ways in which Herbert's complex, multifarious and heteroglossic novel exceeds and challenges the very possibility of coherent national space and a coherent national story. This essay considers moments and spaces in Herbert's no…
Contact-induced Change in a Highly Endangered Language of Northern Bougainville
Languages belonging to the Northwest Solomonic (NWS) subgroup, within the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family, are spoken in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, and in the western Solomon Islands. These languages are lexically the most innovative Austronesian languages, retaining the least number of Austronesian cognates. Certain languages also show atypical grammatical structures. These innovative features are typically assumed to be the resul…
An Assessment of Family Planning Decision Makers' And Advocates' Needs and Strategies In Three East African Countries
CONTEXT: Despite decades of evidence-based advocacy for family planning in developing countries, research on how decision makers perceive and respond to such efforts is lacking. METHODS: A literature review yielded 10 peer-reviewed journal articles published between 1999 and 2012 on decision makers' needs for and experiences with health advocacy and evidence. Two sets of questions about family planning research and advocacy-one for decision maker…
Different workers: Political commitment and subaltern labour in Katharine Susannah Prichard'sBrumby Innes
Katharine Susannah Prichard's Aboriginal writings from the 1920s are among the earliest, by a communist, to represent Aboriginal workers in the Australian cattle industry. However, critics have not, in general, situated these writings in relation to Prichard's Marxist politics or to left-wing discourse more generally. Indeed, there is a general consensus that Prichard's socialism could not inform her writings about colonial relationships in the w…
White Aborigines: Xavier Herbert, P. R. Stephensen and the Publicist
This essay explores the way ideas about Aboriginality informed right-wing nationalist projects in Australia in the 1930s. Focusing on the publication by the proto-fascist Publicist group of Xavier Herbert's classic anti-racist protest novel of the Australian frontier, Capricornia, I unpack the unlikely logic by which a deep identification with Aboriginality and with the political struggle for Aboriginal rights is at the core of a set of fantasies…
Local Moderns: The Jindyworobak Movement and Australian Modernism
This article locates the Jindyworobak movement in relation to late global modernism and reads the Jindyworobaks as what I term "provincial modernists". While the Jindyworobak group has often been understood as disconnected from, even antithetical to, modernism, I argue that the Jindyworobak movement provides a new formulation of the relationship between the local and the modern that makes a commitment to local and parochial cultures the basis of …
Trends in National Family Planning Programs, 1999, 2004 and 2009
CONTEXT: National family planning programs in the developing world vary greatly in strength and coverage, and in the nature of their outreach. Periodic measures of their types and levels of effort have been conducted since 1972. METHODS: In 2009, expert observers in 81 developing countries completed a questionnaire that assessed 31 features of family planning program effort, as well as other program measures. Data were compared with those from si…
The mastery of submission: Inventions of masochism
The Jews of Boston: Essays on the Occasion of the Centenary (1895-1995) of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
Published on the 350th anniversary of the first Jews to arrive in America, this comprehensive history of the Jews of Boston is now available in a revised and updated paperback edition. The stunning work combines illuminating essays by distinguished Jewish historians with 110 rare photographs to trace the community from its tentative beginnings in colonial Boston through its emergence in the twentieth century as one of the most influential and suc…
Jenner's Smallpox Vaccine: The Riddle of Vaccinia Virus and Its Origin . Derrick Baxby
English Local Geography
Widows, Violence and Death: The Construction of Imperial Identity and Memory by Women in Mourning across British India, 1857–1926
This article examines the work of British widows in the construction of their husbands’ memory following their violent deaths in British India, during the nineteenth and early‐twentieth centuries. Exploring the collections of a military, missionary and Indian Civil Service widow, it suggests that a specifically feminised culture of mourning nurtured imperial narratives. It moves between personal correspondence, to published accounts of frontier ‘…
On Not Having Sex: Sumner Locke Elliott and Queer History
This essay argues that we need ways to read unexpressed queer desire and the absence of sex in writing by gay authors that donâ t fall back on the trope of the closet. It makes this argument through pairing Sumner Locke Elliottâ s 1948 play Rusty Bugles with his 1990 â coming outâ novel Fairyland, two texts that draw upon Elliottâ s time at an ordinance depot during the Second World War. Elliottâ s work has often been read as out of step with the…
Remapping Capricornia: Xavier Herbert's Cosmopolitan Imagination
Since its publication in 1938 critics have generally read Xavier Herbert's Capricornia as a nationalist novel, even when its nationalism is seen to be structured by contradiction. But little attention has been given to the ways in which Herbert's complex, multifarious and heteroglossic novel exceeds and challenges the very possibility of coherent national space and a coherent national story. This essay considers moments and spaces in Herbert's no…
