Fiona Paisley
Biographic Data
| ID | 515513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Paisley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Paisley |
| SIGNATURE | PAISLEY F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4910-5087 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Education as anthropology: A.P. Elkin on ‘native education’, the Pacific, and Australia in the 1930s
In 1936, Prof A. P. Elkin attended a seminar in Hawaii lasting several weeks, on the topic of ‘native education’. In his various papers presented to a range of experts from the region and beyond during the formal conference held in Honolulu as part of the residency, Elkin set out his views on the future of the Indigenous people of Australia. Education would be pivotal to this new approach on pragmatic and humanitarian grounds. Elkin concurred wit…
Ambivalent histories: Education, ‘race’, and the modernisation of settler/colonial governance in Australasia and the Pacific, 1900s–1960s
This special issue features new research on the history of education and settler-colonialism in Australasia and the Pacific during the first half of the twentieth century. The history of colonialis
The Aboriginal Australians and the League of Coloured Peoples in London
During the 1930s and into the 1940s, the League of Coloured Peoples in London, part of the Black diaspora with links to the West Indies, included Aboriginal Australia among its global concerns. This article sets out to investigate the LCP’s efforts, through its newsletter and by direct appeals to Australian governments, to promote the rights of Indigenous Australians. It did so as one aspect of its larger agenda as a Black organisation to shape t…
From Missionary Work in the Pacific to the Future of India: Jean Begg on Faith, Friendship and Social Science in a Life of Service
The following sets out to investigate the early career of New Zealander Pākehā woman Jean Begg, the head of the YWCA in India, Burma and Ceylon in the 1930s. Begg was tasked with developing local leadership in ways that would contribute to India’s peaceful transition towards Dominion status. Although critical of Britain's management of this process, she also considered India as yet to reach maturity as a nation and people, and so endorsed a form …
Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age
Writing Transnational History
Over the past two decades, transnational history has become an established term describing approaches to the writing of world or global history that emphasise movement, dynamism and diversity. This book investigates the emergence of the ‘transnational’ as an approach, its limits, and parameters. It focuses particular attention on the contributions of postcolonial and feminist studies in reformulating transnational historiography as a move beyond …
Are We Internationally Minded?” Everyday Cultures of Australian Internationalism in the mid-20th Century
On 22 August 1932, Australian activist Mildred Muscio, an advocate for world peace and disarmament, presented a radio broadcast on Sydney’s station 2BL as part of the League of Nations Week organised by the League of Nations Union. The substance of her talk, titled “Are We Internationally Minded?”, was reprinted in the Sydney Morning Herald over the next two weeks. In her broadcast, Muscio, who emphasised the importance of pacifism as the interco…
Being International at Home: Australian Public Opinion in the League Era
During the interwar years, Australian internationalists sought to promote League internationalism to Australians at home. In addition to attending international conferences, participating in the League of Nations, or joining non-government organisations with international affiliations, within Australia they gave lectures, were interviewed by the press, and contributed to information events and publications. Each activity was designed to encourage…
Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism: Approaching the Imperial Archive
Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women's Pan-Pacific
Since its inception in 1928, the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association (PPWA) has witnessed and contributed to enormous changes in world and Pacific history. Operating out of Honolulu, this women’s network established a series of conferences that promoted social reform and an internationalist outlook through cultural exchange. For the many women attracted to the project—from China, Japan, the Pacific Islands, and the major settler colonies of the regio…
Introduction: Special Issue on Anti‐Slavery and Australia
This introduction sets out several of the key themes for this special issue, including new ways of thinking about histories of humanitarianism and empire, and humanitarian campaigns concerned with Aboriginal conditions in settler colonial Australia from the mid‐19th to the present day. This special issue brings new work together investigating two high points in imperial and international humanitarianism – the Abolition and League of Nations eras …
The Italo‐Abyssinian Crisis and Australian Settler Colonialism in 1935
By exploring the themes of settler colonialism and modernity in Australian commentary about Italy's invasion of Abyssinia in 1935, this paper sets out to consider Italy's war in north Africa as an international crisis with significance for Australian progressive narratives about Aboriginal conditions, status and rights important to Australia's international reputation. Thus, Australia's role as a member of the League and a mandatory power will be…
Cosmopolitan Lives on the Cusp of Empire: Interfaith, Cross-Cultural and Transnational Networks, 1860-1950
