Katie Pickles
Biographic Data
| ID | 456086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katie Pickles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katie |
| FAMILY NAME | Pickles |
| SIGNATURE | PICKLES K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8842-7812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Materteral Consumption Magic
With themes of corporate and civic paternalism, magic, Disney-like fantasy and childcare, this article recovers and analyses the Hay's rooftop playground, the people who invented it and their motivations for luring generations of children up there. The space is placed in the context of the development of modern playgrounds and department stores. Drawing on consumers' memories, the playground's main attractions are revealed. The motivations of ene…
Edith Cavell and Her Legend by Christine E. Hallett
Reviewed by: Edith Cavell and Her Legend by Christine E. Hallett Katie Pickles (bio) Edith Cavell and Her Legend Christine E. Hallett Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, ix + 137 pp. ISBN 9781137543707, $54.99 hardcover. As Christine E. Hallett asserts, multiple biographies of English nurse Edith Cavell have appeared in the years since her execution in Brussels on October 12, 1915 during the First World War. The forty-nine-year-old matron was executed by t…
Clare Wright on Australia’s pioneering suffragists
In the early twenty-first century, the word ‘suffragist’ is stuffy and obscure. There is more currency in ‘suffragettes’, especially the British women who resorted to civil disobedience in their mi
New approaches in history
In common with the wider social science community, historians of Aotearoa New Zealand work in a rapidly changing present. While concerned with the past, historians researching and writing about the
Female imperialism and national identity
Through a study of the British Empire's largest women's patriotic organisation, formed in 1900 and still in existence, this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity. It throws light on women's involvement in imperialism; on the history of 'conservative' women's organisations; on women's interventions in debates concerning citizenship and national identity; and on the history of women in white settler societi…
Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels
This is social history at its most provocative and useful. Jocelyn Robson has a background in vocational education and knows much about the Women’s Industrial Council and the London Trade Schools o
Webs of Empire
Books
John Fitzgerald reviews the book 'Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century', edited by David Walker and Agnieszka Sobocinska, published by UWA Publishing, Perth, 2012
The Meeting Place
The Meeting Place: Maori and Pakeha Encounters, 1642-1840, by Vincent O'Malley. Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland University Press, 2012. viii, 284pp. $45.00 US (paper). This is an engaging, clearly written monograph that contributes to histories of colonial encounter. New Zealand is focus; however, themes and interpretations will be familiar and useful to all historians interested in what happens when very different groups of people suddenly come …
Body and Mind
Transnational History and Cultural Cringe
This article draws upon my personal experience working across the boundaries of New Zealand, Canadian and Australian History. With attention to the British colonial past in these places I compare and contrast the politics of writing history. I explore national historiographies as counterparts, with a particular focus on writing women into history. I argue that transnational history must address the ongoing presence of cultural cringe in the histo…
Embodying the Colonial Encounter
Focusing on the heroine of an 1863 New Zealand sea rescue, this article is concerned with gender, race and the colonial encounter. The rescue became an example of harmonious race relations, advocating Maori service as part of settler society governance. The article analyses Huria Matenga's place in the rescue as white settlers endorsed, rewarded and constructed her in relation to the imperial reference point of British heroine Grace Darling. It i…
Colonial Sainthood in Australasia
Concerned with the formation of national identities in postcolonial Australasia, this article compares and contrasts representations of religious women Mary MacKillop (1842–1909) and Suzanne Aubert (1835–1926). MacKillop, constructed as a contemporary popular ‘Australian legend’ is set to become Australasia's first saint, while in April 2004 investigation began into the beatification of New Zealand nun Aubert. Combining religious and secular expl…
A link in ‘the great chain of Empire friendship’
With the objective of exploring New Zealand women's part in imperialism, this article focuses on the history of the Victoria League. Through its activities during war and peace, the League promoted New Zealand's place as a loyal part of the British Empire. The League in New Zealand was part of a ‘female imperialism’ whereby elite women in the ‘white’ settler societies performed gendered work to promote the strength and unity of the Empire. Women'…
Female Imperialism and National Identity
Through a study of the British Empire's largest women's patriotic organisation, formed in 1900, and still in existence, this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity. It throws new light on women's involvement in imperialism; on the history of 'conservative' women's organisations; on women's interventions in debates concerning citizenship and national identity; and on the history of women in white settler so…
Locating widows in mid-nineteenth century Pictou County, Nova Scotia
The Re-Creation of Bottle Lake
In order to understand the workings of ecological imperialism at the local level, this essay traces the haphazard environmental history of an area of land at the north-eastern border of Christchurch. It analyses the changing environmental qualities of place over time as a chain of discourses that have formed, re-formed, cross-fertilised - each influencing a new land-use or perception of the area as wasteland, playground, wetland, and site of reha…
Who was that woman? the australian women's weekly in the post-war years
Female Imperialism and National Identity
Through a study of the British Empire's largest women's patriotic organisation, formed in 1900 and still in existence, this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity. It throws light on women's involvement in imperialism; on the history of ‘conservative’ women's organisations; on women's interventions in debates concerning citizenship and national identity; and on the history of women in white settler societi…
