Imagining Australian space : cultural studies and spatial inquiry / edited by Ruth Barcan and Ian Buchanan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barcan, Ruth.

Buchanan, Ian, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spatial behavior--Australia.

Spatial behavior.

National characteristics, Australian.

Nationalism--Australia.

Nationalism.

Australia.

Space and time.

Physical Description:

218 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Nedlands, Western Australia : University of Western Australia Press, 1999.

Contents:

Introduction: Imagining Space / Ruth Barcan, Ian Buchanan 7

Imagining "Australia"

Upside-Down and Inside-Out: Notes on the Australian Cultural Unconscious / John O'Carroll 13

Fantasies of the Antipodes / Paul Longley Arthur 37

"A Prospect of Future Regularity": Spatial Technologies in Colonial Australia / Tony Hughes-d'Aeth 47

Spatial Semiotics

White Australia and the Aboriginal Invention of Space / Bob Hodge 59

Privates in Public: The Space of the Urinal / Ruth Barcan 75

Bodies in Space

Driving Like A Boy: Sexual Difference, Embodiment and Space / Susan Best 93

Bodies in Motion: Spatialising Practice in Australian Dance / Elizabeth Dempster 103

Outback, Wilderness, Nature

The Gender of Gardens: The Space of the Garden in Nineteenth-Century Australia / Susan K. Martin 115

Outback / Stephen Muecke 127

Place and Space: Views from a Tasmanian Mountain / Fiona Polack 145

Lost Spaces

Drowned, Moved, Transferred or Rebuilt? Thinking about the Language of Lost Places / Peter Read 159

Postmodern Space

Non-Places: Space in the Age of Supermodernity / Ian Buchanan 169

Tactile Simulations: Architecture and the Image of the Public at Brisbane's Kodak Beach / John Macarthur 177

Little Home Page on the Prairie: Narratives of Exploration and Settlement on the Electronic Frontier / Elizabeth Ferrier 193.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1876268379

OCLC:

43676178