Ian Turner’s The Australian Dream and Australia’s “settler transition”

Focusing on radical labour historian Ian Turner’s The Australian Dream (1968), this article reflects on the evolution of Australia’s settler colonial imagination. During a few crucial decades in the nineteenth century, colonial traditions were overcome by settler colonial ones. The former espoused a system where British rulers would paternally manage a colonial environment and all its populations (pastoralists, free settlers, convicts, emancipated convicts, and Indigenous peoples); the latter advocated the establishment of self-reliant agricultural communities of free settlers. In Replenishing the Earth (2009), James Belich distinguished between settler “transition” and settler “revolution”, and emphasised the imaginative elements that underpin and precede the shift to settler self-government. As the global settler transition took hold, locales usually associated with the perception and expectation of degenerative processes were reconfigured as propitious sites for experimenting in sociopolitical regeneration. Following and expanding on Belich’s framework, this article links Australia’s settler transition with its historiography.     

A Young Man's Dream of Serving Elders

正YAN Shuai,a 26-year-old Beijinger,is the head of Puleyuan Nursing Home,located in a Beijing suburb.The facility currently caters to over 300 seniors,the oldest 106 years of age.Sixty percent of the residents are incapable of taking care of themselves.A decade ago Chinese people turned to nursing homes only when they had no family to depend on.But attitudes have changed dramatically in recent years.Increasingly more elders with children consider moving to care homes when     

China Ramps up International Investmen

正Transnational investments are a growing engine of globalization and have transformed world economic landscapes.They are also a crucial element of international exchanges and cooperation.The economic interdependence fostered by globalization has turned     

影响犯罪现场足迹特征的因素

足迹在犯罪现场遗留是必然的,因此是现场中最常见的痕迹之一,它在刑事侦查中的作用也不言而喻。在足迹检验技术中,足迹检验的重点是对足迹各部位重压面的形态、特征进行检验,但足迹各重压面的形成又受诸多因素的影响,并且足迹形成后,与其他痕迹一样,其信息系统处于开放状态,也易受外界自然和人为等因素的影响。