Evan Smith
Evan Smith is a Research Fellow in History in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, South Australia. He has also previously worked for the Australian Institute of Criminology, the South Australian Office of Crime Statistics and Research and the Australian Taxation Office.
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The tactic of ‘no platforming’ has been used at British universities and colleges since the National Union of Students adopted the policy in the mid-1970s. The author traces the origins of the tactic from the militant anti-fascism of the 1930s–1940s and looks at how it has developed since the 1970s, being applied to various targets over the last 40 years, including sexists, homophobes, right-wing politicians and Islamic fundamentalists. This book provides a historical intervention in the current debates over the alleged free speech ‘crisis’ perceived to be plaguing universities in Britain, as well as North America and Australasia.
No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech is for academics and students, as well as the general reader, interested in modern British history, politics and higher education. Readers interested in contemporary debates over freedom of speech and academic freedom will also have much to discover in this book.
This collection, bringing together 14 chapters from leading and emerging figures in the Australian and international historical profession, for the first time charts some of these significant moments and interventions, revealing the Australian far left’s often forgotten contribution to the nation’s history.
The collection centres around the theme of Europe’s expansions and contractions that have occurred over the last five centuries and the profound way in which the idea of ‘Europe’ has shaped the globe. The collection spans a wide range of topics within this overall theme, with essays focusing on militarism in inter-war Germany, the Jewish diaspora, Australia’s migrant communities, Eastern European national identities, the shifting and lingering concept of European ‘civilisation’ and history, anthropology, post-colonialism and Marxism, and comparative empires.
The collection demonstrates that detailed case studies, often categorised by periodisation, regionalism and theme, can be weaved together to present a challenging and thought-provoking idea of what European history can look like in the twenty-first century.
INTRODUCTION ONLINE FOR DOWNLOAD
LIST OF CHAPTERS:
1. Introduction - Evan Smith
2. The Reichwehr's Anti-Pacifist Campaign in the Final Years of the Weimar Republic - Steven Welch
3. Hindenburg, Hitler and Heusinger: A Fresh Look at German Military Policy, 1919-1955 - Juergen Foerster
4. The Fischer Controversy Revisited - John A. Moses
5. 'Privileged' Jews, Holocaust Representation and the 'Limits' of Judgment: The Case of Raul Hilberg - Adam Brown
6. In Search of Fritz Philippsborn: The Double Diaspora of a Jewish German - John Milfull
7. Blurred Borders: German Language Newspapers and Deutschtum in Australia- Rebecca Vonhoff
8. Italians Abroad: Critical Factors in the Development of Italian National Identity - Karen Agutter
9. Migration Generated Expansion of European Influence and the Role of Croatian Diaspora - Walter F. Lalich
10. Cigars as Symbols of Hungarian Patriotism: The Economic Origins of Cultural Nationalism - Alexander Maxwell
11. 'Our Faithfully Kept, Age-Old Inheritors': Transylvanian Saxon Folk Customs, Particularism and German Nationalism Between the Wars - Sacha E. Davis
12. 'The Dirtiest... Most Insignificant and Unpleasant Branch of Military Operations': Warfare and Civilisation in the Political Thought of Adam Ferguson - Bruce Buchan
13. The New Woman at Home and Abroad: Fiction, Female Identity and the British Empre - Sharon Crozier-de Rosa
14. The Anthropologist as Cold Warrior: The Interesting Times of Frederick Rose - Peter Monteath
15. 'Back to the USSR': Frederick Rose, the 'Stalin Criticism' and Anthropological Criticism During the Cold War - Valerie Munt
16. Bridging the Gap: The British Communist Party and the Limits of the State in Tackling Racism - Evan Smith
17. A New Perspective on European History in Australian Senior History Curricula from the Last 30 Years - Reinhard Kuehnel
18. Eurasian Contiguity and Russia's 'Stunted Nationhood' - Tania Rafass
Papers by Evan Smith
a diaspora organisation established to build support for Irish republicanism
within the British labour movement. The Connolly
Association and the Irish Democrat had strong links to the
Communist Party of Great Britain, which advocated for a peaceful
mass movement to challenge the British presence in Northern
Ireland and to remove discrimination faced by Catholics in the Six
Counties. Encouraged by the wave of decolonisation across the
British Empire in the 1950s-60s, both the CA and the CPGB saw
the struggle against Unionist rule in Northern Ireland as analogous
to events in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. This paper explores the
narration of anti-colonial and national liberation movements elsewhere
in the British Empire in the pages of the Irish Democrat and
the overdetermination of Irish national questions by post-war discourses
of radical decolonisation. It also traces the formation across
difference of specific solidarities between the Connolly Association
and other migrant communities within the multicultural political
geography of post-war Britain, including out of campaigns against
racial discrimination, the “colour bar” and post-war immigration
controls.
