Penelope Edmonds
Biographic Data
| ID | 457108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Penelope Edmonds |
| GIVEN NAMES | Penelope |
| FAMILY NAME | Edmonds |
| SIGNATURE | EDMONDS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2272-446X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1921 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Monuments on trial: BlackLivesMatter, ‘travelling memory’ and the transcultural afterlives of empire
The #BlackLivesMatter protests in Australia in 2020 at the monument of Captain Cook erupted amid the toppling of monuments all over the United States and the United Kingdom, as part of a highly mobile wave of transnational activism. Such protests, I argue, compel us to look beyond national frameworks to the transnational or ‘transcultural’ politics of memorialisation and mediatised protest, and to examine the ways in which public monuments can be…
The Case of Nie's Refusal: Gender, Law and Consent in the Shadow of Pacific Slavery
In 1881 Nie (also known as Nai), a Pacific Islander woman, walked off ‘Virginia’ plantation, south of Maryborough, in the colony of Queensland. Crossing through cane fields, she travelled in the th
Precarious Intimacies: Cross-Cultural Violence and Proximity in Settler Colonial Economies of the Pacific Rim
Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire
Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire by Jane Lydon marks a significant contribution to both the scholarship on imperial humanitarian photography and the burgeoning body of new work, which seeks to historicize and give specificity to human rights. In this rich study Lydon offers a nuanced and critical analysis of humanitarian photography in Australia and its central role in shaping ideas about race, rights, and colonization from the 1840s to the 1…
Tracey Banivanua Mar (1974–2017)
We are deeply saddened by the loss of our beloved friend and inspiring colleague Tracey Banivanua Mar, who passed away on 19 August 2017. Tracey was a leading scholar of her generation in the field of colonial and postcolonial histories, and her work radically reshaped understandings of the entangled histories of Australia and the Pacific for both local and international scholars
Special Issue on History and Heritage
This special issue on History and Heritage explores exciting new directions inheritage practice and interpretation, and the intersections between heritagestudies and Australian history. In line with recent scholarly thinking in thefield of critical heritage studies, this issue features articles that historicise andextend mainstream notions of heritage beyond sites and movable objects, toexplore broader questions around cultural knowledges, perfor…
Histories of Struggle and Reform in Modern Australia
This issue of Australian Historical Studies opens with two articles that explore thestruggles for the recognition of human rights, including the protection offeredfor women and children, in Australias recent history. But it is also sobering to see that many of the concernsabout the status and safety of women and children that were expressed almostfive decades ago have not been fully addressed in 2018. One lesson we candraw from the past is that s…
Untidy Histories and ‘Truth-Telling’ in Australia
This issue of Australian Historical Studies is the final one in our editorial tenure of the journal from 2015 to 2018. During this time, it has been a privilege to publish a range of fascinating articles in Australian history, and to support new historical work that examines Australia’s place in the world, and the international, transnational and localised connections that have shaped national historical experiences. This includes special issues …
Approaching the Past
This May 2018 issue of Australian Historical Studies brings together varied but fresh approaches to the study of Australia's past, including from early career scholars. It also features the winning entry in the Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize, which is for the strongest paper presented by a graduate student at the annual Australian Historical Association Conference and then submitted to AHS for review. The prize, named in honour of the late Ken Ing…
Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony
Violence and intimacy were critically intertwined at all stages of the settler colonial encounter, and yet we know surprisingly little of how they were connected in the shaping of colonial economies. Extending a reading of `economies' as labour relations into new arenas, this innovative collection of essays examines new understandings of the nexus between violence and intimacy in settler colonial economies of the British Pacific Rim. The sites it…
"Elite and "Shadow Networks: Quaker investigative counter travel, protective governance, and Indigenous worlds in the Southern oceans