This book looks back to the period 1860 to 1950 in order to grasp how alternative visions of amity and co-existence were forged between people of faith, both within and resistant to imperial contact zones. It argues that networks of faith and friendship played a vital role in forging new vocabularies of cosmopolitanism that presaged the post-imperial world of the 1950s. In focussing on the diverse cosmopolitanisms articulated within liberal trans…
Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women
Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women." Australian Historical Studies, 48(1), pp. 135–136
"Sexuality, Nationalism, and "Race: Humanitarian Debate about Indian Indenture in Fiji, 1910-18
In a 1916 report C. F. Andrews and W. W. Pearson set out their first-hand impressions of Indian indenture to Fiji. The two Englishmen had trained as Anglican clergymen and were sympathisers of the Indian nationalist cause. They saw indenture as a negative moral influence both upon those indentured and upon Britain’s civilised status. Furthermore, they considered the end of indenture to be essential to raising India’s reputation in the eyes of the…
The spoils of opportunity: Janet Mitchell and Australian internationalism in the interwar Pacific
Janet Mitchell has been recognised previously for her work as a journalist in Harbin, Manchuria, and at the League of Nations as a temporary collaborator in the Traffic in Women section in the 1930s. Mitchell was also a participant in the formative history of Australian internationalism. Her memoir published in 1938 provides unique insight into her experiences as a member of Australian delegations to Institute of Pacific Relations conferences in …
The Modernization of Colonialism and the Educability of the “Native”: Transpacific Knowledge Networks and Education in the Interwar Years
This article focuses on a seminar-conference held in Hawaii in 1936 on the “educability” of native peoples. The seminar-conference was convened by New Zealand anthropologist Felix Keesing and Yale education professor Charles Loram and supported by the Carnegie Corporation, among other organizations. Conference delegates-who came from across the Pacific, including the U.S. mainland, Australia, and New Zealand, and from as far as South Africa-joine…
Moon-Ho Jung, editor. The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements across the Pacific
Journal Article Moon-Ho Jung, editor. The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements across the Pacific. Get access Moon-Ho Jung, editor. The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements across the Pacific. (Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography.) Seattle: Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, in association with University of Washington Press, 2014. Pp. x, 308. $55.00.…
Applied Anthropology and Interwar Internationalism: Felix and Marie Keesing and the (White) Future of the ‘Native’ Pan-Pacific
This paper concerns transnational and international debate about the function of education as a progressive force in modernising colonial and race relations. It focuses on aspects of the published work and careers of New Zealanders Felix and Marie Keesing in the interwar and early post-war years in order to investigate the role these debates played in imagining new processes of adaptation and cohabitation in the settler/colonial Pacific. The pape…
The Afterlife of Empire by Jordanna Bailkin, and: The White Man’s World by Bill Schwarz (review)
Reviewed by: The Afterlife of Empire by Jordanna Bailkin, and: The White Man's World by Bill Schwarz Fiona Paisley The Afterlife of Empire By Jordanna Bailkin. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2012. The White Man's World By Bill Schwarz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. These two excellent books are concerned with how empire and decolonization shaped the fabric of British life. Through an investigation of leading co…
Australia and Anti-Slavery
An Echo of Black Slavery: Emancipation, Forced Labour and Australia in 1933
In 1933, the year of the Centenary of Emancipation and the ratification of the Forced Labour Convention at the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the condition of Aboriginal workers in Australia drew the attention of groups interested in ‘native’ forced labour in other parts of the world. Aboriginal workers, while formally excluded from international intervention as the domestic concern of a member nation state, were considered during discu…
The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World
The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World . By Shino Konishi. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2102. Pp. 256. £60 cloth. Focusing on the ‘moments of connection’ (4) that profoundly shaped early c
Critical Perspectives on Colonialism: Writing the Empire from Below
Introduction Fiona Paisley and Kirsty Reid Part I: Writing Back to Colonial and Imperial Authority 1. Denouncing America's Destiny: Sarah Winnemucca's Assault on U.S. Expansion Frederick E. Hoxie 2. Chinese Warnings and White Men's Prophecies Marilyn Lake 3. Orality and Literacy on the New York Frontier: Remembering Joseph Brant Elizabeth Elbourne Part II: Speech Acts 4. History Lessons in Hyde Park: Embodying the Australian Frontier in Interwar …
Arrested in St Peter's: Anthony Martin Fernando, Aboriginal Australia and Fascist Italy
This article concerns the protest of an Aboriginal Australian man, Anthony Martin Fernando, who during an international gathering of Rome Catholics in the Jubilee year of 1925 handed out flyers outside St Peter's Cathedral in Rome. By protesting against conditions for Aboriginal people in Australia, Fernando brought the question of settler colonialism in Australia directly and in person to the Roman Catholic community arriving from around the wor…
No back streets in the Bush: 1920S and 1930s pro-aboriginal white women's activism and the trans-Australia railway
