Romain Fathi
Biographic Data
| ID | 5007198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Romain Fathi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Romain |
| FAMILY NAME | Fathi |
| SIGNATURE | FATHI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5123-0004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conceptualising the ‘Administration of the Dead’
This article examines the relative absence of historical literature pertaining to the battlefield disposal of military corpses during and shortly after the First World War. It posits that while First World War Studies constitute an enormously rich field of research, scholars are yet to consider corpses and their disposal as a central topic of investigation, as is the case with other disciplines and historians of other conflicts. To address this l…
Voluntary organizations, the Red Cross and the features of humanitarian reconstruction in Western Europe after the World Wars
Peer-reviewed
The Shôken Fund and the evolution of the Red Cross movement
This article examines the creation of the Shôken Fund and its impact on the evolution of the Red Cross movement globally, with a focus on the first quarter of the twentieth century and post-First World War European reconstruction. The Shôken Fund was an initiation of the Japanese Red Cross Society in 1912 to support Red Cross activities in peacetime, administered by the International Committee of the Red Cross. It came into effect in 1920 and the…
Notes de lecture
Peer-reviewed
Suppressing an ‘undesirable public controversy’
This article documents an instance where the Australian Department of Defence investigated widespread misconduct in one of the Army’s units, took limited action to address it, and made sure information pertaining to the unit investigated would not be made public. The incidents took place between 1919 and 1921, and the unit under investigation was the Australian Graves Services, a non-combatant unit in charge of Australian soldiers’ war graves ove…
The Longer Battle
The Longer Battle: Australia, World War I and Its Aftermaths\nAt dawn on Saturday 25 April 2020, hundreds of Australians gathered in their driveways to observe a minute of silence to commemorate Anzac Day. In suburbs across the country they found inventive ways to mark the occasion, decorating fences with rosemary and wreaths, letterboxes with paper poppies, and pathways with candles and chalked messages ‘Lest we forget’
Sovereignty, Democracy and Neutrality
Recent historiography pertaining to the International Red Cross has generally emphasised the transnational scale as best suited for analysing this global movement. Using the French Red Cross as a case study, this article suggests that focusing on the national scale, or even on the national-imperial scale, does not exclude transnational approaches but enriches them. In doing so, it highlights the dialectic between scales of humanitarian activity a…
Disposing of corpses during World War I
Belligerents that took part in the First World War could not have anticipated the lethality of the conflict. Within a few weeks of the war’s outbreak, armies were overwhelmed with corpses. Their existing policies and logistics to dispose of dead bodies were insufficient. As corpses piled up, they became a real epidemiological threat. Armies were relatively mobile, and it was feared that contagion from corpses to soldiers could also spread to civi…
Resilient Humanitarianism? Using Assemblage to re-evaluate the history of the League of Red Cross Societies
The League of Red Cross Societies (LRCS) – known as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) since 1991 – has received little historical attention despite representing the world’s largest volunteer network and being an integral part of the Red Cross Movement. Formed in the aftermath of the First World War by the national Red Cross Societies of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, the LRCS a…
The (Great) War for White Australia
Coming home
This article considers the homecomings of Australian servicemen and women. Homecoming was not a singular or linear event that came to close the First World War chapter in Australia’s history; homecoming was a lengthy, costly and demanding process both for those who returned and for those who had stayed. Our aim is to reposition Australia’s passage out of war as a critical period in shaping twentieth-century Australia rather than merely the afterw…
Brittany in South Australia
Mortimer Menpes: Impressions of Brittany, Julie Robinson curator, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 21 December 2018 to 26 May 2019, Free entry.In the context of the French contract to buil
Beyond Gallipoli. New Perspectives on Anzac
Beyond Gallipoli. New Perspectives on Anzac . Edited by Raelene Frances and Bruce Scates (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2016), pp.xxii + 259, 17 illustrations. AU$34.95 (pb)
Anzackery, ‘It’s what the Bogans want’
Armenia, Australia and the Great War
Armenia, Australia and the Great War. By Vicken Babkenian and Peter Stanley (Sydney: New South Publishing, 2016), pp. xii + 323. Two maps. AU$34.99 (pb)
French commemoration
A centenary effect is bringing the First World War back into the public sphere in France, even though state authorities have struggled to generate momentum around its national commemorations. First, this article synthesises France's memory of the First World War, comparing it with Australian commemoration, arguing that it is generally consensual and that, to date, there has been an absence of debate over its commemoration. Second, it examines the…
Connecting Spirits
Australian school tours on the Western Front are a fast-growing phenomenon. One school tour—called Connecting Spirits—is deserving of particular attention both because it sheds light on contemporary patterns of commemoration and because its organisers and participants created several records of its commemorative activities. This article analyses the purpose of the tour and its broader relevance to commemoration. I ask which past is passed on—or d…
Resilient Humanitarianism? Using Assemblage to re-evaluate the history of the League of Red Cross Societies
The League of Red Cross Societies (LRCS) – known as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) since 1991 – has received little historical attention despite representing the world’s largest volunteer network and being an integral part of the Red Cross Movement. Formed in the aftermath of the First World War by the national Red Cross Societies of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, the LRCS a…
Sovereignty, Democracy and Neutrality
