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1 On Hope and Resignation: Conflicting Visions of Settler Colonial Studies and its Future as a Field Jane Carey , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Postcolonial Studies , vol. 23 no. 1 2020; (p. 21-42) 'This article addresses the question: does (or should) settler colonial studies have a future as a unified or distinct ‘field'? It does so via a consideration of two vigorous, but largely disconnected, areas of uptake and critique: American Studies and Indigenous Studies in North America; and within Australian historical scholarship. I argue that connecting these debates reveals the great diversity of a field that is often represented as decidedly singular – and typically equated with the individual scholarship of Patrick Wolfe. This characterisation elides the wealth of Indigenous studies scholarship that has constituted the field. J. Kēhaulani Kauanui's contention that settler colonial studies must simultaneously engage Indigenous studies to produce meaningful scholarship is thus a central focus. I particularly explore implications for my own scholarly areas of Indigenous and colonial history and emerging commentary advocating a return to history as a way out of impasses that currently confront the field. Given the competing visions of what settler colonial studies is or should be, ultimately I argue that the field may either disintegrate in the pursuit of singularity, or flourish in the embrace of its abundance and in the recognition of its limits and ethical obligations.' (Source: publisher's abstract)
1 Intersecting Currents : Lilith and the Development of Feminist History in Australia Jane Carey , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lilith , no. 24 2018; (p. 4-15)

'The intersecting fields of women's, gender and feminist history are no longer new.1 They can now claim at least fifty years of scholarly practice, and much longer traditions outside the academy.2 The heady radicalism of the early years, when the simple act of writing women's history was an activist intervention, has in some ways been muted (or at least transformed) in the process of 'mainstreaming' and intellectual development that has taken place since the 1970s. This period has seen significant growth in practice and a sophistication that has come with the proliferation of new approaches, internal (sometimes acrimonious) debate and significant challenges to some of the foundational assumptions on which these fields were initially based. As the only history journal in Australia dedicated the fields of women's, gender and feminist history, 'Lilith' has been, and continues to be, a prism through which major developments, and schisms, in the field can be read.'  (Publication abstract)

 
1 1 y separately published work icon Creating White Australia Jane Carey (editor), Claire McLisky (editor), Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2009 Z1809151 2009 anthology criticism

'The adoption of White Australia as government policy in 1901 demonstrates that whiteness was crucial to the ways in which the new nation of Australia was constituted. And yet, historians have largely overlooked whiteness in their studies of Australia's racial past. Creating White Australia takes a fresh approach to the question of 'race' in Australian history. It demonstrates that Australia's racial foundations can only be understood by recognising whiteness too as 'race'. Including contributions from some of the leading as well as emerging scholars in Australian history, it breaks new ground by arguing that 'whiteness' was central to the racial ideologies which created the Australian nation.

'This book pursues the foundations of white Australia across diverse locales. It also situates the development of Australian whiteness within broader imperial and global influences. As the recent Apology to the Stolen Generations, the Northern Territory Intervention, and controversies over asylum seekers reveal, the legacies of these histories are still very much with us today.' (Publication summary)
1 Untitled Jane Carey , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Lilith , no. 11 2002; (p. 148-150)
— Review of To Try Her Fortune in London : Australian Women, Colonialism and Modernity Angela Woollacott , 2001 single work criticism
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