Making Settler Colonial Space [[electronic resource] ] : Perspectives on Race, Place and Identity / / edited by Tracey Banivanua Mar, Penelope Edmonds

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792126103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-91114-7; 9786612911149; 0-230-27794-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Disciplina: 909/.0971241; 990
• Soggetti: Social history; Civilization—History; Imperialism; Great Britain—History; Islands of the Pacific—History; History, Modern; Social History; Cultural History; Imperialism and Colonialism; History of Britain and Ireland; Australasian History; Modern History; Great Britain Colonies History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Table; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Making Space in Settler Colonies; 'Guys Like Gauguin'; Part I: Appropriating Emptiness; Part II: Frontiers in Cadastral and Urbanising Spaces; Part III: Making and Unmaking Places; Part IV: Thirdspace and Middle Grounds; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Charts the making of colonial spaces in settler colonies of the Pacific Rim during the last two centuries. Contributions journey through time, place and region, and piece together interwoven but discrete studies that illuminate transnational and local experiences - violent, ideological, and cultural - that produced settler-colonial space.