The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World
The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World . By Shino Konishi. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2102. Pp. 256. £60 cloth. Focusing on the ‘moments of connection’ (4) that profoundly shaped early c
Race Hysteria, Darwin 1938
The Modernization of Colonialism and the Educability of the “Native”: Transpacific Knowledge Networks and Education in the Interwar Years
This article focuses on a seminar-conference held in Hawaii in 1936 on the “educability” of native peoples. The seminar-conference was convened by New Zealand anthropologist Felix Keesing and Yale education professor Charles Loram and supported by the Carnegie Corporation, among other organizations. Conference delegates-who came from across the Pacific, including the U.S. mainland, Australia, and New Zealand, and from as far as South Africa-joine…
Critical Perspectives on Colonialism: Writing the Empire from Below
Introduction Fiona Paisley and Kirsty Reid Part I: Writing Back to Colonial and Imperial Authority 1. Denouncing America's Destiny: Sarah Winnemucca's Assault on U.S. Expansion Frederick E. Hoxie 2. Chinese Warnings and White Men's Prophecies Marilyn Lake 3. Orality and Literacy on the New York Frontier: Remembering Joseph Brant Elizabeth Elbourne Part II: Speech Acts 4. History Lessons in Hyde Park: Embodying the Australian Frontier in Interwar …
Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women
Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women." Australian Historical Studies, 48(1), pp. 135–136
An Echo of Black Slavery: Emancipation, Forced Labour and Australia in 1933
In 1933, the year of the Centenary of Emancipation and the ratification of the Forced Labour Convention at the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the condition of Aboriginal workers in Australia drew the attention of groups interested in ‘native’ forced labour in other parts of the world. Aboriginal workers, while formally excluded from international intervention as the domestic concern of a member nation state, were considered during discu…
Australia and Anti-Slavery
From Nation of Islam to Goodwill Tourist: African-American women at Pan-Pacific and South East Asia women's conferences, 1937 and 1955
Citizens of their World: Australian Feminism and Indigenous Rights in the International Context, 1920s and 1930s
Inter-war Australia saw the emergence of a feminist campaign for indigenous rights. Led by women activists who were members of various key Australian women's organizations affiliated with the British Commonwealth League, this campaign proposed a revitalized White Australia as a progressive force towards improving 'world' race relations. Drawing upon League of Nations conventions and the increasing role for the Dominions within the British Commonw…
White women in the field: Feminism, cultural relativism and aboriginal rights, 1920–1937
(1997). White women in the field: Feminism, cultural relativism and aboriginal rights, 1920–1937. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 21, Designing women, pp. 113-125
The spoils of opportunity: Janet Mitchell and Australian internationalism in the interwar Pacific
Janet Mitchell has been recognised previously for her work as a journalist in Harbin, Manchuria, and at the League of Nations as a temporary collaborator in the Traffic in Women section in the 1930s. Mitchell was also a participant in the formative history of Australian internationalism. Her memoir published in 1938 provides unique insight into her experiences as a member of Australian delegations to Institute of Pacific Relations conferences in …
Applied Anthropology and Interwar Internationalism: Felix and Marie Keesing and the (White) Future of the ‘Native’ Pan-Pacific
This paper concerns transnational and international debate about the function of education as a progressive force in modernising colonial and race relations. It focuses on aspects of the published work and careers of New Zealanders Felix and Marie Keesing in the interwar and early post-war years in order to investigate the role these debates played in imagining new processes of adaptation and cohabitation in the settler/colonial Pacific. The pape…
Police Violence and the Limits of Law on a Late Colonial Frontier: The “Borroloola Case” in 1930s Australia
The dependence of colonization on police was a core feature both of settler colonies and of colonial dependencies, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the post–World War I decline of the British Empire. During this long century the functions and structures of colonial police were many and varied. We now know a good deal of their history and of their contribution to Empire. Much remains to be told of the slow processes of policing reform …
Introduction: White Settler Colonialisms and the Colonial Turn: An Australian Perspective
White Settler Colonialisms and the Colonial Turn: An Australian Perspective Fiona Paisley The week before I began writing this introduction, Australian settler colonialism was once again in the news. On Thursday September 25, 2003, a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians gathered to remember the last officially documented massacre of Aboriginal people in Australia. In 1927, the killing of a white dingo-trapper by an Aboriginal assail…
Federalising the aborigines? Constitutional reform in the late 1920s∗
This paper considers arguments in favour of federal responsibility for indigenous affairs provided to the 1927-29 Royal Commission on the Constitution. Various humanitarian organisations, including women's groups, argued that the future of the Aborigines in Australia was a matter of national importance and was above state and federal politics.
