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Reconciliation, Vietnam veterans, and Anzac during the Hawke government
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6234541 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas Bromfield (0000-0003-3075-1481, Government and International Relations, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 288-302 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1036-1146 • E-ISSN: 1363-030X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10361146.2017.1279123 |
| OpenAlex | W2579080298 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 16 |
Recent studies regarding reconciliation have argued that restorative justice creates depoliticised consensus. This paper tests this argument by exploring the Hawke government's role in the reconciliation of the Australian public with Vietnam veterans in 1987, and the opportunities that this resolution created to mark Anzac Day free of the complicating tensions that had characterised the day in the period since the Vietnam War. It argues that the restorative justice evident in the reincorporation of Vietnam veterans into national narratives of Anzac provided opportunities for political elites like Hawke to convincingly employ Anzac as an ideograph and inscribe the day with new meaning. This process had profound continuing effects for the marking of Anzac Day that demonstrate the politically limiting effects of restorative justice
Ancient history · Argument (complex analysis · Coalition government · Criminology · Economic Justice · Government (linguistics · Limiting · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Post war · Sociology · Vietnam War · Canadian Identity and History · Engineering · Gender Studies · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Medicine · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology · Public Administration
Power
Political Parties and Democracy
Delegated Governance and the British State
Redeeming the Warrior
Women, Activism and Social Change
Power
Australia's Vietnam War
Gender and War
Trauma and the reinvigoration of Anzac
The Fall and Rise of Anzac Day
The Unknown Nation
Between Disagreement and Consensus
"The "ideograph
Elites and popular nationalism
A Nation at Last? The Changing Character of Australian Nationalism, 1880-1988
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |