Picturing Citizenship Images, Belonging and Colonial Legacies in the Settler Nation
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Fay Anderson is an Associate Professor in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia. She has published widely on Australian and journalism history, news photography, war, genocide, trauma, migration and crime. Her latest book is The Holocaust and Australian Journalism: Reporting and Reckoning (2024).
Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at the University of Western Australia. Her books include Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire (2020) and Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire (2016) which explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights.
Melissa Miles is Professor of Art History at Monash University, Australia. Her books include Photography, Truth and Reconciliation, Pacific Exposures: Photography and the Australia-Japan Relationship (with Robin Gerster) and The Language of Light and Dark, which examines the productive role of visual culture in public life, politics and intercultural relations.
Amanda Nettelbeck is Professor of History in the Institute of Humanities & Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University. Her last book Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood (2019) won the 2020 ANZLHS Legal History Prize, and her current book project explores how ideas of colonial citizenship were produced and contested in the 19th century settler empire.
Through important and compelling case studies drawn from different historical periods and across a range of nations, <i>Picturing Citizenship </i>examines how boundaries of citizenship and non-citizenship have been constructed and challenged via visual culture in the context of settler colonialism and its complex legacies. These are not just historical questions. The issues discussed here are an urgent concern, as conservative and authoritarian political actors increasingly utilise visual material to stoke ‘culture wars’ and draw distinctions between citizens and ‘illegals’. An essential volume!
Dr Tom Allbeson, Reader in Media & Photographic History, Cardiff University, UK
At a moment when global mobility and forced displacement push at the limits of national belonging, Picturing Citizenship demonstrates the ongoing potency of visual claims to rights and sovereignty. Drawing on visual examples from Australia, Canada and New Zealand that range from the banal to the spectacular, these authors question long-held assumptions about the liberatory potential of photography and citizenship, disrupting any easy equation between visibility and political recognition. A welcome intervention into the growing field of visual citizenship and comparative imperial studies, Picturing Citizenship draws our attention to the ‘liveness’ of colonial histories on the present.
Gabrielle Moser, Associate Professor Aesthetics and Art Education, York University, UK
For many, the conditions and privileges of citizenship, and the access it provides to equal civil, political and social rights, are taken for granted.
Yet citizenship always implies histories of inclusion and exclusion and in settler nations with colonial roots, the history of citizenship is entangled with the legacies of colonisation. Looking beyond its legal definition to the wider historical processes through which citizenship and its associated ideas of rights and belonging have been imagined, debated and found lasting form, this collection considers the unique role of visual culture in defining, contesting and advancing ideas of citizenship in settler national contexts from the 19th century to the present day.
Addressing citizenship’s particular entanglements with colonial histories in contemporary settler nations, the collection considers how images have shaped the meanings and experiences of citizenship from the colonial era, through periods of mass global migration to contemporary geopolitical change and debates on Indigenous rights and recognition. Contributors explore the role visual culture has played in imagining or interrogating ideas about belonging, rights, civic identity, and the ideal citizen in societies that continue to grapple with their settler colonial origins. They ask how image-making may be used to negotiate or contest the limits of citizenship, whether as a legal or as an imagined cultural category, and the role of visual culture in building relationships between citizens, non-citizens and the state. This collection will provide a new and compelling history of citizenship and the ways it has been defined, not only by historicising citizenship’s visual imagery but by exploring its present effects and legacies.
Foreword, Eddie Synot (Indigenous Law Centre, Griffith University, Australia)
1. Introduction: Picturing Citizenship: Images, Belonging and Colonial Legacies in the Settler Nation, Fay Anderson, Melissa Miles, Jane Lydon and Amanda Nettelbeck (Monash University, Australia, University of Western Australia, Australia, and Australian Catholic University, Australia)
Part I. Navigating Citizenship: Picturing Belonging
2. Projecting the Good Colonial Citizen: Hawkers in Settler-Colonial Australia, Amanda Nettelbeck (Australian Catholic University, Australia)
3. Apirana Ngata, John Pascoe and The Ngarimu Hui: Picturing Maori Citizenship in 1940s Aotearoa New Zealand, Lachy Paterson, Angela Wanhalla, Sarah Christie and Erica Newman (Otago University, New Zealand)
4. Citizenship, Art and Aspiration: ‘New Australian’ Artists in the Post-War Period, Melissa Miles (Monash University, Australia)
5. The Photographic and Democratic Encounter: News Photography and the 1967 Referendum, Fay Anderson and Julian Rawiri Kusabs (Monash University, Australia and University of Melbourne, Australia)
Part II. Alternative Citizenships: Challenging the Limits of Belonging and Place
6. He Tipare Taua, He Tipare Aho: Photographic Legacies and the Price of Citizenship, Natalie Robertson (AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand)
7. Photographic Acts of Refugee Citizenship, Ty Phu (University of Toronto, Canada)
8. Dark Beach: Visual Assertions of Australian Citizenship, Jane Lydon (University of Western Australia, Australia)
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Fay Anderson is an Associate Professor in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia. She has published widely on Australian and journalism history, news photography, war, genocide, trauma, migration and crime. Her latest book is The Holocaust and Australian Journalism: Reporting and Reckoning (2024).
Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at the University of Western Australia. Her books include Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire (2020) and Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire (2016) which explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights.
Melissa Miles is Professor of Art History at Monash University, Australia. Her books include Photography, Truth and Reconciliation, Pacific Exposures: Photography and the Australia-Japan Relationship (with Robin Gerster) and The Language of Light and Dark, which examines the productive role of visual culture in public life, politics and intercultural relations.
Amanda Nettelbeck is Professor of History in the Institute of Humanities & Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University. Her last book Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood (2019) won the 2020 ANZLHS Legal History Prize, and her current book project explores how ideas of colonial citizenship were produced and contested in the 19th century settler empire.