Melissa Harper
Biographic Data
| ID | 6600699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Harper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Harper |
| SIGNATURE | HARPER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5398-5865 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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Locating histories of bush‐based recreation in Australia
This article traces the historiography of bush‐based recreation in Australia. It shows how, until the 1990s, histories of bushwalking, camping, and rock climbing tended to be located within histories of national parks, places and regions, tourism, and environmentalism. The meanings attached to recreation were a secondary focus in much of this work. Stand‐alone histories of recreation have gradually emerged in the last 2 decades. These histories a…
Problem Management Plus (PM+)
Mental disorders are significant contributors to the global burden of disease (1). While they occur across all levels of socio-economic status, the majority of populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) do not have access to effective psychological and pharmacological interventions (2). Key barriers to sustainable delivery of psychological therapies in LMICs include limited mental health funding and infrastructure, chronic shortage o…
The Bushwalkers’ Diet
This article explores the history of the bushwalkers’ diet to identify and explain shifts in the food practices of bushwalkers from the late-nineteenth century until the present. It shows how food acts as central element of bushwalking practice and of a distinctive bushwalker identity. In the formative interwar period, knowing how to negotiate the problems thrown up by the materiality of food when it needed to be carried and cooked in bushland co…
Member Checking
Member checking continues to be an important quality control process in qualitative research as during the course of conducting a study, participants receive the opportunity to review their statements for accuracy and, in so doing; they may acquire a therapeutic benefit. The authors of this article suggest that this benefit is similar to some of the components of group therapy, especially in normalizing the phenomenon being experienced. Even if t…
Strong, Beautiful and Modern
Historical interest in the body has surged in recent years. Scholars such as Ana Carden-Coyne, Caroline Daley and Jill Matthews (among others) have been interested to show how the body became a key
Civilizing Nature
Feeding the Public Stomach
One of the great cultural transformations in late twentieth century Australia (as in many other western societies) was the rise of the restaurant and the creation of middle-class tastes for ‘sophisticated’ wining and dining. In that process the restaurant reviewer performed a crucial role in promoting restaurant eating and educating diners. One of the earliest and most influential Australian critics was advertising executive Leo Schofield, review…
Pedestrian Prose
This article explores the travel writing of bushwalking chemist, William Mogford Hamlet. In ‘Pictures of Travel’, a set of sixteen newspaper articles recounting his long distance Australian walking tours, Hamlet successfully brought together two seemingly contradictory impulses, a Romantic literary heritage that celebrated the freedom of the open road and a scientific mindset that insisted on the need for planning, measurement and routine. Negoti…
Two Awards from the History Council of new South Wales
Professor Mansfield has been an outstanding teacher and scholar of history in Australia for over 50 years. He pioneered the teaching of early modern European history at the University of Sydney in the 1950s and subsequently at Macquarie University. His abiding research interest has been the humanist scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam (c.1469–1536). From 1960 to 1987 Bruce Mansfield was founding editor of the international Journal of Religious History. …
Sensuality in Sandshoes Representations of the Bush in the Walking and Writing of John Le Gay Brereton and Percy Grainger∗
The development of bushwalking as a recreational activity has received little serious historical attention and yet, arguably, it is the most popular relationship of Australians to the bush. Before the organisation and commercialisation of bushwalking in the interwar years narrowed the possibilities, walking in the bush for pleasure took a number of different forms. Focusing on the bushwalks of John Le Gay Brereton and Percy Grainger this article …
The battle for the Bush
Member Checking
Member checking continues to be an important quality control process in qualitative research as during the course of conducting a study, participants receive the opportunity to review their statements for accuracy and, in so doing; they may acquire a therapeutic benefit. The authors of this article suggest that this benefit is similar to some of the components of group therapy, especially in normalizing the phenomenon being experienced. Even if t…
Feeding the Public Stomach
