Native to the nation : disciplining landscapes and bodies in Australia

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cerwonka, Allaine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2004.
Series:Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 21.
Subjects:
National characteristics, Australian.
Multiculturalism > Australia.
Natural landscaping > Australia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic relations
Multiculturalism
National characteristics, Australian
Natural landscaping
Politics and government
Race relations
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
Nationenbildung
Ethnische Beziehungen
Landschaftspflege
Nationalcharakter
Multiculturalisme > Australie.
Australia > Ethnic relations.
Australia > Race relations.
Australia > Emigration and immigration.
Australia > Politics and government.
Australia
Australien
Australie > Relations interethniques.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : roots, dislocations, and origin stories
  • A picturesque nation for a "barren" continent
  • Going native
  • Policing the body politic : mapping bodies and space in Fitzroy
  • The poor white trash of Asia : criminality and Australia in the international landscape
  • Conclusion : on the margins of nation.

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