I focus on the relation between the Australian nation-state and its claim to territory by
drawing on my field research among family farmers in the 5th generation in the Central West …

One of the most powerful and enduring aspects of publicly projected Anglo-Australian
national identities is part of what [Howitt, R., 2001. Frontiers borders, edges: liminal …

This paper examines the labour experiences of Pacific Islander people living in the Greater
Shepparton Region in south-eastern Australia, and the forms of both intergenerational …

Family farming has, in recent decades, become a growing area of enquiry for social
scientists. Post 1980 globally, and in New Zealand, research focused on a perceived rural …

“Baker has written a closely observed and perceptive study of profound transformations in
rural Australia since World War Two as soldier settler family farms have been replaced by …

I first came across Elizabeth Furniss and her work when attending NARU's Frontier
symposium in Darwin in late 1999. At the time I was in the final throes of a PhD on a …

Abstract In New Zealand notions of the rural are revisited by urban consumers seeking
enactment of traditional rural way of life. Within both country and urban spaces the farmers' …

In a world increasingly marked by migration and dislocation, the question of displacement,
and of establishing a sense of belonging, has become ever more common and ever more …

Throughout its short history, colonial Australia has suffered from a severe anxiety
surrounding its national identity. This essay argues that in limiting its selfhood to the virtues …

We can no longer be content with writing only the history of victorious elites or with detailing
the subjugation of dominated ethnic groups. Social historians and historical sociologists …