he/him | on unceded Boonwurrung land | PhD student at Monash University | Environmental History
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Minoru Hokari, Gurindji Journey. Brilliant and paradigm shifting. Intimate and revelatory. What happens to the Western tradition of the historical discipline when it takes seriously the Dreaming, Everywhen, and Indigenous epistemologies? Truly wonderful things.
Fernand Braudel, Identity of France vol. I. The attention to detail is breathtaking. Linking regions’ roofing materials with local economies and geographies (pp. 53 & 171) to paint a longue durée history, to give one example. Siân Reynolds’ translation is fantastic.
Yves Rees, Travelling to Tomorrow. I am in awe. Rees has taken great care to rewrite the thesis as a book that will appeal to everyone. The scene setting is so rich and the interrupted chronologies are very clever. The women’s stories are spectacular and, with Rees, fun!
Ruth A. Morgan, Climate Change and International History. A much-needed exploration of the globalisation of the changing climate and responses to this. It’s backed by some brilliant archival finds and is so damn readable despite its attention to politicking and bureaucracy.
Sandra Swart, The Lion’s Historian. Swart shows the non-human in all its multifaceted complexity. They are much more than the Disneyfied cartoonish innocents or the unthinking ferals of the popular imaginary. And the punny subheadings: delectable!
For the third year in a row, I read one book per week. Hopelessly, only one was fiction (Joseph Heller, Picture This); the rest history, animal studies, memoir, archaeology, pedagogy, and the like. Some highlights include:
My desk is soon to collapse under the strain of all the books I’ve been frantically borrowing over the last few weeks
A ruddy good question! Ostensibly it’s too improve accessibility (something I can support—the shelves are VERY close together), but rather than moving them to offsite storage or donating them, the books are going in the bin!
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The website for the 2025 AHA Conference is live! Hosted by James Cook University and Central Queensland University, the CFP is now open on any area of history, including those on the conference theme, 'Looking Up'.
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Feeling very full following a week in Canberra "thinking planetarily", writing, scouring archives, and catching up with friends and family :)
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Retweeting this CfP for a special issue of @AJPandH on the 49th anniversary of the dismissal of the Whitlam Government/appointment of Malcolm Fraser as PM. Proposals due 13 November! Feel free to DM if you want any further details 😊
CfP: Special Issue of @AJPandH on ‘Australia in the Fraser Years’. Proposals for papers on any aspect of Australian political life 1975-83 are highly welcome! Proposals due by 13 November. Get in touch for more info!
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The AHA welcomes the Australian Government's proposed 20% cut to HECS-HELP student debts. But this modest cost-of-living relief cannot, on its own, make Higher Ed debts more equitable. 'Job-ready Graduates' must give way to a better, fairer fee system
theaha.org.au/aha-statement-…