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A History of Displaced Knowledge: Austrian Refugees from National Socialism in Australia
Series: - Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 54/17
- Studies in Global Migration History, Volume: 54/17
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This book follows ideas and knowledge that migrated in the cultural baggage of Austrian refugees, who fled to Australia in 1938 and 1939 because of National Socialism. By telling and comparing the stories of twenty-six different lives, it highlights the processes of acquisition, transportation, translation, and adaption of ideas, knowledge, and cultural capital. This provides a unique and colourful insight into the impact of a group of refugees on their host society over several decades.
As the book shows, there were many different ways in which displaced people relied upon their social and cultural capital to first escape their oppressive homeland and then build new lives. Once they had arrived in Australia, they used very different approaches to negotiate and promote their knowledge and to exercise agency.
As the book shows, there were many different ways in which displaced people relied upon their social and cultural capital to first escape their oppressive homeland and then build new lives. Once they had arrived in Australia, they used very different approaches to negotiate and promote their knowledge and to exercise agency.
Philipp Strobl, Ph.D. (2014), University of Innsbruck, is a historian at the University of Vienna, focusing on the intersection of the history of knowledge and the history of migration. He has published monographs, edited volumes, articles, radio plays, and podcasts on the history of migration, and in particular on migrating knowledge and its impact on societies in Europe, the United States, and Australia.
"Anyone looking for a carefully focused and well informed study of the ways in which Jewish refugees negotiated their displacement and resettlement will certainly profit from this book." – Peter Gatrell, in: European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire [DOI: H-Soz-Kult
The book will appeal to academic researchers and graduate students working in Migration History, History of Knowledge, Jewish History, Cultural History, Austrian History and Australian History and more generally to those interested in issues of exile and diaspora. It is relevant for researchers in the field of Migration History and the History of Knowledge and for research libraries.