Recent historiography pertaining to the International Red Cross has generally emphasised the transnational scale as best suited for analysing this global movement. Using the French Red Cross as a case study, this article suggests that focusing on the national scale, or even on the national-imperial scale, does not exclude transnational approaches but enriches them. In doing so, it highlights the dialectic between scales of humanitarian activity a…
French commemoration
A centenary effect is bringing the First World War back into the public sphere in France, even though state authorities have struggled to generate momentum around its national commemorations. First, this article synthesises France's memory of the First World War, comparing it with Australian commemoration, arguing that it is generally consensual and that, to date, there has been an absence of debate over its commemoration. Second, it examines the…
Connecting Spirits
Australian school tours on the Western Front are a fast-growing phenomenon. One school tour—called Connecting Spirits—is deserving of particular attention both because it sheds light on contemporary patterns of commemoration and because its organisers and participants created several records of its commemorative activities. This article analyses the purpose of the tour and its broader relevance to commemoration. I ask which past is passed on—or d…
French commemoration
A centenary effect is bringing the First World War back into the public sphere in France, even though state authorities have struggled to generate momentum around its national commemorations. First, this article synthesises France's memory of the First World War, comparing it with Australian commemoration, arguing that it is generally consensual and that, to date, there has been an absence of debate over its commemoration. Second, it examines the…
Armenia, Australia and the Great War
Armenia, Australia and the Great War. By Vicken Babkenian and Peter Stanley (Sydney: New South Publishing, 2016), pp. xii + 323. Two maps. AU$34.99 (pb)
Beyond Gallipoli. New Perspectives on Anzac
Beyond Gallipoli. New Perspectives on Anzac . Edited by Raelene Frances and Bruce Scates (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2016), pp.xxii + 259, 17 illustrations. AU$34.95 (pb)
Anzackery, ‘It’s what the Bogans want’
The (Great) War for White Australia
Coming home
This article considers the homecomings of Australian servicemen and women. Homecoming was not a singular or linear event that came to close the First World War chapter in Australia’s history; homecoming was a lengthy, costly and demanding process both for those who returned and for those who had stayed. Our aim is to reposition Australia’s passage out of war as a critical period in shaping twentieth-century Australia rather than merely the afterw…
Brittany in South Australia
Mortimer Menpes: Impressions of Brittany, Julie Robinson curator, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 21 December 2018 to 26 May 2019, Free entry.In the context of the French contract to buil
Disposing of corpses during World War I
Belligerents that took part in the First World War could not have anticipated the lethality of the conflict. Within a few weeks of the war’s outbreak, armies were overwhelmed with corpses. Their existing policies and logistics to dispose of dead bodies were insufficient. As corpses piled up, they became a real epidemiological threat. Armies were relatively mobile, and it was feared that contagion from corpses to soldiers could also spread to civi…
Resilient Humanitarianism? Using Assemblage to re-evaluate the history of the League of Red Cross Societies
The League of Red Cross Societies (LRCS) – known as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) since 1991 – has received little historical attention despite representing the world’s largest volunteer network and being an integral part of the Red Cross Movement. Formed in the aftermath of the First World War by the national Red Cross Societies of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, the LRCS a…
The Longer Battle
The Longer Battle: Australia, World War I and Its Aftermaths\nAt dawn on Saturday 25 April 2020, hundreds of Australians gathered in their driveways to observe a minute of silence to commemorate Anzac Day. In suburbs across the country they found inventive ways to mark the occasion, decorating fences with rosemary and wreaths, letterboxes with paper poppies, and pathways with candles and chalked messages ‘Lest we forget’
Sovereignty, Democracy and Neutrality
Recent historiography pertaining to the International Red Cross has generally emphasised the transnational scale as best suited for analysing this global movement. Using the French Red Cross as a case study, this article suggests that focusing on the national scale, or even on the national-imperial scale, does not exclude transnational approaches but enriches them. In doing so, it highlights the dialectic between scales of humanitarian activity a…
Notes de lecture
Peer-reviewed
Suppressing an ‘undesirable public controversy’
This article documents an instance where the Australian Department of Defence investigated widespread misconduct in one of the Army’s units, took limited action to address it, and made sure information pertaining to the unit investigated would not be made public. The incidents took place between 1919 and 1921, and the unit under investigation was the Australian Graves Services, a non-combatant unit in charge of Australian soldiers’ war graves ove…
Conceptualising the ‘Administration of the Dead’
This article examines the relative absence of historical literature pertaining to the battlefield disposal of military corpses during and shortly after the First World War. It posits that while First World War Studies constitute an enormously rich field of research, scholars are yet to consider corpses and their disposal as a central topic of investigation, as is the case with other disciplines and historians of other conflicts. To address this l…
Voluntary organizations, the Red Cross and the features of humanitarian reconstruction in Western Europe after the World Wars
Peer-reviewed
The Shôken Fund and the evolution of the Red Cross movement
This article examines the creation of the Shôken Fund and its impact on the evolution of the Red Cross movement globally, with a focus on the first quarter of the twentieth century and post-First World War European reconstruction. The Shôken Fund was an initiation of the Japanese Red Cross Society in 1912 to support Red Cross activities in peacetime, administered by the International Committee of the Red Cross. It came into effect in 1920 and the…
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