Dispossession, Dreams, and Diversity

Issues in Australian Studies

Paperback Engels 2006 9781740910965
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Dispossession, Dreams and Diversity: Issues in Australian Studies introduces key topics and questions about Australia as a society, a culture and a nation. It engages with major debates within the academic and public spheres, political discourse and cultural representations, and outlines both historical and theoretical approaches to these debates.

 

The text examines the social or historical contexts that influence the meanings and structures of 'Australianness', and provides further discussion of many issues that can often be covered only briefly in the limited time allowed for lectures and seminars.

 

Each issue-based chapter of the book can stand alone, but contains references to themes across the book. Among the themes explored are:

·         the relationship between national identities and national histories

·        claims to legitimate possession of the land and stories of belonging

·         the interaction of Indigenous and non-Indigenous understandings of history, country and possession

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ISBN13:9781740910965
Taal:Engels
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<ul> <li>Acknowledgments</li> <li>Introduction</li> <li><strong>PART I: HISTORIES AND IDENTITIES</strong></li> <li>1. Nations and national identity: too much or not enough?</li> <li>2. Environment and settlement</li> <li>3. Colonial identities: race, empire and nation</li> <li>4. Aboriginal history and Australian history</li> <li>5. Australia days: the meaning of national occasions</li> <li>6. War, nation and public commemoration: the meanings of ANZAC</li> <li><strong>PART II: CULTURES AND COUNTRY</strong></li> <li>7. Land, place and possession</li> <li>8. ‘For all Australians’: the Red Centre, Aboriginal landscapes and national symbols</li> <li>9. Performing Australia: television, cinema and sport</li> <li>10. Australian modernity</li> <li>11. Americanisation and Australian culture in a global context</li> <li>12. Contemporary Aboriginal cultures</li> <li><strong>PART III: POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONS</strong></li> <li>13. Australian in the world: from Empire to Asia?</li> <li>14. ‘A nation of immigrants’: Australia’s immigration history</li> <li>15. Multicultural Australia or Australian multiculturalism?</li> <li>16. Egalitarianism: ideals and outcomes</li> <li>17. Social orders: gender in Australian society</li> <li>18. First nations: the struggle for Indigenous rights<br> </li> </ul>

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