Pub Date : 2022-10-10DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2132354
Sylvia J. Martin
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Pub Date : 2022-10-10DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2132353
Patrick G. Mullins
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2022.2137005
B. Magner, Emily Pottter
Welcome to the final issue of the Journal of Australian Studies for 2022. We are pleased to finish the year with a wide-ranging, robust issue that includes a special section focusing on China–Australia relations—which remains a dynamic and transforming terrain in Australian studies—as well as three general contributions that collectively demonstrate the diversity and strength of contemporary research in and beyond the field. We hope that after the last challenging years of lockdowns for so many, 2022 has seen new horizons opening, and projects, writings and thoughts gaining momentum once more. From our perspective, the journal has been looking fresh after a cover makeover by designer Anna Zagala, beginning with the Tsiolkas special issue earlier this year: the energy that radiates from these covers is definitely matched by the scholarship within them. This past year has also brought with it the possibilities that arise from a new government in Australia, which we also hope will renew support for, and investment in, the universities that sustain so much of what Australian studies scholars strive to do. Australian studies is all about transdisciplinarity and multicultures, and this spirit of collaboration across culture and practice is exemplified by this issue’s special themed section, the result of several years of work by the guest editors, Mitchell Rolls and Xu Daozhi. The articles collected in this section testify to the close ties between scholars from both countries, and they showcase the range of research underway in this area right now. Our general essays extend on a number of themes that emerge in the special section, with a focus from Anne Pender on the growth of interest in Australian theatre in China, through the initiatives of the Whitlam government during the 1970s. Pender traces the strong trajectory of Australian theatre in China that flourished in this decade, exploring the ongoing cross-cultural legacy of this formative period in Australia’s international theatrical life. The more recent phenomenon of hashtag awareness-raising and digital activism forms the focus of Tania Leimbach and Jane Palmer’s article on the 2019–2020 “Black Summer” bushfires as a particularly revealing case study that demonstrates the entanglement of social media performance with action on climate crisis. The authors argue that these catastrophic bushfires mobilised a social media community and, through a “transversal event”, heightened a multispecies awareness that generatively highlighted the deep connections between the human and non-human that demand recognition in the face of environmental disaster.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2022.2135061
M. Rolls, Xu Daozhi, Chen Hong, Li Jianjun
Australian Studies: In China and Chinese Perspectives Mitchell Rolls , Xu Daozhi , Chen Hong and Li Jianjun Independent Anthropologist; Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; Department of Foreign Languages, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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Pub Date : 2022-09-28DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2022.2121744
Tania Leimbach, J. Palmer
ABSTRACT The 2019–2020 “Black Summer” bushfire season woke Australian and global populations to the harsh realities of a changing climate. The impact was profound, and it remains ongoing. Social media cast a spotlight on—and propelled into a mediatised, virtual space—the suffering of humans and other species. In particular, the iconic and severely threatened koala was a highly visible non-human species directly harmed alongside thousands of species in the order of individual billions. This article explores what comes to matter in the realms of affect, care and action, as observed in the public sphere via social media and the use of hashtags to interpret and performatively frame events. The catastrophic bushfires prompted a heightened multispecies awareness in the greater population. This article argues that the disaster produced a transversal event through social media communications, one that de-centred the human, allowing for novel connections between the human and non-human, prompting new questions and creating new responsibilities.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2022.2118350
Lynette Russell, Patrick Nunn, Natalie Bateman, Bill Griffiths, Tiffany Shellam, Ruth Morgan, Laura Rademaker
ABSTRACT On our blue planet, oceans have long shaped human histories. Generations have crossed the seas, fished their depths, and navigated their currents, encountering new peoples and places on the waves and on the shores. In this roundtable discussion, edited by Ruth Morgan and Laura Rademaker, we reflect on just how oceans have shaped deep human pasts and how we can recover ocean histories from the deep.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2022.2116076
Tian Zhuoling
ABSTRACT The female protagonist in The Garden Book is the site of both imaginary and symbolic fantasy, as well as the melancholic real. In this article, I explore how a Chinese-Australian woman comes to inhabit a melancholic position of racial and gendered difference, and how Brian Castro, through his portrayal, deconstructs identity markers such as race, gender and nation. Born and raised in Australia, Swan is a legitimate Australian citizen. However, her Asian appearance and gender identity compromise her legitimacy as a subject of the Australian nation-state. The Chinese-Australian woman as image and fantasy of Oriental femininity becomes a spectre, an “Other” haunting the history and memory of white Australia. Castro’s writing shows how racial and sexual difference constructs and deconstructs identity, individual as well as national. In Swan’s case, gendered racialisation derived from imperialism disrupts the coherence of national citizenship. Reading the character of Swan as presented through the eyes of the men in her life, this article provides an alternative site where what is excluded, disavowed and lost in white Australia becomes visible. Swan’s racial and gendered melancholia allows us to see imperial violence and colonial eroticism at the heart of cultural essentialism and nationalism.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-22DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2022.2112262
Zhong Huang
ABSTRACT Influential Australian author Brian Castro has a mixed ethnic background that often identifies him as a multicultural writer. To Castro, however, this label imposes upon him a static identity he has long tried to break away from. His agenda is to unshackle himself from both the Australian and Chinese cultures he straddles. This effort is evidenced by his attempts to redefine Chinese masculinity in his novel After China. In Chinese masculinity studies, Chinese masculinity can be best understood in terms of the wen–wu paradigm—the wen ideal being conditioned by Confucianism. The male protagonist in After China, however, You Bok Mun, is influenced by Taoism and Western postmodernism in his expression of masculinity. Furthermore, while in traditional gender discourse masculinity is equated with sexual potency, in this novel, Castro eliminates sexual prowess from You Bok Mun's masculinity and replaces it with his ability to narrate stories. Although You Bok Mun experiences displacement and alienation in Australia, he does not intend to elevate his manhood for the purpose of being admitted into the Australian mainstream. Instead, he chooses to remain an outsider and uses this status to unsettle and challenge stereotypes of Chinese masculinity.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-16DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2022.2111795
Joshua Black
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Pub Date : 2022-08-09DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2022.2110140
Wang Guanglin
ABSTRACT John Kinsella is a prolific writer from Western Australia. This article takes a topopoetic approach to considering his poetry and poetics by connecting studies of Yi-Fu Tuan’s topophilia and the paradoxical views of Zhuangzi and Thoreau in illustrating some tensions between language and place, connection and disconnection, and placement and displacement in Kinsella’s writings. In particular, I discuss Kinsella’s affective ties to the land and his anti-pastoral stance by parodying the European settlement on Country traditionally owned by Indigenous peoples. His poetry presents a dystopian world that challenges the old European sense of a pastoral society. By making connections between a Chinese sense of the earth and Kinsella’s poetics, I argue that as paradoxical as Kinsella's poetics may be, his writings, imbued with influences from different sources, demonstrate an effort to save the worsening earth.
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