White women in the field: Feminism, cultural relativism and aboriginal rights, 1920–1937
(1997). White women in the field: Feminism, cultural relativism and aboriginal rights, 1920–1937. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 21, Designing women, pp. 113-125
No back streets in the Bush: 1920S and 1930s pro-aboriginal white women's activism and the trans-Australia railway
Federalising the aborigines? Constitutional reform in the late 1920s∗
This paper considers arguments in favour of federal responsibility for indigenous affairs provided to the 1927-29 Royal Commission on the Constitution. Various humanitarian organisations, including women's groups, argued that the future of the Aborigines in Australia was a matter of national importance and was above state and federal politics.
Books
Freedom Bound I: Documents on Women in Colonial Australia. Edited by Patricia Grimshaw, Susan Janson and Marian Quartly. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995. Pp. xi + 193. $22.95 paper. Freedom Bound II: Documents on Women in Modern Australia. Edited by Marilyn Lake and Katie Holmes. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995. Pp. xii + 208. $22.95 paper. A Woman's Constitution? Gender and History in the Australian Commonwealth, Edited by Helen Irving. Hale & Iremonger…
Citizens of their World: Australian Feminism and Indigenous Rights in the International Context, 1920s and 1930s
Inter-war Australia saw the emergence of a feminist campaign for indigenous rights. Led by women activists who were members of various key Australian women's organizations affiliated with the British Commonwealth League, this campaign proposed a revitalized White Australia as a progressive force towards improving 'world' race relations. Drawing upon League of Nations conventions and the increasing role for the Dominions within the British Commonw…
On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871 (review)
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 2, Number 3, Winter 2001
JAS review of books
Andrew Scott, Running on Empty, Pluto Press, 2000, pp 330, $32.95 Carol Johnson, Governing Change Keating to Howard, University of Queensland Press in association with the API network, 2000, pp v + 175, pb $29.95 Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, University of Queensland Press, pp xxi + 260, pb $29.95 Charles Fox, Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression, …
Race Hysteria, Darwin 1938
Books
Radical Melbourne: A Secret History. By Jeff Sparrow and Jill Sparrow. Melbourne: Vulgar Press, 2001. Pp 223. $44.95 paper. To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity. By Angela Woollacott. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 298. $69.95 paper. Making the Australian Male: Middle‐Class Masculinity, 1870–1920. By Martin Crotty. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. ix + 301. $38.45 paper. The Murray…
Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in the Nineteenth-Century in Western Australia
Introduction: White Settler Colonialisms and the Colonial Turn: An Australian Perspective
White Settler Colonialisms and the Colonial Turn: An Australian Perspective Fiona Paisley The week before I began writing this introduction, Australian settler colonialism was once again in the news. On Thursday September 25, 2003, a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians gathered to remember the last officially documented massacre of Aboriginal people in Australia. In 1927, the killing of a white dingo-trapper by an Aboriginal assail…
Race Hysteria, Darwin 1938
Books
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia. By Pat Jalland. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 409. $39.95 paper. A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea, 1950–53. By Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. Pp. 266. $34.95 paper. New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. By Roberto Rabel. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 443. NZ$49.99 paper. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne. E…
Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women's Pan-Pacific
Since its inception in 1928, the Pan-Pacific Women's Association (PPWA) has witnessed and contributed to enormous changes in world and Pacific history. This women's network established a series of conferences that promoted social reform and an internationalist outlook through cultural exchange. The association's vision was enormously attractive for the many women who joined, despite that as individuals and national representatives they remained d…
Australian Aboriginal Activism in Interwar Britain and Europe: Anthony Martin Fernando