Contact-induced Change in a Highly Endangered Language of Northern Bougainville
Languages belonging to the Northwest Solomonic (NWS) subgroup, within the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family, are spoken in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, and in the western Solomon Islands. These languages are lexically the most innovative Austronesian languages, retaining the least number of Austronesian cognates. Certain languages also show atypical grammatical structures. These innovative features are typically assumed to be the resul…
English Local Geography
Jenner's Smallpox Vaccine: The Riddle of Vaccinia Virus and Its Origin . Derrick Baxby
The Jews of Boston: Essays on the Occasion of the Centenary (1895-1995) of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
Published on the 350th anniversary of the first Jews to arrive in America, this comprehensive history of the Jews of Boston is now available in a revised and updated paperback edition. The stunning work combines illuminating essays by distinguished Jewish historians with 110 rare photographs to trace the community from its tentative beginnings in colonial Boston through its emergence in the twentieth century as one of the most influential and suc…
The mastery of submission: Inventions of masochism
Trends in National Family Planning Programs, 1999, 2004 and 2009
CONTEXT: National family planning programs in the developing world vary greatly in strength and coverage, and in the nature of their outreach. Periodic measures of their types and levels of effort have been conducted since 1972. METHODS: In 2009, expert observers in 81 developing countries completed a questionnaire that assessed 31 features of family planning program effort, as well as other program measures. Data were compared with those from si…
Local Moderns: The Jindyworobak Movement and Australian Modernism
This article locates the Jindyworobak movement in relation to late global modernism and reads the Jindyworobaks as what I term "provincial modernists". While the Jindyworobak group has often been understood as disconnected from, even antithetical to, modernism, I argue that the Jindyworobak movement provides a new formulation of the relationship between the local and the modern that makes a commitment to local and parochial cultures the basis of …
White Aborigines: Xavier Herbert, P. R. Stephensen and the Publicist
This essay explores the way ideas about Aboriginality informed right-wing nationalist projects in Australia in the 1930s. Focusing on the publication by the proto-fascist Publicist group of Xavier Herbert's classic anti-racist protest novel of the Australian frontier, Capricornia, I unpack the unlikely logic by which a deep identification with Aboriginality and with the political struggle for Aboriginal rights is at the core of a set of fantasies…
An Assessment of Family Planning Decision Makers' And Advocates' Needs and Strategies In Three East African Countries
CONTEXT: Despite decades of evidence-based advocacy for family planning in developing countries, research on how decision makers perceive and respond to such efforts is lacking. METHODS: A literature review yielded 10 peer-reviewed journal articles published between 1999 and 2012 on decision makers' needs for and experiences with health advocacy and evidence. Two sets of questions about family planning research and advocacy-one for decision maker…
Different workers: Political commitment and subaltern labour in Katharine Susannah Prichard'sBrumby Innes
Katharine Susannah Prichard's Aboriginal writings from the 1920s are among the earliest, by a communist, to represent Aboriginal workers in the Australian cattle industry. However, critics have not, in general, situated these writings in relation to Prichard's Marxist politics or to left-wing discourse more generally. Indeed, there is a general consensus that Prichard's socialism could not inform her writings about colonial relationships in the w…
Contact-induced Change in a Highly Endangered Language of Northern Bougainville
Languages belonging to the Northwest Solomonic (NWS) subgroup, within the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family, are spoken in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, and in the western Solomon Islands. These languages are lexically the most innovative Austronesian languages, retaining the least number of Austronesian cognates. Certain languages also show atypical grammatical structures. These innovative features are typically assumed to be the resul…
Re-presenting the Past
Remapping Capricornia: Xavier Herbert's Cosmopolitan Imagination
Since its publication in 1938 critics have generally read Xavier Herbert's Capricornia as a nationalist novel, even when its nationalism is seen to be structured by contradiction. But little attention has been given to the ways in which Herbert's complex, multifarious and heteroglossic novel exceeds and challenges the very possibility of coherent national space and a coherent national story. This essay considers moments and spaces in Herbert's no…
History, Myth and Memory: Temporalities Past and Present
Historical Blind Spots
On Not Having Sex: Sumner Locke Elliott and Queer History
This essay argues that we need ways to read unexpressed queer desire and the absence of sex in writing by gay authors that donâ t fall back on the trope of the closet. It makes this argument through pairing Sumner Locke Elliottâ s 1948 play Rusty Bugles with his 1990 â coming outâ novel Fairyland, two texts that draw upon Elliottâ s time at an ordinance depot during the Second World War. Elliottâ s work has often been read as out of step with the…
