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Dr Tim Rowse

BA (Hons) University of Sydney 1974, MA Flinders University 1977, PhD University of Sydney 1991

My formal training is in Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology. My inclination is towards narrative history.


Senior Research Fellow

Tim Rowse at Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan, November 2005

Areas of Research:
Twentieth century Australian history - including government policies towards Aboriginal people,
and Aboriginal responses to colonisation (both nationally and with reference to Central Australia);
cultural policy;the history of official statistics.

Recent publications:

2008	'A gift of nature? Historical perspectives on Australia's northern border' in P. Lagayette (ed), Recontres Australiennes: regards croises sur l'identite d'un people et d'une nation, Paris: Press de l'Universite Paris-Sorbonne, pp.175-195.
2008	'Indigenous culture: the politics of vulnerability and survival' in T. Bennett and J. Frow (eds), The Sage Handbook of Cultural Analysis, Los Angeles: Sage, pp.406-426.
2008	'Australia's apology: the shadow on the sun', online article, http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/globalisation/institutions_government/australia_apology
2007	'Family and nation: the Indigenous/non-Indigenous relationship' in J. Jupp and J. Nieuwenhuysen (with E. Dawson) eds, Social cohesion in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne, pp.90-102.
2007	'The National Emergency and Indigenous Jurisdictions' in J. Altman and M. Hinkson (eds), Coercive reconciliation: stabilize, normalize, exit Aboriginal Australia, North Carlton (Vic): Arena Publications Association, pp.47-61.
2007	'Land of confusion' (review essay about Helen Hughes Lands of Shame), Australian Policy online http://www.sisr.net/apo/rowse.pdf
2007	(with Murray Goot) Divided Nation? Indigenous affairs and the imagined public, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria.
2006	'The public occasions of Indigenous selves: three ngarrindjeri autobiographies', Aboriginal History, Volume 30, pp.187-207.
2006	'Modernism, Indigenism and War: a comment on The Black Swan of Trespass', Australian Cultural History, no.25, pp.27-56.
2006	'From enforceability to feel-good: notes on the pre-history of the recent treaty debate' in P. Read, G. Meyers and B. Reece (eds), What good condition? Reflections on an Aboriginal Treaty 1986-2006, Aboriginal History Monograph 13, 71-88.
2006	'Towards a history of Indigenous statistics in Australia' in B.H. Hunter (ed.), Assessing Recent Evidence on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: A focus on the 2002 NATSISS, CAEPR Monograph No.26, ANU E-Press, ANU, Canberra, 1-11.
2006	'What if the Bruce-Page government had created a Model Aboriginal State?' in Stuart Macintyre and Sean Scalmer (eds), What if? Australian history as it might have been, Melbourne University Press, 2006, pp.89-114.
2006	'The politics of being "practical": Howard's fourth term challenge' in G. Cowlishaw, E. Kowal and T. Lea (eds), Moving On: Critical Indigenous Studies, Charles Darwin University Press, 2006.
2005	(with D. Mitchell) 'Editorial: Australian social issues: a retrospective' Australian Journal of Social Issues v.40(1), 3-11.
2005	(with D. Mitchell) 'From social issue to social policy; engaging professionals and the public' Australian Journal of Social issues v.40(1), 155-180
2005	'Contesting Assimilation' (introduction by editor),pp.1-24,Contesting Assimilation, Perth: API - Network
2005	'Aboriginal respectability', pp.49-67 Contesting Assimilation
2005	'The postwar social science of assimilation 1947-1966', pp.151-168 Contesting Assimilation
2005	'The certainties of assimilation', pp.237-249 Contesting Assimilation
2005	(with Jon Altman) 'Indigenous affairs' in Peter Saunders and James Walter (eds) Ideas and Influence: social science and public policy in Australia, University of New South Wales Press, 159-177
2005	'The politics of being practical: Howard and his quiet revolution in Indigenous Affairs' http://www.brisinst.org.au/resources/rowse_tim_indigenous.html (posted 13 July 2005)
2004	'Indigenous autobiography in Australia and the United States', Australian Humanities Review, vol.33, 1-12,. Also online: http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-August-2004/rowse.html
2004	'Elusive middle ground: a political history of Commonwealth arbitration' in J.E.Isaac and S. Macintyre (eds), The New Province for Law and Order. 100 years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration, Cambridge University Press, 17-54.
2004	'Notes on the history of the Aboriginal population of Australia' Appendix to J. Dirk Moses (ed) Genocide and Settler Society, Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History, New York: Berghahn Books , pp.312-25.
2003	'The social democratic critique of the Australian settlement' in J.Hocking and C.Lewis (eds) It's time again: Whitlam and Modern Labor, Melbourne: circa, pp.219-243
2003	'Britons, settlers and Aborigines: civil society and its colonised "other" in colonial, post-colonial and present-day Australia' in J.Harris (ed) Civil Society in British History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.293-309
2003	'Curtin and labor's full employment promise' (paper to Seminar 'From Curtin to Coombs: war and peace in Australia' 25 March 2003, Curtin University of Technology). http://john.curtin.edu.au/events/seminar2003_rowse.html
2003	'Treaty talk' (website) Australian Policy Online (posted 11 February). http://www.apo.org.au/webboard/results.chtml?filename_num=12827
2003	'Triumph of the Colonists' in D.Gare, G.Bolton, S.Macintrye and T.Stannage (eds) The Fuss That Never Ended: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey, Carlton: Melbourne University Press, pp.39-52, 177-8.

Main publications:

2007	(with Murray Goot) Divided Nation? Indigenous Affairs and the imagined public, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria.
2002	Indigenous Futures, Choice and development for Aboriginal and Islander Australia
2002	Nugget Coombs - a reforming life
2000	Obliged to be difficult: Nugget Coombs' legacy in Indigenous affairs
1998	White flour white power: from rations to citizenship in Central Australia
1996	Traditions for health: studies in Aboriginal reconstruction
1993	After Mabo: interpreting Indigenous traditions
1992	Remote possibilities: the Aboriginal domain and the administrative imagination
1985	Arguing the Arts
1978	Australian Liberalism and National Character