This paper traces the investigative tours of British Quakers in the Southern oceans travelling under concern in the 1830s, who sought to witness the treatment of those violently mobilised and dislocated in empires service. The paper argues that these tours, as both religious journeys and cross-cultural enquiries, highlight the contingent and enmeshed ways that travel, mobility and the violence of empire and could give rise to new networks and soc…
Punishments, Bodies and Environments in Historical Focus
As the last issue of Australian Historical Studies for 2017, this November volume begins by showcasing new work in legal history with two articles analysing the penal past in New South Wales. In his close focus on transportation within the colony during its foundation years, David Andrew Roberts argues that Judge Advocates such as David Collins, Richard Dore and Richard Atkins chose to go beyond the punishments strictly available to them, regardl…
Looking Back and Looking Out: New Stories in Australian History
In this issue of Australian Historical Studies , recent scholarship highlights the waysthat Australia and Australians have been shaped by global connections and influences so that looking back to our history is also an exercise in looking out tothe world. In the opening section on Music and Dance, two articles chart thehistory of international connections and local adaptations that occurred in thearts across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
War, Colonialism and the Emotions in Australian History
This issue of Australian Historical Studies features new research highlighting how key historical events have been a force in shaping Australian society and its nation-building efforts from the colonial period to the present
Back in Fashion? Economic History and the ‘New Materialism’ in the Writing of Australian History
This issue of Australian Historical Studies opens with two articles that discuss thestate of economic history in Australia. In their important overview, Simon Villeand Claire Wright argue that following years in the wilderness, economichistory is back in fashion. Australian universities after World War II establishedseparate departments of economic history, with the discipline serving to connectthe social sciences and humanities. But over time, a…
Sovereignty performances, sovereignty testings: The Queen’s currency and imperial pedagogies on Australia’s south-eastern settler frontiers
This paper considers Queen Victoria’s ‘currency’ on south-eastern Australia colonial frontiers, and Kulin Aboriginal peoples’ engagements with the image and idea of the queen, particularly on coins. It explores the uncertain currency of an imposed sovereignty on new frontiers, and the limits and fantasies of colonial rule. Drawing together themes of embodied and cross-cultural performance, this paper argues that on these frontiers, where plural a…
Oral History and Australian Generations
The articles in this theme issue of Australian Historical Studies use interviews from the Australian Generations Oral History Project to explore a range of issues in Australian social and cultural history and about the documentation, interpretation and use of oral history. Digital technologies are transforming access to and use of oral history. Digital indexing has made it easier for researchers to search for relevant material within interviews a…
New Directions in Australian History
This issue of Australian Historical Studies leads with a landmark article by Shurlee Swainentitled Enshrined in Law: Legislative Justifications for the Removal of Indigenous andNon-Indigenous Children in Colonial and Post-Colonial Australia. Australian historiographyconcerned with the state removal of children from their families has generally separatedthe legislation directed at Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, as well as thesubsequent…
In This Issue
One of our ambitions as editors for Australian Historical Studies has been toexplore and highlight Australia in the world, including its myriad transnationaland international connections. Accordingly, this issue showcases a Forum onBig Data and Australian History, which reveals the ways that digital data isradically reshaping historical research, and serves to locate Australian historywithin its networked transnational and global developments. Th…
The Whip Is a Very Contagious Kind of Thing: Flogging and humanitarian reform in penal Australia
This paper traces humanitarian debates over corporal punishment and the use of the lash in the Australian colonies in the nineteenth century, with particular attention to Quakers James Backhouse and George Washington Walker's interventions in penal discipline in colonial Van Diemen's Land. It examine the ways that corporal punishment of convicts and Aboriginal peoples was framed through abolitionist eyes and explores in detail specific objections…
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…
Conciliation on Colonial Frontiers: Conflict, Performance and Commemoration in Australia and the Pacific Rim