Don’t feel obligated, lest it be undesirable: The relationship between prohibitives and apprehensives in Papapana and beyond
This paper analyses the preverbal morpheme te, used in both apprehensive ‘precautioning’ sentences and in one of two prohibitive constructions in Papapana (papa1265, Austronesian, Oceanic; Papua New Guinea). I aim to establish whether there is a diachronic relationship between the two functions of te , and in which direction, how and why semantic change may have occurred. This requires consideration of the synchronic differences between Papapana …
‘We Went Bravely On … ’: The Theatre and Spectacle of Everyday Life in British Written Representations of Colonial South Asia
Analysing how British women and men in nineteenth and twentieth-century colonial South Asia made ‘theatre’ or ‘spectacles’ of everyday life in personal correspondence, this article examines the foundations of a particular kind of imagery of empire which often survived beyond decolonisation. It examines constructions of the quotidian in different arenas of the colonial experience – the ship, the environment and climate, and the household – to cons…
Colexification of ‘Enough’, ‘Able’ and ‘Until’ in Tok Pisin and Papapana: Independent or Contact-induced Change
Considerable research has concerned the influence of Papua New Guinea’s Oceanic languages on the development of the pidgin/creole Tok Pisin, but little research has considered linguistic influence in the opposite direction. This paper adds to both bodies of research by investigating whether the colexification of ‘enough’, ‘able’ and ‘until’ in Papapana (Oceanic) and Tok Pisin results from internal or contact-induced change. Such a colexification …
Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London by Stephen Legg (review)
Reviewed by: Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London by Stephen Legg Ellen Smith Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London By Stephen Legg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Stephen Legg's impressive book provokes a very necessary and major reconceptualisation of what we have come to accept were the strategies and experiences of international diplomacy …
Fathers in a Motherland: Imagining Fatherhood in Colonial India by Swapna M. Banerjee (review)
Reviewed by: Fathers in a Motherland: Imagining Fatherhood in Colonial India by Swapna M. Banerjee Ellen Smith Fathers in a Motherland: Imagining Fatherhood in Colonial India. By Swapna M. Banerjee. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2022. This welcome book carves out a prominent space in the expanding literature on family, selfhood, gender and masculinity in the history of colonial South Asia. Banerjee's primary provocation for the text was to …
Queer Desire and the Anthropological Imagination: Randolph Stow and Bronislaw Malinowski in the Trobriand Islands
Queer Desire and the Anthropological Imagination:Randolph Stow and Bronislaw Malinowski in the Trobriand Islands Ellen Smith (bio) Australian writer Randolph Stow arrived in New Guinea's Trobriand Islands in 1959 with Bronislaw Malinowski's Trobriand ethnographies under his arm: Argonauts of the Western Pacific, Coral Gardens and their Magic and The Sexual Life of Savages. The 24-year-old was a Cadet Patrol Officer for the Australian colonial adm…
Widows, Violence and Death: The Construction of Imperial Identity and Memory by Women in Mourning across British India, 1857–1926
This article examines the work of British widows in the construction of their husbands’ memory following their violent deaths in British India, during the nineteenth and early‐twentieth centuries. Exploring the collections of a military, missionary and Indian Civil Service widow, it suggests that a specifically feminised culture of mourning nurtured imperial narratives. It moves between personal correspondence, to published accounts of frontier ‘…
Distant Communications: Beyond Death
calling not able to fully replace emotional and physical needs and desires. 3 Concerns over miscommunications, worries over the health and wellbeing of loved ones out of sight still exist within modern societies. 4 Online, there is still the issue of language barriers, with the most common shared language, English, only being understood by 15% of the world's population. 5 This is complicated by the emergence of distance or social media languages,…
Pregnant with the Interests of Life and Death: Family Correspondence and the British Imperial News Sphere during the 1857 Indian Rebellion
In September 1857, extracts from letters written in Gwalior and Agra, India, by an elite British “lady,” Wilhelmina “Minnie” Murray (1834–1912), were published as part of the “correspondence” sections of The Times 's coverage of the 1857–58 Indian Rebellion. Through the letters she documented her escape from Gwalior to Agra. She described encounters with the maharajah and “fanatic” “ghazis,” and her experience navigating inversions of racial and …
Navigating Sexualization by Clients: Critical and Clinical Perspectives
A challenging aspect of practice for social work students is the client's expression of sexual feelings for them. From a feminist perspective, sexualization by clients may be seen as an expression of gendered power dynamics. Historically, the emergence of sexual feelings on the part of the client has been conceptualized as erotic transference. This article presents a conceptual framework to help students explore the range of potential meanings of…
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