Karen Fox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3840798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Fox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Fox |
| SIGNATURE | FOX K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5308-930X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A shift in writer identity
This paper explores the experiences and reflections of primary teachers who participated in a UK collaborative professional development that focussed on developing teacher‐writer identity through online writing workshops. The notion that teachers who identify as writers better understand their pupils as writers is central to the study; however, accountability pressures and a lack of confidence in the teaching of writing can create environments th…
Honouring a Nation
The first detailed history of imperial and national honours in Australia, Honouring a Nation tells the story of the honours system’s transformation from instrument of imperial unity to national institution.
Cinematic Settlers
Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film." The Journal of Pacific History, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
True Biographies of Nations?’
Dictionaries of national biography are a long-established and significant genre of biographical and historical writing, existing in many forms across the globe. This book brings together practitioners from around the English‐speaking world to reflect on national biographical dictionary projects’ recent cultural journeys, and the challenges presented to them by such
The Politics of National Recognition
The announcement in January 2015 that Prince Philip had been chosen to receive an Australian knighthood (an honour which itself had been controversially revived the previous year) sparked a fury of debate about honours, and about the continuance of a British connection in Australia's national life. Such debates were not new, echoing earlier arguments about honours as a national or imperial symbol. Through two related case studies — the Australian…
Polynesian Panthers
An Imperial Affair
John Rickarad's An Imperial Affair is a beautifully written story of a marriage, lived out according to the values of an earlier time, and in an imperial world long vanished. In sparse but elegant prose, he offers, as the book's back cover proclaims, ' a meditation on the nature of love
Ornamentalism, Empire and Race
The imperial honours system, David Cannadine has argued, was a means for binding together ‘the British proconsular elite’ and ‘indigenous colonial elites’ throughout the settler colonies and dominions of the British Empire (Cannadine, David. Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire. London: Penguin, 2002). Yet in settler colonies like Australia and New Zealand indigenous populations were marginalised and often disregarded, and it was local…
A Pernicious System of Caste and Privilege’
It is commonplace to assert that egalitarianism has been a cherished value in Australian history, and a founding tenet of Australian society. This article explores one example where the rhetoric of egalitarianism shaped public debate over an official institution, the honours system. Exploring the intersection of the ideal of egalitarianism with contests over honours in Australia, Canada and New Zealand over more than a century, it reveals how dif…
Globalising Indigeneity? Writing Indigenous Histories in a Transnational World
In recent decades, Indigenous histories have been increasingly significant and growing areas of historical research in white settler societies such as Australia and New Zealand. These rich veins of historical enquiry have, for the most part, been explored within the framework of national boundaries, and the state has been central to many analyses of Indigenous experiences of the past. Calls to write comparative Indigenous histories are not new, a…
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks and the making of Jedda
The focus of this paper is on the experiences of Kunoth-Monks who as an actress with a leading role in the film Jedda figured in the print media as a star, placed within white western discourses of beauty, feminity and modernity. At the same time her portrayal led to popular racial discourses on assimilation, primitivity and exoticism. Exploring her brief time as a film star provides insight not only into the film and the Charles Chauvels' attemp…
Grand Dames and Gentle Helpmeets
Scholars, for the most part, have paid little attention to royal honours systems, both in Britain and in the settler societies whose honours systems are derived from that of Britain. This article challenges that neglect through a particular focus on women's experiences of the New Zealand royal honours system. It uses the New Zealand context as a window on to the gendered nature of honours systems, arguing that the history of honours is a rich fie…
Defining the Groove
This paper represents musical remixing practices as a means of conducting leisure research. Our research engaged urban Aboriginal-Canadian youth through The Beat of Boyle Street, a music technology program used to teach young people how to produce their own remixes. Through this program we developed a “research remix” of narrative, Indigenous and arts-based ethnographic methods attuned to processes of making sense through making music. We examine…
Leisure and Indigenous Peoples
Rec Needs a New Rhythm Cuz Rap Is Where We're Livin
