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Whose India?: The Independence Struggle In British And Indian Fiction And History, Teresa Hubel
Whose India?: The Independence Struggle In British And Indian Fiction And History, Teresa Hubel
Teresa Hubel
For centuries, India has captured our imagination. Far more than a mere geographical presence, India is also an imaginative construct shaped by competing cultures, emotions, and ideologies. In Whose India? Teresa Hubel examines literary and historical texts by the British and Indian writers who gave meaning to the construct “India” during the final decades of the Empire. Feminist and postcolonial in its approach, this work describes the contest between British imperialists and Indian nationalists at that historical moment when India sought to achieve its independence; that is, when the definition, acquisition, and ownership of India was most vehemently at …
Australian School Funding And Accountability: History Imploding Into The Present, Kathleen M. Rudkin
Australian School Funding And Accountability: History Imploding Into The Present, Kathleen M. Rudkin
Kathy Rudkin
This paper examines historical origins of accountability for public funding in the Australian school education system. Understandings of accountability have developed unique to the Australian context, embedding institutions and ideas from a colonial past. It is shown that the funding arrangements used to distribute and account for public education funds are political devices to mediate enduring historic relationships between government and non-government schools, while at the same time masking these relationships in the veiled rhetoric of a broader Australian cultural imperative of egalitarianism. It concludes the current funding and accountability of school education in Australia is a simulacrum of accountability. …
Maritime Mobilities In Pacific History: Towards A Scholarship Of Betweeness, Frances M. Steel
Maritime Mobilities In Pacific History: Towards A Scholarship Of Betweeness, Frances M. Steel
Frances Steel
In examining the significance of mobility in the long sweep of human history in the Pacific, the world's largest ocean where seventy per cent of the world's islands are to be found, one cannot but begin with the words of the late Tongan scholar, writer and visionary, Epeli Hau’ofa. In 1993 Hau’ofa proposed a new way of thinking about the region he called Oceania. He critiqued the limitations of an imposed regional imaginary, fostered by imperial rulers, western diplomats, academics, aid donors and the like, which emphasised the smallness, isolation and dependency of tiny islands in a far sea. Starting …