Extremity : theorizing from the margins
Much like Great White North, Australia's Wide Brown Land is a rich and resilient myth of nation. Said to sit tenuously on both sides of the North-South divide, Australia is often characterized as a Western country under southern skies in a Third World environment. It is the flat, scorched land...
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ftunivwestsyd:oai:researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au:uws_21234 2023-05-15T15:02:51+02:00 Extremity : theorizing from the margins Anderson, Kay J. (R9135) Institute for Culture and Society (Host institution) Baldwin, Andrew (Editor) Cameron, Laura (Editor) Kobayashi, Audrey (Editor) 2011 print 5 http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/542841 eng eng Canada, UBC Press Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada--9780774820134 pp: 259-263 160403 - Social and Cultural Geography 940111 - Ethnicity Multiculturalism and Migrant Development and Welfare book chapter 2011 ftunivwestsyd 2020-12-05T17:50:37Z Much like Great White North, Australia's Wide Brown Land is a rich and resilient myth of nation. Said to sit tenuously on both sides of the North-South divide, Australia is often characterized as a Western country under southern skies in a Third World environment. It is the flat, scorched land of far horizons and endless skies whose narrative force finds its inverse congruence in the rugged and icy terrain of Arctic Canada. If landscape is a key mode of human signification, Great White North and Wide Brown Land are its defining instances, all the more dramatized in the characteristic staging of their antipodality. From furthest north to deepest south, ice storm to heat wave, cold feet to sunburnt noses, these iconic categories share in the spatialized trope of extremity. How might this be so? And what matters of concern does it call up? Book Part Arctic University of Western Sydney (UWS): Research Direct Arctic Canada South Ice ENVELOPE(-29.867,-29.867,-81.950,-81.950) |
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Much like Great White North, Australia's Wide Brown Land is a rich and resilient myth of nation. Said to sit tenuously on both sides of the North-South divide, Australia is often characterized as a Western country under southern skies in a Third World environment. It is the flat, scorched land of far horizons and endless skies whose narrative force finds its inverse congruence in the rugged and icy terrain of Arctic Canada. If landscape is a key mode of human signification, Great White North and Wide Brown Land are its defining instances, all the more dramatized in the characteristic staging of their antipodality. From furthest north to deepest south, ice storm to heat wave, cold feet to sunburnt noses, these iconic categories share in the spatialized trope of extremity. How might this be so? And what matters of concern does it call up? |
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