Environment, Race, and Nationhood in Australia

Revisiting the Empty North

Russell McGregor (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-95651-7 (ISBN)

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This new study offers a timely and compelling account of why past generations of Australians have seen the north of the country as an empty land, and how those perceptions of Australia’s tropical regions impact current policy and shape the self-image of the nation. It considers the origins of these concerns - from fears of invasion and moral qualms about leaving resources lying idle, from apprehensions about white nationhood coming under international censure and misgivings about the natural attributes of the north - and elucidates Australians’ changing appreciations of the natural environments of the north, their shifting attitudes toward race and their unsettled conceptions of Asia.

Russell McGregor is currently Adjunct Professor of History at James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. His publications include the award-winning books Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory and Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal People and the Australian Nation.

Preface.- Chapter 1: Anxieties Aroused.- Chapter 2: Whiteness versus the Tropics.- Chapter 3: Acquiring a White Elephant.- Chapter 4: A Dog in the Manger.- Chapter 5: Colouring the Empty Spaces.- Chapter 6: Redeeming the Desolation.- Chapter 7: Downgrading the North.- Chapter 8: Vulnerabilities Laid Bare.- Chapter 9: Modest Projections, Massive Projects.- Chapter 10: The Divisive North.- Chapter 11: Whither the White North?.- Chapter 12: Emptiness Attenuated.- Epilogue, or Are We There Yet?.

Erscheinungsdatum	23.08.2018
Zusatzinfo	XIX, 256 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-349-95651-1 / 1349956511
ISBN-13	978-1-349-95651-7 / 9781349956517
Zustand	Neuware