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Looking For Marianne North, John Charles Ryan
Looking For Marianne North, John Charles Ryan
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
This poem reflects on the life of peripatetic botanical illustrator Marianne North (1830-1890) who travelled to Southwest Australia in 1880.
Launch Announcement For In The Hollow Of The Land, 2 Vols., Glen R E Phillips Professor
Launch Announcement For In The Hollow Of The Land, 2 Vols., Glen R E Phillips Professor
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
Announcing the launch of Glen Phillip's Collected Poetry, 1968-2018
Review Of Taboo, By Kim Scott, Picador-Australia, 2017, Rashida Murphy
Review Of Taboo, By Kim Scott, Picador-Australia, 2017, Rashida Murphy
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
Kim Scott's Taboo is a story about beginnings and endings.This novel reminds the reader of the circularity of stories, and how those stories are shaped by intent and weighed by landscape. Scott speaks of dispossession, abuse, colonialism, addiction and racism in lyrical and melancholy prose. The men and women who walk through these pages are startlingly aware of their failings and equally forgiving of those failings in others. There are no quick fixes and the story vacillates between despair and hope. Yet this is not a grim story. The lucidity of its prose lifts it beyond the despair in its …
Chinese Diaspora And Western Australian Nature (Perth Region): A Study Of Material Engagement With The Natural World In Diasporic Culture, Li Chen
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Based on an ethnographic study of the everyday practices of diasporic Chinese residents of Perth, this project focuses on the relationship between the ecologic environment and diasporic Chinese cultures in contemporary Western Australia.
With the acceleration of globalization, studies in diaspora have increasingly absorbed geographic ideas. Research on the relationship between ecology and humankind has thrown new light on discussions of diaspora. However, there are few in-depth studies addressing the construction of diasporic place and space with an engagement of the material world. Considering the relative absence of the natural world as a serious subject in contemporary diaspora studies, the …
Stolen Day - Tammin, Glen Phillips
Stolen Day - Tammin, Glen Phillips
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
No abstract provided.
Indigenous Landscapes: A Case Study Of Yanchep National Park, Western Australia , Hugo Bekle
Indigenous Landscapes: A Case Study Of Yanchep National Park, Western Australia , Hugo Bekle
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
No abstract provided.
Fourteen Stations To Southern Cross, Glen Phillips
Fourteen Stations To Southern Cross, Glen Phillips
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
No abstract provided.
Trading In Freedoms: Creating Value And Seeking Coalition In Western Australian Arts And Culture, Duncan Robert Mckay
Trading In Freedoms: Creating Value And Seeking Coalition In Western Australian Arts And Culture, Duncan Robert Mckay
Research outputs pre 2011
In this brief paper it is my intention to interrogate the idea of “coalition” in relation to the evidence provided in the DCA’s Policy Framework, Creating Value, in order to examine the extent to which this State’s involvement in culture and arts may indeed be considered coalitional.
Other People's Country: A Memoir; And, Developing A Trustworthy Narrator: An Essay, Maureen Helen
Other People's Country: A Memoir; And, Developing A Trustworthy Narrator: An Essay, Maureen Helen
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This thesis comprises two interrelated sections. The first section is a substantial piece of creative writing, which l have cailed 'Other People's Country: A Memoir, in the genre of travel memoir, and an essay. The memoir borrows techniques from fiction, drama and poetry to tell a story of a middle-aged, middle-class city nurse, who travels to a remote settlement at the edge of the Western Desert of Western Australia to provide health care for a fluctuating population of around 400 people, for whom English is a third or fourth language.
Writing that includes stories about vulnerable people from another culture, …