Anna Johnston
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Johnston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnston |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2891-6569 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Does jurisdictional siloing increase or undermine the efficiency and efficacy of next-generation IA in federalist states? A Canadian example
Evaluation of ShootSafe, an Interactive, Sequential Website to Teach Youths Firearms Safety
This randomized trial evaluated ShootSafe, a theory-based website using a graphic novel storyline, educational and testimonial videos, and games, to teach firearms safety to children aged 10 to 12 years. A total of 163 youths participated. Linear mixed models found that youths randomized to ShootSafe demonstrated greater knowledge, safer behavioral intentions, and safer simulated hunting behaviors following training and at four-month follow-up co…
Congratulations to the 2024 Winners of the John Barrett Award
The Antipodean Laboratory
In this compelling study, Anna Johnston shows how colonial knowledge from Australia influenced global thinking about convicts, natural history and humanitarian concerns about Indigenous peoples. These were fascinating topics for British readers, and influenced government policies in fields such as prison reform, the history of science, and humanitarian and religious campaigns. Using a rich variety of sources including natural history and botanica…
Histories of the Illustrated Magazine in Australia
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (1796–1880) arrived in Sydney in 1838 and became almost immediately notorious for her poem “The Aboriginal Mother,” written in response to the infamous Myall Creek massacre. She published more poetry in colonial newspapers during her lifetime, but for the century following her death her work was largely neglected. In recent years, however, critical interest in Dunlop has increased, in Australia and internationally and in a r…
Mrs Milson’s Wordlist
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Evaluating Otto the Auto
Transportation-related injuries are a leading cause of pediatric death, and effective interventions are limited. Otto the Auto is a website offering engaging, interactive activities. We evaluated Otto among a sample of sixty-nine 4- and 5-year-old children, who participated in a randomized parallel group design study. Following baseline evaluation, children engaged with either Otto or a control website for 2 weeks and then were re-evaluated. Chil…
Creepiness Is in the Eye of the Beholder [Opinion]
As a privacy adviser, I am often called upon to determine whether or how a particular initiative can comply with privacy law. But often a more compelling and relevant question is: will this project fly, or will it crash and burn? The answer to both questions is often “it depends.” The principles set down in privacy laws in Australia and around the world are examples of what's known as fuzzy law, meaning they offer plenty of blank space around phr…
Travelling Home, 'Walkabout Magazine' and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia
'Travelling Home' provides a detailed analysis of the contribution that the mid twentieth-century 'Walkabout' magazine made to Australia’s cultural history. Spanning five central decades of the twentieth century (1934-1974), 'Walkabout' was integral to Australia’s sense of itself as a nation. By advocating travel—both vicarious and actual—'Walkabout' encouraged settler Australians to broaden their image of the nation and its place in the Pacific …
Little England
Tasmania was a distinctive location for nineteenth-century travellers, and a regular feature of the rich print culture that emerged from the British Empire. Regularly dubbed a “little England” because of its physical and environmental features, the island provided an early source of imperial ideas about Greater Britain and the spread of the Anglo-Saxon race. This paper traces the emergence of the “little England” trope in travel writing, emphasis…
Travelling the sequestered Isle
In 2015, Tasmania finally made it. Having been adjudged fourth on the Lonely Planet's list of “Top 10 Destinations to Visit in 2015”, the Australian state could proudly boast also of three destinat
The Awful Depravity of Human Nature
Shocked by the abject failure of the London Missionary Society's (LMS) first overseas mission to Polynesia, missionaries retreated to New South Wales in 1799 having had their evangelical certainties about morality, culture, religion, and race thoroughly shaken. White settler communities proved almost as disturbing as the islands for the disgraced missionaries. Samuel Clode was brutally murdered soon after arriving; lay missionaries found that the…
Empire, Humanitarianism and Violence in the Colonies
Empire, Humanitarianism and Violence in the Colonies Penelope Edmonds and Anna Johnston There is now a burgeoning scholarship at the intersection of new imperialism and the history of humanitarianism. Scholars have not only pointed to the continuing need to historicise humanitarian developments, but, importantly, argued for more consideration of humanitarian developments outside of Europe and the “Third World.”1 As Alan Lester and Fae Dussart hav…
Facebook's Challenge to the Collection Limitation Principle
Shadow zones
Travel has always reflected the lighter and darker sides of life, its myriad shades and colours, multiple nuances and intensities. Whether mobility is inspired by leisure, entertainment, or education; necessitated by hunger, thirst, reproduction, or escape; or demanded by political imperatives for conquest, expansion, and power, every journey carries with it the possibility of an engagement with shadow zones. Those who market travel, and those wh…
Privacy Compliance Risks for Facebook
Facebook is an Internet and societal phenomenon. In just a few years it has claimed a significant proportion of the world's population as regular users, becoming by far the most dominant Online Social Network (OSN). With its success has come a good deal of controversy, especially over privacy. Does Facebook and its kin herald a true shift in privacy values, or despite occasional reckless revelations, are most users actually as reserved as ever? W…
