Dislocating the frontier
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Dislocating the frontier
Essaying the mystique of the outback
Table of Contents
1. Preface, Introduction and Historical Overview
Preface
References
1. Introduction: transforming the frontier in contemporary Australia
The genuine frontier
Frontier, self and other
References
2. Imagining the frontier: comparative perspectives from Canada and Australia
Frontier studies in academic scholarship
Frederick Jackson Turner
The New Western History
Richard Slotkin and the frontier myth
The ‘frontier’ in Canadian and Australian anti-native title discourse
Australia
Canada
Conclusion
References
2. Landscape and Place
3. The redemptive frontier: a long road to nowhere
A track of decolonisation
Flight to the frontier
On the track of the lone artist
Dancing for Palka-karrinya
References
4. Transcending nostalgia: pastoralist memory and staking a claim in the land
Memory and public history in central Australia
History begins – the arrival as homecoming
The land is transformed
Knowing the land
Conclusion
References
5. Water as collaborator
The view from Geary’s Gap
The view to the south of Canberra Airport
The child’s drawing – the haunting landscape
The continuing conversation
Lake George
The drawing
Clarifying the ambiguous landscape
Water as collaborator
References
6. You call it desert – we used to live there
References
3. Science and Nation
7. The platypus frontier: eggs, Aborigines and empire in 19th century Queensland
The platypus debate
Ceratodus (The Queensland Lungfish)
Gold and adventure seeking
Science and frontier life
Mr Caldwell’s travels
Scientific and settlement frontiers in tension
The telegram that closed a frontier
Postscript
References
8. Frontiers of the future: science and progress in 20th-century Australia
A hymn of the future
All this paraphernalia
The modern hayseed
The battle of Australia
Blast the bush
Australia Unlimited Ltd
A change of heart
A hapless mess of wreckage and misunderstanding
References
4. Interrupting the frontier
9. Eight seconds: style, performance and crisis in Aboriginal rodeo
Ideology of indigenes
Performance
Rodeos and stations
Landed cowboys
References
10. Boxer deconstructionist
References
11. Absence and plenitude: appropriating the Fitzmaurice River frontier
Introduction
The colonial frontier on the Fitzmaurice
Images of the contemporary frontier
Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
List of Figures
11.1.
Topographic map section of the Fitzmaurice River
11.2.
Map showing general location of place names on the Fitzmaurice