Grants awarded 2004
A Cultural History of the Body in Modern Japan
Researcher: Prof Vera Mackie
ARC Discovery Grant
This project will focus on a cultural history of the body in Japan from the late nineteenth century to the present. This study will go beyond previous theorisations of the body, by looking at the development of Japanese modernity through analysing cultural representations of embodied experiences and embodied practices. In addition to considering questions of sex, gender, sexuality and reproduction, the project will also focus on the classed, racialised and ethnicised dimensions of bodily experience. It will consider the body at work, the body in leisure, the body as the medium of violence, and the embodied experiences of globalization.
Memory and identity in England 1500-1700
Researcher: Dr Peter Sherlock
ARC Discovery Grant
This project will test the hypothesis that struggles to control memory were central to the redefinition of beliefs, collective identities and social structures in England, 1500 to 1700. It will focus analysis on three ways of remembering, expressed in written, visual and material media: genealogy, local history, and commemoration of the dead. The project's hypoithesis and interdisciplinary method represent significant new departures in understanding the construction of identity and the pursuit of power. By studying a premodern society, this project will add depth to recent studies of memory, and open up new ways of imagining of early modern England.
Reason in Revolt: The Role of Intellectuals in Australian Radicalism
(with Political Science)
Researchers: Prof Stuart Macintyre (History), A/Prof VN Burgmann (Political Science), Prof AJ Milner (Political Science)
ARC Discovery Grant
This project aims to produce new ways of understanding and interpreting the role of intellectuals in the development of Australian political radicalism during the period 1872 to 2000. By digitizing a sizeable and representative data base of primary source materials produced by radical intellectuals, the Chief Investigators will be able to investigate these texts in innovative ways, producing a co-authored monograph and other research that will provide an improved understanding of Australia's past, present and possible futures. Secondary outcomes will inlcude the establishment of a substantial on-line collection of radical political primary source materials, with scholarly commentary and analysis, easily accessible to other researchers.
Project website: www.reasoninrevolt.net.au
Scalded memory: Violence, gender and the Irish, 1169-1923
Researchers: Prof Elizabeth Malcolm, Dr Di Hall
ARC Discovery Grant
The history of the Irish at home and abroad from the medieval period has been extraordinarily violent. While historians have studied wars and rebellions in terms of heroic political narratives, there has been no systematic analsysis of what a poet has termed Ireland's scalded memory: the meanings of violence in the lives of ordinary Irish women and men. This project will undertake an extremely ambitious interrogation of violence and gender in Ireland and the Irish diaspora. It will promote collaboration between Irish and Australian universities, provide training for a PhD student and help foster Irish Studies in Australia.