Yves Rees
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 691857 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Yves Rees |
| PRENOMES | Yves |
| SOBRENOME | Rees |
| ASSINATURA | REES Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2278-7751 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
For pleasure’s sake
From the late 1980s, Jill Julius Matthews embarked on a quest to uncover the neglected histories of women’s pleasure. This research agenda reached its apotheosis in Dance Hall & Picture Palace: Sydney’s Romance with Modernity (2005), a book that told ‘the story of modern Sydney as a romance’ and painted the harbour city as ‘a cosmopolitan centre of modern pleasure’. Twenty years on, Dance Hall & Picture Palace has become a classic of Australian h…
Gumtree Skyscrapers and Takeaway Flat Whites
This article extends the transnational history of Anzac by shifting the focus from Britain to the United States. It tells a history of Anzac in the United States, focused on New York and California, that shows how both Anzac Day and the broader language and iconography of “Anzac” has been core to the production of Australian community and identity in the United States from the 1920s until the 2020s. Over multiple generations, stateside Australian…
Sustainable Academia
Environmental degradation is the most serious challenge of the twenty-first century. To date, academic historians, among many others, have failed to fully confront the climate and biodiversity crises, often engaging in disavowal of the problems and our contribution to them in the course of our historical work. This article discusses mitigation efforts underway among other professional bodies, higher education institutions and academic disciplines…
Keeping up the Fight
On an overcast Monday in March 2021, ten thousand people flooded into Melbourne’s Treasury Gardens for the March4Justice. It was a public outpouring of rage in response to a belated #MeToo moment w
Thinking Capitalism from the Bedroom
The New Histories of Capitalism (NHC) boast a foundational narrative that decries the supposed elision of the “economic” during the long reign cultural and social history. Yet, at the same time, the NHC are themselves based on a recognition that ideas of “economy” are not natural, and hence must be historicised using the same intellectual tools that powered the cultural turn in the first place. In practice, however, the demographics and structuri…
Training historians in urgent times
The next generation of Australian historians face daunting challenges: the imperative to craft new historical narratives that inform and redirect unfolding ecological, economic and political crises, while facing escalating academic precarity and associated anxiety and depression. Honours level and PhD pedagogy, which remains little changed from the mid-twentieth century, is arguably insufficient for these challenges. How might we, as educators, f…
Doing history in urgent times
As we enter the 2020s, our times are daily getting more urgent. The climate and ecological emergency, catastrophic Australian bushfires, and now the COVID-19 pandemic and associated economic meltdown have launched us into a new era of seemingly incessant crisis. Through it all, history remains omnipresent. In press conferences and Zoom meetings, in newspapers and Twitter feeds, history is invoked to bring sense and meaning to our disorienting pre…
Capitalism in Australia
Capitalism is back. Three decades ago, when all alternatives to liberal democracy and free markets appeared discredited, talk of capitalism seemed passé. Now, after a decade of political and economic turmoil, capitalism and its temporal critique of progress and decline again seems an indispensable category to understanding a world in flux. Among the social sciences, historians have led both the embrace and critique of this 're-emergent' concept. …
Making Waves across the Pacific
This article examines how women's broadcasting promoted consciousness and appreciation of the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. These were decades in which Australians had limited access to US news and culture, and Hollywood dominated local imaginings of US society. In this climate, Australians who had lived Stateside were hailed as authorities on the nation and its people, and they often spoke on radio. Among these “America educators” we…
Treated like Chinamen’
In 1921, the United States introduced national immigration quotas. Although designed to curb the arrival of ‘undesirables’ from south-east Europe, this quota system also applied to Britain and its white Dominions. By 1929, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were each allocated 100 quota places per annum. The British quota was far greater, but still struggled to meet demand. Through a focus on the Australian example, this article investigate…
A problem in the shape of a river
Dead cats. Miasma. ‘Fallen’ women bent over laundry tubs. Drowned children. Plastic-choked mangroves. Gunshots, chemical spills, tannery run-off. Sewage. And amongst it all, a pleasure boat or two
Moving On Up
Despite a wealth of scholarship on Australian travel, economic motives for transnational mobility remain little studied. Tourists, soldiers, reformers and students dominate the pantheon of Australians in the world, while the aspirational jobseeker is near forgotten. As a result, Australian international engagement has been closely associated with social and economic elites. Yet recent research hints that economic opportunism was a central motivat…
From Socialists to Technocrats