One of the great cultural transformations in late twentieth century Australia (as in many other western societies) was the rise of the restaurant and the creation of middle-class tastes for ‘sophisticated’ wining and dining. In that process the restaurant reviewer performed a crucial role in promoting restaurant eating and educating diners. One of the earliest and most influential Australian critics was advertising executive Leo Schofield, review…
Sensuality in Sandshoes Representations of the Bush in the Walking and Writing of John Le Gay Brereton and Percy Grainger∗
The development of bushwalking as a recreational activity has received little serious historical attention and yet, arguably, it is the most popular relationship of Australians to the bush. Before the organisation and commercialisation of bushwalking in the interwar years narrowed the possibilities, walking in the bush for pleasure took a number of different forms. Focusing on the bushwalks of John Le Gay Brereton and Percy Grainger this article …
The battle for the Bush
The battle for the Bush
Sensuality in Sandshoes Representations of the Bush in the Walking and Writing of John Le Gay Brereton and Percy Grainger∗
The development of bushwalking as a recreational activity has received little serious historical attention and yet, arguably, it is the most popular relationship of Australians to the bush. Before the organisation and commercialisation of bushwalking in the interwar years narrowed the possibilities, walking in the bush for pleasure took a number of different forms. Focusing on the bushwalks of John Le Gay Brereton and Percy Grainger this article …
Two Awards from the History Council of new South Wales
Professor Mansfield has been an outstanding teacher and scholar of history in Australia for over 50 years. He pioneered the teaching of early modern European history at the University of Sydney in the 1950s and subsequently at Macquarie University. His abiding research interest has been the humanist scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam (c.1469–1536). From 1960 to 1987 Bruce Mansfield was founding editor of the international Journal of Religious History. …
Pedestrian Prose
This article explores the travel writing of bushwalking chemist, William Mogford Hamlet. In ‘Pictures of Travel’, a set of sixteen newspaper articles recounting his long distance Australian walking tours, Hamlet successfully brought together two seemingly contradictory impulses, a Romantic literary heritage that celebrated the freedom of the open road and a scientific mindset that insisted on the need for planning, measurement and routine. Negoti…
Civilizing Nature
Feeding the Public Stomach
One of the great cultural transformations in late twentieth century Australia (as in many other western societies) was the rise of the restaurant and the creation of middle-class tastes for ‘sophisticated’ wining and dining. In that process the restaurant reviewer performed a crucial role in promoting restaurant eating and educating diners. One of the earliest and most influential Australian critics was advertising executive Leo Schofield, review…
Strong, Beautiful and Modern
Historical interest in the body has surged in recent years. Scholars such as Ana Carden-Coyne, Caroline Daley and Jill Matthews (among others) have been interested to show how the body became a key
Problem Management Plus (PM+)
Mental disorders are significant contributors to the global burden of disease (1). While they occur across all levels of socio-economic status, the majority of populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) do not have access to effective psychological and pharmacological interventions (2). Key barriers to sustainable delivery of psychological therapies in LMICs include limited mental health funding and infrastructure, chronic shortage o…
The Bushwalkers’ Diet
This article explores the history of the bushwalkers’ diet to identify and explain shifts in the food practices of bushwalkers from the late-nineteenth century until the present. It shows how food acts as central element of bushwalking practice and of a distinctive bushwalker identity. In the formative interwar period, knowing how to negotiate the problems thrown up by the materiality of food when it needed to be carried and cooked in bushland co…
Member Checking
Member checking continues to be an important quality control process in qualitative research as during the course of conducting a study, participants receive the opportunity to review their statements for accuracy and, in so doing; they may acquire a therapeutic benefit. The authors of this article suggest that this benefit is similar to some of the components of group therapy, especially in normalizing the phenomenon being experienced. Even if t…
Locating histories of bush‐based recreation in Australia
This article traces the historiography of bush‐based recreation in Australia. It shows how, until the 1990s, histories of bushwalking, camping, and rock climbing tended to be located within histories of national parks, places and regions, tourism, and environmentalism. The meanings attached to recreation were a secondary focus in much of this work. Stand‐alone histories of recreation have gradually emerged in the last 2 decades. These histories a…
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Sociology (10 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Australian History and Society (4 works)