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Radical History: Thinking, Writing And Engagement, Terry Irving, Rowan Cahill Feb 2016

Radical History: Thinking, Writing And Engagement, Terry Irving, Rowan Cahill

Terry Irving

This is an extended review of 'Radical Newcastle' (NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 2015), edited by James Bennett, Nancy Cushing and Erik Ecklund. We criticise the book's neglect of the tradition of radical history writing and the recent radical scholarship on cities. We reveal its roots in academic empiricism and the liberal academic culture. Nonetheless there are some excellent chapters that embrace radical history positions.


Radical History - Interview On Hindsight - Citizen In The Republic Of The Arts: Lucien Henry, Terence Irving Aug 2014

Radical History - Interview On Hindsight - Citizen In The Republic Of The Arts: Lucien Henry, Terence Irving

Terry Irving

No abstract provided.


Radical Sydney - Places, Portraits And Unruly Episodes, Terry Irving, Rowan Cahill Aug 2014

Radical Sydney - Places, Portraits And Unruly Episodes, Terry Irving, Rowan Cahill

Terry Irving

Sydney is represented to its citizens and to the rest of the world as a postcard, an impressive, beautiful city, a desirable tourist destination.

But there has always been another Sydney not viewed so fondly by the city’s rulers, a radical Sydney they are intent on ‘disappearing’ beneath concrete and glass. In the arc of working-class suburbs to the south and west, menace and disaffection developed. From the early nineteenth century through to the late twentieth century these suburbs were large and explosive places of marginalised ideas, bohemian neighbourhoods, dissident politics and contentious action.

Through a series of snapshots of …


‘Labour History And Its Political Role – A New Landscape’, Terence H. Irving Aug 2014

‘Labour History And Its Political Role – A New Landscape’, Terence H. Irving

Terry Irving

As I was thinking about what to say today I read an article on Manning Clark and found something that made me pause. It was a description of our venerable journal, Labour History, but characterizing it in terms that none of us would use, at least not in public. Instead of describing our field, our sources or our methods, our long list of illustrious contributors, it said that Labour History was the journal of Australia’s left-wing historians. Well, this was in Wikipedia – but nonetheless it struck me that, yes, this is a truth I am prepared to accept. I’m …


Rediscovering Radical History, Terence Irving Aug 2014

Rediscovering Radical History, Terence Irving

Terry Irving

No abstract provided.


"Labour History And Its Political Role - A New Landscape, Terry Irving Dec 2012

"Labour History And Its Political Role - A New Landscape, Terry Irving

Terry Irving

This address to a centenary issue forum for the Australian journal, "Labour History", focused on the political role of the journal in academic circles. It discussed the politics involved in the journal's foundation and the political implications of the redefinition of its field by Van der Linden, especially his use of the distinction between labour as toil and creative work. It is also a distinction made by recent 'autonomist' theorists. The article concludes by recommending that the journal should drop its present subtitle; that labour historians should pay more attention to the theoretical discussions of (working) class, multitude and subalternity; …


Class Structure In Australian History - Poverty And Progress, Terry Irving, Raewyn Connell Dec 1991

Class Structure In Australian History - Poverty And Progress, Terry Irving, Raewyn Connell

Terry Irving

First published in 1980, this book is an updated and reorganized account of the history of the class structure in Australia. A new chapter discusses the period 1975-1991, and there is a new theoretical chapter introducing the reader to modern debates about class. Separate sections for documents and photographs support the narrative. Extensive notes provide a guide to research literature.