Liz Conor
Biographic Data
| ID | 502052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liz Conor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liz |
| FAMILY NAME | Conor |
| SIGNATURE | CONOR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4516-8379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Their Reserves Are a Mere Farce’
Colonial Extraction and Industrial Steam Power, 1790–1880
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis
The current anthropogenic climate crisis presents unique challenges to the higher education classroom. Pedagogy in the context of climate change must be attuned to complex and varied student experiences that can contend with feelings of anxiety, disconnection, distress and hopelessness. As educators and researchers, we collate our pedagogical approaches in the humanities and social sciences to progress ongoing discussions about climate pedagogy a…
Looking at her funny way’
In the lead-up to this year’s Invasion (AKA Australia) Day, NITV (National Indigenous Television) ran a selection of Australian films ‘celebrating the strength, resilience and survival’ of Aborigin
Moretti
No description supplied
Xavier Herbert
Xavier Herbert is one of Australia's outstanding novelists and one of the more controversial. In his time, he was also an outspoken public figure. Yet many young Australians today have not heard of the man or his novels. His key works Capricornia (1938) and Poor Fellow My Country (1975) won major awards and were judged as highly significant on publication, yet there has been relatively little analysis of their impact. Although providing much mate…
Blood Call and 'Natural Flutters
National belonging for Xavier Herbert was intimately tied to interracial sexuality. 'Euraustralians' ('half-castes') were for Herbert a redemptive motif that could assuage the 'awful loneliness of the colonial born' by which he hinted at the land claim of settler-colonials as spurious. Herbert's exposure of the spectrum of interracial sex-from companionate marriage to casual prostitution to endemic sexual assault-in his novels Capricornia (1938) …
Jane Nicholas. The Modern Girl
A moment that descriptively encapsulates changing modern conventions of looking appears in Jane Nicholas’s recent study of the Modern Girl in Canada. Nicholas notes in her engrossing chapter on the Canadian National Exhibition of 1927—a national scandal surrounding the display of nudes that depicted Modern Girls—that a line between flesh and canvas had been broached by these images. The impact of such imagery on female viewers fed much of the pri…
Moveable Parts
Reynell Eveleigh Johns held various posts in the public service in central and northeastern Victoria. From 1858 to 1903 Johns maintained five scrapbook volumes, amassing some sixty-five articles and engravings from newspaper cuttings on Aborigines. Concurrently European and ‘native’ bodies were partitioned and aggregated into raced and gendered identities through clothing and adornment. The shift in textile manufacture from workshop to factory, a…
‘A species of rough gallantry’
‘In hundreds of printed accounts that reflected on gender relations in the Australian Aboriginal society, settlers routinely characterised women as subject to ‘tyrannical’ men – whom they pilloried as ‘lords and masters’. The settler-colonial trope of Bride Capture reiterated well-worn meanings about Aboriginal gender relations in print culture. That the treatment of women in ‘native tribes’ became an indice of civilisation is well established in…
Race and the Modern Exotic
The ‘Lubra' Type in Australian Imaginings of the Aboriginal Woman from 1836–1973
No description supplied
Black Velvet’ and ‘Purple Indignation’
Japanese 'poaching' of Aboriginal women 1
Placing the White Scholar in Indigenous Philosophy
A review of Stephen Muecke's Ancient and Modern: Time, Culture and Indigenous Philosophy (University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2004
The 'Piccaninny
The dissemination of the Piccaninny type critically depended on the print media whose development coincided with, and underpinned, colonial modernity. Racialized child types such as the Piccaninny were put to work in the colonial imagination to set down very distinct claims to land ownership, inheritance, dispossession and eradication. While a number of such child types reflect ideas of inheritance in colonial discourse, such as the Bush Baby, Wi…
Double take
Conventional use of the colonial visual archive as evidence and historical illustration is undergoing a significant shift, giving way to creative interventions by Indigenous Australians. The ferment surrounding the “history wars” has led artists and scholars to rethink the colonial archive as a contested site productive of dynamic and archaic revisions. Departing from the memory ruts that have become entrenched in the national imaginary, these di…
Strangely clad”
This paper theorises a discourse of settler homelands in which a dichotomy of lived interior and exterior was transferred to ideas of racial difference. Settlers depended on a range of perceptual relations, of looking, documenting and publishing, to convey a notion of racial asymmetry through the divide of built and ‘undeveloped’ surrounds. Settlers carefully observed the ‘landmarks’, or spatially-grounded signs of difference, often blind, or una…