This research presents an autoethnographic strategy for self-reflection by sharing stories consistent with Indigenous methodologies and establishing a frame for re-mixing leisure theory. As an autoethnographic study, we reflect on how we have been engaged, changed, and challenged to rethink understandings of leisure and ourselves as leisure scholar-practitioners as a result of listening to rap music, especially composed by Aboriginal young people…
Expressions
Choreographing Differences in the Dance of Leisure
The variations of feminist critique and thought address fundamental epistemological and methodological issues of leisure science. This paper discusses the structure of the current discourse on feminism and leisure science, the complexity of feminist thought, and the current developments in feminist theory in-process. Finally, current feminist philosophical explorations provide a model of scholarship that supports inclusion of multiple perspective…
Social Marketing of Oral Rehydration Therapy and Contraceptives in Egypt
This article examines the antecedents, activities, results, and prospects for institutionalization of two large social marketing programs currently in operation in Egypt: the National Control of Diarrheal Diseases Project, which promotes oral rehydration therapy to treat diarrheal dehydration, and the Family of the Future, which is recognized as one of the most sophisticated and effective contraceptive social marketing programs operating today. T…
Rec Needs a New Rhythm Cuz Rap Is Where We're Livin
This research presents an autoethnographic strategy for self-reflection by sharing stories consistent with Indigenous methodologies and establishing a frame for re-mixing leisure theory. As an autoethnographic study, we reflect on how we have been engaged, changed, and challenged to rethink understandings of leisure and ourselves as leisure scholar-practitioners as a result of listening to rap music, especially composed by Aboriginal young people…
Leisure and Indigenous Peoples
Defining the Groove
This paper represents musical remixing practices as a means of conducting leisure research. Our research engaged urban Aboriginal-Canadian youth through The Beat of Boyle Street, a music technology program used to teach young people how to produce their own remixes. Through this program we developed a “research remix” of narrative, Indigenous and arts-based ethnographic methods attuned to processes of making sense through making music. We examine…
Social Marketing of Oral Rehydration Therapy and Contraceptives in Egypt
This article examines the antecedents, activities, results, and prospects for institutionalization of two large social marketing programs currently in operation in Egypt: the National Control of Diarrheal Diseases Project, which promotes oral rehydration therapy to treat diarrheal dehydration, and the Family of the Future, which is recognized as one of the most sophisticated and effective contraceptive social marketing programs operating today. T…
Choreographing Differences in the Dance of Leisure
The variations of feminist critique and thought address fundamental epistemological and methodological issues of leisure science. This paper discusses the structure of the current discourse on feminism and leisure science, the complexity of feminist thought, and the current developments in feminist theory in-process. Finally, current feminist philosophical explorations provide a model of scholarship that supports inclusion of multiple perspective…
A Pernicious System of Caste and Privilege’
It is commonplace to assert that egalitarianism has been a cherished value in Australian history, and a founding tenet of Australian society. This article explores one example where the rhetoric of egalitarianism shaped public debate over an official institution, the honours system. Exploring the intersection of the ideal of egalitarianism with contests over honours in Australia, Canada and New Zealand over more than a century, it reveals how dif…
Grand Dames and Gentle Helpmeets
Scholars, for the most part, have paid little attention to royal honours systems, both in Britain and in the settler societies whose honours systems are derived from that of Britain. This article challenges that neglect through a particular focus on women's experiences of the New Zealand royal honours system. It uses the New Zealand context as a window on to the gendered nature of honours systems, arguing that the history of honours is a rich fie…
Social Marketing of Oral Rehydration Therapy and Contraceptives in Egypt
This article examines the antecedents, activities, results, and prospects for institutionalization of two large social marketing programs currently in operation in Egypt: the National Control of Diarrheal Diseases Project, which promotes oral rehydration therapy to treat diarrheal dehydration, and the Family of the Future, which is recognized as one of the most sophisticated and effective contraceptive social marketing programs operating today. T…
Choreographing Differences in the Dance of Leisure
The variations of feminist critique and thought address fundamental epistemological and methodological issues of leisure science. This paper discusses the structure of the current discourse on feminism and leisure science, the complexity of feminist thought, and the current developments in feminist theory in-process. Finally, current feminist philosophical explorations provide a model of scholarship that supports inclusion of multiple perspective…
Expressions
Leisure and Indigenous Peoples
Rec Needs a New Rhythm Cuz Rap Is Where We're Livin