During the 1920s, the discipline and profession of economics in Australia underwent a dramatic transformation. As of 1918, ‘economics’ was deemed inseparable from ideology, and its practitioners were conceived as activists whose political agendas brought their knowledge claims into disrepute. By 1929, the same word denoted a ‘science’, a field of knowledge production populated by disinterested experts who proffered truths deemed essential to mode…
Frontiers of Labor
Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of Australia and the United States." Australian Historical Studies, 50(2), pp. 279–280
Sojourns
A Historian for All Seasons
A Historian for All Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton." Australian Historical Studies, 49(2), pp. 263–264
Reading Australian modernity
What did Australian modernity look like? Over the last two decades, Australia's entrenched reputation for ‘cultural belatedness’ has been displaced by the study of ‘colonial modernity’. No longer beholden to the idea that a singular modernity was disseminated from core to periphery, scholars now speak of many localised modernities that arose across colonial and provincial sites. According to this new ‘multiple modernities’ paradigm, Australia was…
Lessons from Australia
This article uses the career of Australian-born economist and United Nations lobbyist Persia Campbell (1898–1974) to track the influence of Federation-era Australian welfarism into the postwar international sphere. I argue that Campbell, a pioneer of American consumer economics and an influential commentator on international development, derived her lifelong preoccupation with consumer welfare and living standards from a youthful immersion in Aus…
A Season in Hell”
Australian women travelers in early twentieth-century New York often recoiled from the frenetic pace of the city, which surpassed anything encountered in either Britain or Australia. This article employs their travel accounts to lend support to the growing recognition that modernity took different forms throughout the world and to contribute to the project of mapping those differences. I argue that “hustle” was a defining feature of the New York …
Bursting with new ideas’
Between 1930 and 1960, the United States became a mecca for Australian pioneers of the ‘women’s professions’ who were eager to extend their expertise. These visits to America were often combined with study or travel in Britain, but Australian professionals increasingly expressed a preference for the American emphasis on scientific method and university qualifications, and returned home eager to bring the local profession ‘up-to-date’. Focussing o…
Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize Winner 2012
During the 1920s and 1930s, it was believed that an Australian physical ‘type’ had developed under the bright antipodean skies, superior in size and appearance to its English counterpart. When Australians visited the metropole, therefore, locals and visitors alike claimed that they could be identified by sight alone. This article explores the notion of Australian physical distinctiveness, examining the body as a site for the construction and perf…
The Quality and Not Only the Quantity of Australia's People
This article is an examination of Ruby Rich (1888-1988), an Australian feminist, concert pianist, Zionist, pacifist and eugenicist. Although much lauded by her peers, Rich has gone largely unexamined by historians, particularly in contrast to the recent research on her feminist contemporaries Mary Montgomerie Bennett and Bessie Rischbieth. I draw attention to Rich's remarkable life and varied experiences, and use her example to explore the relati…
Reading Australian modernity
What did Australian modernity look like? Over the last two decades, Australia's entrenched reputation for ‘cultural belatedness’ has been displaced by the study of ‘colonial modernity’. No longer beholden to the idea that a singular modernity was disseminated from core to periphery, scholars now speak of many localised modernities that arose across colonial and provincial sites. According to this new ‘multiple modernities’ paradigm, Australia was…
Training historians in urgent times
The next generation of Australian historians face daunting challenges: the imperative to craft new historical narratives that inform and redirect unfolding ecological, economic and political crises, while facing escalating academic precarity and associated anxiety and depression. Honours level and PhD pedagogy, which remains little changed from the mid-twentieth century, is arguably insufficient for these challenges. How might we, as educators, f…
Capitalism in Australia
Capitalism is back. Three decades ago, when all alternatives to liberal democracy and free markets appeared discredited, talk of capitalism seemed passé. Now, after a decade of political and economic turmoil, capitalism and its temporal critique of progress and decline again seems an indispensable category to understanding a world in flux. Among the social sciences, historians have led both the embrace and critique of this 're-emergent' concept. …
Sojourns
Bursting with new ideas’
Between 1930 and 1960, the United States became a mecca for Australian pioneers of the ‘women’s professions’ who were eager to extend their expertise. These visits to America were often combined with study or travel in Britain, but Australian professionals increasingly expressed a preference for the American emphasis on scientific method and university qualifications, and returned home eager to bring the local profession ‘up-to-date’. Focussing o…
The Quality and Not Only the Quantity of Australia's People