Books
Books
George Augustus Robinson, the 'Great Conciliator
George Augustus Robinson, the 'Great Conciliator', conducted one of themost high profile and subsequently notorious experiments with indigenouspeople in the nineteenth-century British Empire. His 'removal' of Aboriginesfrom the settler-dominated main island of Tasmania, the southernmost of theAustralian colonies, was well known at the time: celebrated by many as themost efficacious resolution to frontier conflict, even as it was criticizedby (som…
The Strange Career of William Ellis
The diverse career of William Ellis—gardener, printer, Pacific \nand Madagascan missionary, ethnographer, London Missionary \nSociety Foreign Secretary, author of at least eight books and \nnumerous pamphlets, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, father \nof four, and husband of two impressive women—spanned the late eighteenth \nand nineteenth centuries (1794–1872). A working-class boy of \nunknown parentage, Ellis rose to a position of soci…
Nature and Godly Empire
Reviewed by: Nature and Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795–1850 Anna Johnston (bio) Nature and Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795–1850, by Sujit Sivasundaram; pp. xi + 244. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, £48.00, $80.00. The relationship between nineteenth-century missionary activity and Britain's "second empire" has stimulated a range of scholars in various…
Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century
Settler Colonies
Everybody's Got a Little Mental Illness
Accounts of the nature, cause, and course of mental illness and self-labeling are explored as interdependent domains with a cohort of individuals diagnosed as having major psychiatric disorders. Explanations and descriptions of mental illness and propensities to self-label are shown to be interrelated in a multidirectional, multidimensional manner. Normalizing talk and illness accounts that are both patterned and diverse, and both stable and vari…
Empire, Humanitarianism and Violence in the Colonies
Empire, Humanitarianism and Violence in the Colonies Penelope Edmonds and Anna Johnston There is now a burgeoning scholarship at the intersection of new imperialism and the history of humanitarianism. Scholars have not only pointed to the continuing need to historicise humanitarian developments, but, importantly, argued for more consideration of humanitarian developments outside of Europe and the “Third World.”1 As Alan Lester and Fae Dussart hav…
Does jurisdictional siloing increase or undermine the efficiency and efficacy of next-generation IA in federalist states? A Canadian example
Shadow zones
Travel has always reflected the lighter and darker sides of life, its myriad shades and colours, multiple nuances and intensities. Whether mobility is inspired by leisure, entertainment, or education; necessitated by hunger, thirst, reproduction, or escape; or demanded by political imperatives for conquest, expansion, and power, every journey carries with it the possibility of an engagement with shadow zones. Those who market travel, and those wh…
God being, not in the bush
Throughout the history of British colonies, the intermingling of commerce and ‘civility’ produced the kinds of colonies that Britain (like other imperial nations) most needed — colonies which not only produced raw materials or space for recalcitrant criminals, but also spaces in which imperialist discourses could educate, convert, and expand what was known of human consciousness. The imperial ‘duty’ was to civilise and conquer the unknown non-Wes…
Everybody's Got a Little Mental Illness
Accounts of the nature, cause, and course of mental illness and self-labeling are explored as interdependent domains with a cohort of individuals diagnosed as having major psychiatric disorders. Explanations and descriptions of mental illness and propensities to self-label are shown to be interrelated in a multidirectional, multidimensional manner. Normalizing talk and illness accounts that are both patterned and diverse, and both stable and vari…
God being, not in the bush
Throughout the history of British colonies, the intermingling of commerce and ‘civility’ produced the kinds of colonies that Britain (like other imperial nations) most needed — colonies which not only produced raw materials or space for recalcitrant criminals, but also spaces in which imperialist discourses could educate, convert, and expand what was known of human consciousness. The imperial ‘duty’ was to civilise and conquer the unknown non-Wes…
Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800–1860
Anna Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, caught between imperial and religious interests. She maps out this position through an examination of texts published by missionaries of the largest, most influential nineteenth-century evangelical institution, the London Missionary Society. These texts provide a fascinating commenta…
Settler Colonies
Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century
The Strange Career of William Ellis
The diverse career of William Ellis—gardener, printer, Pacific \nand Madagascan missionary, ethnographer, London Missionary \nSociety Foreign Secretary, author of at least eight books and \nnumerous pamphlets, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, father \nof four, and husband of two impressive women—spanned the late eighteenth \nand nineteenth centuries (1794–1872). A working-class boy of \nunknown parentage, Ellis rose to a position of soci…
Nature and Godly Empire
Reviewed by: Nature and Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795–1850 Anna Johnston (bio) Nature and Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795–1850, by Sujit Sivasundaram; pp. xi + 244. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, £48.00, $80.00. The relationship between nineteenth-century missionary activity and Britain's "second empire" has stimulated a range of scholars in various…
George Augustus Robinson, the 'Great Conciliator
George Augustus Robinson, the 'Great Conciliator', conducted one of themost high profile and subsequently notorious experiments with indigenouspeople in the nineteenth-century British Empire. His 'removal' of Aboriginesfrom the settler-dominated main island of Tasmania, the southernmost of theAustralian colonies, was well known at the time: celebrated by many as themost efficacious resolution to frontier conflict, even as it was criticizedby (som…
Books
Privacy Compliance Risks for Facebook
Facebook is an Internet and societal phenomenon. In just a few years it has claimed a significant proportion of the world's population as regular users, becoming by far the most dominant Online Social Network (OSN). With its success has come a good deal of controversy, especially over privacy. Does Facebook and its kin herald a true shift in privacy values, or despite occasional reckless revelations, are most users actually as reserved as ever? W…
Books
Facebook's Challenge to the Collection Limitation Principle
Shadow zones
Travel has always reflected the lighter and darker sides of life, its myriad shades and colours, multiple nuances and intensities. Whether mobility is inspired by leisure, entertainment, or education; necessitated by hunger, thirst, reproduction, or escape; or demanded by political imperatives for conquest, expansion, and power, every journey carries with it the possibility of an engagement with shadow zones. Those who market travel, and those wh…
Creepiness Is in the Eye of the Beholder [Opinion]
As a privacy adviser, I am often called upon to determine whether or how a particular initiative can comply with privacy law. But often a more compelling and relevant question is: will this project fly, or will it crash and burn? The answer to both questions is often “it depends.” The principles set down in privacy laws in Australia and around the world are examples of what's known as fuzzy law, meaning they offer plenty of blank space around phr…
Travelling Home, 'Walkabout Magazine' and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia
'Travelling Home' provides a detailed analysis of the contribution that the mid twentieth-century 'Walkabout' magazine made to Australia’s cultural history. Spanning five central decades of the twentieth century (1934-1974), 'Walkabout' was integral to Australia’s sense of itself as a nation. By advocating travel—both vicarious and actual—'Walkabout' encouraged settler Australians to broaden their image of the nation and its place in the Pacific …
Little England
Tasmania was a distinctive location for nineteenth-century travellers, and a regular feature of the rich print culture that emerged from the British Empire. Regularly dubbed a “little England” because of its physical and environmental features, the island provided an early source of imperial ideas about Greater Britain and the spread of the Anglo-Saxon race. This paper traces the emergence of the “little England” trope in travel writing, emphasis…
Travelling the sequestered Isle
In 2015, Tasmania finally made it. Having been adjudged fourth on the Lonely Planet's list of “Top 10 Destinations to Visit in 2015”, the Australian state could proudly boast also of three destinat
The Awful Depravity of Human Nature
Shocked by the abject failure of the London Missionary Society's (LMS) first overseas mission to Polynesia, missionaries retreated to New South Wales in 1799 having had their evangelical certainties about morality, culture, religion, and race thoroughly shaken. White settler communities proved almost as disturbing as the islands for the disgraced missionaries. Samuel Clode was brutally murdered soon after arriving; lay missionaries found that the…
Empire, Humanitarianism and Violence in the Colonies
Empire, Humanitarianism and Violence in the Colonies Penelope Edmonds and Anna Johnston There is now a burgeoning scholarship at the intersection of new imperialism and the history of humanitarianism. Scholars have not only pointed to the continuing need to historicise humanitarian developments, but, importantly, argued for more consideration of humanitarian developments outside of Europe and the “Third World.”1 As Alan Lester and Fae Dussart hav…
Evaluating Otto the Auto
Transportation-related injuries are a leading cause of pediatric death, and effective interventions are limited. Otto the Auto is a website offering engaging, interactive activities. We evaluated Otto among a sample of sixty-nine 4- and 5-year-old children, who participated in a randomized parallel group design study. Following baseline evaluation, children engaged with either Otto or a control website for 2 weeks and then were re-evaluated. Chil…
Mrs Milson’s Wordlist
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (1796–1880) arrived in Sydney in 1838 and became almost immediately notorious for her poem “The Aboriginal Mother,” written in response to the infamous Myall Creek massacre. She published more poetry in colonial newspapers during her lifetime, but for the century following her death her work was largely neglected. In recent years, however, critical interest in Dunlop has increased, in Australia and internationally and in a r…
Histories of the Illustrated Magazine in Australia
The Antipodean Laboratory
In this compelling study, Anna Johnston shows how colonial knowledge from Australia influenced global thinking about convicts, natural history and humanitarian concerns about Indigenous peoples. These were fascinating topics for British readers, and influenced government policies in fields such as prison reform, the history of science, and humanitarian and religious campaigns. Using a rich variety of sources including natural history and botanica…
History (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Political science (12 works) · Australian History and Society (11 works) · Colonialism (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Empire (7 works) · Media studies (7 works)