Book chapter
Landscapes of colonial Australian entanglement: authorities, self-definition and cultural pedagogy
Handbook on Space, Place and Law, pp.217-228
Edward Elgar Publishing
23/04/2021
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Abstract
Several recent debates in Australian public culture have revealed the ways that the British colonial tradition continues to shape national identity through specific landscapes of belonging. This chapter examines how cultural and social priorities are questioned, challenged and represented against a field of dominant societal values, traditions, memory, history and beliefs. The discussion focuses on several contested moments and examples of belonging: the Change the Date campaign to alter the official national day of Australia; the same-sex marriage postal vote; and the suffering experienced by asylum-seekers in Australia’s off-shore detention centres. The chapter concludes with a representation of an imagined Australian identity based on connectedness and belonging, taking place in a decolonized landscape in which the monuments and sites of colonialism are re-inscribed or removed to enable new ways of learning and national self-definition.
Details
- Title
- Landscapes of colonial Australian entanglement: authorities, self-definition and cultural pedagogy
- Creators
- John RyanBaden Offord
- Publication Details
- Handbook on Space, Place and Law, pp.217-228
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Number of pages
- 12
- Identifiers
- 991012938298802368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter