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Picturing Citizenship
Images, Belonging and Colonial Legacies in the Settler Nation
Picturing Citizenship
Images, Belonging and Colonial Legacies in the Settler Nation
Description
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.
Table of Contents
1. Picturing Citizenship in the Settler Nation, Fay Anderson, Melissa Miles, Jane Lydon and Amanda Nettelbeck (Monash University, University of Western Australia and Australian Catholic University)
Part I. Navigating Citizenship: Picturing Belonging
2. Projecting Colonial Citizenship: Muslim Settlers and Nation-building in Late Colonial Australia, Amanda Nettelbeck (Australian Catholic University)
3. Indigenous Peoples and 'Citizenship' on New Zealand's Second World War Home Front, Lachy Paterson, Angela Wanhalla, Sarah Christie and Erica Newman (Otago University, New Zealand)
4. Painting a Changing Citizenry: 'New Australian' Artists in the Postwar Period, Melissa Miles (Monash University, Australia)
5. Part of the World but Also Apart from It: Margaret Corry's Souvenir Photographs and the Construction of Canadian Citizenship, Gabrielle Moser (York University, Canada)
6. ''Racial Discrimination - What's That?”: News Photography and the 1967 Referendum, Fay Anderson and Julian Kusabs (Monash University and University of Adelaide, Australia)
Part II. Alternative Citizenships: Challenging the Limits of Belonging and Place
7. Presentation, Agency and Place: Modes of unsettling representation, Brian Martin (Monash University, Australia)
8. Centring Waiapu-The Ancestral River of Ngati, Natalie Robertson (AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand)
9. Intimate Estrangements: Visual Kinship, Reunion and Redaction in All My Father's Relations, Thy Phu (University of Toronto, Canada)
10. Indigeneity and Citizenship in Canada, tbc
11. Making Visible, Claiming Rights: Visual Assertions of Australian Citizenship, Jane Lydon (University of Western Australia)
Product details
| Published | 24 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 264 |
| ISBN | 9781350455894 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 45 illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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