Andrew May
Biographic Data
| ID | 5624749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew May |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | May |
| SIGNATURE | MAY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9819-2228 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The past as present in health promotion
Health promotion is conceived as a unifying concept for improving the health of populations. This means addressing the socio-cultural, economic and commercial causes of ill-health, which are necessarily informed by past policies and socio-cultural contexts. However, historical scholarship has rarely figured in health promotion practice or scholarship. This gap resides in the determinants of health, and notably in the analyses of tobacco control a…
The Troubled House
This article explores the complexity of family history in the context of colonial pasts in British India; the possibilities offered by group analysis of colonial actors; and the moral obligation of the family historian to address difficult pasts in all their complexity. Through the migratory careers and migration stories of colonial actors—the dislocated people, objects and memories that sustain identity—a longitudinal dimension is added to famil…
Householders as designers? Generating future energy services with United Kingdom home occupiers
Fake Physics
Returning to the city
In Melbourne, a city in which World War One permeated everyday life, programs for the reintegration of soldiers into the community characterised the home front and continued after war’s end. This article explores the manifestation of the returned soldier, utilising the city as a particular and novel frame to discuss the complex place of these men returning to a changing urban landscape that needed constant definition and renegotiation. It examine…
Fractured Families
In the introduction to his family memoir Lost Relations (2015), Graeme Davison freely admits that the disdain with which he once viewed the ‘chattering genealogists’ in archives and libraries has n
Weston Bate (1924–2017)
To Lay Down the Frontier of an Empire’
Northeast India is in an apparent state of being marginalized, rediscovered and redefined. The region, it might be said, is a historical problem. This article explores ways in which India’s northeast is represented and experienced that signal deeply-rooted, contradictory and contested narratives of history, geography and identity. It further proposes an agenda for historicising the northeast by way of three interconnected strands of inquiry. Firs…
Homo in Nubibus
India's tribal northeast continues to be a footnote in national and international historiography. Influenced by James C. Scott's recent characterisation of the non-state hill peoples of Zomia and their deliberate evasion of subject status, this article reappraises the 1826 treaty between the British political agent and Khasi leader U Tirot Sing, and the subsequent Nongkhlaw massacre. It further explores a set of British expectations of the hills …
Exiles from the Children's City
The "chi-chi" slur that haunted many Anglo-Indian families is being radically revised by a new generation of descendants now resident in Australasia, many of whom seek to locate the contingencies of their lives in the present within the transnational processes of imperialism. Utilising archived correspondence from old girls and boys from Dr Graham's Homes in Kalimpong, this article argues the need for a collated and integrated digital archive in …
Australian Responses to the Indian Famine, 1876–78
This article analyses Australian efforts on behalf of victims of the 1876–8 Indian famine as complex articulations of colonial identity and loyalty in the British imperial world. Focused on the Victorian Famine Relief Fund, which made extensive use of vivid photographic images of sufferers, the article also examines the public campaigns on behalf of Indian famine victims in other colonial cities and towns. It suggests that the language of filial …
Taming the ‘Leviathan’ in Johannesburg’s townships
by Jonny Steinberg, Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, Jonathan Ball, 2008, 183 pp., ISBN 978‐1‐86842‐303‐3 Jonny Steinberg is one of South Africa’s leading journalists and a master storytel
Ideas From Australian Cities
This article draws on preliminary research into the social history of Melbourne, on the ways that suburban life in the post‐World War II era provides both explanation and counterweight to persistently negative stereotypes of suburbia. Over recent decades, suburban histories have been eschewed in favour of historical reconsiderations of the inner city or the bush. The history of the Australian suburb, particularly since 1945, is yet to be written.…
Ochre and Rust
Ochre and Rust : Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers. By Philip Jones. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2007. Pp. 448. A$49.95 cloth. On the first page of Graham Connah's ‘Of the Hut I Build
Better than a play’
Categorisation of a clear historical shift in the type, style and number of street processions in Melbourne's streets are presented. Processions involve months of planning, committees organising the participants, deciding on the privileged class who would march ahead, banner making and the preparation of wondrous costumes or masks. It also consisted bands rehearsing, fitting out horses, and construction of tableaux. They continued to be times for…
A charitable indulgence
The automobile is often misconstrued as being exclusively responsible for the decline of traditional street culture. This paper argues that the marginalisation of street vendors may also be related to developing definitions of the street as the locus of respectability, unobstructed circulation, nationalism and civic pride. Street entrepreneurs of the 1850s became urban nuisances by the 1900s, associated more with obstruction and underservedness a…
Householders as designers? Generating future energy services with United Kingdom home occupiers
To Lay Down the Frontier of an Empire’
Northeast India is in an apparent state of being marginalized, rediscovered and redefined. The region, it might be said, is a historical problem. This article explores ways in which India’s northeast is represented and experienced that signal deeply-rooted, contradictory and contested narratives of history, geography and identity. It further proposes an agenda for historicising the northeast by way of three interconnected strands of inquiry. Firs…
The Troubled House
This article explores the complexity of family history in the context of colonial pasts in British India; the possibilities offered by group analysis of colonial actors; and the moral obligation of the family historian to address difficult pasts in all their complexity. Through the migratory careers and migration stories of colonial actors—the dislocated people, objects and memories that sustain identity—a longitudinal dimension is added to famil…
Homo in Nubibus
India's tribal northeast continues to be a footnote in national and international historiography. Influenced by James C. Scott's recent characterisation of the non-state hill peoples of Zomia and their deliberate evasion of subject status, this article reappraises the 1826 treaty between the British political agent and Khasi leader U Tirot Sing, and the subsequent Nongkhlaw massacre. It further explores a set of British expectations of the hills …
