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ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of EmotionsEurope 1100-1800
“THE PAST IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO
BE”A REFLECTION ON THE FUTURE OF THE HISTORY OF WESTERN
AUSTRALIA
Philippa Maddern
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The most recent Australian Historical Association Conference
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Index entries for Western Australia and Tasmania in Clark’s A History of Australia, vol II
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Examples of Western Australian history ‘localising’ national histories.
Vera Whittington Gold And Typhoid: Two Fevers: A Social History Of Western Australia, 1891-1900 (1988)
J.S.H. Le Page’s, Building A State: The Story Of The Public Works Department Of Western Australia, 1829-1985 (1986).
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What is a history of emotions?
• the history of how peole have felt/expressed familiar emotions (anger, love, fear) in the past? (Eg. Barbara Rosenwein, Robin Corey, Jean Delumeau)
• a history of what emotions have been taken to be-how they have been understood and analysed in the past? (Eg. Thomas Dixon, From Passions to Emotions (2003))
• cultural history of how emotions have been regulated or governed by social norms in the past (Peter Stearns and ‘emotionology’)
• an investigation of the ‘emotion work’ of the past—in politics, society, culture, even economics (cf.. Joanna Bourke, ‘Fear And Anxiety: Writing About Emotion In Modern History’, History Workshop Journal, 55 (2003), 111-133 .)
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What sort of social and political ‘work’ can emotions do?
• divide a population into categories that may cross class, gender and ethnicity
• instigate and inscribe power-relationships
• cope with widespread social anxieties by replacing them with more directed fear or anger
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Sharon Crozier-de Rosa, ‘Shame, Feminine Sacrifice And The Great War In British And Australian Anti-feminist Discourse’ (an AHA 2012 paper)
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What sort work could histories of emotions do for Western Australian history?
• open up possibilities for WA to become not a local version, but an exciting and integral part, of Australian and world histories
• enable us to reach back to earlier eras than the formation of the Western Australian state
• enable us to make distinctive contributes to studies of how emotion inflects contact histories between first peoples and settler-colonists worldwide
• open up questions of emotion ‘work’ iimpacted on Australian Asian relationships through to the 21st century
• put Western Australian history in its true, and vital place in the great narratives of world history.