Colour, Culture and the Aboriginalists

Cowlishaw, Gillian

doi:10.2307/2802862

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“…Although people from diverse cultural backgrounds are often absent(ed) from the rural gaze, Indigenous peoples' are often represented as having a unique attachment to nature, particularly in areas that are remote from the core (Cowlishaw, 1987(Cowlishaw, , 1988. Johnson and Murton (2007) associate academic disruptions between nature and culture with the disenfranchising of Indigenous knowledges and voices from rural studies.…”

Section: Racialisations: Authenticity and Recognitionmentioning

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Segregation and protectionism: Institutionalised views of Aboriginal rurality

Carter

Hollinsworth

2009

Journal of Rural Studies

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Section: Racialisations: Authenticity and Recognitionmentioning

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Segregation and protectionism: Institutionalised views of Aboriginal rurality

Carter

Hollinsworth

2009

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…These representations of Aboriginality are both ahistorical and deeply romanticised, drawing upon colonial constructs which placed Aborigines apart from civilised culture. Social Darwinism's discrete a priori categories of human beings is employed, a concept equivalent to that of race (Cowlishaw, 1987). The hegemonic consistency of the stereotyped and racialised discourse surrounding indigenous peoples is demonstrated by the similarity of eighteenth century representations, such as those of Thomas Chamber, with those of the ATC.…”

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Selling Paradise and Adventure: Representations of Landscape in the Tourist Advertising

Waitt

1997

Australian Geographical Studies

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The representation of Australia is explored in the visual and verbal texts of the Australian Tourist Commission's 1992 international advertising campaigns. The advertisements employed representations of Australian landscape to signify tourists' desires for either paradise or adventure. By providing the potential visitor with a range of cultural tools enabling the construction of fantasy, meaning, and identity, these advertisements attempt to attract international tourists. My critical reading suggests that these representations of landscape help maintain a myth of Australian national identity originating from oppressive colonial and patriarchal relations. These representations are not only regressive but conflict with articulations of national identity emanating from other Australian institutions.

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“…Western conservation models are based upon a number of quite simple assumptions which include, among other things, (1) an understanding that things need to be conserved or, put in other terms, an understanding that things have been depleted (see Carr and Main 1973;Hudson 1986;Johannes and MacFarlane 1991); (2) a recognition of a causal relationship between the degree of human action and the extent of environmental degradation; (3) a belief that humans can be instrumental in the process of replenishment 11. A number of anthropologists link this idea of indigenous peoples belonging to nature to Rousseau's concept of the 'noble savage' (see Fabian 1983;Cowlishaw 1987;Beckett 1988;Borsboom 1988;Lattas 1990;Sackett 1991).…”

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Homo Nullius or `Where Have All the People Gone‘? Refiguring Marine Management and Conservation Approaches

Pannell

1996

Australian J of Anthropology

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In Australia, much has been said and written about recent events which finally brought about the rejection of the Western legal concept of terra nullius. The legal recognition of native title in Australia and elsewhere, does not necessarily signify a corresponding and dramatic change in the social status and political position of indigenous peoples. This discontinuity between legal and social discourses is particularly evident when it comes to matters concerning conservation, resource management and sustainable development in a marine environment. All too often in these situations indigenous peoples are ignored and their concerns are dismissed as obstacles to development. They are, to all practical extents and purposes, homo nullius. Drawing upon a range of material from Indonesia and Australia, I argue that in order to understand the phenomenon of homo nullius it is instructive to examine the way we and others think, talk and write about such things as the sea, marine species and the indigenous peoples who possess and use these spaces and resources. In this connection, I focus upon two particular discourses which not only inform marine management and conservation approaches but which also have a tendency to create similar kinds of effects in terms of power, knowledge and agency.

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Colour, Culture and the Aboriginalists

Cited by 46 publications

References 26 publications

Segregation and protectionism: Institutionalised views of Aboriginal rurality

Segregation and protectionism: Institutionalised views of Aboriginal rurality

Selling Paradise and Adventure: Representations of Landscape in the Tourist Advertising

Homo Nullius or `Where Have All the People Gone‘? Refiguring Marine Management and Conservation Approaches

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