This research presents an autoethnographic strategy for self-reflection by sharing stories consistent with Indigenous methodologies and establishing a frame for re-mixing leisure theory. As an autoethnographic study, we reflect on how we have been engaged, changed, and challenged to rethink understandings of leisure and ourselves as leisure scholar-practitioners as a result of listening to rap music, especially composed by Aboriginal young people…
Defining the Groove
This paper represents musical remixing practices as a means of conducting leisure research. Our research engaged urban Aboriginal-Canadian youth through The Beat of Boyle Street, a music technology program used to teach young people how to produce their own remixes. Through this program we developed a “research remix” of narrative, Indigenous and arts-based ethnographic methods attuned to processes of making sense through making music. We examine…
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks and the making of Jedda
The focus of this paper is on the experiences of Kunoth-Monks who as an actress with a leading role in the film Jedda figured in the print media as a star, placed within white western discourses of beauty, feminity and modernity. At the same time her portrayal led to popular racial discourses on assimilation, primitivity and exoticism. Exploring her brief time as a film star provides insight not only into the film and the Charles Chauvels' attemp…
Grand Dames and Gentle Helpmeets
Scholars, for the most part, have paid little attention to royal honours systems, both in Britain and in the settler societies whose honours systems are derived from that of Britain. This article challenges that neglect through a particular focus on women's experiences of the New Zealand royal honours system. It uses the New Zealand context as a window on to the gendered nature of honours systems, arguing that the history of honours is a rich fie…
Globalising Indigeneity? Writing Indigenous Histories in a Transnational World
In recent decades, Indigenous histories have been increasingly significant and growing areas of historical research in white settler societies such as Australia and New Zealand. These rich veins of historical enquiry have, for the most part, been explored within the framework of national boundaries, and the state has been central to many analyses of Indigenous experiences of the past. Calls to write comparative Indigenous histories are not new, a…
A Pernicious System of Caste and Privilege’
It is commonplace to assert that egalitarianism has been a cherished value in Australian history, and a founding tenet of Australian society. This article explores one example where the rhetoric of egalitarianism shaped public debate over an official institution, the honours system. Exploring the intersection of the ideal of egalitarianism with contests over honours in Australia, Canada and New Zealand over more than a century, it reveals how dif…
Ornamentalism, Empire and Race
The imperial honours system, David Cannadine has argued, was a means for binding together ‘the British proconsular elite’ and ‘indigenous colonial elites’ throughout the settler colonies and dominions of the British Empire (Cannadine, David. Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire. London: Penguin, 2002). Yet in settler colonies like Australia and New Zealand indigenous populations were marginalised and often disregarded, and it was local…
An Imperial Affair
John Rickarad's An Imperial Affair is a beautifully written story of a marriage, lived out according to the values of an earlier time, and in an imperial world long vanished. In sparse but elegant prose, he offers, as the book's back cover proclaims, ' a meditation on the nature of love
Polynesian Panthers
The Politics of National Recognition
The announcement in January 2015 that Prince Philip had been chosen to receive an Australian knighthood (an honour which itself had been controversially revived the previous year) sparked a fury of debate about honours, and about the continuance of a British connection in Australia's national life. Such debates were not new, echoing earlier arguments about honours as a national or imperial symbol. Through two related case studies — the Australian…
True Biographies of Nations?’
Dictionaries of national biography are a long-established and significant genre of biographical and historical writing, existing in many forms across the globe. This book brings together practitioners from around the English‐speaking world to reflect on national biographical dictionary projects’ recent cultural journeys, and the challenges presented to them by such
Honouring a Nation
The first detailed history of imperial and national honours in Australia, Honouring a Nation tells the story of the honours system’s transformation from instrument of imperial unity to national institution.
Cinematic Settlers
Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film." The Journal of Pacific History, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
A shift in writer identity
This paper explores the experiences and reflections of primary teachers who participated in a UK collaborative professional development that focussed on developing teacher‐writer identity through online writing workshops. The notion that teachers who identify as writers better understand their pupils as writers is central to the study; however, accountability pressures and a lack of confidence in the teaching of writing can create environments th…
Sociology (14 works) · History (10 works) · Australian History and Society (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works)