Re-enactments of past events, in whatever form, are part of the 'long and repetitive chain of storytelling' that underwrites settlers' claims to possess territory in settler-colonial societies
Collecting Looerryminer's ‘Testimony’: Aboriginal Women, Sealers, and Quaker Humanitarian Anti-Slavery Thought and Action in the Bass Strait Islands
In 1832 British Quakers James Backhouse and George Washington Walker travelled ‘under concern’ to the antipodean colonies on a mission sponsored by the Religious Society of Friends. This article examines Backhouse and Walker's mission to witness the ‘testimony’ of Looerryminer and other Aboriginal women who had lived with sealers in the Bass Strait Islands. It argues that this investigative journey is best comprehended in the context of the long …
A new beginning for Settler Colonial Studies
This issue of Settler Colonial Studies represents a major turning point for our relatively new journal. First published in 2011 in an open access format (entirely run on volunteer labour), the foun
Exhibition Reviews
Making Settler Colonial Space: Perspectives on Race, Place and Identity
Charts the making of colonial spaces in settler colonies of the Pacific Rim during the last two centuries. Contributions journey through time, place and region, and piece together interwoven but discr
Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony
Violence and intimacy were critically intertwined at all stages of the settler colonial encounter, and yet we know surprisingly little of how they were connected in the shaping of colonial economies. Extending a reading of `economies' as labour relations into new arenas, this innovative collection of essays examines new understandings of the nexus between violence and intimacy in settler colonial economies of the British Pacific Rim. The sites it…
The Whip Is a Very Contagious Kind of Thing: Flogging and humanitarian reform in penal Australia
This paper traces humanitarian debates over corporal punishment and the use of the lash in the Australian colonies in the nineteenth century, with particular attention to Quakers James Backhouse and George Washington Walker's interventions in penal discipline in colonial Van Diemen's Land. It examine the ways that corporal punishment of convicts and Aboriginal peoples was framed through abolitionist eyes and explores in detail specific objections…
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…
Collecting Looerryminer's ‘Testimony’: Aboriginal Women, Sealers, and Quaker Humanitarian Anti-Slavery Thought and Action in the Bass Strait Islands
In 1832 British Quakers James Backhouse and George Washington Walker travelled ‘under concern’ to the antipodean colonies on a mission sponsored by the Religious Society of Friends. This article examines Backhouse and Walker's mission to witness the ‘testimony’ of Looerryminer and other Aboriginal women who had lived with sealers in the Bass Strait Islands. It argues that this investigative journey is best comprehended in the context of the long …
Monuments on trial: BlackLivesMatter, ‘travelling memory’ and the transcultural afterlives of empire
The #BlackLivesMatter protests in Australia in 2020 at the monument of Captain Cook erupted amid the toppling of monuments all over the United States and the United Kingdom, as part of a highly mobile wave of transnational activism. Such protests, I argue, compel us to look beyond national frameworks to the transnational or ‘transcultural’ politics of memorialisation and mediatised protest, and to examine the ways in which public monuments can be…
Failing in every endeavour to conciliate”: Governor Arthur's Proclamation Boards to the Aborigines, Australian conciliation narratives and their transnational connections
In 1829 Lieutenant Governor George Arthur issued a series of Proclamation Boards illustrated with images of friendship, equality before the law and mutual punishment for Aborigines and Europeans alike, in an attempt to conciliate Aboriginal people in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). These striking images have been reworked over time, and have come to shape understandings of Australian history at national and international levels. Yet for images so r…
"Elite and "Shadow Networks: Quaker investigative counter travel, protective governance, and Indigenous worlds in the Southern oceans
This paper traces the investigative tours of British Quakers in the Southern oceans travelling under concern in the 1830s, who sought to witness the treatment of those violently mobilised and dislocated in empires service. The paper argues that these tours, as both religious journeys and cross-cultural enquiries, highlight the contingent and enmeshed ways that travel, mobility and the violence of empire and could give rise to new networks and soc…
A concert audience and its points of view
The Le Souëf box: Reflections on imperial nostalgia, material culture and exhibitionary practice in colonial Victoria
