Robin Gerster
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 690668 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robin Gerster |
| PRENOMES | Robin |
| SOBRENOME | Gerster |
| ASSINATURA | GERSTER R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8472-0950 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Gaijin to the Grave
This article sees the life and work of the Australian-born, Kobe-based historian Harold S. Williams (1898–1987) as a paradox – an acclaimed writer on Japan who is relatively indifferent to the country, its people, customs and traditions. Japan itself does not engage him. Rather, his subject is the reverberating impact of the foreigners who settled in the newly created treaty ports after Japan’s ‘opening’ to Western trade and influence in the 1850…
Travels in Atomic Sunshine
In February 1946, the Australians of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) moved into western Japan to 'demilitarise and democratise' the atom-bombed backwater of Hiroshima Prefecture. For over six years, up to 20,000 Australian servicemen, including their wives and children, participated in an historic experiment in nation-rebuilding dominated by the United States and the occupation's supreme commander, General MacArthur. It was to be…
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
Take two
Photography was a significant mediator of responses to Japan in the post-war period, from the late 1940s when thousands of Australians travelled to the country to participate in the US-led military occupation, through to the signing of the landmark Australia-Japan Commerce Agreement in 1957. The camera became a crucial instrument of reconciliation, as Australians began to look at the recent enemy with what one visitor called ‘non-military eyes’, …
War by Photography
Characterised by their determination to get close to the action, the Australian combat cameramen of the Second World War made a significant contribution to the evolution of the war photographer into the dynamic figure familiar today. This is especially true of their intimate documentation of the vicious encounter with the Japanese in New Guinea and other islands of the Southwest Pacific, which went beyond professional bravery. A large corps of of…
Capturing Japan
Official Australian photography of the military occupation of postwar Japan provides a significant modern case study of photography as a medium of neo-colonial and Orientalist representation. Asserting its dominance of the combined British Commonwealth Occupation Force supporting the Americans, the Australian military revelled in the role of occupier of a wartime enemy who was still widely loathed. Sometimes compared with the British Raj in Imper…
Visiting the Neighbours
The Bomb in the Museum
This article examines the commemorative role played by museums of nuclear technology in the United States, particularly those supported by the government agency responsible for the nation's nuclear weapons and reactor programs, the Department of Energy. The management of public perceptions of America's nuclear history in these museums reflects national defence and security imperatives in the post 9/11 era. The legacy of American nuclearism is com…
Down the yellowcake road
Using a range of sources, from personal narrative to news reportage, government discourse and both pro and antinuclear polemic, this article examines the fraught business of uranium mining and export in contemporary Australia in the context of the nuclear history of this country since the Second World War.The first great boom in Australian uranium, during the 1950s, was attended by nationalistic triumphalism: an isolated country had been catapult…
Touring “Vietnam”
This chapter considers the cultural and political legacies of the Australian military tour of duty in Vietnam, primarily through the tropes of mapping and travel. It contends that Vietnam, the country, has been systematically erased in the attempt to locate the war in the Australian national narrative. Keywords: Vietnam War and Australian cultureVietnam War and Australian politicsVietnam War literature Notes 1. See W. Joseph Campbell, “‘Too Early…
Celluloid Anzacs
Six Inch Rule
Australia’s proactive participation in the US-led occupation of Japan is a pivotal chapter in the national narrative of engagement with Asia. The documentary and literary record bequeathed by the Australian occupying force is deeply contradictory. The official policy of non-fraternisation (indicated by the ‘six inch rule’) was compromised by degrees of intimacy which enabled post-war reconciliation with Japan. Yet many ‘occupationnaires’ relished…
Books
Taking Assimilation to Heart Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887–1937. By Katherine Ellinghaus. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 276. $US49.95 cloth. The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy and Carnality. By Elizabeth A. Povinelli. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. 285. $41.95 paper. A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia. …
Hiroshima No More
(2004). Hiroshima No More: Forgetting ‘the Bomb’. War & Society: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 59-68
A Bellyful of Bali
Bali's bastardisation--its descent from Oriental utopia to dystopian nightmare of contemporary tourism; from Eastern Eden to Western dumping ground--has become almost a staple theme of contemporary travel writing. Australians have participated in this discourse as ardently as the rest. Yet there is a special edge to Australian writing about Bali which reflects not only a reorientation of attitudes to the multi-headed monster 'Asia' but a revision…
The Rise of the Prisoner-of-War Writers
Argues that in a literary culture that glorifies the hero-soldier, 'the prisoner-writer was precariously placed'. Accordingly, the essay discusses a number of P.O.W. narratives and their public reception
A Checklist of Australian Prose of the Second World War
Includes sections on fiction, personal narratives, prisoner-of-war books, historical accounts and other works of interest