This article reflects on the limits of the archives in the recovery of indigenous lives. An Australian Aboriginal activist and traveller in interwar Britain and Europe, Anthony Martin Fernando was an outspoken protestor of Aboriginal conditions while in Australia but mostly from overseas. He demonstrated outside Australia House in the 1920s, planned to approach the League of Nations, and was an advocate of a form of direct international mandate o…
From Nation of Islam to Goodwill Tourist: African-American women at Pan-Pacific and South East Asia women's conferences, 1937 and 1955
Police Violence and the Limits of Law on a Late Colonial Frontier: The “Borroloola Case” in 1930s Australia
The dependence of colonization on police was a core feature both of settler colonies and of colonial dependencies, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the post–World War I decline of the British Empire. During this long century the functions and structures of colonial police were many and varied. We now know a good deal of their history and of their contribution to Empire. Much remains to be told of the slow processes of policing reform …
Death Scene Protester: An Aboriginal Rights Activist in 1920s London
This essay concerns the protest of an Australian Aboriginal man outside Australia House in central London. In the 1920s Anthony Martin Fernando made regular appearances outside Australia House on the Strand. Dressed in a black cloth on which he had sewn tiny skeletons, he expressed his condemnation of recent massacres of Aboriginal people in outback Australia. His activities still contradict assumptions that Aboriginal rights history mostly opera…
Arrested in St Peter's: Anthony Martin Fernando, Aboriginal Australia and Fascist Italy
This article concerns the protest of an Aboriginal Australian man, Anthony Martin Fernando, who during an international gathering of Rome Catholics in the Jubilee year of 1925 handed out flyers outside St Peter's Cathedral in Rome. By protesting against conditions for Aboriginal people in Australia, Fernando brought the question of settler colonialism in Australia directly and in person to the Roman Catholic community arriving from around the wor…
The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World
The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World . By Shino Konishi. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2102. Pp. 256. £60 cloth. Focusing on the ‘moments of connection’ (4) that profoundly shaped early c
Critical Perspectives on Colonialism: Writing the Empire from Below
Introduction Fiona Paisley and Kirsty Reid Part I: Writing Back to Colonial and Imperial Authority 1. Denouncing America's Destiny: Sarah Winnemucca's Assault on U.S. Expansion Frederick E. Hoxie 2. Chinese Warnings and White Men's Prophecies Marilyn Lake 3. Orality and Literacy on the New York Frontier: Remembering Joseph Brant Elizabeth Elbourne Part II: Speech Acts 4. History Lessons in Hyde Park: Embodying the Australian Frontier in Interwar …
The Afterlife of Empire by Jordanna Bailkin, and: The White Man’s World by Bill Schwarz (review)
Reviewed by: The Afterlife of Empire by Jordanna Bailkin, and: The White Man's World by Bill Schwarz Fiona Paisley The Afterlife of Empire By Jordanna Bailkin. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2012. The White Man's World By Bill Schwarz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. These two excellent books are concerned with how empire and decolonization shaped the fabric of British life. Through an investigation of leading co…
Australia and Anti-Slavery
An Echo of Black Slavery: Emancipation, Forced Labour and Australia in 1933
In 1933, the year of the Centenary of Emancipation and the ratification of the Forced Labour Convention at the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the condition of Aboriginal workers in Australia drew the attention of groups interested in ‘native’ forced labour in other parts of the world. Aboriginal workers, while formally excluded from international intervention as the domestic concern of a member nation state, were considered during discu…
Moon-Ho Jung, editor. The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements across the Pacific
Journal Article Moon-Ho Jung, editor. The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements across the Pacific. Get access Moon-Ho Jung, editor. The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements across the Pacific. (Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography.) Seattle: Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, in association with University of Washington Press, 2014. Pp. x, 308. $55.00.…
Sociology (38 works) · Political science (32 works) · Law (30 works) · History (29 works) · Australian History and Society (24 works) · History (23 works) · Law (21 works) · Politics (21 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · Colonialism (16 works)