The dark shadow of white Australia: Racial anxieties in Australia in World War II

Saunders, Kay

doi:10.1080/01419870.1994.9993827

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“…' Lazar et al (2008) found that the memory of the Holocaust is perceived as influential by Jewish Israeli young 232 LITVAK-HIRSCH, CHAITIN, ZAHER authors (Carnevale, 2003;Foster & Seitz, 1991;Saunders, 1994). The 20th century was characterized by the fundamental alteration of relationships between minorities and dominant groups in times of violent conflicts.…”

Section: Collective Memory Trauma and Victimhood In The Case Of Jewmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…The relationship between minorities who are perceived as enemies and majority groups in time of conflict and war has been discussed by several PALESTINIAN PERCEPTIONS OF THE HOLOCAUST authors (Carnevale, 2003;Foster & Seitz, 1991;Saunders, 1994). The 20th century was characterized by the fundamental alteration of relationships between minorities and dominant groups in times of violent conflicts.…”

Section: Intergroup Relationships Between Minorities Perceived As Ene...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Perceptions of the holocaust of Palestinian young adults, citizens of Israel.

Litvak-Hirsch¹,

Chaitin²,

Zaher³

2010

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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A largely neglected area of study in the field of trauma and its effects is the way a collective trauma of a majority group influences a minority group that lives in the same region. Such an investigation is especially relevant within the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict concerning the Holocaust-the defining trauma of Jewish Israelis. This pilot study focused on the thoughts, feelings, and interpretations concerning the Holocaust of 56 young adults, Palestinian citizens in Israel. The semi-structured questionnaires and interviews demonstrate that the young adults express an inherent conflict when dealing with the Holocaust-one that emanates from the tension that exists between universalistic and particularistic interpretations of the Holocaust within the Palestinian narrative. At the universalistic end of the continuum, the Holocaust is acknowledged as a crime against humanity; whereas, at the particularistic end of the continuum, the Holocaust is interpreted through political lenses of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Understanding the complexity of these perceptions and feelings toward the Holocaust expressed by Palestinian citizens of Israel might help in developing better relationships between the two groups.It's their trauma, but it still influences my destiny. (Runa, There are many studies that aim to discern the ways groups and nations relate to, interpret, and are affected by their chosen trauma (Volkan, Correspondence should be addressed to

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Section: Collective Memory Trauma and Victimhood In The Case Of Jewmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Intergroup Relationships Between Minorities Perceived As Ene...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceptions of the holocaust of Palestinian young adults, citizens of Israel.

Litvak-Hirsch¹,

Chaitin²,

Zaher³

2010

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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“…Furthermore, the experiences of the Second World War in the Pacific region had also left Australians (governments and citizens alike) feeling vulnerable. This sense of isolation was fed and made worse by the racialised nature of the Second World War and the backdrop of the White Australia policy (Saunders 1994). A larger population located beyond the metropolitan regions of the east coast was seen to be an important insurance policy for Australia's defence in potential future wars (Meaney 1995).…”

Section: Negative Social Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A historical geography of housing crisis in Australia

Dufty‐Jones

2017

Australian Geographer

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Much of the current debate on Australian housing affordability suggests that it is a new 'crisis'. Yet Australia's housing history is littered with a series of housing crises, and since the early days of white settlement in Australia the availability of housing has been an ongoing governmental concern. The focus of this paper is on the 1940s housing crisis that contributed to housing becoming one of the cornerstones of the federal government's post-war reconstruction agenda. This paper adopts a governmentality theory perspective to explore how Australia's housing problems and solutions were constructed during this period, through an indepth textual analysis of key documents produced at the time. The wider project of post-war reconstruction was understood to have important spatial dimensions. As a consequence, both the problematisation of housing and the design of housing policy as a solution to these challenges were distinctly spatial. While the present debate echoes many of the longer-run discourses characterising housing crises, the current axiom that markets are best placed to mediate housing affordability overlooks key lessons from the past: that affordable housing necessarily entails governmental interventions, and geographically imagined problematisations and solutions.

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“…He expressed a desire to keep out such 'UnAustralian' groups as 'the non-British, the disloyal, the subversive and seditious (communists), and the criminal' (Brett, 1992: 91). While not referring explicitly to the term 'UnAustralian', its usage is strongly implied in studies of the Allies' racist rhetoric during the Second World War (Saunders, 1993(Saunders, , 1994 and the anti-communist discourse of the Menzies era (Brett, 1992). These scattered examples suggest that early usage of the term 'UnAustralian' served primarily as a boundary-maintaining discursive player through which the right could allege sedition, subversion and disloyalty.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Popular understandings of ‘UnAustralian’: an investigation of the un-national

Smith

Phillips

2001

Journal of Sociology

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In social science the 'national' has been studied extensively, but comparatively little attention has been given to the 'un-national'. The article takes up this challenge in an Australian context. Drawing on the work of Raymond Williams, investigation is centred around the keyword 'UnAustralian'. Participants in focus groups were asked to nominate and account for what they thought of as 'UnAustralian' people, places, values, activities, groups and organizations. Analysis of the data revealed that two factors underpinned an attribution: incivility and foreign influence. Contemporary uses revolve around outcomes from globalization and can be contrasted with the centrality of class politics to deployments of the concept in the first part of the 20th century.

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The dark shadow of white Australia: Racial anxieties in Australia in World War II

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

Perceptions of the holocaust of Palestinian young adults, citizens of Israel.

Perceptions of the holocaust of Palestinian young adults, citizens of Israel.

A historical geography of housing crisis in Australia

Popular understandings of ‘UnAustralian’: an investigation of the un-national

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