Book chapter
Unsettling the History of Macadamia Nuts in Northern New South Wales
Going Native? : self-indigenising settler colonial identity through food, pp.109-126
Food and Identity in a Globalising World, Palgrave Macmillan
2022
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Abstract
The history of macadamia nuts both unsettles and challenges colonial tropes about native foods in Australia. A local history of this significant native food reveals changing attitudes to Indigenous flora and yet continuities between contemporary food culture and colonial attitudes. Food production motivated settlement to the North Coast of New South Wales and was also the grounds on which Aboriginal people were dispossessed of their land, defined as ‘unoccupied’ and negating knowledge about reproduction and how to reduce the impact of consumption. The establishment of the industry signals at once changes in how the land is used and Indigenous foods valued and, conversely, a continuation of colonial relations and land use patterns.
Details
- Title
- Unsettling the History of Macadamia Nuts in Northern New South Wales
- Creators
- Adele Wessell - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Going Native? : self-indigenising settler colonial identity through food, pp.109-126
- Series
- Food and Identity in a Globalising World
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan; Cham
- Identifiers
- 991013038984602368
- Copyright
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Humanities
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter