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‘We Return Home in Glory’: Chinese Networks and Gold Seeking in Otago

Daniel Davy

in Gold Rush Societies and Migrant Networks in the Tasman World

Chapter Five draws on the diary of Alexander Don, a Presbyterian missionary to the Chinese in Otago. It charts the migration of Chinese prospectors and the means by which they attempted to maintain ... More

Chapter Five draws on the diary of Alexander Don, a Presbyterian missionary to the Chinese in Otago. It charts the migration of Chinese prospectors and the means by which they attempted to maintain connections to home and kin. It also maps Chinese societies onto the diggings when individuals lived and worked with migrants from the same family or village. The second half of the Chapter maps the responses of European colonists to Chinese gold seeking in Otago after the European gold rushes, and the ways in which debates about Chinese migration to Otago drew on similar debates occurring in California and Australia.Less

Conclusion

Mike Ananny

in Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear

This chapter presents the author's reflections on how the model of networked press autonomy discussed in the previous chapters might be used by journalists, technologists, regulators, designers, ... More

This chapter presents the author's reflections on how the model of networked press autonomy discussed in the previous chapters might be used by journalists, technologists, regulators, designers, educators, and audiences. The networked press is infrastructure that touches on nearly all aspects of society, so any reforms that are made to the press will require engaging with a wide range of actors and various types of power. It is argued that democratic autonomy and self-governance mean more than individuals being free from unreasonable constraints. To realize ourselves more fully, we need not only the right to access information, share opinions, and choose associations. We also need to see ourselves as publics—and question whether our publics have capacities to hear people and ideas that we would not choose to encounter.Less

Transatlantic Radicalism: A Short Introduction

Frank Jacob and Mario Keßler

Frank Jacob and Mario Keßler (eds)

in Transatlantic Radicalism: Socialist and Anarchist Exchanges in the 19th and 20th Centuries

This chapter introduced key problems related to rather understudied ties between radicals in their European, American, and thereby transatlantic contexts. It tries to highlight the issues individuals ... More

This chapter introduced key problems related to rather understudied ties between radicals in their European, American, and thereby transatlantic contexts. It tries to highlight the issues individuals faced with regard to the genesis and the later use of existent networks of transnational radicalism. Furthermore, the introduction highlights the structure of the book that will in the first part focus on organizational ties of radical political parties as well as press networks that connected Europe with the Americas (ch. 2-5). The second part then discusses the roles of individuals who acted as mediators between the two continents in many different ways (ch. 6-10).Less

Coda: Certain Trees

Ross Hair

in Avant-Folk: Small Press Poetry Networks from 1950 to the Present

‘Certain Trees’ concludes Avant-Folk by reflecting on the socio-creative implications of distribution within the small press networks examined in the previous chapters. Returning to Lorine Niedecker, ... More

‘Certain Trees’ concludes Avant-Folk by reflecting on the socio-creative implications of distribution within the small press networks examined in the previous chapters. Returning to Lorine Niedecker, the book’s Coda discusses an exhibition organised by Simon Cutts and Erica Van Horn, Certain Trees, that tacitly reaffirms the extended legacy of Niedecker and Jargon Society within the broader small press milieu covered in Avant-Folk. ‘Certain Trees’ also finds an apposite analogy for the ‘happy distribution’ of small press publications in John Bevis’s artists’ books on bird song and answers the questions initially raised in the introduction regarding the possibility of a remote, ‘elsewhere community’ of poets that remain united through amity, collaboration, and the complex infrastructures of small press networks.Less