Challenging colonialism: Australians who helped us embrace human equality

这个项目旨在调查十位有影响力的澳大利亚思想家、作家和活动家如何通过追踪殖民主义和种族不平等的挑战如何在20世纪中期帮助这个国家拥抱人类平等。它希望产生关于定居者国家非殖民化的新知识，并在方法上进行创新，使用群体传记来跟踪思想如何通过网络传播出去。预期结果包括加深对活动家和团体如何成功地向澳大利亚主流解释人权和平等的理解。好处应该包括对平等思想如何侵蚀了澳大利亚人对白人的文化接受以及澳大利亚人将他们的社会重新定义为多元化的新见解。

This project aims to investigate how ten influential Australian thinkers, writers and activists helped the nation to embrace human equality in the mid-twentieth century, by tracing how challenges to colonialism and racial inequality circulated. It expects to produce new knowledge about decolonisation in a settler-state and is methodologically innovative in using group biography to follow how ideas spread outwards via networks. Expected outcomes include developed understanding of how activists and groups successfully explained human rights and equality to mainstream Australia. Benefits should include new insight into how ideas of equality eroded cultural acceptance of White Australia and Australians reconceptualised their society as diverse.