Dr. Dan Tout
Lecturer, History and Sociology
Dr Dan Tout is a Lecturer in history and sociology at Federation University Australia and an Arena Publications Editor. He co-edited the book Cold War to Hot Planet: Fifty Years of Arena (Arena, 2016) and has published a number of refereed articles in journals including Journal of Australian Studies, Australian Journal of Politics & History, Settler Colonial Studies, Agora, and Cultural Studies Review.
Dan currently teaches in Federation University’s history, sociology and Indigenous studies programs, having previously taught at the University of Melbourne, Victoria University and Swinburne University of Technology, where he obtained his PhD in 2018.
Dr Tout’s areas of interest and expertise include the history of settler–Indigenous relations in Australia, settler colonial studies, critical Indigenous studies, the sociology of nationalism and national identity, and Australian cultural and political history. His research focuses on settler colonialism and nationalism in Australia and their impacts on and implications for First Nations peoples.
‘Australia’ as competing projects of settler nationalism
Dreaming of an Indigenised Australia
The negative Commonwealth: Australia as ‘laboratory’, then and now
Aboriginal Use of Fire as a Weapon in Colonial Victoria: A Preliminary Analysis
Not Invisible, Not Silent, Not Nameless: Dja Dja Wurrung Contributions to Nineteenth-Century Goldfields Society in Central Victoria, Australia
Aboriginal fire-management practices in colonial Victoria
Rex Ingamells and Ted Strehlow: Correspondences and Contradictions in Australian Settler Nationalism
The standard story of Australian national cultural development revolves around a fundamental...
"All that appears possible now is to mitigate as much as possible the trials of their closing years"1: Alfred deakin's attitudes to aboriginal affairs
This article examines Alfred Deakin’s attitudes towards, and impacts upon, Aboriginal people...
Encountering indigeneity: Xavier Herbert, 'Inky' Stephensen and the problems of settler nationalism
The 1930s in Australia was a period marked by rising awareness of and attention to Australia’s...
Neither Nationalists nor Universalists: Rex Ingamells and the Jindyworobaks
THE JINDYWOROBAK POETRY MOVEMENT, FOUNDED BY REX INGAMELLS IN 1938, emerged in the context of a...
Reconsidering the Origins of the Australian Legend
Reframing "Inky" Stephensen's Place in Australian Cultural History
This article examines the existing literature surrounding Percy Reginald Stephensen...
The Janus faces of indigenous politics
Student mentors in physical and virtual learning spaces
This chapter explores the human element in the learning space through the notion that once a...
Using mobile peer mentors for student engagement: Student Rovers in the Learning Commons
This paper presents findings from a 2010 evaluation of Victoria University's Student Rover...
Only Planet: Unsettling Travel, Culture and Climate Change in Settler Australia
Dorothea Mackellar’s infamous flooding rains were absent from the Victorian environment for...
Unsettling conceptions of wilderness and nature
Prior to the currently emerging popular awareness of anthropogenic climate change, there existed...
Being Dumped From Facebook: Negotiating Issues of Boundaries and Identity in an Online Social Networking Space
While Facebook, the world’s most popular Social Networking Site (SNS), has been warmly welcomed...
Student mentors in physical and virtual learning spaces
International Journal of Training Research
Victoria University, like many other educational institutions, has recently nominated...