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Homesickness for a Foreign Country: Nostalgia and Colonisation
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The authors examines justifications for the colonisation of Australia and considers the metaphysical dimension of colonisation and the impact of 'imperialist nostalgia' in influencing the views of settlers, concluding that the apparent backwardness of the natives and their reluctance to engage in trade was relied on to deny their claim to the territory they inhabited.Abstract:
This article examines justifications for the colonisation of Australia. The apparent 'backwardness' of the natives and their reluctance to engage in trade was relied on to deny their claim to the territory they inhabited. The article also considers the metaphysical dimension of colonisation and the impact of 'imperialist nostalgia' in influencing the views of settlers.read more
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How understanding the Aboriginal Kinship system can inform better policy and practice: Social work research with the Larrakia and Warumungu Peoples of Northern Territory
TL;DR: This article explored the kinship system of both the Larrakia and Warumunga peoples of the Northern territory with the aim of informing social work theory and practice in Australia, and also aimed to return information to the knowledge holders for the purposes of strengthening Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing.
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'Small, individually nondescript and easily overlooked': Contact beads from northwest Arnhem Land in an Indigenous-Macassan-European hybrid economy
Daryl Wesley,Mirani Litster +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the interactions between Indigenous traditional owners, Macassan trepangers and European settlers in northwest Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, in the pre-mission era context.
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Kafka's Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism and the Traffic of Writing
TL;DR: Zilcosky as mentioned in this paper studied the relationship between exoticism, colonialism, and travel and tourism in Kafka's works. And he found that the exotic eye is turned toward the familiar body of the self, rendering it uncanny.
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Juridical Exceptionalism in Australia: Law, Nostalgia and the Exclusion of Others
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the ethical, political and historical rationalities underpinning the creation of these exceptional spaces, including consideration of how social memories have influenced the regulation of irregular maritime arrivals and emergency response laws in the Northern Territory.
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The Wretched of the Earth
TL;DR: Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth as mentioned in this paper is a classic of post-colonization political analysis, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.
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Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis.
Mark A. Schneider,Renato Rosaldo +1 more
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The Writing of History
Michel de Certeau,Tom Conley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the Inversion of What Can Be Thought: Religious History in the Seventeenth Century 4. The Formality of Practices: From Religious Systems to the Ethics of the Enlightenment (the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries) Part III: Systems of Meaning: Speech and Writing 5. Ethno-Graphy: Speech, or the Space of the Other, by Jean de L ry6. Language Altered: The Sorcerer's Speech 7. Freudian Writing 8. What Freud Makes of History: "A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis"
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Culture & Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis
TL;DR: Renato Rosaldo as discussed by the authors argues that new ethnographic writing must come to terms with the dynamic nature of social reality - with history, spontaneity, and human emotions, and that anthropologists and other observers of culture must describe human lives in their rich variety, as ever-changing, mysterious and unpredictable rather than rigid and fixed.
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