The Le Souëf box, a decorated chest containing a set of miniaturised Aboriginal weapons, was made by Albert and Caroline Le Souëf a decade after the frontier period in the colonial state of Victoria, Australia. Invested with many key concerns of the nineteenth century's apprehension and representation of Australian Aboriginal peoples, this complex composite object of images, text and diminutive objects is animated by many cultural and scientific …
“I Followed England Round the World”: The Rise of Trans-Imperial Anglo-Saxon Exceptionalism, and the Spatial Narratives of Nineteenth-Century British Settler Colonies of the Pacific Rim
In 1868 Charles Wentworth Dilke published a travelogue of his tour of North America, India, and Britain's Pacific colonies titled Greater Britain: A Records of Travel in English-Speaking Countries during 1866 and 1867. The book was the result of a global tour by which Dilke sought to chart the progress of the Anglo-Saxon race around the globe. In this work, which would become highly influential in Britain, the young Dilke proffered his impression…
The Intimate, Urbanising Frontier: Native Camps and Settler Colonialism’s Violent Array of Spaces around Early Melbourne
During the 1840s many Aboriginal people moved in and out of the new settlement of Melbourne, and lived and camped along the Yarra River and Merri Creek, which run through the northeastern stretches of the city. Yet, in 1841 newly arrived Englishwoman Sarah Bunbury could walk the same river and see an entirely different settler space. ‘I am charmed with Australia dear Mama and Papa’, she wrote in a letter home. Sarah described the houses of Europe…
Introduction: Making Space in Settler Colonies
Colonialism, between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries, has produced a profound and extensive rearrangement of physical spaces and peoples. Moved by force of circumstance or necessity as migrants, slaves, indentured labourers, convicts, refugees or seekers of wealth, millions of people, entire societies in some cases, were reorganised during the colonial era. This has left an enduring and unresolved legacy in the socalled postcolonial pres…
Nervous Hybridity: Bodies, Spaces, and the Displacements of Empire
Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities
Colonial frontiers were not confined to the bush, backwoods, or borderlands. Early towns and cities in the far reaches of empire were crucial to the settler colonial project. The experiences of Indigenous peoples in these urbanizing frontiers have been overshadowed by triumphant narratives of European progress. Urbanizing Frontiers explores the lives of Indigenous peoples and newcomers in two Pacific Rim cities Victoria, British Columbia, and Mel…
Books
Making Settler Colonial Space: Perspectives on Race, Place and Identity
Charts the making of colonial spaces in settler colonies of the Pacific Rim during the last two centuries. Contributions journey through time, place and region, and piece together interwoven but discr
Failing in every endeavour to conciliate”: Governor Arthur's Proclamation Boards to the Aborigines, Australian conciliation narratives and their transnational connections
In 1829 Lieutenant Governor George Arthur issued a series of Proclamation Boards illustrated with images of friendship, equality before the law and mutual punishment for Aborigines and Europeans alike, in an attempt to conciliate Aboriginal people in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). These striking images have been reworked over time, and have come to shape understandings of Australian history at national and international levels. Yet for images so r…
Afterword: On Recognition, Apology and the 'Hidden History of the Americas
Penny Edmonds responds to Mi'kmaq Elder Daniel N. Paul's anti-racism lecture 'The hidden history of the Americas: the destruction and depopulation of the Indigenous civilisations of the Americas by European invaders', which traverses crucial themes: history, invisibility, recognition, and conscience
Exhibition Reviews
Travelling ‘Under Concern’: Quakers James Backhouse and George Washington Walker Tour the Antipodean Colonies, 1832–41
In 1832, British Quakers James Backhouse and George Washington Walker travelled ‘under concern’ on a trans-imperial journey that took nine years and spanned the Australian colonies of Van Diemen's Land, New South Wales and Swan River in Western Australia, Mauritius and South Africa's Cape Colony. Backhouse and Walker were fundamental to the creation and expansion of humanitarian networks in the antipodes, where they made major humanitarian interv…
Unofficial apartheid, convention and country towns: Reflections on Australian history and the New South Wales Freedom Rides of 1965
Many scholars have not only ignored or disavowed the long history of segregation of towns in country Australia, they have also failed to ask germane questions regarding the distinct terms of the production of racialized and gendered bodies and spaces in settler towns and cities, and how such deep genealogies of segregation continue to shape nominally postcolonial urban spaces. This article explores the history of segregation in New South Wales co…
