« It’s about women and the land they move to: Nadia Rhook, ‘Speech, Sex, and Mobility: Norwegian Women in a Late Nineteenth-Century “English-speaking” Settler Colony’, Journal of Women’s History, 28, 2, 2016, pp. 58-81
It’s not about redistribution; it’s about elimination: Catherine Kellogg, ‘”You be my body for me” Dispossession in two valences’, Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2016 »

It’s about who gets to fill the ’empty’ spaces (and the land those spaces are hovering over): Russell McGregor, Environment, Race, and Nationhood in Australia, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

21Jun16

Description: 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.


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