Melissa Miles
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4222692 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Melissa Miles |
| PRENOMES | Melissa |
| SOBRENOME | Miles |
| ASSINATURA | MILES M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3648-4014 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
They Said It Couldn’t Be Done
In 2020, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a landmark environmental justice (EJ) law (S. 232) focused on cumulative impacts in the permitting process. In April 2023, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection finalized the rules that implement the law and are codified in the state’s administrative code. The precedent-setting law included a mandate to deny or condition certain environmental permits based on cumulative impacts in EJ…
Beyond the matter
Constructing Citizenship
The photographs that fill the pages of the Australian illustrated magazines The Home and Decoration and Glass offer new insights into the connections between urban development and citizenship in 1930s Sydney. This article focuses on two sites in which urban citizenship was represented and contested in these magazines: symbolic images of white Australian construction workers as builders of the nation, and debates about the lived experience of urba…
Painting Labour
This article focuses on Verners and Girts Linde’s contribution for the New Australians art exhibition, presented as part of the 1950 Australian Citizenship Convention, to consider how visual citizenship may contribute to histories of Australian postwar migration. In this large-scale painting, the visual tropes through which Anglo-European labourers were heroicised as cultivators of the nation are writ large. However, by considering the work of im…
Pacific Exposures
Photography has been a key means by which Australians have sought to define their relationships with Japan. From the fascination with all things Japanese in the late nineteenth century, through the era of ‘White Australia’, the bitter enmity of the Pacific War, the path to reconciliation in the post-war period and the culturally complicated bilateralism of today, Australians
The Japanese Photographers of Broome
The remote West Australian town of Broome has a unique photography heritage that sheds new light on the complexities of photography and intercultural relations. During the early twentieth century thriving Japanese communities were established in this region around the lucrative pearling industry. These Japanese communities also helped to develop a fascinating photography culture in Broome. Photography was not simply a business opportunity for the…
The Child of the World’s Old Age”
This article focuses on the important symbolic role of photographs of children in the context of developing diplomatic and trade relationships between Australia and Japan between the 1880s and 1920s. A fascinating series of studio, commercial and tourist photographs are examined, including commemorative postcards marking the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and hand-coloured lantern slides produced commercially in Japan. Building on political and military…
Ichiro Kagiyama in Early Twentieth Century Sydney
The recent discovery of a personal photograph album belonging to Ichiro Kagiyama offers new insight into this notable photographer’s work, biography and the Australian-Japanese community in Sydney in the 1910s. As a Japanese resident of Sydney from the early to mid-twentieth century, where he was an active member of the Photographic Society of New South Wales, a regular contributor to The Home magazine and a professional photographer operating hi…
A Career of Japan
Interest in the role of photography as a medium of intercultural connection has increased exponentially in recent years. An appreciation for the ways that photographs do not simply document moments
Rephotography and the Era of Witness
The unprecedented significance attributed to witness and testimony in diverse aspects of contemporary culture has shifted focus away from the idea of history as an objective account of past events, to personal narratives characterized by emotion and personal memory. By examining Gustavo Germano’s series of family rephotographs “Ausencias (Argentina)” (2006), this article addresses how the emphasis on witness in contemporary culture is reshaping o…
Staging Japanese Femininity
The popularity of Japanese inspired dress in portrait photographs of middle-class Australian women and girls during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries offers new insight into cross-cultural dressing and its links to identity. Rather than simply mirroring Orientalist fantasies of the distant and exotic East, these photographs indicate how Anglo-Australian women’s material cultural practices spoke to their own experiences of modernit…
Through Japanese Eyes
The activities of a little known Japanese
Evaluating interdisciplinary collaborative learning and assessment in the creative arts and humanities
This article responds to the rising emphasis placed on interdisciplinary collaborative learning and its implications for assessment in higher education. It presents findings from a research project that examined the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary collaborative student symposium as an assessment task in an art school/humanities environment. After addressing key ideas relating to interdisciplinarity, collaboration and assessment, the authors…
The Flash of Recognition
Light, Nation, and Place in Australian Photography
Light has long served as a key symbol of national identity and place in Australia. Myths of a distinct national light and the sun as a symbol of the nation helped white Australians to establish and naturalize a connection to the land. The convergence of national myths of light and photography, a medium of lightwriting, made for a striking partnership. This union formed a powerful mythology in Australian photography that is inseparable from the na…