Australian Responses to the Indian Famine, 1876–78
This article analyses Australian efforts on behalf of victims of the 1876–8 Indian famine as complex articulations of colonial identity and loyalty in the British imperial world. Focused on the Victorian Famine Relief Fund, which made extensive use of vivid photographic images of sufferers, the article also examines the public campaigns on behalf of Indian famine victims in other colonial cities and towns. It suggests that the language of filial …
Better than a play’
Categorisation of a clear historical shift in the type, style and number of street processions in Melbourne's streets are presented. Processions involve months of planning, committees organising the participants, deciding on the privileged class who would march ahead, banner making and the preparation of wondrous costumes or masks. It also consisted bands rehearsing, fitting out horses, and construction of tableaux. They continued to be times for…
Returning to the city
In Melbourne, a city in which World War One permeated everyday life, programs for the reintegration of soldiers into the community characterised the home front and continued after war’s end. This article explores the manifestation of the returned soldier, utilising the city as a particular and novel frame to discuss the complex place of these men returning to a changing urban landscape that needed constant definition and renegotiation. It examine…
Ochre and Rust
Ochre and Rust : Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers. By Philip Jones. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2007. Pp. 448. A$49.95 cloth. On the first page of Graham Connah's ‘Of the Hut I Build
A charitable indulgence
The automobile is often misconstrued as being exclusively responsible for the decline of traditional street culture. This paper argues that the marginalisation of street vendors may also be related to developing definitions of the street as the locus of respectability, unobstructed circulation, nationalism and civic pride. Street entrepreneurs of the 1850s became urban nuisances by the 1900s, associated more with obstruction and underservedness a…
Better than a play’
Categorisation of a clear historical shift in the type, style and number of street processions in Melbourne's streets are presented. Processions involve months of planning, committees organising the participants, deciding on the privileged class who would march ahead, banner making and the preparation of wondrous costumes or masks. It also consisted bands rehearsing, fitting out horses, and construction of tableaux. They continued to be times for…
Taming the ‘Leviathan’ in Johannesburg’s townships
by Jonny Steinberg, Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, Jonathan Ball, 2008, 183 pp., ISBN 978‐1‐86842‐303‐3 Jonny Steinberg is one of South Africa’s leading journalists and a master storytel
Ideas From Australian Cities
This article draws on preliminary research into the social history of Melbourne, on the ways that suburban life in the post‐World War II era provides both explanation and counterweight to persistently negative stereotypes of suburbia. Over recent decades, suburban histories have been eschewed in favour of historical reconsiderations of the inner city or the bush. The history of the Australian suburb, particularly since 1945, is yet to be written.…
Ochre and Rust
Ochre and Rust : Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers. By Philip Jones. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2007. Pp. 448. A$49.95 cloth. On the first page of Graham Connah's ‘Of the Hut I Build
Australian Responses to the Indian Famine, 1876–78
This article analyses Australian efforts on behalf of victims of the 1876–8 Indian famine as complex articulations of colonial identity and loyalty in the British imperial world. Focused on the Victorian Famine Relief Fund, which made extensive use of vivid photographic images of sufferers, the article also examines the public campaigns on behalf of Indian famine victims in other colonial cities and towns. It suggests that the language of filial …
Homo in Nubibus
India's tribal northeast continues to be a footnote in national and international historiography. Influenced by James C. Scott's recent characterisation of the non-state hill peoples of Zomia and their deliberate evasion of subject status, this article reappraises the 1826 treaty between the British political agent and Khasi leader U Tirot Sing, and the subsequent Nongkhlaw massacre. It further explores a set of British expectations of the hills …
Exiles from the Children's City
The "chi-chi" slur that haunted many Anglo-Indian families is being radically revised by a new generation of descendants now resident in Australasia, many of whom seek to locate the contingencies of their lives in the present within the transnational processes of imperialism. Utilising archived correspondence from old girls and boys from Dr Graham's Homes in Kalimpong, this article argues the need for a collated and integrated digital archive in …
To Lay Down the Frontier of an Empire’
Northeast India is in an apparent state of being marginalized, rediscovered and redefined. The region, it might be said, is a historical problem. This article explores ways in which India’s northeast is represented and experienced that signal deeply-rooted, contradictory and contested narratives of history, geography and identity. It further proposes an agenda for historicising the northeast by way of three interconnected strands of inquiry. Firs…
Weston Bate (1924–2017)
Fake Physics
Returning to the city
In Melbourne, a city in which World War One permeated everyday life, programs for the reintegration of soldiers into the community characterised the home front and continued after war’s end. This article explores the manifestation of the returned soldier, utilising the city as a particular and novel frame to discuss the complex place of these men returning to a changing urban landscape that needed constant definition and renegotiation. It examine…
Fractured Families
In the introduction to his family memoir Lost Relations (2015), Graeme Davison freely admits that the disdain with which he once viewed the ‘chattering genealogists’ in archives and libraries has n
Householders as designers? Generating future energy services with United Kingdom home occupiers
The past as present in health promotion
Health promotion is conceived as a unifying concept for improving the health of populations. This means addressing the socio-cultural, economic and commercial causes of ill-health, which are necessarily informed by past policies and socio-cultural contexts. However, historical scholarship has rarely figured in health promotion practice or scholarship. This gap resides in the determinants of health, and notably in the analyses of tobacco control a…
The Troubled House
This article explores the complexity of family history in the context of colonial pasts in British India; the possibilities offered by group analysis of colonial actors; and the moral obligation of the family historian to address difficult pasts in all their complexity. Through the migratory careers and migration stories of colonial actors—the dislocated people, objects and memories that sustain identity—a longitudinal dimension is added to famil…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Australian History and Society (9 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)