Australian Humanities Review provides a forum for open intellectual debate across humanities disciplines.
Australian Humanities Review provides a forum for open intellectual debate across humanities disciplines, about all aspects of social, cultural and political life, primarily (but not exclusively) with reference to Australia. It aims to present new and challenging debates in the humanities to both an academic and a non-academic readership, both within and outside of Australia. AHR welcomes contribu
tions from scholars working in all disciplines of the humanities, including literary and film studies, cultural and media studies, gender studies, history, politics, philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Please note that we do not publish poetry or creative writing. All articles published in AHR are blind refereed by two academic reviewers, either by members of the editorial board, or by external referees where special expertise is required. Australian Humanities Review supports free speech and tries to avoid censorship. We are committed to the promotion of open intellectual debate in the context of high standards of scholarship. We regard such a practice as a basic means of expression – and thus a basic right – of diverse individuals and communities, and see our promotion of free speech as fundamental to the protection of intellectual and artistic expression. AHR has been publishied as an Open Access publication since 1996 according to the definition of the Budapest Open Access Initiative: “By ‘open access’, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.” See http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm )
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In the latest Australian Humanities Review, John Frow writes that intergenerational injustice is “the [failed] actions taken by one generation to transfer a world in an enhanced state to those who come after.” Read his essay and responses to it here. https://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2023/05/31/introduction-on-intergenerational-justice/
Australian Humanities Review provides a forum for open intellectual debate across humanities discipl
The latest issue of Australian Humanities Review is out now. http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/
AHR71 (May 2023) begins with “Seeking Greener Pages: An Analysis of Reader Response to Australian Eco-Crime Fiction” by Rachel Fetherston, Emily Potter, Kelly Miller and Devin Bowles.
This issue features a forum based on John Frow’s essay “On Intergenerational Justice.” In his essay, Frow defines intergenerational injustice as “the [failed] actions taken by one generation to transfer a world in an enhanced state to those who come after” and this AHR publication is the springboard for responses by Fiona Ruth Allon, Danielle Celermajer, Amelia Dale, Tom Ford, Barbara Holloway, Alexandra Kingston-Reese, Julieanne Lamond and Nicole Rogers. Each of these contributors to the forum consider positive or negative implications of climate and environmental (in)justice as understood through collective ideas of inheritance and posterity. Together they engage with such matters as disciplinary or intellectual inheritances, historical (dis)continuities and political (dis)organisations, climate change and the law, multispecies justice, colonial legacies and environmental damage, the injustice of inherited wealth and its potential redistribution along generational lines.
Many thanks to Fergus Armstrong for copyediting and web management.
Happy Reading!
Monique Rooney (AHR editor)
Rachel Fetherston, Emily Potter, Kelly Miller and Devin Bowles Seeking Greener Pages: An Analysis of Reader Response to Australian Eco-Crime Fiction
AHR is celebrating world bee day (Saturday 20 May) by sharing Freya Mathews essay “Planet Beehive.”
https://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2011/05/01/planet-beehive/
Vale Ross Gibson.
Here is a great review of his book The Summer Exercises (2008).
How to write history about Australia that is ugly The Summer Exercises By Ross Gibson University of Western Australia Press, 270pp, $24.95, 2008. ISBN: 978-1921401-20-6 Reviewed by Simon Robb © all rights reserved. AHR is published in PDF and Print-on-Demand format by ANU E Press This is an ugly so...
When I rent a new car for a long-distant drive, I enjoy all the affordances of the digital sound system. In ‘Fifteen Million Merits,’ an episode of Black Mirror, Bing must use merits earned from hard-earned pedalling to temporarily mute the surround-sound noise of his sleeping cell. In the rental car, I can ‘mute’ but I cannot turn the sound off. When I restart the car the sound will have been automatically unmuted, as if that must surely be my preferred setting.
“Silence is a taboo in mass media today—technical and economical. If the signal is too low, an alarm function switches on an emergency program to fill the gap” writes Dieter Daniels in AHR70’s special section “Seventy Years of Four Minutes, Thirty-three Seconds.” Read more here:
AHR70 (November 2022) is out now and it’s all about sound and silence.
Alison Walker’s essay kicks off the issue, followed bya special section titled ‘Seventy Years of Four Minutes, Thirty-three Seconds’ that explores the immense aesthetic, cultural and conceptual reach of John Cage’s 4’33”. Cage’s experimental oeuvre (music, writings, teaching) is internationally significant, having been exported from America to the world, including Australia, and our contributors to this section are from Australia, Europe, Japan and the UK.
Essays are by Shayne Bowden, Rachel Campbell & James Hazel Maher, Kim Cunio, Dieter Daniels, Richard Elliott, Daniel Fishkin, Mack Hagood, Peter Jaeger, Douglas Kahn, Caleb Kelly, Sally MacArthur, Julian Murphet, David Toop, Shelley Trower and Stephen Whittington. Finally, our Book Reviews section includes Guy Davidson on David Toop’s Flutter Echo and Gevort Hartoonian on Richard Francis-Jones’s Truth and Lies in Architecture.
Many thanks to Fergus Armstrong for copyediting and web management.
Happy Reading!
Monique Rooney (AHR editor)
©Australian Humanities Review all rights reserved. ISSN: 1325 8338. Editor: Monique Rooney Email: [email protected]. AHR is published by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL). AHR is an Open Access publication and is listed with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
FORTHCOMING IN AHR THIS NOVEMBER: a forum titled "Seventy Years of Four Minutes and Thirty-three Seconds (4’33”)," featuring adventurous pieces by a range of national and international scholars engaging with the interdisciplinary legacy of Cage’s work.
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