Erik Eklund
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erik Eklund |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erik |
| FAMILY NAME | Eklund |
| SIGNATURE | EKLUND E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Federation University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7335-8041 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Mirror and the Icon: A Theological Perspective on Nabokov’s Pale Fire
The search for the author(s) of Nabokov’s Pale Fire arises from a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem of repetition and its relation to the question of origins, temporal and timeless. For insofar as an origin is a thing ( res ) that is not always already in the movement of repetition (identical or otherwise), however distantly removed from its source (finite or otherwise), there can be no finite or immanent origin in the book or in the wo…
Haloed Hallucinations: Vladimir Nabokov’s Bend Sinister and the Cult of St. Antony from Athanasius to Gustave Flaubert
Among the most popular hagiographies throughout Eastern and Coptic Christianity, Athanasius’ Life of Antony has exercised profound influence upon Western visual and literary art, not least Vladimir Nabokov’s Bend Sinister . Querying the alleged originality of Nabokov’s “symbol of the Divine power,” this article examines Nabokov’s engagement with the Antonian hagiographic tradition—represented by Athanasius’ Life , Hieronymus Bosch’s Triptych of t…
Creation and Beauty in Tolkien’s Catholic Vision: A Study in the Influence of Neoplatonism in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Philosophy of Life as “Being and Gift.” , by Halsall, Michael John
Industrial Heritage Agents, Actors and Outcomes: Regional Case Studies from Broken Hill and the Latrobe Valley
This article considers the comparative standing of industrial heritage in two distinctive Australian regional contexts. With a focus on the agents and actors in the heritage-making process, we outline the development of a case for heritage in the mining town of Broken Hill in far western New South Wales, which gained momentum soon after the local mines began a steady decline in the early 1970s. Broken Hill has, to some extent, adapted its mining …
The Dreaded Pneumonic Influenza Has Made Its Appearance Amongst Us’: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 in Gippsland, Victoria
This article contributes to our understanding of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic from a regional perspective. It covers the Gippsland region in the southeast of Australia, which traverses the area from Melbourne to the New South Wales border, with a focus on detailing pandemic history at a finely-grained community level. While the public memory of the influenza pandemic is patchy I explore local and family histories to show a vernacular memory of …
The Australian Assistance Plan and the Canadian Connection: Origins and Legacies
This article explores the origins of one such program, the Australian Assistance Plan (AAP), and its connections, similarities and differences to the Canada Assistance Plan. Drawing on extensive archival and oral history sources, it offers a comparative analysis of both national programs, then outlines how international social planning and community development ideas, especially from Canada, infused the AAP and its predecessor, the Geelong Experi…
The Second Rush: Mining and the Transformation of Australia
The Second Rush: Mining and the Transformation of Australia . By David Lee (Redland Bay, Qld: Connor Court, 2016), pp.463. ISBN 978‐1‐925501‐14‐8. AU$49.95 (cloth)
Negotiating Industrial Heritage and Regional Identity in Three Australian Regions
This article investigates the relationship between industrial heritage and regional identity during deindustrialization in three Australian regions. Newcastle, in the state of New South Wales (NSW), was a coal-mining and steel-production center located north of Sydney. Wollongong, also in NSW, was a coal-mining and steel-production region centered around Port Kembla, near the town of Wollongong. The Latrobe Valley was a brown coal-mining and elec…
“Developing a community soul”: A Comparative Assessment of the Australian Assistance Plan in Three Regions, 1973–1977
The Australian Assistance Plan (AAP) was an innovative yet largely forgotten social welfare program from the 1970s. A key platform of the Whitlam Labor government, which established a series of Regional Councils for Social Development across Australia, the AAP reframed citizens’ participation in their communities, stimulated voluntary organisations and volunteering and attempted to transform engagement among all levels of governments and the volu…
Historical Cultures of Labour Under Conditions of Deindustrialization, first conference of the European Labour History Network, Turin, 14–16 December 2016
Deindustrialization is a global phenomenon but its effects have been more intense in some regions than others. The post-industrial age as heralded by Daniel Bell and Alain Touraine is possibly yet to come, but the widespread historical transformations societies have faced already in the second half of the twentieth century, in the course of often localized deindustrialization processes, deserve further attention. The history of deindustrializatio…
Mining in Australia: An historical survey of industry–community relationships
Australian Convict Sites and the Heritage of Adaptation: The Case of Newcastle's Coal River Heritage Precinct
The Australian Government's successful nomination of eleven ‘convict sites’ for World Heritage listing has again highlighted complex relationships between history and heritage. This article considers one convict site excluded from the nomination—the Coal River Heritage Precinct in the heart of Newcastle (NSW). While the site falls short of fulfilling conventional heritage criteria, the material remains having been so seriously eroded, its histori…
Books
Broken Hill: Rethinking the significance of the material culture and intangible heritage of the Australian labour movement
Taking Broken Hill as an exemplar of Australian, indeed global, labour heritage, this article, analyses the survival of labour heritage and union practices in the town that continues to the present. It examines the interpretation of successive layers of industrial and labour history as a means of revealing a culturally dynamic and enduring community with close connections to its built heritage. The authors challenge the application of two-dimensi…
Representing Militancy: Photographs of the Broken Hill Industrial Disputes, 1908-20
The Big Strike of 1919-20 was Broken Hill’s greatest industrial battle but the photographic record of this militant era on the Barrier mines is dominated by pictures of the Great 1909 Lockout. Rather than cover the details of these well-known disputes, this article considers the value and power of photographs of the disputes – their presence, absence, production and presentation in major newspapers and in postcards – an area which has secured far…
Book Note
Books
Books
Taking Assimilation to Heart Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887–1937. By Katherine Ellinghaus. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 276. $US49.95 cloth. The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy and Carnality. By Elizabeth A. Povinelli. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. 285. $41.95 paper. A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia. …
Official and Vernacular Public History: Historical Anniversaries and Commemorations in Newcastle, NSW
The city of Newcastle commemorated two bicentenaries within the space of seven years. In 2004, the city marked 200 years since the permanent establishment of the settlement on 30 March 1804. But 2004 was not the city's first bicentennial. In 1997, Newcastle celebrated the 1797 journey of Lieutenant John Shortland, who named and sketched the Hunter River and brought back samples of coal to Sydney. These anniversaries, and earlier ones such as Newc…
History as Service Teaching Possibilities and Pitfalls
This article considers some of the potential possibilities and pitfalls in teaching History as a compulsory course for professional degrees in areas such as education and journalism. It considers two quite different models for curriculum design based on distinct student cohorts, and suggests some of the dangers that need to be avoided, and some of the arrangements that need to be considered for desirable outcomes, in such service teaching situati…
New Regionalism in Australia
Visions: 12Th Biennial National Conference of The Australian Historical Association, Newcastle, 5 - 9 July 2004
(2005). Visions: 12th Biennial National Conference of The Australian Historical Association, Newcastle, 5 - 9 July 2004. History Australia: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 19-1-19-3
Teaching Labour History: An E-Interview with Rae Frances and Bruce Scates
A Strike Like No Other: Law and Resistance During the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990
Steel Town: The Making and Breaking of Port Kembla
The sun moves across the narrow coastal plain that borders the range to the north ...It shows once separate places now merged into one suburban entity, a ribbon of residential, commercial and industrial development ...There is a commercial centre whose tall metallic and glass structures reflect the light, and celebrate an industrial heritage. And to the south, an area where a mass of industrial buildings converge around a large harbour. This area…
Negotiating Industrial Heritage and Regional Identity in Three Australian Regions
This article investigates the relationship between industrial heritage and regional identity during deindustrialization in three Australian regions. Newcastle, in the state of New South Wales (NSW), was a coal-mining and steel-production center located north of Sydney. Wollongong, also in NSW, was a coal-mining and steel-production region centered around Port Kembla, near the town of Wollongong. The Latrobe Valley was a brown coal-mining and elec…
Industrial Heritage Agents, Actors and Outcomes: Regional Case Studies from Broken Hill and the Latrobe Valley
This article considers the comparative standing of industrial heritage in two distinctive Australian regional contexts. With a focus on the agents and actors in the heritage-making process, we outline the development of a case for heritage in the mining town of Broken Hill in far western New South Wales, which gained momentum soon after the local mines began a steady decline in the early 1970s. Broken Hill has, to some extent, adapted its mining …
Mining in Australia: An historical survey of industry–community relationships
Historical Cultures of Labour Under Conditions of Deindustrialization, first conference of the European Labour History Network, Turin, 14–16 December 2016
