Nile, Richard

James Cook University
Australia
Richard Nile is Head of Humanities and Creative Arts at James Cook University and a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia.

Contributions

  • Post Memory Violence
    Articles
    Hundreds of thousands of Australian children were born in the shadow of the Great War, fathered by men who had enlisted between 1914 and 1918. Their lives could be and often were hard and unhappy, as Anzac historian Alistair Thomson observed of his father’s childhood in the 1920s and 1930s. David Thomson was son of a returned serviceman Hector Thomson who spent much of his adult life in and...Read more
    M/C Journal Vol. 23 No. 2 (2020): violence
  • North by North
    Editorial
    Seven centuries of cartographic convention has placed north at the top of maps, and by logical extension at the top of the world. This convention has been closely aligned with another, known as the Mercator projection. Devised by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1659, this system of map-making has been uncritically handed down through the centuries to the present time and...Read more
    M/C Journal Vol. 20 No. 6 (2017): north