Native to the nation : disciplining landscapes and bodies in Australia / Allaine Cerwonka.

Focusing on Australia, Allaine Cerwonka examines the physical and narrative spatial practices by which people reclaim territory in the wake of postcolonial claims to land by indigenous people and new immigration of "foreigners."Native to the Nation provides a multisited ethnography of two...

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Main Author: Cerwonka, Allaine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2004.
Series:Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 21.
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Summary:Focusing on Australia, Allaine Cerwonka examines the physical and narrative spatial practices by which people reclaim territory in the wake of postcolonial claims to land by indigenous people and new immigration of "foreigners."Native to the Nation provides a multisited ethnography of two communities in Melbourne, allowing us to see how bodies are managed and nations physically constructed in everyday confrontations.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-266) and index.
ISBN:9780816695942
0816695946
Language:English.