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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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Cerwonka, Allaine
Formatua: eBook
Hizkuntza:English
Argitaratua: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2004.
Saila:Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 21.
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Sarrera elektronikoa:Click for online access
Aurkibidea:
  • 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.