"Strangely clad": : enclosure, exposure, and the cleavage of Empire

Label

"Strangely clad": : enclosure, exposure, and the cleavage of Empire

Title remainder

enclosure, exposure, and the cleavage of Empire

Statement of responsibility

Liz Conor

Creator

• Conor, Liz

Subject

• Cook, James, 1728-1779
• Chauvel, Elsa, 1898-1983

Language

eng

Summary

"This paper theorises a discourse of settler homelands in which a dichotomy of lived interior and exterior was transferred to ideas of racial difference. Settlers depended on a range of perceptual relations, of looking, documenting and publishing, to convey a notion of racial asymmetry through the divide of built and ?undeveloped? surrounds. Settlers carefully observed the ?landmarks?, or spatially-grounded signs of difference, often blind, or unable to assimilate the marks of Indigenous habitation to their systems of knowledge. These perceived differences of dominion were central to legitimating a discourse of settler homelands and to discrediting Indigenous tenure." [Authors abstract]; " this article will first look at white imaginings of Aboriginal homes, then at British landmarks of industry and cultivation, and how these two things were deployed to justify imperial expansion"

Is part of

• Journal of Australian Studies

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction