Jatinder Mann
Dr. Jatinder Mann specialises in transnational and comparative history, law, and politics with a focus on Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, South Africa, and the British World. He is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Reading. Jatinder is also the Creator and Manager of the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Studies Network (ACNZSN). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Jatinder is British and of South Asian descent, specifically from the Punjab. His current research project is on the ‘Transnational Identities of the Global South Asian Diaspora in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, and South Africa, 1900s-1940s’. Jatinder has over forty refereed publications, which include twelve books and edited journals. His most recent book is Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge (2024). Jatinder has also published numerous articles in front-ranking and emerging interdisciplinary journals. He is a co-editor in the forthcoming Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia in War and Peace, 1914-1919 with UNSW Press. Jatinder is also the editor for a book series on ‘Studies in Transnationalism’ with Peter Lang Publishing. He is the Editor-in-chief and Book Reviews Editor of the Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies (JACANZS). Jatinder was also awarded the prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Alberta. He was a recipient of the highly competitive Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship for his doctoral research at the University of Sydney. Jatinder has also held visiting fellowships at King’s College London, the Australian National University, Carleton University, and Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.
Research Interests:
- Transnational and comparative history, politics, and law
- Citizenship
- Ethnicity
- Indigeneity
- Migration
- Multiculturalism
- Nationalism
- The history of the British World
- Australian, Canadian, Aotearoa New Zealand, and South African cultural, intellectual, political, and social history
- Australian diplomatic and military history
- Legal history
Teaching:
I taught the following courses in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom:
- The History of Australia since 1901
- The History of Canada since 1867
- The History of Aotearoa New Zealand since 1907
- World History: Civilizations in Contact
- The Individual and Society
- The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
- Orientalism: Western Imaginaries of the Middle East
I have also taught guest lectures, seminars, and tutorials on the following undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Australia and the UK:
- History of Australia since 1788
- Australia and the World
- Australia in the Second World War: Strategy, Politics & Diplomacy
- British Settler Societies: Colonies, Dominions and Nations since 1800
- Twentieth Century Australia: War and Society
Volunteer Positions:
- I am a member of the editorial board of the New Zealand Journal of History
Public Engagement:
- Interviewed on ABC Nightlife on ‘Australia and the Dardanelles Commission’ (June 2021)
- Interviewed live on RED FM (a Punjabi-speaking radio station in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) on the political situation in Hong Kong (June 2020)
- Interviewed live on Connect FM (a Punjabi-speaking radio station in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada) on the political situation in Hong Kong (May 2020)
- Interviewed by Citizen (University of Melbourne) on the transnational activism of the South Asian diaspora (May 2020)
- Interviewed by McGill Reporter for Four Burning Questions on ‘Jatinder Mann on the search for a new national identity’ (June 2017)
- Interviewed by AMES Australia on my book leading to an article entitled ‘Multiculturalism in Canada and Australia – A comparative history’ (March 2017)
- Interviewed live on ABC Radio Brisbane regarding my book: The Search for a New Identity: The Rise of Multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, 1890s-1970s (February 2017)
- Interviewed live on RED FM (a Punjabi-speaking radio station in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) on my research (February 2015)
- Interviewed live on BBC World News on Australian/Indonesian relations and the boat people issue (September 2013)
- Live Skype interview with Channel News Asia (an English-language Singapore based news channel) on the upcoming Australian Federal Election (September 2013)
- Interviewed for television and radio programmes by ABC London on the upcoming Australian Federal Election (August 2013)
- Interviewed by a representative of the Australian Associated Press (AAP) (January 2013) on Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s decision to announce that the next federal election would be held in September 2013. Interview formed the basis of an article published in The Sydney Morning Herald on ‘Ex-pats voting in Britain could be decisive’
Address: Follow me on Blue Sky @drjatindermann.bsky.social
Research Interests:
- Transnational and comparative history, politics, and law
- Citizenship
- Ethnicity
- Indigeneity
- Migration
- Multiculturalism
- Nationalism
- The history of the British World
- Australian, Canadian, Aotearoa New Zealand, and South African cultural, intellectual, political, and social history
