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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495163703321

Autore

Heino Brett

Titolo

Space, Place and Capitalism : The Literary Geographies of The Unknown Industrial Prisoner / / by Brett Heino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

981-16-4262-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 pages)

Disciplina

809.9332

Soggetti

Human geography

Australasian literature

Anthropology

Human Geography

Australasian Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Space and place in radical geography -- Chapter 3: Literary geography, the spatial unconscious and The Unknown Industrial Prisoner -- Chapter 4: Abstract space (with antipodean characteristics?) -- Chapter 5: The spatial state -- Chapter 6: Resistance – the struggle for place -- Chapter 7: The limits to the Home Beautiful -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

“Brett Heino has delivered a book that will expand our knowledge about, and take us on a mind-bending journey through, the spaces and places of capitalism. This very carefully crafted book shows us the forces at play in the production of space, place, and political economy through the novel form. You will not want to put it down.” - Adam David Morton, Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney, Australia This book is an original contribution to literary geography and commentaries on the work of David Ireland. It as it evolves through Ireland’s 1971 Miles Franklin prize-winning novel The Unknown Industrial Prisoner. In particular, the book theorises the relationship between space and place in literature through two highly innovative arguments: a focus on the spatial unconscious as a means to assess



and track the spatiality of capitalism in the novel form; and the articulation of a regime of space through the perceived, conceived and lived constitution of space. Drawing together concepts from radical geography and structural Marxist literary theory, it explores the dominance of the regime of abstract space in the Australian context. The text also examines the nature and possibilities of place-based strategies of resistance, and concludes by suggesting opportunities for future research and plotting the ways in which The Unknown Industrial Prisoner continues to speak to contemporary Australia. Brett Heino is a legal scholar and historian at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His current research revolves around literary geography, focusing in particular upon literature as a means to understanding the spatial history and relationships of Australian capitalism. He is the author of Regulation Theory and Australian Capitalism: Rethinking Social Justice and Labour Law (2017), as well as articles on literary theory, trading hours legislation, occupational health and safety, and trade union mobilisation.