The Relevance of Environment in History

09/02/13 • 31 min

Analyses of space and place often intersect with history making. An increasing awareness of climate change has made some Australian historians particularly aware of the ways in which the landscape and the land might have shaped the Australian sense of ‘self’.’

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The Importance of Women's History

Women’s history closely aligns with cultural and social history in its inclusive approach. It emerged alongside the cultural turn in the 1990s as key-defining category of historical inquiry. Women’s history often analyses modes of private vs. public activity amongst women and the ways in which women negotiated gendered assumptions within the historical circles.

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The Human Body and the Telling of History

Histories of the body have been powerfully shaped by the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault who examined the ways in which the body was shaped by the medico-political space. Histories of the body intersect with the history of medicine and the history of science and might also interact with sensory history, the history of visual culture and the history of emotion.