The tactic of ‘no platforming’ has been used at British universities and colleges since the National Union of Students adopted the policy in the mid-1970s. The author traces the origins of the tactic from the militant anti-fascism of the 1930s–1940s and looks at how it has developed since the 1970s, being applied to various targets over the last 40 years, including sexists, homophobes, right-wing politicians and Islamic fundamentalists. This book provides a historical intervention in the current debates over the alleged free speech ‘crisis’ perceived to be plaguing universities in Britain, as well as North America and Australasia.
No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech is for academics and students, as well as the general reader, interested in modern British history, politics and higher education. Readers interested in contemporary debates over freedom of speech and academic freedom will also have much to discover in this book.
This collection, bringing together 14 chapters from leading and emerging figures in the Australian and international historical profession, for the first time charts some of these significant moments and interventions, revealing the Australian far left’s often forgotten contribution to the nation’s history.
The collection centres around the theme of Europe’s expansions and contractions that have occurred over the last five centuries and the profound way in which the idea of ‘Europe’ has shaped the globe. The collection spans a wide range of topics within this overall theme, with essays focusing on militarism in inter-war Germany, the Jewish diaspora, Australia’s migrant communities, Eastern European national identities, the shifting and lingering concept of European ‘civilisation’ and history, anthropology, post-colonialism and Marxism, and comparative empires.
The collection demonstrates that detailed case studies, often categorised by periodisation, regionalism and theme, can be weaved together to present a challenging and thought-provoking idea of what European history can look like in the twenty-first century.
INTRODUCTION ONLINE FOR DOWNLOAD
LIST OF CHAPTERS:
1. Introduction - Evan Smith
2. The Reichwehr's Anti-Pacifist Campaign in the Final Years of the Weimar Republic - Steven Welch
3. Hindenburg, Hitler and Heusinger: A Fresh Look at German Military Policy, 1919-1955 - Juergen Foerster
4. The Fischer Controversy Revisited - John A. Moses
5. 'Privileged' Jews, Holocaust Representation and the 'Limits' of Judgment: The Case of Raul Hilberg - Adam Brown
6. In Search of Fritz Philippsborn: The Double Diaspora of a Jewish German - John Milfull
7. Blurred Borders: German Language Newspapers and Deutschtum in Australia- Rebecca Vonhoff
8. Italians Abroad: Critical Factors in the Development of Italian National Identity - Karen Agutter
9. Migration Generated Expansion of European Influence and the Role of Croatian Diaspora - Walter F. Lalich
10. Cigars as Symbols of Hungarian Patriotism: The Economic Origins of Cultural Nationalism - Alexander Maxwell
11. 'Our Faithfully Kept, Age-Old Inheritors': Transylvanian Saxon Folk Customs, Particularism and German Nationalism Between the Wars - Sacha E. Davis
12. 'The Dirtiest... Most Insignificant and Unpleasant Branch of Military Operations': Warfare and Civilisation in the Political Thought of Adam Ferguson - Bruce Buchan
13. The New Woman at Home and Abroad: Fiction, Female Identity and the British Empre - Sharon Crozier-de Rosa
14. The Anthropologist as Cold Warrior: The Interesting Times of Frederick Rose - Peter Monteath
15. 'Back to the USSR': Frederick Rose, the 'Stalin Criticism' and Anthropological Criticism During the Cold War - Valerie Munt
16. Bridging the Gap: The British Communist Party and the Limits of the State in Tackling Racism - Evan Smith
17. A New Perspective on European History in Australian Senior History Curricula from the Last 30 Years - Reinhard Kuehnel
18. Eurasian Contiguity and Russia's 'Stunted Nationhood' - Tania Rafass
a diaspora organisation established to build support for Irish republicanism
within the British labour movement. The Connolly
Association and the Irish Democrat had strong links to the
Communist Party of Great Britain, which advocated for a peaceful
mass movement to challenge the British presence in Northern
Ireland and to remove discrimination faced by Catholics in the Six
Counties. Encouraged by the wave of decolonisation across the
British Empire in the 1950s-60s, both the CA and the CPGB saw
the struggle against Unionist rule in Northern Ireland as analogous
to events in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. This paper explores the
narration of anti-colonial and national liberation movements elsewhere
in the British Empire in the pages of the Irish Democrat and
the overdetermination of Irish national questions by post-war discourses
of radical decolonisation. It also traces the formation across
difference of specific solidarities between the Connolly Association
and other migrant communities within the multicultural political
geography of post-war Britain, including out of campaigns against
racial discrimination, the “colour bar” and post-war immigration
controls.