A new beginning for Settler Colonial Studies
This issue of Settler Colonial Studies represents a major turning point for our relatively new journal. First published in 2011 in an open access format (entirely run on volunteer labour), the foun
Collecting Looerryminer's ‘Testimony’: Aboriginal Women, Sealers, and Quaker Humanitarian Anti-Slavery Thought and Action in the Bass Strait Islands
In 1832 British Quakers James Backhouse and George Washington Walker travelled ‘under concern’ to the antipodean colonies on a mission sponsored by the Religious Society of Friends. This article examines Backhouse and Walker's mission to witness the ‘testimony’ of Looerryminer and other Aboriginal women who had lived with sealers in the Bass Strait Islands. It argues that this investigative journey is best comprehended in the context of the long …
Conciliation on Colonial Frontiers: Conflict, Performance and Commemoration in Australia and the Pacific Rim
Re-enactments of past events, in whatever form, are part of the 'long and repetitive chain of storytelling' that underwrites settlers' claims to possess territory in settler-colonial societies
Sovereignty performances, sovereignty testings: The Queen’s currency and imperial pedagogies on Australia’s south-eastern settler frontiers
This paper considers Queen Victoria’s ‘currency’ on south-eastern Australia colonial frontiers, and Kulin Aboriginal peoples’ engagements with the image and idea of the queen, particularly on coins. It explores the uncertain currency of an imposed sovereignty on new frontiers, and the limits and fantasies of colonial rule. Drawing together themes of embodied and cross-cultural performance, this paper argues that on these frontiers, where plural a…
Oral History and Australian Generations
The articles in this theme issue of Australian Historical Studies use interviews from the Australian Generations Oral History Project to explore a range of issues in Australian social and cultural history and about the documentation, interpretation and use of oral history. Digital technologies are transforming access to and use of oral history. Digital indexing has made it easier for researchers to search for relevant material within interviews a…
New Directions in Australian History
This issue of Australian Historical Studies leads with a landmark article by Shurlee Swainentitled Enshrined in Law: Legislative Justifications for the Removal of Indigenous andNon-Indigenous Children in Colonial and Post-Colonial Australia. Australian historiographyconcerned with the state removal of children from their families has generally separatedthe legislation directed at Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, as well as thesubsequent…
In This Issue
One of our ambitions as editors for Australian Historical Studies has been toexplore and highlight Australia in the world, including its myriad transnationaland international connections. Accordingly, this issue showcases a Forum onBig Data and Australian History, which reveals the ways that digital data isradically reshaping historical research, and serves to locate Australian historywithin its networked transnational and global developments. Th…
The Whip Is a Very Contagious Kind of Thing: Flogging and humanitarian reform in penal Australia
This paper traces humanitarian debates over corporal punishment and the use of the lash in the Australian colonies in the nineteenth century, with particular attention to Quakers James Backhouse and George Washington Walker's interventions in penal discipline in colonial Van Diemen's Land. It examine the ways that corporal punishment of convicts and Aboriginal peoples was framed through abolitionist eyes and explores in detail specific objections…
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…
Punishments, Bodies and Environments in Historical Focus
As the last issue of Australian Historical Studies for 2017, this November volume begins by showcasing new work in legal history with two articles analysing the penal past in New South Wales. In his close focus on transportation within the colony during its foundation years, David Andrew Roberts argues that Judge Advocates such as David Collins, Richard Dore and Richard Atkins chose to go beyond the punishments strictly available to them, regardl…
Looking Back and Looking Out: New Stories in Australian History
In this issue of Australian Historical Studies , recent scholarship highlights the waysthat Australia and Australians have been shaped by global connections and influences so that looking back to our history is also an exercise in looking out tothe world. In the opening section on Music and Dance, two articles chart thehistory of international connections and local adaptations that occurred in thearts across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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