Visiting the Neighbours
The Rise of the Prisoner-of-War Writers
Argues that in a literary culture that glorifies the hero-soldier, 'the prisoner-writer was precariously placed'. Accordingly, the essay discusses a number of P.O.W. narratives and their public reception
The Rise of the Prisoner-of-War Writers
Argues that in a literary culture that glorifies the hero-soldier, 'the prisoner-writer was precariously placed'. Accordingly, the essay discusses a number of P.O.W. narratives and their public reception
A Checklist of Australian Prose of the Second World War
Includes sections on fiction, personal narratives, prisoner-of-war books, historical accounts and other works of interest
A Bellyful of Bali
Bali's bastardisation--its descent from Oriental utopia to dystopian nightmare of contemporary tourism; from Eastern Eden to Western dumping ground--has become almost a staple theme of contemporary travel writing. Australians have participated in this discourse as ardently as the rest. Yet there is a special edge to Australian writing about Bali which reflects not only a reorientation of attitudes to the multi-headed monster 'Asia' but a revision…
Hiroshima No More
(2004). Hiroshima No More: Forgetting ‘the Bomb’. War & Society: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 59-68
Six Inch Rule
Australia’s proactive participation in the US-led occupation of Japan is a pivotal chapter in the national narrative of engagement with Asia. The documentary and literary record bequeathed by the Australian occupying force is deeply contradictory. The official policy of non-fraternisation (indicated by the ‘six inch rule’) was compromised by degrees of intimacy which enabled post-war reconciliation with Japan. Yet many ‘occupationnaires’ relished…
Books
Taking Assimilation to Heart Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887–1937. By Katherine Ellinghaus. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 276. $US49.95 cloth. The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy and Carnality. By Elizabeth A. Povinelli. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. 285. $41.95 paper. A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia. …
Celluloid Anzacs
Touring “Vietnam”
This chapter considers the cultural and political legacies of the Australian military tour of duty in Vietnam, primarily through the tropes of mapping and travel. It contends that Vietnam, the country, has been systematically erased in the attempt to locate the war in the Australian national narrative. Keywords: Vietnam War and Australian cultureVietnam War and Australian politicsVietnam War literature Notes 1. See W. Joseph Campbell, “‘Too Early…
Down the yellowcake road
Using a range of sources, from personal narrative to news reportage, government discourse and both pro and antinuclear polemic, this article examines the fraught business of uranium mining and export in contemporary Australia in the context of the nuclear history of this country since the Second World War.The first great boom in Australian uranium, during the 1950s, was attended by nationalistic triumphalism: an isolated country had been catapult…
Capturing Japan
Official Australian photography of the military occupation of postwar Japan provides a significant modern case study of photography as a medium of neo-colonial and Orientalist representation. Asserting its dominance of the combined British Commonwealth Occupation Force supporting the Americans, the Australian military revelled in the role of occupier of a wartime enemy who was still widely loathed. Sometimes compared with the British Raj in Imper…
Visiting the Neighbours
The Bomb in the Museum
This article examines the commemorative role played by museums of nuclear technology in the United States, particularly those supported by the government agency responsible for the nation's nuclear weapons and reactor programs, the Department of Energy. The management of public perceptions of America's nuclear history in these museums reflects national defence and security imperatives in the post 9/11 era. The legacy of American nuclearism is com…
War by Photography
Characterised by their determination to get close to the action, the Australian combat cameramen of the Second World War made a significant contribution to the evolution of the war photographer into the dynamic figure familiar today. This is especially true of their intimate documentation of the vicious encounter with the Japanese in New Guinea and other islands of the Southwest Pacific, which went beyond professional bravery. A large corps of of…
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
Take two
Photography was a significant mediator of responses to Japan in the post-war period, from the late 1940s when thousands of Australians travelled to the country to participate in the US-led military occupation, through to the signing of the landmark Australia-Japan Commerce Agreement in 1957. The camera became a crucial instrument of reconciliation, as Australians began to look at the recent enemy with what one visitor called ‘non-military eyes’, …
Travels in Atomic Sunshine
In February 1946, the Australians of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) moved into western Japan to 'demilitarise and democratise' the atom-bombed backwater of Hiroshima Prefecture. For over six years, up to 20,000 Australian servicemen, including their wives and children, participated in an historic experiment in nation-rebuilding dominated by the United States and the occupation's supreme commander, General MacArthur. It was to be…
Gaijin to the Grave
This article sees the life and work of the Australian-born, Kobe-based historian Harold S. Williams (1898–1987) as a paradox – an acclaimed writer on Japan who is relatively indifferent to the country, its people, customs and traditions. Japan itself does not engage him. Rather, his subject is the reverberating impact of the foreigners who settled in the newly created treaty ports after Japan’s ‘opening’ to Western trade and influence in the 1850…
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