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Legacies of violence : rendering the unspeakable past in modern Australia /

"Whether in the form of warfare, dispossession, forced migration, or social prejudice, Australia's sense of nationhood was born from--and continues to be defined by--experiences of violence. Legacies of Violence probes this brutal legacy through case studies that range from the colonial fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mason, Robert, 1981- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Rendering the legacies of the past / Robert Mason
  • The politics of state-sanctioned violence in Australia : racialized constructions of nation / Linda Briskman
  • Part I. Hidden violence
  • Uncovering the shameful : sexual violence on an Australian colonial frontier / Libby Connors
  • Fighting for dignity : migrant identities in the workplaces of northern Australia / Robert Mason
  • The family trust : on assimilation, migration and concealing ambivalent identities / Ruth Longdin
  • Legacies of the Uyghur homeland and Uyghur-Australians / Anna Hayes
  • Part II. Intimate violence
  • The Greek Civil War, child removal, and traumatic pasts in Australia / Joy Damousi
  • From hell to hope : postwar Jewish Holocaust survivor migration / Suzanne Rutland
  • HIV/AIDS, loss, and the Australian gay community / Robert Reynolds and Shirleene Robinson
  • Part III. Sanctioned violence
  • The RSL and post-World War I returned soldier violence in Australia / Martin Crotty
  • Service personnel : Australian experiences of interculturality and violence in British India / Richard Gehrmann
  • Race and ethnicity in sex crimes trials from 1950s Australia / Andy Kaladelfos and Lisa Featherstone
  • The violence of exclusion : Australia's migration zone excision and the state of exception / Farida Fozdar.