ISBN:
0816643490
,
0816643482
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xi, 269 p)
,
ill
,
24 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Serie:
Borderlines v. 21
Paralleltitel:
Print version Native to the Nation : Disciplining Landscapes and Bodies in Australia
DDC:
305.8/00994
Schlagwort(e):
Natural landscaping
;
Multiculturalism
;
National characteristics, Australian
;
Australia ; Emigration and immigration
;
Australia ; Ethnic relations
;
Australia ; Politics and government
;
Australia ; Race relations
;
Multiculturalism ; Australia
;
National characteristics, Australian
;
Natural landscaping ; Australia
;
Electronic books
;
Australia Politics and government
;
Australia Emigration and immigration
;
Australia Race relations
;
Australia Ethnic relations
Kurzfassung:
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
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Roots, Dislocations, and Origin Stories; 1.A Picturesque Nation for a ""Barren"" Continent; 2.Going Native; 3.Policing the Body Politic: Mapping Bodies and Space in Fitzroy; 4.The Poor White Trash of Asia: Criminality and Australia in the International Landscape; Conclusion: On the Margins of Nation; Notes; Work cited; Index
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-266) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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