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Native to the nation : disciplining landscapes and bodies in Australia / Allaine Cerwonka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cerwonka, Allaine.
- Series:
- Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 21.
- Borderlines ; v. 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, Australian.
- Multiculturalism--Australia.
- Multiculturalism.
- Natural landscaping--Australia.
- Natural landscaping.
- Australia--Ethnic relations.
- Australia.
- Australia--Race relations.
- Australia--Emigration and immigration.
- Australia--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-266) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9594-6
- OCLC:
- 476095531
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