Imagining Australian Space

IMAGINING AUSTRALIAN SPACE

Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry

Edited by Ruth Barcan and Ian Buchanan

Space may have been the final frontier for the Starship Enterprise, but cultural studies have shown that spatial issues are also close to home. Ruth Barcan and Ian Buchanan have collected an exciting array of essays mediating upon the way we construct and use space in our everyday material, psychic and social behaviours.

ISBN 1 876268 37 9
$34.95



CONTENTS:

'Introduction: Imagining Space' by Ruth Barcan and Ian Buchanan

Imagining 'Australia'

'Upside-Down and Inside-Out: Notes on the Australian Cultural Unconscious' by John O'Carroll

'Fantasies of the Antipodes' by Paul Longley Arthur

'A Prospect of Future Regularity': Spatial Technologies in Colonial Australia' by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth

Spatial Semiotics

'White Australia and the Aboriginal Invention of Space' by Bob Hodge

'Privates in Public: The Space of the Urinal' by Rugh Barcan

Bodies in Space

'Driving Like A Boy: Sexual Difference, Embodiment and Space' by Susan Best

'Bodies in Motion: Spatialising Practice in Australian Dance' by Elizabeth Dempster

Outback, Wilderness, Nature

'The Gender of Gardens: The Space of the Garden in Nineteenth-Century Australia' by Susan K. Martin

'Outback' by Stephen Muecke

'Place and Space: Views from a Tasmanian Mountain' by Fiona Polack

Lost Spaces

'Drowned, Moved, Transferred or Rebuilt? Thinking About the Language of Lost Places' by Peter Read

Postmodern Space

'Non-Places: Space in the Age of Supermodernity' by Ian Buchanan

'Tactile Simulations: Architecture and the Image of the Public at Brisbane's Kodak Beach' by John Macarthur

'Little Home Page on the Prairie: Narratives of Exploration and Settlement on the Electronic Frontier' by Elizabeth Ferrier