Against provincialism: Australian-American connections 1900–2000

Butler, Rex; Donaldson, Andrew

doi:10.1080/14443058.2012.703221

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“…Negativity is conspicuous: ‘provincialism appears primarily as an attitude of subservience to a hierarchy of externally imposed cultural values’ (1974: 54). Response pieces encompass discontent over a degree of narrowness (Van de Bosch, 1985; Murphy, 1988; Sanders, 2011), dissections of what is meant by the provincial in Australian and British art (Butler and Donaldson, 2012, 2017; Juliff, 2018), and attempts at a ‘solution’ based on appreciating that ‘Paris and New York are not the centres any more’, thus opening the way for circumventing the connotations of provincialism as ‘a dirty word’ (Allen, 2011). Reflecting at a distance of 40 years, in the wake of wrangling across Oceania in particular (McLean, 2009; Barker and Green, 2010), Smith does not mince words: ‘everyone coming to a love of art in a dependent cultural colony – as I did, in Melbourne and Sydney during the 1950s and 1960s – experiences […] in an everyday sense, as a pervasive and deep fact about their world, […] how power arrives from the wider world’ (2017: 8).…”

Section: Situating the Provinces Between The Social Sciences And The ...mentioning

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Reclaiming provincialism

2022

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This article argues against the lingering pejorative usage of the term ‘provincialism’ in public discourse in particular. It engages with transnational debates emerging from Australia and French-speaking settings, where provincialism often denotes backwardness, isolation, and a lack of high culture. Through explorations of (a) the universalizing value of the provincial and (b) the diversifying concept of ‘provincializing’, the article advocates for a reconceptualization of the term ‘provincialism’. This is worthwhile on at least two counts: challenging stale dichotomies such as cosmopolitan/unworldly; acknowledging the agency of so-called ‘provincials’ and their essential cultural contributions. The article contributes to debates in human geography and related disciplines by unpacking longstanding questions of inclusion and exclusion. Ultimately, it reclaims the value of provincialism as a term with the capacity to bridge varied areas of scholarship, thereby fostering empowerment and moving beyond deleterious ideas of geography.

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‘Treated like Chinamen’: United States immigration restriction and white British subjects

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2019

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In 1921, the United States introduced national immigration quotas. Although designed to curb the arrival of ‘undesirables’ from south-east Europe, this quota system also applied to Britain and its white Dominions. By 1929, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were each allocated 100 quota places per annum. The British quota was far greater, but still struggled to meet demand. Through a focus on the Australian example, this article investigates how an immigration regime intended to bolster America’s ‘Anglo-Saxon’ identity also exposed the limits of Anglospheric kinship by closing the gates to white Britons. Although the quotas had a comparatively minor impact on Britons, their exclusion held great significance in the context of Anglo-American relations, where the rhetoric of transnational white solidarity produced expectations of unqualified welcome in the United States. After 1921, as such welcome disappeared and then failed to rematerialize, the global community of white men’s countries was shaken and remade.

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Stepping through the Silver Screen: Australian Women Encounter America, 1930s–1950s

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2016

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Against provincialism: Australian-American connections 1900–2000

Cited by 3 publications

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Reclaiming provincialism

Reclaiming provincialism

‘Treated like Chinamen’: United States immigration restriction and white British subjects

Stepping through the Silver Screen: Australian Women Encounter America, 1930s–1950s

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