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Transformations is pleased to announce the publication of Issue 13 - 'Making Badlands'<BR>
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The issue can be accessed at:<BR>
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<a href="http://transformations.cqu.edu.au">http://transformations.cqu.edu.au</a><BR>
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This issue follows from the <I>Making Badlands</I> Conference held in December 2005 at CQU, Bundaberg campus. <BR>
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The conference was based around the concept of the "badlands" arising from Ross Gibson's <I>Seven Versions of an Australian Badlands</I> (UQ Press, 2002) which describes the central Queensland region as haunted by a violent colonial past and fraught with troubling incidents that make it an Australian badland. This conference addressed the concept of an Australian badland — what it means to speak of a space as a badland, its relation to history, the imaginary, and to questions of regionality, representation, myth, archival authority, and the formation of narrative and discursive knowledge.<BR>
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The articles comprising this issue explore these ideas of the badlands in extended contexts and environments, and in various and diverse ways. <BR>
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Regards<BR>
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Warwick<BR>
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Dr. Warwick Mules<BR>
General Editor, Transformations <a href="http://transformations.cqu.edu.au">http://transformations.cqu.edu.au</a><BR>
Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies<BR>
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education<BR>
Central Queensland University<BR>
Bundaberg Campus<BR>
Bundaberg Queensland 4670<BR>
Australia<BR>
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer<BR>
School of English, Media and Art History<BR>
University of Queensland<BR>
Australia<BR>
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Phone: 07 41507142<BR>
Fax: 07 41507090<BR>
Mobile: 0412292541<BR>
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