The gendered kiwi
Colonial counterparts
During the early years of the twentieth century, women first gained permanent academic positions in most universities across the Western world. This article considers the first academic women in Anglo-Canada, New Zealand and Australia as colonial counterparts. It argues that these women's experiences were shaped by a colonial setting that was infused with powerful gender-, race- and class-specific codes concerning knowledge and the institution of…
Colonial counterparts
Exhibiting Canada
This article examines an event in 1928 where the interests of post-war British colonialism and those of a group of pro-British Anglo-Celtic Canadians came together in a tour of English schoolgirls through Canada. A focus on the schoolgirls themselves shows how the girls were positioned to transmit an image of Canada to Britain, while themselves being on display so as to set an example to which Canadians should aspire. The tour itinerary itself co…
Forgotten Colonizers
Focusing on the work of a Canadian women's voluntary organization, this paper discusses the changing geography of the Canadian North in the period following World War II. The focus on the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE) as forgotten colonizers challenges exclusionary records of the past that do not account for the importance of domestic spaces in the colonial process. A new interpretation of the colonization of the North, which disl…
A link in ‘the great chain of Empire friendship’
With the objective of exploring New Zealand women's part in imperialism, this article focuses on the history of the Victoria League. Through its activities during war and peace, the League promoted New Zealand's place as a loyal part of the British Empire. The League in New Zealand was part of a ‘female imperialism’ whereby elite women in the ‘white’ settler societies performed gendered work to promote the strength and unity of the Empire. Women'…
Exhibiting Canada
This article examines an event in 1928 where the interests of post-war British colonialism and those of a group of pro-British Anglo-Celtic Canadians came together in a tour of English schoolgirls through Canada. A focus on the schoolgirls themselves shows how the girls were positioned to transmit an image of Canada to Britain, while themselves being on display so as to set an example to which Canadians should aspire. The tour itinerary itself co…
Webs of Empire
Transnational History and Cultural Cringe
This article draws upon my personal experience working across the boundaries of New Zealand, Canadian and Australian History. With attention to the British colonial past in these places I compare and contrast the politics of writing history. I explore national historiographies as counterparts, with a particular focus on writing women into history. I argue that transnational history must address the ongoing presence of cultural cringe in the histo…
Colonial Sainthood in Australasia
Concerned with the formation of national identities in postcolonial Australasia, this article compares and contrasts representations of religious women Mary MacKillop (1842–1909) and Suzanne Aubert (1835–1926). MacKillop, constructed as a contemporary popular ‘Australian legend’ is set to become Australasia's first saint, while in April 2004 investigation began into the beatification of New Zealand nun Aubert. Combining religious and secular expl…
Locating widows in mid-nineteenth century Pictou County, Nova Scotia
The Re-Creation of Bottle Lake
In order to understand the workings of ecological imperialism at the local level, this essay traces the haphazard environmental history of an area of land at the north-eastern border of Christchurch. It analyses the changing environmental qualities of place over time as a chain of discourses that have formed, re-formed, cross-fertilised - each influencing a new land-use or perception of the area as wasteland, playground, wetland, and site of reha…
Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels
This is social history at its most provocative and useful. Jocelyn Robson has a background in vocational education and knows much about the Women’s Industrial Council and the London Trade Schools o
Embodying the Colonial Encounter
Focusing on the heroine of an 1863 New Zealand sea rescue, this article is concerned with gender, race and the colonial encounter. The rescue became an example of harmonious race relations, advocating Maori service as part of settler society governance. The article analyses Huria Matenga's place in the rescue as white settlers endorsed, rewarded and constructed her in relation to the imperial reference point of British heroine Grace Darling. It i…
Forgotten Colonizers
Focusing on the work of a Canadian women's voluntary organization, this paper discusses the changing geography of the Canadian North in the period following World War II. The focus on the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE) as forgotten colonizers challenges exclusionary records of the past that do not account for the importance of domestic spaces in the colonial process. A new interpretation of the colonization of the North, which disl…
Forgotten Colonizers
Focusing on the work of a Canadian women's voluntary organization, this paper discusses the changing geography of the Canadian North in the period following World War II. The focus on the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE) as forgotten colonizers challenges exclusionary records of the past that do not account for the importance of domestic spaces in the colonial process. A new interpretation of the colonization of the North, which disl…
Exhibiting Canada
This article examines an event in 1928 where the interests of post-war British colonialism and those of a group of pro-British Anglo-Celtic Canadians came together in a tour of English schoolgirls through Canada. A focus on the schoolgirls themselves shows how the girls were positioned to transmit an image of Canada to Britain, while themselves being on display so as to set an example to which Canadians should aspire. The tour itinerary itself co…
Colonial counterparts
During the early years of the twentieth century, women first gained permanent academic positions in most universities across the Western world. This article considers the first academic women in Anglo-Canada, New Zealand and Australia as colonial counterparts. It argues that these women's experiences were shaped by a colonial setting that was infused with powerful gender-, race- and class-specific codes concerning knowledge and the institution of…
Colonial counterparts
Female Imperialism and National Identity