Deindustrialization is a global phenomenon but its effects have been more intense in some regions than others. The post-industrial age as heralded by Daniel Bell and Alain Touraine is possibly yet to come, but the widespread historical transformations societies have faced already in the second half of the twentieth century, in the course of often localized deindustrialization processes, deserve further attention. The history of deindustrializatio…
Australian Convict Sites and the Heritage of Adaptation: The Case of Newcastle's Coal River Heritage Precinct
The Australian Government's successful nomination of eleven ‘convict sites’ for World Heritage listing has again highlighted complex relationships between history and heritage. This article considers one convict site excluded from the nomination—the Coal River Heritage Precinct in the heart of Newcastle (NSW). While the site falls short of fulfilling conventional heritage criteria, the material remains having been so seriously eroded, its histori…
Broken Hill: Rethinking the significance of the material culture and intangible heritage of the Australian labour movement
Taking Broken Hill as an exemplar of Australian, indeed global, labour heritage, this article, analyses the survival of labour heritage and union practices in the town that continues to the present. It examines the interpretation of successive layers of industrial and labour history as a means of revealing a culturally dynamic and enduring community with close connections to its built heritage. The authors challenge the application of two-dimensi…
The 'Place' of Politics: Class and Localist Politics at Port Kembla, 1900-30
This article is an analysis of the political forms that emerged in the New South Wales town of Port Kembla over the period 1900 to 1930. It argues that two principal types of politics dominated the political landscape of industrialising Port Kembla. The first type was class politics, based on the industrial labour market. In the 1910s local workers formed union organisations and a local labor league, culminating in major industrial action in 1919…
Intelligently Directed Welfare Work: Labour Management Strategies in Local Context: Port Pirie, 1915-29
This article is a detailed analysis of the character and implications of a wide-ranging management agenda introduced by the Broken Hill Associated Smelters (BHAS) at its Port Pirie smelters from 1915 to 1929. This core group within the emerging Collins House empire distilled aspects of an international movement towards management 'welfarism', and applied it at Port Pirie with spectacular success. The agenda was targeted at both the workplace and …
We Are of Age: Class, Locality and Region at Port Kembla, 1900 to 1940
We Are of Age: Class, Locality and Region at Port Kembla, 1900 to 1940
Th North American Labor History Conference, 1995 - Detroit
The Seventeenth Annual North American Labor History Conference was held at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, from 19-21 October, 1995. Over 250 delegates attended the Conference, with papers based on the theme of 'Community and culture in working class history'. The conference organisers had selected papers carefully and there was a remarkable consistency across over 60 odd papers. The sessions were varied in scope and subject matter. So…
Managers, Workers, and Industrial Welfarism: Management Strategies at ER&S and the Sulphide Corporation, 1895—1929
This article is a comparative analysis of the labour management strategies of two base metal refineries: the Electrolytic Refining and Smelting Company of Australia (ER&S), Port Kembla, and the Sulphide Corporation, Cockle Creek. During the period 1895—1930 both companies adopted aspects of an industrial welfarist strategy but at different times and in different forms. ER&S developed a broad‐ranging industrial welfarism that included workplace an…
Managers, Workers, and Industrial Welfarism: Management Strategies at ER&S and The Sulphide Corporation, 1895–1929
This article is a comparative analysis of the labour management strategies of two base metal refineries: the Electrolytic Refining and Smelting Company of Australia (ER&S), Port Kembla, and the Sulphide Corporation, Cockle Creek. During the period 1895–1930 both companies adopted aspects of an industrial welfarist strategy but at different times and in different forms. ER&S developed a broad-ranging industrial welfarism that included workplace an…
Roots of Red Clydeside 1910-1914: Labour Unrest and Industrial Relations in West Scotland
All That Glitters: Class, Conflict and Community in Cripple Creek
Intelligently Directed Welfare Work: Labour Management Strategies in Local Context: Port Pirie, 1915-29
This article is a detailed analysis of the character and implications of a wide-ranging management agenda introduced by the Broken Hill Associated Smelters (BHAS) at its Port Pirie smelters from 1915 to 1929. This core group within the emerging Collins House empire distilled aspects of an international movement towards management 'welfarism', and applied it at Port Pirie with spectacular success. The agenda was targeted at both the workplace and …
The 'Place' of Politics: Class and Localist Politics at Port Kembla, 1900-30
This article is an analysis of the political forms that emerged in the New South Wales town of Port Kembla over the period 1900 to 1930. It argues that two principal types of politics dominated the political landscape of industrialising Port Kembla. The first type was class politics, based on the industrial labour market. In the 1910s local workers formed union organisations and a local labor league, culminating in major industrial action in 1919…