Out of the Shadows
Photographs of and by indigenous people in colonial countries have received considerable scholarly attention since the 1980s, but the role of colonisation in shaping the meaning of photography has been widely neglected. This article addresses this lacuna by focusing on metaphors of light, darkness and race, through which photography was made meaningful in colonial Australia. Representations of Aboriginality in photographs and in cartoons addressi…
Photography, Privacy and the Public
There has been a recent shift in perceptions of photography and privacy in Australia. The view that our privacy is under threat has created an atmosphere of paranoia and fueled demands for law reform in relation to photography in public space. As photographers and privacy advocates battle each other by opposing the right to privacy with the right to free expression, there seems little chance of finding a workable solution. This article will consi…
The Drive to Archive
The term Conceptual Documentary has been used increasingly in recent years in response to certain shifts in documentary photography. By making sense of the world via an emphasis upon documentation, selection, editing and a cool, distanced and analytical aesthetic, Conceptual Documentary photography can be understood as a symptom of the archival impulse that pervades contemporary culture. This paper will address the particular implications of Conc…
The Burning Mirror
Photography’s etymology as light-writing is characterized by certain assumptions about the stability and transparency of light which underpin the relationship between light, truth and presence that deeply informs photography’s ontology and epistemology. Foreclosed in this photological schema is light’s disruptive potential. This article invokes a burning mirror to direct this capricious light onto photography, and to refigure light as an agent of…
Rephotography and the Era of Witness
The unprecedented significance attributed to witness and testimony in diverse aspects of contemporary culture has shifted focus away from the idea of history as an objective account of past events, to personal narratives characterized by emotion and personal memory. By examining Gustavo Germano’s series of family rephotographs “Ausencias (Argentina)” (2006), this article addresses how the emphasis on witness in contemporary culture is reshaping o…
Staging Japanese Femininity
The popularity of Japanese inspired dress in portrait photographs of middle-class Australian women and girls during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries offers new insight into cross-cultural dressing and its links to identity. Rather than simply mirroring Orientalist fantasies of the distant and exotic East, these photographs indicate how Anglo-Australian women’s material cultural practices spoke to their own experiences of modernit…
Evaluating interdisciplinary collaborative learning and assessment in the creative arts and humanities
This article responds to the rising emphasis placed on interdisciplinary collaborative learning and its implications for assessment in higher education. It presents findings from a research project that examined the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary collaborative student symposium as an assessment task in an art school/humanities environment. After addressing key ideas relating to interdisciplinarity, collaboration and assessment, the authors…
Light, Nation, and Place in Australian Photography
Light has long served as a key symbol of national identity and place in Australia. Myths of a distinct national light and the sun as a symbol of the nation helped white Australians to establish and naturalize a connection to the land. The convergence of national myths of light and photography, a medium of lightwriting, made for a striking partnership. This union formed a powerful mythology in Australian photography that is inseparable from the na…
The Drive to Archive
The term Conceptual Documentary has been used increasingly in recent years in response to certain shifts in documentary photography. By making sense of the world via an emphasis upon documentation, selection, editing and a cool, distanced and analytical aesthetic, Conceptual Documentary photography can be understood as a symptom of the archival impulse that pervades contemporary culture. This paper will address the particular implications of Conc…
The Burning Mirror
Photography’s etymology as light-writing is characterized by certain assumptions about the stability and transparency of light which underpin the relationship between light, truth and presence that deeply informs photography’s ontology and epistemology. Foreclosed in this photological schema is light’s disruptive potential. This article invokes a burning mirror to direct this capricious light onto photography, and to refigure light as an agent of…
The Drive to Archive
The term Conceptual Documentary has been used increasingly in recent years in response to certain shifts in documentary photography. By making sense of the world via an emphasis upon documentation, selection, editing and a cool, distanced and analytical aesthetic, Conceptual Documentary photography can be understood as a symptom of the archival impulse that pervades contemporary culture. This paper will address the particular implications of Conc…
Out of the Shadows
Photographs of and by indigenous people in colonial countries have received considerable scholarly attention since the 1980s, but the role of colonisation in shaping the meaning of photography has been widely neglected. This article addresses this lacuna by focusing on metaphors of light, darkness and race, through which photography was made meaningful in colonial Australia. Representations of Aboriginality in photographs and in cartoons addressi…
Photography, Privacy and the Public
