The making and remaking of Australasia : mobility, texts and 'Southern circulations' / edited by Tony Ballantyne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ballantyne, Tony, editor.

Series:

Empire's other histories.

Empire's other histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travel.

Australasia--History.

Australasia.

Australasia--Description and travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

Summary:

"This book explores the emergence of 'Australasia' as a way of thinking about the culture and geography of this region. Although it is frequently understood to apply only to Australia and New Zealand, the concept has a longer and more complicated history. 'Australasia' emerged in the Mid-18th century in both French and British writing as European empires extended their reach into Asia and the Pacific, and initially held strong links to the Asian continent. The book shows that interpretations and understandings of 'Australasia' shifted away from Asia in light of British imperial interests in the 19th century, and the concept was adapted by varying political agendas and cultural visions in order to reach into the Pacific or towards Antarctica. The Making and Remaking of 'Australasia' offers a number of rich case studies which highlight how the idea itself was adapted and moulded by people and texts both in the Southern Hemisphere and the imperial metropole where a range of competing actors articulated divergent visions of this part of the British Empire. An important contribution to the cultural history of the British Empire, Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Studies, this collection shows how 'Australasia' has had multiple, often contrasting, meanings."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: southern circulations and the making, remaking and unmaking of Australasia / Tony Ballantyne (University of Otago, New Zealand)

Section I: Circulating People and the Production of Space. 1. Circulating texts on circulating people: mobilities, epistemic violence, and the creation of the imagined Australasian / Rachel Standfield (University of Melbourne, Australia) ; 2. The Tasman Sea in late-nineteenth century colonial life / David Haines (Te Arawhiti, the Office for Maori Crown Relations, New Zealand) ; 3. Triangular Formation: Australia, New Zealand and Fiji / Frances Steel (University of Wollongong, Australia) ; 4. The League of Coloured Peoples and 'The Australians': Black British Concern for the Global South / Fiona Paisley (Griffith University, Australia) ; 5. 'We seem to shake hands across the seas': Dora Meeson Coates and the lost world of Australasian suffrage activism / James Keating (University of New South Wales, Australia) ; 6. Circulations of belonging: Chinese British subjects in Australasia, 1880

1915 / Kate Bagnall (University of Tasmania, Australia) ; 7. Austral-Asia: a view from the north and west / Shino Konishi (University of Western Australia)

Section II: Texts in Motion. 8. Antipodean Perspectives: The Politics and Economics of Being Topsy-Turvy / Sarah Comyn (University College Dublin, Ireland) ; 9. Affective Grounds: Melodrama, Touring, and Bad Feeling Across Australia and New Zealand / Porscha Fermanis (University College Dublin, Ireland) ; 10. When Detection Goes South: Ngaio Marsh's Wartime "New Zealand" Novels, 1937-1945 / Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) ; 11. Australasian writing in the Southern Hemisphere / Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford, UK)

Section III: Environmental Transformations. 12. We Keep Down Our Remorse: Anthony Trollope and the Emotional Politics of Agriculture / Grace Moore (University of Otago, New Zealand) ; 13. The Brooch Clam; or, HMS Challenger Sails into Extinction / Gillen D'Arcy Wood, (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) ; 14. Gorse is People / Thomas McLean (University of Otago, New Zealand).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-350-26417-2

OCLC:

1295016571