Through a study of the British Empire's largest women's patriotic organisation, formed in 1900 and still in existence, this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity. It throws light on women's involvement in imperialism; on the history of ‘conservative’ women's organisations; on women's interventions in debates concerning citizenship and national identity; and on the history of women in white settler societi…
The gendered kiwi
The Re-Creation of Bottle Lake
In order to understand the workings of ecological imperialism at the local level, this essay traces the haphazard environmental history of an area of land at the north-eastern border of Christchurch. It analyses the changing environmental qualities of place over time as a chain of discourses that have formed, re-formed, cross-fertilised - each influencing a new land-use or perception of the area as wasteland, playground, wetland, and site of reha…
Who was that woman? the australian women's weekly in the post-war years
Locating widows in mid-nineteenth century Pictou County, Nova Scotia
Colonial Sainthood in Australasia
Concerned with the formation of national identities in postcolonial Australasia, this article compares and contrasts representations of religious women Mary MacKillop (1842–1909) and Suzanne Aubert (1835–1926). MacKillop, constructed as a contemporary popular ‘Australian legend’ is set to become Australasia's first saint, while in April 2004 investigation began into the beatification of New Zealand nun Aubert. Combining religious and secular expl…
A link in ‘the great chain of Empire friendship’
With the objective of exploring New Zealand women's part in imperialism, this article focuses on the history of the Victoria League. Through its activities during war and peace, the League promoted New Zealand's place as a loyal part of the British Empire. The League in New Zealand was part of a ‘female imperialism’ whereby elite women in the ‘white’ settler societies performed gendered work to promote the strength and unity of the Empire. Women'…
Female Imperialism and National Identity
Through a study of the British Empire's largest women's patriotic organisation, formed in 1900, and still in existence, this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity. It throws new light on women's involvement in imperialism; on the history of 'conservative' women's organisations; on women's interventions in debates concerning citizenship and national identity; and on the history of women in white settler so…
Embodying the Colonial Encounter
Focusing on the heroine of an 1863 New Zealand sea rescue, this article is concerned with gender, race and the colonial encounter. The rescue became an example of harmonious race relations, advocating Maori service as part of settler society governance. The article analyses Huria Matenga's place in the rescue as white settlers endorsed, rewarded and constructed her in relation to the imperial reference point of British heroine Grace Darling. It i…
Body and Mind
Transnational History and Cultural Cringe
This article draws upon my personal experience working across the boundaries of New Zealand, Canadian and Australian History. With attention to the British colonial past in these places I compare and contrast the politics of writing history. I explore national historiographies as counterparts, with a particular focus on writing women into history. I argue that transnational history must address the ongoing presence of cultural cringe in the histo…
Books
John Fitzgerald reviews the book 'Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century', edited by David Walker and Agnieszka Sobocinska, published by UWA Publishing, Perth, 2012
The Meeting Place
The Meeting Place: Maori and Pakeha Encounters, 1642-1840, by Vincent O'Malley. Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland University Press, 2012. viii, 284pp. $45.00 US (paper). This is an engaging, clearly written monograph that contributes to histories of colonial encounter. New Zealand is focus; however, themes and interpretations will be familiar and useful to all historians interested in what happens when very different groups of people suddenly come …
Webs of Empire
Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels
This is social history at its most provocative and useful. Jocelyn Robson has a background in vocational education and knows much about the Women’s Industrial Council and the London Trade Schools o
New approaches in history
In common with the wider social science community, historians of Aotearoa New Zealand work in a rapidly changing present. While concerned with the past, historians researching and writing about the
Female imperialism and national identity
Through a study of the British Empire's largest women's patriotic organisation, formed in 1900 and still in existence, this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity. It throws light on women's involvement in imperialism; on the history of 'conservative' women's organisations; on women's interventions in debates concerning citizenship and national identity; and on the history of women in white settler societi…
Clare Wright on Australia’s pioneering suffragists
In the early twenty-first century, the word ‘suffragist’ is stuffy and obscure. There is more currency in ‘suffragettes’, especially the British women who resorted to civil disobedience in their mi
Edith Cavell and Her Legend by Christine E. Hallett
Reviewed by: Edith Cavell and Her Legend by Christine E. Hallett Katie Pickles (bio) Edith Cavell and Her Legend Christine E. Hallett Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, ix + 137 pp. ISBN 9781137543707, $54.99 hardcover. As Christine E. Hallett asserts, multiple biographies of English nurse Edith Cavell have appeared in the years since her execution in Brussels on October 12, 1915 during the First World War. The forty-nine-year-old matron was executed by t…
Materteral Consumption Magic
With themes of corporate and civic paternalism, magic, Disney-like fantasy and childcare, this article recovers and analyses the Hay's rooftop playground, the people who invented it and their motivations for luring generations of children up there. The space is placed in the context of the development of modern playgrounds and department stores. Drawing on consumers' memories, the playground's main attractions are revealed. The motivations of ene…
History (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Australian History and Society (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Art (10 works) · Canadian Identity and History (10 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · History (10 works) · Colonialism (8 works)