Teaching Labour History: An E-Interview with Rae Frances and Bruce Scates
A Strike Like No Other: Law and Resistance During the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990
Steel Town: The Making and Breaking of Port Kembla
The sun moves across the narrow coastal plain that borders the range to the north ...It shows once separate places now merged into one suburban entity, a ribbon of residential, commercial and industrial development ...There is a commercial centre whose tall metallic and glass structures reflect the light, and celebrate an industrial heritage. And to the south, an area where a mass of industrial buildings converge around a large harbour. This area…
Visions: 12Th Biennial National Conference of The Australian Historical Association, Newcastle, 5 - 9 July 2004
(2005). Visions: 12th Biennial National Conference of The Australian Historical Association, Newcastle, 5 - 9 July 2004. History Australia: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 19-1-19-3
History as Service Teaching Possibilities and Pitfalls
This article considers some of the potential possibilities and pitfalls in teaching History as a compulsory course for professional degrees in areas such as education and journalism. It considers two quite different models for curriculum design based on distinct student cohorts, and suggests some of the dangers that need to be avoided, and some of the arrangements that need to be considered for desirable outcomes, in such service teaching situati…
New Regionalism in Australia
Books
Taking Assimilation to Heart Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887–1937. By Katherine Ellinghaus. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 276. $US49.95 cloth. The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy and Carnality. By Elizabeth A. Povinelli. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. 285. $41.95 paper. A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia. …
Official and Vernacular Public History: Historical Anniversaries and Commemorations in Newcastle, NSW
The city of Newcastle commemorated two bicentenaries within the space of seven years. In 2004, the city marked 200 years since the permanent establishment of the settlement on 30 March 1804. But 2004 was not the city's first bicentennial. In 1997, Newcastle celebrated the 1797 journey of Lieutenant John Shortland, who named and sketched the Hunter River and brought back samples of coal to Sydney. These anniversaries, and earlier ones such as Newc…
Books
Book Note
Books
Broken Hill: Rethinking the significance of the material culture and intangible heritage of the Australian labour movement
Taking Broken Hill as an exemplar of Australian, indeed global, labour heritage, this article, analyses the survival of labour heritage and union practices in the town that continues to the present. It examines the interpretation of successive layers of industrial and labour history as a means of revealing a culturally dynamic and enduring community with close connections to its built heritage. The authors challenge the application of two-dimensi…
Representing Militancy: Photographs of the Broken Hill Industrial Disputes, 1908-20
The Big Strike of 1919-20 was Broken Hill’s greatest industrial battle but the photographic record of this militant era on the Barrier mines is dominated by pictures of the Great 1909 Lockout. Rather than cover the details of these well-known disputes, this article considers the value and power of photographs of the disputes – their presence, absence, production and presentation in major newspapers and in postcards – an area which has secured far…
Australian Convict Sites and the Heritage of Adaptation: The Case of Newcastle's Coal River Heritage Precinct
The Australian Government's successful nomination of eleven ‘convict sites’ for World Heritage listing has again highlighted complex relationships between history and heritage. This article considers one convict site excluded from the nomination—the Coal River Heritage Precinct in the heart of Newcastle (NSW). While the site falls short of fulfilling conventional heritage criteria, the material remains having been so seriously eroded, its histori…
Mining in Australia: An historical survey of industry–community relationships
“Developing a community soul”: A Comparative Assessment of the Australian Assistance Plan in Three Regions, 1973–1977
The Australian Assistance Plan (AAP) was an innovative yet largely forgotten social welfare program from the 1970s. A key platform of the Whitlam Labor government, which established a series of Regional Councils for Social Development across Australia, the AAP reframed citizens’ participation in their communities, stimulated voluntary organisations and volunteering and attempted to transform engagement among all levels of governments and the volu…
Historical Cultures of Labour Under Conditions of Deindustrialization, first conference of the European Labour History Network, Turin, 14–16 December 2016
Deindustrialization is a global phenomenon but its effects have been more intense in some regions than others. The post-industrial age as heralded by Daniel Bell and Alain Touraine is possibly yet to come, but the widespread historical transformations societies have faced already in the second half of the twentieth century, in the course of often localized deindustrialization processes, deserve further attention. The history of deindustrializatio…
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