There has been a recent shift in perceptions of photography and privacy in Australia. The view that our privacy is under threat has created an atmosphere of paranoia and fueled demands for law reform in relation to photography in public space. As photographers and privacy advocates battle each other by opposing the right to privacy with the right to free expression, there seems little chance of finding a workable solution. This article will consi…
Light, Nation, and Place in Australian Photography
Light has long served as a key symbol of national identity and place in Australia. Myths of a distinct national light and the sun as a symbol of the nation helped white Australians to establish and naturalize a connection to the land. The convergence of national myths of light and photography, a medium of lightwriting, made for a striking partnership. This union formed a powerful mythology in Australian photography that is inseparable from the na…
Through Japanese Eyes
The activities of a little known Japanese
Evaluating interdisciplinary collaborative learning and assessment in the creative arts and humanities
This article responds to the rising emphasis placed on interdisciplinary collaborative learning and its implications for assessment in higher education. It presents findings from a research project that examined the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary collaborative student symposium as an assessment task in an art school/humanities environment. After addressing key ideas relating to interdisciplinarity, collaboration and assessment, the authors…
The Flash of Recognition
Rephotography and the Era of Witness
The unprecedented significance attributed to witness and testimony in diverse aspects of contemporary culture has shifted focus away from the idea of history as an objective account of past events, to personal narratives characterized by emotion and personal memory. By examining Gustavo Germano’s series of family rephotographs “Ausencias (Argentina)” (2006), this article addresses how the emphasis on witness in contemporary culture is reshaping o…
Staging Japanese Femininity
The popularity of Japanese inspired dress in portrait photographs of middle-class Australian women and girls during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries offers new insight into cross-cultural dressing and its links to identity. Rather than simply mirroring Orientalist fantasies of the distant and exotic East, these photographs indicate how Anglo-Australian women’s material cultural practices spoke to their own experiences of modernit…
The Japanese Photographers of Broome
The remote West Australian town of Broome has a unique photography heritage that sheds new light on the complexities of photography and intercultural relations. During the early twentieth century thriving Japanese communities were established in this region around the lucrative pearling industry. These Japanese communities also helped to develop a fascinating photography culture in Broome. Photography was not simply a business opportunity for the…
The Child of the World’s Old Age”
This article focuses on the important symbolic role of photographs of children in the context of developing diplomatic and trade relationships between Australia and Japan between the 1880s and 1920s. A fascinating series of studio, commercial and tourist photographs are examined, including commemorative postcards marking the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and hand-coloured lantern slides produced commercially in Japan. Building on political and military…
Ichiro Kagiyama in Early Twentieth Century Sydney
The recent discovery of a personal photograph album belonging to Ichiro Kagiyama offers new insight into this notable photographer’s work, biography and the Australian-Japanese community in Sydney in the 1910s. As a Japanese resident of Sydney from the early to mid-twentieth century, where he was an active member of the Photographic Society of New South Wales, a regular contributor to The Home magazine and a professional photographer operating hi…
A Career of Japan
Interest in the role of photography as a medium of intercultural connection has increased exponentially in recent years. An appreciation for the ways that photographs do not simply document moments
Pacific Exposures
Photography has been a key means by which Australians have sought to define their relationships with Japan. From the fascination with all things Japanese in the late nineteenth century, through the era of ‘White Australia’, the bitter enmity of the Pacific War, the path to reconciliation in the post-war period and the culturally complicated bilateralism of today, Australians
Painting Labour
This article focuses on Verners and Girts Linde’s contribution for the New Australians art exhibition, presented as part of the 1950 Australian Citizenship Convention, to consider how visual citizenship may contribute to histories of Australian postwar migration. In this large-scale painting, the visual tropes through which Anglo-European labourers were heroicised as cultivators of the nation are writ large. However, by considering the work of im…
Constructing Citizenship
The photographs that fill the pages of the Australian illustrated magazines The Home and Decoration and Glass offer new insights into the connections between urban development and citizenship in 1930s Sydney. This article focuses on two sites in which urban citizenship was represented and contested in these magazines: symbolic images of white Australian construction workers as builders of the nation, and debates about the lived experience of urba…
Beyond the matter
They Said It Couldn’t Be Done
In 2020, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a landmark environmental justice (EJ) law (S. 232) focused on cumulative impacts in the permitting process. In April 2023, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection finalized the rules that implement the law and are codified in the state’s administrative code. The precedent-setting law included a mandate to deny or condition certain environmental permits based on cumulative impacts in EJ…
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