This article is an examination of Ruby Rich (1888-1988), an Australian feminist, concert pianist, Zionist, pacifist and eugenicist. Although much lauded by her peers, Rich has gone largely unexamined by historians, particularly in contrast to the recent research on her feminist contemporaries Mary Montgomerie Bennett and Bessie Rischbieth. I draw attention to Rich's remarkable life and varied experiences, and use her example to explore the relati…
Doing history in urgent times
As we enter the 2020s, our times are daily getting more urgent. The climate and ecological emergency, catastrophic Australian bushfires, and now the COVID-19 pandemic and associated economic meltdown have launched us into a new era of seemingly incessant crisis. Through it all, history remains omnipresent. In press conferences and Zoom meetings, in newspapers and Twitter feeds, history is invoked to bring sense and meaning to our disorienting pre…
From Socialists to Technocrats
During the 1920s, the discipline and profession of economics in Australia underwent a dramatic transformation. As of 1918, ‘economics’ was deemed inseparable from ideology, and its practitioners were conceived as activists whose political agendas brought their knowledge claims into disrepute. By 1929, the same word denoted a ‘science’, a field of knowledge production populated by disinterested experts who proffered truths deemed essential to mode…
A Season in Hell”
Australian women travelers in early twentieth-century New York often recoiled from the frenetic pace of the city, which surpassed anything encountered in either Britain or Australia. This article employs their travel accounts to lend support to the growing recognition that modernity took different forms throughout the world and to contribute to the project of mapping those differences. I argue that “hustle” was a defining feature of the New York …
Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize Winner 2012
During the 1920s and 1930s, it was believed that an Australian physical ‘type’ had developed under the bright antipodean skies, superior in size and appearance to its English counterpart. When Australians visited the metropole, therefore, locals and visitors alike claimed that they could be identified by sight alone. This article explores the notion of Australian physical distinctiveness, examining the body as a site for the construction and perf…
The Quality and Not Only the Quantity of Australia's People
This article is an examination of Ruby Rich (1888-1988), an Australian feminist, concert pianist, Zionist, pacifist and eugenicist. Although much lauded by her peers, Rich has gone largely unexamined by historians, particularly in contrast to the recent research on her feminist contemporaries Mary Montgomerie Bennett and Bessie Rischbieth. I draw attention to Rich's remarkable life and varied experiences, and use her example to explore the relati…
Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize Winner 2012
During the 1920s and 1930s, it was believed that an Australian physical ‘type’ had developed under the bright antipodean skies, superior in size and appearance to its English counterpart. When Australians visited the metropole, therefore, locals and visitors alike claimed that they could be identified by sight alone. This article explores the notion of Australian physical distinctiveness, examining the body as a site for the construction and perf…
Bursting with new ideas’
Between 1930 and 1960, the United States became a mecca for Australian pioneers of the ‘women’s professions’ who were eager to extend their expertise. These visits to America were often combined with study or travel in Britain, but Australian professionals increasingly expressed a preference for the American emphasis on scientific method and university qualifications, and returned home eager to bring the local profession ‘up-to-date’. Focussing o…
Reading Australian modernity
What did Australian modernity look like? Over the last two decades, Australia's entrenched reputation for ‘cultural belatedness’ has been displaced by the study of ‘colonial modernity’. No longer beholden to the idea that a singular modernity was disseminated from core to periphery, scholars now speak of many localised modernities that arose across colonial and provincial sites. According to this new ‘multiple modernities’ paradigm, Australia was…
Lessons from Australia
This article uses the career of Australian-born economist and United Nations lobbyist Persia Campbell (1898–1974) to track the influence of Federation-era Australian welfarism into the postwar international sphere. I argue that Campbell, a pioneer of American consumer economics and an influential commentator on international development, derived her lifelong preoccupation with consumer welfare and living standards from a youthful immersion in Aus…
A Season in Hell”
Australian women travelers in early twentieth-century New York often recoiled from the frenetic pace of the city, which surpassed anything encountered in either Britain or Australia. This article employs their travel accounts to lend support to the growing recognition that modernity took different forms throughout the world and to contribute to the project of mapping those differences. I argue that “hustle” was a defining feature of the New York …
A Historian for All Seasons
A Historian for All Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton." Australian Historical Studies, 49(2), pp. 263–264
Making Waves across the Pacific
This article examines how women's broadcasting promoted consciousness and appreciation of the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. These were decades in which Australians had limited access to US news and culture, and Hollywood dominated local imaginings of US society. In this climate, Australians who had lived Stateside were hailed as authorities on the nation and its people, and they often spoke on radio. Among these “America educators” we…
