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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.

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Labour Intellectuals In Australia: Modes, Traditions, Generations, Transformations, Terence H. Irving, Sean Scalmer Aug 2014

Labour Intellectuals In Australia: Modes, Traditions, Generations, Transformations, Terence H. Irving, Sean Scalmer

Terry Irving

The article begins with a discussion of labour intellectuals as knowledge producers in labour institutions, and of the labour public in which this distinctive kind of intellectual emerges, drawing on our previously published work. Next we construct a typology of three ‘‘modes’’ of the labour intellectual that were proclaimed and remade from the 1890s (the ‘‘movement’’ the ‘‘representational’’, and the ‘‘revolutionary’’), and identify the broad historical processes (certification, polarization, and contraction) of the labour public. In a case study comparing the 1890s and 1920s we demonstrate how successive generations of labour intellectuals combined elements of these ideal types in different …

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