Add to ORKGFear of an external invasion has always operated alongside guilt over the foundational occupation of the land in Australia. The popular support for the Prime Minister John Howard’s pre-election stand against the refugees in 2001 and his dogged defensiveness during the indigenous-settler reconciliation process revealed the unease over cultural difference in the national imaginary. The myth of terra nullius and the fantasy of an ‘Asian invasion ’ are two constitutive features in Australian nationalism. Combined they have produced a profound anxiety about space and mobility. This essay addresses the rhetorical responses to the ‘invasion ’ in order to consider the way fear is used to shape contemporary subjectivity
This paper explores fear-arousing content in Australian former Prime Minister John Howard's politica...
There are two issues that I want to address in this paper. First, I want to present a perspective on...
The last few years have been an awakening time for the people, communities and governments of the gl...
Fear of an external invasion has always operated alongside guilt over the foundational occupation of...
ABSTRACT The political and social reaction to the ‘refugee crisis ’ in Australia cannot be solely un...
Australia has long been described as an empty space and a site of monstrous inversion. As is well kn...
Prolonged Symptoms of Cultural Anxiety: The Persistance of Narratives of Asian Invasion within Multi...
The work of historian Peter Read has, for the last ten years, focused largely on the question of non...
Australians like to consider themselves relaxed and comfortable, an easy-going and tolerant people. ...
The closing years of the last century and most of those of the first decade of the twenty-first cent...
This thesis contains a critical component and a creative component, both of which take suburban Aust...
Looking at four books which present a different focus on the politics of fear in Australia, particul...
For a nation largely comprised of “boat people”, asylum has generated the most debate, and at times ...
This paper explores fear-arousing content in Australian former Prime Minister John Howard's politica...
This paper looks at the way the Australian media has reported the "crisis" of refugees and asylum se...
This paper explores fear-arousing content in Australian former Prime Minister John Howard's politica...
There are two issues that I want to address in this paper. First, I want to present a perspective on...
The last few years have been an awakening time for the people, communities and governments of the gl...
Fear of an external invasion has always operated alongside guilt over the foundational occupation of...
ABSTRACT The political and social reaction to the ‘refugee crisis ’ in Australia cannot be solely un...
Australia has long been described as an empty space and a site of monstrous inversion. As is well kn...
Prolonged Symptoms of Cultural Anxiety: The Persistance of Narratives of Asian Invasion within Multi...
The work of historian Peter Read has, for the last ten years, focused largely on the question of non...
Australians like to consider themselves relaxed and comfortable, an easy-going and tolerant people. ...
The closing years of the last century and most of those of the first decade of the twenty-first cent...
This thesis contains a critical component and a creative component, both of which take suburban Aust...
Looking at four books which present a different focus on the politics of fear in Australia, particul...
For a nation largely comprised of “boat people”, asylum has generated the most debate, and at times ...
This paper explores fear-arousing content in Australian former Prime Minister John Howard's politica...
This paper looks at the way the Australian media has reported the "crisis" of refugees and asylum se...
This paper explores fear-arousing content in Australian former Prime Minister John Howard's politica...
There are two issues that I want to address in this paper. First, I want to present a perspective on...
The last few years have been an awakening time for the people, communities and governments of the gl...