Research

Postgraduate members of the Hegemony Research Group are supported to attend conferences in Australia and internationally. A selection of papers and proceedings are listed here:

• Smith, K., “Larrikins, labour and the creation of a new human subject in Sydney 1870-1900”, European Social Sciences History Conference, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 22-26.

• Carr, R.A., “Alternative Solutions: Multiculturalism and the Struggle for Hegemony in Australian Community Broadcasting”, in Khoo, Tseen, ed. The Body Politic: Racialised Political Cultures in Australia (Refereed Proceedings from the UQ Australian Studies Centre Conference, Brisbane, 24-26 November 2004). Brisbane and Melbourne: University of Queensland's Australian Studies Centre (ASC) and Monash University's National Centre for Australian Studies (NCAS), 2005. ISBN 0-646-44730-0. http://asc.uq.edu.au/bodypolitic/
• Carr, R.A., 'The Struggle for Generational Legitimacy: Youth, Antiracism and Counter Movements in Australia Since the Mid-1990's', in Social Change in the 21st Century 2005 Conference Proceedings, Edited by C. Bailey & K. Barnett, Centre for Social Change Research, School of Humanities and Human Services, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, December 2005, ISBN: 1-74107-1089. http://www.socialchange.qut.edu.au/conferences/socialchange/
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• Carr, R.A., “The Struggle for Generational Legitimacy: Youth, Antiracism and Counter Movements in Australia since the mid-1990s”. Faculty of Arts Postgraduate Student Conference, UOW, Nov 17-18.
• Lowrie, C., “A Transnational Labour of Love?”, International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS 5), Shanghai, August.
• Lowrie, C., “Displacments, Disruptions and Homecoming: Exploring Colonial Atttitudes to Migration and Mobility in Australia and Malaya”, Asia Trends 3, Asia Research Institute, Singapore , September.
• Lowrie, C., “Predators or Prey: Representations of domestic servants in Darwin and Singapore”, Women in Asia Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, October.
• Smith, K., “Larrikins, Labour and the Law in Sydney from 1870-1900”, in Patmore, Shields and Balnove (eds), The Past is Before Us: Proceedings of the Ninth National Labour History Conference, University of Sydney, June/July 2005, pp451-458.
• Smith, K., “The Subject in History or What is Freud doing in a History Thesis?”, Faculty of Arts Postgraduate Student Conference, UOW, Nov 17-18.

• Smith, K., “Labour Discipline and Cultures of Resistance in Sydney 1880-1930”, Eighth National Labour History Conference, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Griffith University, Brisbane QLD, October 5.