Transgressions: Critical Australian Indigenous histories - Couverture souple

Macfarlane, Ingereth; Hannah, Mark

 
9781921313448: Transgressions: Critical Australian Indigenous histories
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1921313447 ISBN 13 : 9781921313448
Editeur : ANU E Press, 2010

Synopsis

This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers. The underlying theme is that of 'transgression', and Michel Foucault's account of the necessary dynamic that exists between transgression and limit. We know what constitutes the limit, not by tracing or re-stating the boundaries, but by crossing over them. By exploring the mechanisms by which limits are set and maintained, unexamined cultural assumptions and dominant ideas are illuminated. We see the expectations and the structures that inform and support them revealed, often as they unravel. Such illuminations and revelations are at the core of the Australian Indigenous histories presented in this collection.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers. The underlying theme is that of 'transgression', and Michel Foucault's account of the necessary dynamic that exists between transgression and limit. We know what constitutes the limit, not by tracing or re-stating the boundaries, but by crossing over them. By exploring the mechanisms by which limits are set and maintained, unexamined cultural assumptions and dominant ideas are illuminated. We see the expectations and the structures that inform and support them revealed, often as they unravel. Such illuminations and revelations are at the core of the Australian Indigenous histories presented in this collection.

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Éditeur
ANU E Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1921313447
ISBN 13 
9781921313448
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
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Personne responsable
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