Jon Piccini
@jonpiccini.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer. Reviews editor. Union Thug. ADHD haver. Writing a history of Australian empire. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Tweets mine. He/him
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Jon Piccini
@jonpiccini.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Tourism, Americanization and the Vietnam War R&R Scheme in Sydney, Australia, 1967–71 - Chris Dixon, Lisa Featherstone, Jon Piccini, 2024
Australia's addition to the Vietnam War R&R scheme in September 1967 brought some 280,000 short-stay tourists to Sydney, and particularly its notorious ‘red lig...
journals.sagepub.com
Excited to see this, the first output of our ARC project on Vietnam war R&R in Sydney, live at Journal of Contemporary history. We look at how the scheme awkwardly positioned white Australia within an emerging neo-colonial tourist economy. And it's OA! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Just finished putting together a basketball hoop, time to sit down and check in on the ashes..
December 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Just finished putting together a basketball hoop, time to sit down and check in on the ashes..
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It's out!🍾
I am delighted to announce the publication of our "Germany's History Wars. Contesting Memory and Identity Today"
It is Open Access!
👇 You can download it here for free.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
I am delighted to announce the publication of our "Germany's History Wars. Contesting Memory and Identity Today"
It is Open Access!
👇 You can download it here for free.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
December 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
It's out!🍾
I am delighted to announce the publication of our "Germany's History Wars. Contesting Memory and Identity Today"
It is Open Access!
👇 You can download it here for free.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
I am delighted to announce the publication of our "Germany's History Wars. Contesting Memory and Identity Today"
It is Open Access!
👇 You can download it here for free.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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A surprise Xmas gift, my article on the Anthropocene and self-consciousness is out!
The article develops an eco-Marxist interpretation of the discovery that Earth is an integrated system, a discovery we have made in grasping our own role in shaping it.
It’s open access: doi.org/10.1177/0725...
The article develops an eco-Marxist interpretation of the discovery that Earth is an integrated system, a discovery we have made in grasping our own role in shaping it.
It’s open access: doi.org/10.1177/0725...
December 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
A surprise Xmas gift, my article on the Anthropocene and self-consciousness is out!
The article develops an eco-Marxist interpretation of the discovery that Earth is an integrated system, a discovery we have made in grasping our own role in shaping it.
It’s open access: doi.org/10.1177/0725...
The article develops an eco-Marxist interpretation of the discovery that Earth is an integrated system, a discovery we have made in grasping our own role in shaping it.
It’s open access: doi.org/10.1177/0725...
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Pro-Palestine academic Randa Abdel-Fattah cleared of wrongdoing after investigation into research grant www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Pro-Palestine academic Randa Abdel-Fattah cleared of wrongdoing after investigation into research grant
A suspension on the grant was lifted earlier this month, after a 10-month investigation into potential conflicts of interest
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Pro-Palestine academic Randa Abdel-Fattah cleared of wrongdoing after investigation into research grant www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
It's a Christmas miracle!
December 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM
It's a Christmas miracle!
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And The Dude, who DID abide
December 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
And The Dude, who DID abide
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Very interested to see that the parliamentary debates of New Guinea (1934-41) and Papua New Guinea under Australian rule (1952-75), as well as independent PNG (1975-99), have now been digitised by Trove.
www.library.gov.au/news-media/p...
www.library.gov.au/news-media/p...
Papua New Guinea: 50 years of Independence | National Library of Australia (NLA)
Explore parliamentary debates relating to the Independence of Papua New Guinea.
www.library.gov.au
December 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Very interested to see that the parliamentary debates of New Guinea (1934-41) and Papua New Guinea under Australian rule (1952-75), as well as independent PNG (1975-99), have now been digitised by Trove.
www.library.gov.au/news-media/p...
www.library.gov.au/news-media/p...
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Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges
December 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges
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I find it incredibly difficult to write about my Jewishness. I didn't want to write this, but I did.
We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.
We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.
Holding complexity amidst catastrophe
I didn't want to write this.
I don't want to write this.
I feel like I need to write something.
I am writing this.
I am not good at writing about my Jewish experience.
I am still writing this, ei...
in-between-days.ghost.io
December 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I find it incredibly difficult to write about my Jewishness. I didn't want to write this, but I did.
We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.
We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.
The pigeon lady in home alone 2 is actually a sympathetic portrayal of Ayn Rand.
December 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The pigeon lady in home alone 2 is actually a sympathetic portrayal of Ayn Rand.
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Is vinyl bad for the environment? Are Christmas decorations a microaggresion? Is AI my friend?
December 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Is vinyl bad for the environment? Are Christmas decorations a microaggresion? Is AI my friend?
Yearly reminder that Home Alone is a Vietnam War movie.
The movie Home Alone was released in November 1990, at the start of the US-led Gulf War. It was #1 at the box office until that wars end, in February 1991. The film’s popularity can in part be explained by its fitting with liberal arguments about America’s failure in Vietnam 1/10
December 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Yearly reminder that Home Alone is a Vietnam War movie.
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Sonar Guy is always the most fun guy on the submarine in a submarine movie. no one knows why but it's always true
December 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Sonar Guy is always the most fun guy on the submarine in a submarine movie. no one knows why but it's always true
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Here, for @historyworkshop.org.uk I discuss the history of a refuge for trans women.
I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans.
I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women.
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans.
I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women.
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
Reconsidering Violence Against Women through the History of a Refuge for Trans Women
Abstract. Both right-wing forces and gender-critical feminists currently frame cis and trans women’s needs as fundamentally different and conflicting. Viol
academic.oup.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Here, for @historyworkshop.org.uk I discuss the history of a refuge for trans women.
I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans.
I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women.
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans.
I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women.
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
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'... the horror of the Bondi killings facilitates a renewed ideological campaign against Gaza solidarity by those who always hated the anti-genocide movement.'
overland.org.au/2025/12/on-t...
overland.org.au/2025/12/on-t...
On the need for a renewed democratic universalism - Overland literary journal
If we’re to emerge from this awful spiral, in which one form of identitarian chauvinism spurs the next, we’ll only do so on the basis of a very different politics: one that takes for granted the abili...
overland.org.au
December 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
'... the horror of the Bondi killings facilitates a renewed ideological campaign against Gaza solidarity by those who always hated the anti-genocide movement.'
overland.org.au/2025/12/on-t...
overland.org.au/2025/12/on-t...
A bit late but couldn't resist
December 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A bit late but couldn't resist
There is a special place in hell for people who organise their books by colour.
December 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
There is a special place in hell for people who organise their books by colour.
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“But it’s also that this land, this beautiful Aboriginal land, was not made to hold such grief. It can, and it does, but it shouldn’t have this burden thrust upon itself.”
@jordanas.bsky.social on the logic of violence that permeates Australia.
@jordanas.bsky.social on the logic of violence that permeates Australia.
Yes, this is what Australia is - Overland literary journal
Imagine though the possibility of a response which was not horrid. Which did not demand more violence be piled up. Which led us to other ways of being together, other horizons of possible futures. Ima...
overland.org.au
December 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“But it’s also that this land, this beautiful Aboriginal land, was not made to hold such grief. It can, and it does, but it shouldn’t have this burden thrust upon itself.”
@jordanas.bsky.social on the logic of violence that permeates Australia.
@jordanas.bsky.social on the logic of violence that permeates Australia.
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a friend reminded me of the existence of Conor Court publishing and after twenty minutes on the website I discovered it: the perfect Christmas gift for young and old, friend or foe
December 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
a friend reminded me of the existence of Conor Court publishing and after twenty minutes on the website I discovered it: the perfect Christmas gift for young and old, friend or foe