A ‘nation so ill-begotten’
Xavier Herbert's classic Australian novels Poor Fellow My Country (1975) and Capricornia (1938) are acknowledged as directly influencing Baz Lurhmann's film Australia. Aboriginal children have a particular significance in white imaginings of a distinctly Australian race destiny. Moreover, the ‘creamy’ Aboriginal child has become a redemptive emblem of reconciliation in cultural imaginings. This article revisits Herbert's Aboriginal child characte…
“Blackfella Missus Too Much Proud”
This striking ornament of nature
Feminine beauty was implicated in colonial ways of seeing Indigenous peoples. The Australian 'Native Belle', as the feminine type of the noble savage, caught the European imagination at the time that European women such as Mary Wollstonecraft inaugurated a critique of feminine beauty as enslaving. Representations of the native belle were disseminated through new forms of communication and were implicated in prevailing discourses of Indigenous peo…
The Spectacular Modern Woman
How the "modern appearing woman" inaugurated a new relation between female identity and visual culture
The flapper in the heterosexual scene
(2002). The flapper in the heterosexual scene. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 26, No. 72, pp. 41-57
Beauty contestant in the photographic scene
(2001). Beauty contestant in the photographic scene. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 25, The Show Girl and the Straw Man, pp. 33-43
The 'Piccaninny
The dissemination of the Piccaninny type critically depended on the print media whose development coincided with, and underpinned, colonial modernity. Racialized child types such as the Piccaninny were put to work in the colonial imagination to set down very distinct claims to land ownership, inheritance, dispossession and eradication. While a number of such child types reflect ideas of inheritance in colonial discourse, such as the Bush Baby, Wi…
The ‘Lubra' Type in Australian Imaginings of the Aboriginal Woman from 1836–1973
No description supplied
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis
The current anthropogenic climate crisis presents unique challenges to the higher education classroom. Pedagogy in the context of climate change must be attuned to complex and varied student experiences that can contend with feelings of anxiety, disconnection, distress and hopelessness. As educators and researchers, we collate our pedagogical approaches in the humanities and social sciences to progress ongoing discussions about climate pedagogy a…
Xavier Herbert
Xavier Herbert is one of Australia's outstanding novelists and one of the more controversial. In his time, he was also an outspoken public figure. Yet many young Australians today have not heard of the man or his novels. His key works Capricornia (1938) and Poor Fellow My Country (1975) won major awards and were judged as highly significant on publication, yet there has been relatively little analysis of their impact. Although providing much mate…
Black Velvet’ and ‘Purple Indignation’
Japanese 'poaching' of Aboriginal women 1
Double take
Conventional use of the colonial visual archive as evidence and historical illustration is undergoing a significant shift, giving way to creative interventions by Indigenous Australians. The ferment surrounding the “history wars” has led artists and scholars to rethink the colonial archive as a contested site productive of dynamic and archaic revisions. Departing from the memory ruts that have become entrenched in the national imaginary, these di…
Beauty contestant in the photographic scene
(2001). Beauty contestant in the photographic scene. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 25, The Show Girl and the Straw Man, pp. 33-43
The flapper in the heterosexual scene
(2002). The flapper in the heterosexual scene. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 26, No. 72, pp. 41-57
The Spectacular Modern Woman
How the "modern appearing woman" inaugurated a new relation between female identity and visual culture
This striking ornament of nature
Feminine beauty was implicated in colonial ways of seeing Indigenous peoples. The Australian 'Native Belle', as the feminine type of the noble savage, caught the European imagination at the time that European women such as Mary Wollstonecraft inaugurated a critique of feminine beauty as enslaving. Representations of the native belle were disseminated through new forms of communication and were implicated in prevailing discourses of Indigenous peo…
“Blackfella Missus Too Much Proud”
A ‘nation so ill-begotten’
Xavier Herbert's classic Australian novels Poor Fellow My Country (1975) and Capricornia (1938) are acknowledged as directly influencing Baz Lurhmann's film Australia. Aboriginal children have a particular significance in white imaginings of a distinctly Australian race destiny. Moreover, the ‘creamy’ Aboriginal child has become a redemptive emblem of reconciliation in cultural imaginings. This article revisits Herbert's Aboriginal child characte…
Double take
