Scholars at War

Scholars at War

Australasian Social Scientists, 1939–1945

Edited by: Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro orcid, Christine Winter

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Scholars at War is the first scholarly publication to examine the effect World War II had on the careers of Australasian social scientists. It links a group of scholars through geography, transnational, national and personal scholarly networks, and shared intellectual traditions, explores their use, and contextualizes their experiences and contributions within wider examinations of the role of intellectuals in war.

Scholars at War is structured around historical portraits of individual Australasian social scientists. They are not a tight group; rather a cohort of scholars serendipitously involved in and affected by war who share a point of origin. Analyzing practitioners of the social sciences during war brings to the fore specific networks, beliefs and institutions that transcend politically defined spaces. Individual lives help us to make sense of the historical process, helping us illuminate particular events and the larger cultural, social and even political processes of a moment in time.

Contributors include Peter Hempenstall, JD Legge, Jock Phillips, John Pomeroy, Cassandra Pybus, David Wetherell, Janet Wilson.

Details

ISBN (print):
9781921862496
ISBN (online):
9781921862502
Publication date:
Jan 2012
Imprint:
ANU Press
DOI:
http://doi.org/10.22459/SW.01.2012
Series:
ANU Lives Series in Biography
Disciplines:
Arts & Humanities: Biography & Autobiography, Cultural Studies, History
Countries:
Australia; Pacific: New Zealand

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Part I: The Australians (PDF, 97KB) – Geoffrey Gray and Christine Winter

  1. A. P. Elkin: Public morale and propaganda (PDF, 158KB) – John Pomeroy doi
  2. Conlon’s Remarkable Circus (PDF, 124KB) – Cassandra Pybus doi
  3. H. Ian Hogbin: ‘Official adviser on native affairs’ (PDF, 166KB) – Geoffrey Gray doi
  4. W. E. H. Stanner: Wasted war years (PDF, 147KB) – Geoffrey Gray doi
  5. Camilla Wedgwood: ‘what are you educating natives for’ (PDF, 139KB) – David Wetherell doi
  6. Ronald Murray Berndt: ‘Work of national importance’ (PDF, 133KB) – Geoffrey Gray doi
  7. The Road to Conlon’s Circus—and Beyond: A personal retrospective (PDF, 111KB) – J. D. Legge doi

Part II: The New Zealanders (PDF, 87KB) – Doug Munro

  1. Derek Freeman at War (PDF, 1.0MB) – Peter Hempenstall doi
  2. J. W. Davidson on the Home Front (PDF, 158KB) – Doug Munro doi
  3. Neville Phillips and the Mother Country (PDF, 150KB) – Jock Phillips doi
  4. Dan Davin: The literary legacy of war (PDF, 159KB) – Janet Wilson doi

Reviews

In the Journal of Pacific History, Graeme Whimp reviews Scholars at War: Australasian social scientists, 1939–1945, edited by Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro and Christine Winter.

Whimp gives a thorough run-down of many biographies in the collection. In particular, he praises Cassandra Pybus’ chapter, saying she “wonderfully evokes the opportunistic and dubious military character of Alf Conlon and the ‘circus’ of anthropologists and academics, poets and lawyers he created and dominated”. He also finds that Janet Wilson’s writing on Dan Davin “gains vividness from her skillful utilisation of his own short stories”.

Whimp concludes by saying that “Scholars at War is a valuable contribution to a field that appears to offer fruitful opportunities for further investigation”.

(Graeme Whimp, review of Scholars at War: Australasian social scientists, 1939–1945, edited by Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro and Christine Winter, Journal of Pacific History, 48:3, pp. 344–346.)

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