Treated like Chinamen’
In 1921, the United States introduced national immigration quotas. Although designed to curb the arrival of ‘undesirables’ from south-east Europe, this quota system also applied to Britain and its white Dominions. By 1929, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were each allocated 100 quota places per annum. The British quota was far greater, but still struggled to meet demand. Through a focus on the Australian example, this article investigate…
A problem in the shape of a river
Dead cats. Miasma. ‘Fallen’ women bent over laundry tubs. Drowned children. Plastic-choked mangroves. Gunshots, chemical spills, tannery run-off. Sewage. And amongst it all, a pleasure boat or two
Moving On Up
Despite a wealth of scholarship on Australian travel, economic motives for transnational mobility remain little studied. Tourists, soldiers, reformers and students dominate the pantheon of Australians in the world, while the aspirational jobseeker is near forgotten. As a result, Australian international engagement has been closely associated with social and economic elites. Yet recent research hints that economic opportunism was a central motivat…
From Socialists to Technocrats
During the 1920s, the discipline and profession of economics in Australia underwent a dramatic transformation. As of 1918, ‘economics’ was deemed inseparable from ideology, and its practitioners were conceived as activists whose political agendas brought their knowledge claims into disrepute. By 1929, the same word denoted a ‘science’, a field of knowledge production populated by disinterested experts who proffered truths deemed essential to mode…
Frontiers of Labor
Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of Australia and the United States." Australian Historical Studies, 50(2), pp. 279–280
Sojourns
Training historians in urgent times
The next generation of Australian historians face daunting challenges: the imperative to craft new historical narratives that inform and redirect unfolding ecological, economic and political crises, while facing escalating academic precarity and associated anxiety and depression. Honours level and PhD pedagogy, which remains little changed from the mid-twentieth century, is arguably insufficient for these challenges. How might we, as educators, f…
Doing history in urgent times
As we enter the 2020s, our times are daily getting more urgent. The climate and ecological emergency, catastrophic Australian bushfires, and now the COVID-19 pandemic and associated economic meltdown have launched us into a new era of seemingly incessant crisis. Through it all, history remains omnipresent. In press conferences and Zoom meetings, in newspapers and Twitter feeds, history is invoked to bring sense and meaning to our disorienting pre…
Capitalism in Australia
Capitalism is back. Three decades ago, when all alternatives to liberal democracy and free markets appeared discredited, talk of capitalism seemed passé. Now, after a decade of political and economic turmoil, capitalism and its temporal critique of progress and decline again seems an indispensable category to understanding a world in flux. Among the social sciences, historians have led both the embrace and critique of this 're-emergent' concept. …
Keeping up the Fight
On an overcast Monday in March 2021, ten thousand people flooded into Melbourne’s Treasury Gardens for the March4Justice. It was a public outpouring of rage in response to a belated #MeToo moment w
Thinking Capitalism from the Bedroom
The New Histories of Capitalism (NHC) boast a foundational narrative that decries the supposed elision of the “economic” during the long reign cultural and social history. Yet, at the same time, the NHC are themselves based on a recognition that ideas of “economy” are not natural, and hence must be historicised using the same intellectual tools that powered the cultural turn in the first place. In practice, however, the demographics and structuri…
Sustainable Academia
Environmental degradation is the most serious challenge of the twenty-first century. To date, academic historians, among many others, have failed to fully confront the climate and biodiversity crises, often engaging in disavowal of the problems and our contribution to them in the course of our historical work. This article discusses mitigation efforts underway among other professional bodies, higher education institutions and academic disciplines…
Gumtree Skyscrapers and Takeaway Flat Whites
This article extends the transnational history of Anzac by shifting the focus from Britain to the United States. It tells a history of Anzac in the United States, focused on New York and California, that shows how both Anzac Day and the broader language and iconography of “Anzac” has been core to the production of Australian community and identity in the United States from the 1920s until the 2020s. Over multiple generations, stateside Australian…
For pleasure’s sake
From the late 1980s, Jill Julius Matthews embarked on a quest to uncover the neglected histories of women’s pleasure. This research agenda reached its apotheosis in Dance Hall & Picture Palace: Sydney’s Romance with Modernity (2005), a book that told ‘the story of modern Sydney as a romance’ and painted the harbour city as ‘a cosmopolitan centre of modern pleasure’. Twenty years on, Dance Hall & Picture Palace has become a classic of Australian h…
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