Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140100878

Funded Activity Summary

The Other War: An investigation via documentary film into images of race and otherness in WW1 and their implications for Indigenous communities today. . In 1915, German scientists began an immense task of wartime science designed to categorise 'the peoples of the world'. This ideological experiment involved Indigenous Australian and Pacific prisoners of war, and paved the way to post-war Nazi racial ideology. The sound, image and other cultural records captured during this wartime experiment are now listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. This project will use documentary film and will apply innovative and socially inclusive 'reconciling' research methodologies to repatriate significant Australian cultural records from this World War I prisoners of war archive. It will document a post-colonial chapter in the aesthetics of 'otherness', and describe an important history of indigenous involvement in the foundational Australian narrative of World War I conflict.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 07-01-2014

End Date: 07-12-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $394,605.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Media Studies | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History | Film, Television and Digital Media | Film and Television

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Social Ethics | Understanding Australia's Past | Visual Communication |

Other Keywords

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History | Film and Television | Film, Television and Digital Media | Media Studies | Social Ethics | Understanding Australia's Past | Visual Communication

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