Fiona Probyn
Biographic Data
| ID | 823508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Probyn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Probyn |
| SIGNATURE | PROBYN F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The White Father: Denial, Paternalism and Community
I argue that one of the reasons why the federal government did not listen is that to listen to these stories necessitates coming to an appreciation of how much the concept of 'whiteness' was/ is linked to the genocidal effects and paternalistic rhetoric of government policies regarding Aboriginal people. As I will go on to argue, in its refusal to apologise and in its casting of 'mistakes' into a dissociable past, the federal government seeks to …
White Closets, Jangling Nerves and the Biopolitics of the Public Secret
â This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the â raw nervesâ that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of â indifferenceâ that Stanner identifies as being characteristic of â European lifeâ in Australia. Here I situate indifference as numbing the â janglingâ of â raw nervesâ and as cultivated, disseminated and feeding specific forms of public secrecy. How did the white men who enforces segregation by day…
Paternalism and Complicity: Or How Not to Atone for the ‘Sins of the Father’
The cultural politics of Australian colonialism revolve around discourses of paternalism and the ' protection' of Aboriginal people. Understanding how paternalism reproduces itself transgenerationally, and between whites and Aboriginal people, between subordinated groups, between women, is one way to approach its limits. Starting with this premise, I examine the ways in which paternalism reproduces itself, such that even today white paternalistic…
JAS review of books
Don Watson, Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language, Knopf, 2003, hb $29.95, ISBN 1740512065. Spencer Zifcak, Mr Ruddock Goes to Geneva, UNSW Press, 2003, pp 92, pb $16.95, ISBN 0868404551. Frank Brennan, Tampering with Asylum: A Universal Humanitarian Problem, University of Queensland Press, 2003, pp 234, pb $30.00, ISBN 0702234168. Geoffrey Barker, Sexing it Up: Iraq, Intelligence and Australia, UNSW Press, 2003, pp 112, pb $16.95, ISBN 08…
A poetics of failure is no bad thing: Stephen Muecke and Margaret Somerville's white writing
That Woman: Pauline Hanson and Cultural Crisis
The White Father: Denial, Paternalism and Community
I argue that one of the reasons why the federal government did not listen is that to listen to these stories necessitates coming to an appreciation of how much the concept of 'whiteness' was/ is linked to the genocidal effects and paternalistic rhetoric of government policies regarding Aboriginal people. As I will go on to argue, in its refusal to apologise and in its casting of 'mistakes' into a dissociable past, the federal government seeks to …
That Woman: Pauline Hanson and Cultural Crisis
That Woman: Pauline Hanson and Cultural Crisis
A poetics of failure is no bad thing: Stephen Muecke and Margaret Somerville's white writing
JAS review of books
Don Watson, Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language, Knopf, 2003, hb $29.95, ISBN 1740512065. Spencer Zifcak, Mr Ruddock Goes to Geneva, UNSW Press, 2003, pp 92, pb $16.95, ISBN 0868404551. Frank Brennan, Tampering with Asylum: A Universal Humanitarian Problem, University of Queensland Press, 2003, pp 234, pb $30.00, ISBN 0702234168. Geoffrey Barker, Sexing it Up: Iraq, Intelligence and Australia, UNSW Press, 2003, pp 112, pb $16.95, ISBN 08…
Paternalism and Complicity: Or How Not to Atone for the ‘Sins of the Father’
The cultural politics of Australian colonialism revolve around discourses of paternalism and the ' protection' of Aboriginal people. Understanding how paternalism reproduces itself transgenerationally, and between whites and Aboriginal people, between subordinated groups, between women, is one way to approach its limits. Starting with this premise, I examine the ways in which paternalism reproduces itself, such that even today white paternalistic…
White Closets, Jangling Nerves and the Biopolitics of the Public Secret
â This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the â raw nervesâ that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of â indifferenceâ that Stanner identifies as being characteristic of â European lifeâ in Australia. Here I situate indifference as numbing the â janglingâ of â raw nervesâ and as cultivated, disseminated and feeding specific forms of public secrecy. How did the white men who enforces segregation by day…
The White Father: Denial, Paternalism and Community
I argue that one of the reasons why the federal government did not listen is that to listen to these stories necessitates coming to an appreciation of how much the concept of 'whiteness' was/ is linked to the genocidal effects and paternalistic rhetoric of government policies regarding Aboriginal people. As I will go on to argue, in its refusal to apologise and in its casting of 'mistakes' into a dissociable past, the federal government seeks to …
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · White (mutation (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works)