Performing place, practising memories
Subtitle: aboriginal Australians, hippies and the state
By: by Rosita Henry
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780857455086; 9780857455093
Subjects: Social life and customs; Ethnic identity; Government relations; Whites; Counterculture; Race relations; Social conditions; Aboriginal Australians in popular culture; Aboriginal Australians; History
Description: "During the 1970s a wave of 'counter-culture' people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population, concentrating on a number of linked social dramas that portrayed the use of both public and private space. Through their public performances and in their everyday spatial encounters, these people resisted the bureaucratic state but, in the process, they also contributed to the cultivation and propagation of state effects."--Publisher website
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.