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COVID-19, Perceived Foreign Interference, and Anti-Chinese Sentiment: Evidence from Concurrent Survey Experiments in Australia and the United States
Author/editor: Xiao Tan and Yu Tao
Year published: 2024
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a surge in anti-Chinese sentiment emerged as a pressing issue, with debates on how the pandemic exacerbated such sentiments. To explore this intricate relationship, we conducted two survey experiments, incorporating COVID-specific contextual inquiries in Australia and...
A Cause for Hope or an Unwitting Complicity? The Representation of Cultural Diversity in Award-Listed Children's Picturebooks in Australia
Author/editor: Adam, Helen, Urquhart, Yvonne
Year published: 2023
While books can play important roles in helping children develop a positive sense of identity and of their place as equal members of society, evidence shows how the lack of diverse literature contributes to feelings of inferiority and invisibility for children from underrepresented groups as well...
Chinese Statecraft and Indigenous Affairs in Chinese Australian Newspapers, 1894–1912
Author/editor: Xu Daozhi
Year published: 2023
This article will explore how Chinese-language newspapers published in Australia between 1894 and 1912 engaged with Indigenous affairs, and in doing so, articulated Chinese perspectives on settler colonial governance. The rising racial hostility against the Chinese at that time rendered them...
Emergency Aesthetics: The Case of the Four Faces of Omarska
Author/editor: Glisic, Iva, Puric, Biljana
Year published: 2023
This article examines how contemporary artists from the Western Balkans have sought to engage with the legacy of ethnonationalist violence. While attempts to examine and openly discuss war crimes that occurred in this region during the 1990s have largely been undermined by populist politics in...
Representing Online Hostility against Women: Ethics and Wellbeing
Author/editor: Jay Daniel Thompson
Year published: 2023
On 6 March 2023, the Australian journalist Lisa Millar appeared on the television programme ABC News Breakfast (of which she is a host) wearing a skirt with a thigh-exposing slit. Photographs of this appearance were circulated on Twitter alongside misogynist commentary about the choice of attire...
Dirty Dagoes Respond: A Transnational History of a Racial Slur
Author/editor: Piperglou, Andonis
Year published: 2022
Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation contributes to U.S. ethnic and immigration studies by bringing into conversation scholars working in the fields of Italian American and Greek American studies in the United States, Europe and Australia. The work...
First Nations Regional and National Representation: Aligning Local Decision Making in NSW with Closing the Gap and the proposed Indigenous Voice
Author/editor: T. Dreise, F. Markham, M. Lovell, W. Fogarty and A. Wighton
Year published: 2021
Recent shifts in national policies have resulted in questions about how established regional forms of representation, such as those involved in NSW’s Local Decision Making initiative, will be aligned with new policy priorities and processes. This paper seeks to clarify the terrain of competing and...
Migrant Labour and Their “Capitalist Compatriots”: Towards a History of Ethnic Capitalism
Author/editor: Piperglou, Andonis
Year published: 2021
The relationship between migration and Australian capitalism has long been a topic of robust scholarly debate in sociology and economics. Researchers in those fields have highlighted how migration has left an indelible imprint on Australian capitalism. By contrast, Australian migration histories...
Social networks and digital organisation: Far right parties atthe 2019 Australian federal election
Author/editor: McSwiney, Jordan
Year published: 2021
This paper analyses the social media networks and content of fourAustralian parties, assessing their relationship to the far right atthe time of the 2019 Australian federal election. Using socialnetwork analysis, I map their relationship to a broader network offar-right actors in Australia on...
‘Dirty Dagoes’ Respond: a transnational history of a racial slur
Author/editor: Piperglou, Andonis
Year published: 2021
During the early twentieth century in the United States and Australia, Italian and Greek migrants, along with other people from the Mediterranean region, were often labelled as ‘dirty dagoes’. The term ‘dago’ was a derogatory and prejudicial racial slur that situated Italian and Greek migrants as...
