Legacies of Violence : : Rendering the Unspeakable Past in Modern Australia /

Legacies of Violence : : Rendering the Unspeakable Past in Modern Australia / / ed. by Robert Mason.

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Whether in the form of warfare, dispossession, forced migration, or social prejudice, Australia’s sense of nationhood was born from—and continues to be defined by—experiences of violence. Legacies of Violence probes this brutal legacy through case studies that range from the colonial frontier to mod...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Briskman, Linda,
Connors, Libby,
Crotty, Martin,
Damousi, Joy,
Featherstone, Lisa,
Fozdar, Farida,
Gehrmann, Richard,
Hayes, Anna,
Kaladelfos, Andy,
Longdin, Ruth,
Mason, Robert,
Reynolds, Robert,
Robinson, Shirleene,
Rutland, Suzanne D.,
HerausgeberIn:
Mason, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (266 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction: Rendering the Legacies of the Past
  • Chapter 1 The Politics of State-Sanctioned Violence in Australia: Racialized Constructions of Nation
  • Part I Hidden Violence
  • Chapter 2 Uncovering the Shameful: Sexual Violence on an Australian Colonial Frontier
  • Chapter 3 Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Identities in the Workplaces of Northern Australia
  • Chapter 4 The Family Trust: On Assimilation, Migration and Concealing Ambivalent Identities
  • Chapter 5 Legacies of the Uyghur Homeland and Uyghur-Australians
  • Part II Intimate Violence
  • Chapter 6 The Greek Civil War, Child Removal and Traumatic Pasts in Australia
  • Chapter 7 From Hell to Hope Postwar Jewish Holocaust Survivor Migration
  • Chapter 8 HIV/AIDS, Loss and the Australian Gay Community
  • Part III Sanctioned Violence
  • Chapter 9 The RSL and Post-First World War Returned Soldier Violence in Australia
  • Chapter 10 Service Personnel Australian Experiences of Interculturality and Violence in British India
  • Chapter 11 Race and Ethnicity in Sex Crimes Trials from 1950s Australia
  • Chapter 12 The Violence of Exclusion: Australia’s Migration Zone Excision and the State of Exception
  • Index

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