Dispossession, Dreams and Diversity: Issues in Australian studies (Custom Edition), 1st edition

Published by Pearson Learning Solutions (October 10, 2016) © 2017

  • David Carter University of Queensland

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ISBN-13: 9781488679766
Dispossession, Dreams, and Diversity: Issues in Australian Studies (Custom Edition)
Published 2016

For undergraduate courses in Australian studies, history, cultural history and cultural studies.

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 in major debates within both the academic and public spheres of political discourse and cultural representations, and outlines both historical and theoretical approaches to these.
The text examines the social or historical contexts that influence the meanings and structures of 'Australianness', and provides both background detail and further discussion of many issues that can often be covered only briefly in the limited time allowed for lectures and seminars.

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

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