Joel Barnes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Barnes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Barnes |
| SIGNATURE | BARNES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6113-7620 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interpreting Humani Generis
From mid‐1960 to early 1961, the Melbourne Catholic weekly newspaper The Advocate carried an extended controversy on evolutionary science and its compatibility with the teachings of the Church. An intra‐denominational debate among Catholic scientists, clergy and laymen, the controversy was shaped by the theological framework of Pope Pius XII's encyclical Humani Generis (1950), which included the first ever papal statement on evolution. As a grass…
God-professor’
This article seeks to recover the contested early history of the term and concept 'god-professor'. Scholars of the histories of Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand universities and their disciplines have often used 'god-professor' descriptively, referring to nineteenth and twentieth-century professors said to have held absolute scholarly authority within and beyond the academy. It has been less commonly noticed that when the term 'god-professor' …
The ‘two cultures’ in Australia
This article considers Australian receptions of C. P. Snow’s The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959), and of the controversy over the literary critic F. R. Leavis’s combative 1962 response to it. Taking a lead from conceptual insights in global histories of science and the history of knowledge, the paper considers the ways knowledge claims iterate differently in different geographic and cultural contexts. Elements of the Snow–Leavis…
Evolutionary science in denominational colleges at Australian universities, 1907–2020
This article examines the place of evolutionary science in protestant and Catholic residential colleges associated with Australian public universities across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Although faith-based universities are a relatively recent phenomenon in Australia, a quasi-federal model of secular teaching and accrediting universities linked to church-run non-teaching residential colleges developed with the founding of the …
Australian universities and Atlantic slavery
This article seeks to open a conversation about Australian universities and Atlantic slavery. To an extent previously unexamined, Australian universities benefited financially, administratively and intellectually from the proceeds and legacies of slavery in the Caribbean and the American South. The research follows the examples of American and British universities’ examinations of their historical links to slavery, and builds upon recent scholars…
The Humanities in Australia and the Problem of Europe
This article offers an intellectual history of twentieth-century understandings of the humanities in Australia, with special reference to the problem of their Europeanness. Eurocentric ideologies associated with the term “the humanities” have particular pertinence in Australia, which in this period generally saw itself as a fragment of Europe in the Asia-Pacific. Transformations in the humanities’ methods and approaches have in Australia been bou…
Revisiting the ‘Darwin–Marx correspondence’
Between the 1930s and the mid 1970s, it was commonly believed that in 1880 Karl Marx had proposed to dedicate to Charles Darwin a volume or translation of Capital but that Darwin had refused. The detail was often interpreted by scholars as having larger significance for the question of the relationship between Darwinian evolutionary biology and Marxist political economy. In 1973–4, two scholars working independently—Lewis Feuer, professor of soci…
Historicizing Humans
Arising from, and surpassing, a 2015 special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, this collection presents a wide-ranging series of case-studies in evolutionary thought in the Victorian British sciences. The primary focus is ‘deep time’—the exponentially expanded timeline of human prehistory opened up by geology, palaeontology and evolutionary biology—which brings to the fore the natural rather than th…
Historicism and the human sciences in Victorian Britain
The British women's suffrage movement and the ancient constitution, 1867-1909
Between the second Reform Act and the rise of Edwardian suffragette militancy, a critique of women's political exclusion based on a re-reading of British constitutional history was developed first by constitutional lawyers and later by a small but influential network of suffragist historian-activists. These scholars came to view women's enfranchisement not as an innovation but as the restitution of lost rights. This article examines these legal-h…
Position Statement on Active Outdoor Play
A diverse, cross-sectorial group of partners, stakeholders and researchers, collaborated to develop an evidence-informed Position Statement on active outdoor play for children aged 3–12 years. The Position Statement was created in response to practitioner, academic, legal, insurance and public debate, dialogue and disagreement on the relative benefits and harms of active (including risky) outdoor play. The Position Statement development process w…
Are We Driving Our Kids to Unhealthy Habits? Results of the Active Healthy Kids Canada 2013 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth
This article examines the time trends in patterns of school travel mode among Canadian children and youth to inform the Active Transportation (AT) indicator of the 2013 Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. The AT grade was assigned based on a comprehensive synthesis of the 2000 and 2010 Physical Activity Monitor studies from the Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute and the 1992, 1998, 20…
The Right to Read
The Book Censorship Abolition League, a group made up of academics and other public intellectuals that was active between 1934 and 1937, constituted the first sustained and substantial protest against government censorship in Australia. By the early 1930s, Australia had developed the most interventionist political and moral censorship regime in the English-speaking world, with the exception only of Ireland. From 1933, under the federal Minister f…
Too Far to Walk or Bike
Too Far to Walk or Bike
Are We Driving Our Kids to Unhealthy Habits? Results of the Active Healthy Kids Canada 2013 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth
This article examines the time trends in patterns of school travel mode among Canadian children and youth to inform the Active Transportation (AT) indicator of the 2013 Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. The AT grade was assigned based on a comprehensive synthesis of the 2000 and 2010 Physical Activity Monitor studies from the Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute and the 1992, 1998, 20…
The Right to Read
The Book Censorship Abolition League, a group made up of academics and other public intellectuals that was active between 1934 and 1937, constituted the first sustained and substantial protest against government censorship in Australia. By the early 1930s, Australia had developed the most interventionist political and moral censorship regime in the English-speaking world, with the exception only of Ireland. From 1933, under the federal Minister f…
Position Statement on Active Outdoor Play
A diverse, cross-sectorial group of partners, stakeholders and researchers, collaborated to develop an evidence-informed Position Statement on active outdoor play for children aged 3–12 years. The Position Statement was created in response to practitioner, academic, legal, insurance and public debate, dialogue and disagreement on the relative benefits and harms of active (including risky) outdoor play. The Position Statement development process w…
Historicism and the human sciences in Victorian Britain
The British women's suffrage movement and the ancient constitution, 1867-1909
Between the second Reform Act and the rise of Edwardian suffragette militancy, a critique of women's political exclusion based on a re-reading of British constitutional history was developed first by constitutional lawyers and later by a small but influential network of suffragist historian-activists. These scholars came to view women's enfranchisement not as an innovation but as the restitution of lost rights. This article examines these legal-h…
Historicizing Humans
Arising from, and surpassing, a 2015 special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, this collection presents a wide-ranging series of case-studies in evolutionary thought in the Victorian British sciences. The primary focus is ‘deep time’—the exponentially expanded timeline of human prehistory opened up by geology, palaeontology and evolutionary biology—which brings to the fore the natural rather than th…
The Humanities in Australia and the Problem of Europe
This article offers an intellectual history of twentieth-century understandings of the humanities in Australia, with special reference to the problem of their Europeanness. Eurocentric ideologies associated with the term “the humanities” have particular pertinence in Australia, which in this period generally saw itself as a fragment of Europe in the Asia-Pacific. Transformations in the humanities’ methods and approaches have in Australia been bou…
Revisiting the ‘Darwin–Marx correspondence’
Between the 1930s and the mid 1970s, it was commonly believed that in 1880 Karl Marx had proposed to dedicate to Charles Darwin a volume or translation of Capital but that Darwin had refused. The detail was often interpreted by scholars as having larger significance for the question of the relationship between Darwinian evolutionary biology and Marxist political economy. In 1973–4, two scholars working independently—Lewis Feuer, professor of soci…
Australian universities and Atlantic slavery
This article seeks to open a conversation about Australian universities and Atlantic slavery. To an extent previously unexamined, Australian universities benefited financially, administratively and intellectually from the proceeds and legacies of slavery in the Caribbean and the American South. The research follows the examples of American and British universities’ examinations of their historical links to slavery, and builds upon recent scholars…
The ‘two cultures’ in Australia
This article considers Australian receptions of C. P. Snow’s The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959), and of the controversy over the literary critic F. R. Leavis’s combative 1962 response to it. Taking a lead from conceptual insights in global histories of science and the history of knowledge, the paper considers the ways knowledge claims iterate differently in different geographic and cultural contexts. Elements of the Snow–Leavis…
Evolutionary science in denominational colleges at Australian universities, 1907–2020
This article examines the place of evolutionary science in protestant and Catholic residential colleges associated with Australian public universities across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Although faith-based universities are a relatively recent phenomenon in Australia, a quasi-federal model of secular teaching and accrediting universities linked to church-run non-teaching residential colleges developed with the founding of the …
Interpreting Humani Generis
From mid‐1960 to early 1961, the Melbourne Catholic weekly newspaper The Advocate carried an extended controversy on evolutionary science and its compatibility with the teachings of the Church. An intra‐denominational debate among Catholic scientists, clergy and laymen, the controversy was shaped by the theological framework of Pope Pius XII's encyclical Humani Generis (1950), which included the first ever papal statement on evolution. As a grass…
God-professor’
This article seeks to recover the contested early history of the term and concept 'god-professor'. Scholars of the histories of Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand universities and their disciplines have often used 'god-professor' descriptively, referring to nineteenth and twentieth-century professors said to have held absolute scholarly authority within and beyond the academy. It has been less commonly noticed that when the term 'god-professor' …
Sociology (12 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Australian History and Society (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)