Conventional use of the colonial visual archive as evidence and historical illustration is undergoing a significant shift, giving way to creative interventions by Indigenous Australians. The ferment surrounding the “history wars” has led artists and scholars to rethink the colonial archive as a contested site productive of dynamic and archaic revisions. Departing from the memory ruts that have become entrenched in the national imaginary, these di…
Strangely clad”
This paper theorises a discourse of settler homelands in which a dichotomy of lived interior and exterior was transferred to ideas of racial difference. Settlers depended on a range of perceptual relations, of looking, documenting and publishing, to convey a notion of racial asymmetry through the divide of built and ‘undeveloped’ surrounds. Settlers carefully observed the ‘landmarks’, or spatially-grounded signs of difference, often blind, or una…
The 'Piccaninny
The dissemination of the Piccaninny type critically depended on the print media whose development coincided with, and underpinned, colonial modernity. Racialized child types such as the Piccaninny were put to work in the colonial imagination to set down very distinct claims to land ownership, inheritance, dispossession and eradication. While a number of such child types reflect ideas of inheritance in colonial discourse, such as the Bush Baby, Wi…
‘A species of rough gallantry’
‘In hundreds of printed accounts that reflected on gender relations in the Australian Aboriginal society, settlers routinely characterised women as subject to ‘tyrannical’ men – whom they pilloried as ‘lords and masters’. The settler-colonial trope of Bride Capture reiterated well-worn meanings about Aboriginal gender relations in print culture. That the treatment of women in ‘native tribes’ became an indice of civilisation is well established in…
Race and the Modern Exotic
The ‘Lubra' Type in Australian Imaginings of the Aboriginal Woman from 1836–1973
No description supplied
Black Velvet’ and ‘Purple Indignation’
Japanese 'poaching' of Aboriginal women 1
Placing the White Scholar in Indigenous Philosophy
A review of Stephen Muecke's Ancient and Modern: Time, Culture and Indigenous Philosophy (University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2004
Moveable Parts
Reynell Eveleigh Johns held various posts in the public service in central and northeastern Victoria. From 1858 to 1903 Johns maintained five scrapbook volumes, amassing some sixty-five articles and engravings from newspaper cuttings on Aborigines. Concurrently European and ‘native’ bodies were partitioned and aggregated into raced and gendered identities through clothing and adornment. The shift in textile manufacture from workshop to factory, a…
Jane Nicholas. The Modern Girl
A moment that descriptively encapsulates changing modern conventions of looking appears in Jane Nicholas’s recent study of the Modern Girl in Canada. Nicholas notes in her engrossing chapter on the Canadian National Exhibition of 1927—a national scandal surrounding the display of nudes that depicted Modern Girls—that a line between flesh and canvas had been broached by these images. The impact of such imagery on female viewers fed much of the pri…
Xavier Herbert
Xavier Herbert is one of Australia's outstanding novelists and one of the more controversial. In his time, he was also an outspoken public figure. Yet many young Australians today have not heard of the man or his novels. His key works Capricornia (1938) and Poor Fellow My Country (1975) won major awards and were judged as highly significant on publication, yet there has been relatively little analysis of their impact. Although providing much mate…
Blood Call and 'Natural Flutters
National belonging for Xavier Herbert was intimately tied to interracial sexuality. 'Euraustralians' ('half-castes') were for Herbert a redemptive motif that could assuage the 'awful loneliness of the colonial born' by which he hinted at the land claim of settler-colonials as spurious. Herbert's exposure of the spectrum of interracial sex-from companionate marriage to casual prostitution to endemic sexual assault-in his novels Capricornia (1938) …
Moretti
No description supplied
Looking at her funny way’
In the lead-up to this year’s Invasion (AKA Australia) Day, NITV (National Indigenous Television) ran a selection of Australian films ‘celebrating the strength, resilience and survival’ of Aborigin
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis
The current anthropogenic climate crisis presents unique challenges to the higher education classroom. Pedagogy in the context of climate change must be attuned to complex and varied student experiences that can contend with feelings of anxiety, disconnection, distress and hopelessness. As educators and researchers, we collate our pedagogical approaches in the humanities and social sciences to progress ongoing discussions about climate pedagogy a…
Colonial Extraction and Industrial Steam Power, 1790–1880
Their Reserves Are a Mere Farce’
History (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Art (14 works) · Australian History and Society (12 works) · Colonialism (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Art history (7 works) · Indigenous (7 works) · Law (7 works)