Introduction : roots, dislocations, and origin stories -- A picturesque nation for a "barren" continent -- Going native -- Policing the body politic : mapping bodies and space in Fitzroy -- The poor white trash of Asia : criminality and Australia in the international landscape -- Conclusion : on the margins of nation
Summary
Focusing on Australia, Allaine Cerwonka examines the physical and narrative spatial practices by which people reclaim territory in the wake of postcolonial claims to land by indigenous people and new immigration of "foreigners."Native to the Nation provides a multisited ethnography of two communities in Melbourne, allowing us to see how bodies are managed and nations physically constructed in everyday confrontations
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-266) and index