- Australian diplomatic and military history
- Legal history
Teaching:
I taught the following courses in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom:
- The History of Australia since 1901
- The History of Canada since 1867
- The History of Aotearoa New Zealand since 1907
- World History: Civilizations in Contact
- The Individual and Society
- The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
- Orientalism: Western Imaginaries of the Middle East
I have also taught guest lectures, seminars, and tutorials on the following undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Australia and the UK:
- History of Australia since 1788
- Australia and the World
- Australia in the Second World War: Strategy, Politics & Diplomacy
- British Settler Societies: Colonies, Dominions and Nations since 1800
- Twentieth Century Australia: War and Society
Volunteer Positions:
- I am a member of the editorial board of the New Zealand Journal of History
Public Engagement:
- Interviewed on ABC Nightlife on ‘Australia and the Dardanelles Commission’ (June 2021)
- Interviewed live on RED FM (a Punjabi-speaking radio station in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) on the political situation in Hong Kong (June 2020)
- Interviewed live on Connect FM (a Punjabi-speaking radio station in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada) on the political situation in Hong Kong (May 2020)
- Interviewed by Citizen (University of Melbourne) on the transnational activism of the South Asian diaspora (May 2020)
- Interviewed by McGill Reporter for Four Burning Questions on ‘Jatinder Mann on the search for a new national identity’ (June 2017)
- Interviewed by AMES Australia on my book leading to an article entitled ‘Multiculturalism in Canada and Australia – A comparative history’ (March 2017)
- Interviewed live on ABC Radio Brisbane regarding my book: The Search for a New Identity: The Rise of Multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, 1890s-1970s (February 2017)
- Interviewed live on RED FM (a Punjabi-speaking radio station in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) on my research (February 2015)
- Interviewed live on BBC World News on Australian/Indonesian relations and the boat people issue (September 2013)
- Live Skype interview with Channel News Asia (an English-language Singapore based news channel) on the upcoming Australian Federal Election (September 2013)
- Interviewed for television and radio programmes by ABC London on the upcoming Australian Federal Election (August 2013)
- Interviewed by a representative of the Australian Associated Press (AAP) (January 2013) on Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s decision to announce that the next federal election would be held in September 2013. Interview formed the basis of an article published in The Sydney Morning Herald on ‘Ex-pats voting in Britain could be decisive’
Address: Follow me on Blue Sky @drjatindermann.bsky.social
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groups in the country. It will then study the Māori Affairs Amendment Act of 1967 and the subsequent Māori Affairs Amendment Act of 1974 to highlight the ways in which citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand also attempted to incorporate Māori, but this proved highly problematic and at this stage, unresolved.
À la fin du 19e siècle, pour la première fois de son histoire, le Canada commençait à accueillir des vagues importantes d’immigrants non britanniques. Ces nouveaux arrivants entraient dans un pays qui se percevait en grande partie comme une société britannique. Les anglophones canadiens se considéraient en effet comme une composante centrale de la « race » britannique mondiale. Les francophones, en revanche, étaient de toute évidence exclus de cette identité ethnique. Par ailleurs, une autre composante essentielle de l’identité nationale canadienne anglophone était la pérennité du pays en tant que société blanche. Les immigrants blancs non britanniques étaient donc tenus de s’assimiler sans délai à la société anglophone anglocentrique. Mais dans les années 1950, l’identité britannique des anglophones du Canada a commencé à s’effriter lentement. La politique du « White Canada » a aussi commencé à se fissurer à ce moment-là, et cela a affaibli conséquemment la politique d’assimilation reposant sur « l’angloconformité » adoptée envers les immigrants non britanniques.
a more civic-founded one – which was more inclusive of other ethnic groups and Indigenous peoples. This chapter will argue that this redefinition of citizenship took place primarily in the context of this major shift in national identity. After having
established the context of the end of the British World in Canada (with a focus on the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the UK’s application for entry into the European Economic Community [EEC]), it will explore the Canadian Citizenship Act of 1977 to illustrate the way in which citizenship became more inclusive of other ethnic groups in the country. It will then study the awarding of the right to vote for First Nations in 1960 to highlight the way in which citizenship in Canada also incorporated Indigenous groups at this time.
contributors are engaged in cutting-edge research as some argue for a post-citizenship world, others questioning the very concept itself, or its application to Indigenous nations.