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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2> Hi Everybody,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2> This would seem to be a good time to mention another book that has been recently published that also throws some light onto what is happening in the Northern Territory at the moment. I am putting below the information from the flyer. In short, the book is edited by Suvendrini Perera and titled _Our Patch: Enacting Australian Sovereignty Post-2001_. It was published by API-Network Books at the beginning of this year. In addition to the web address below, the book can be bought by ringing <STRONG>08 9266 3717.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>cheers,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jon</FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Network Books’ Symposia Series<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">ISBN 1920845380 rrp $34.95<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN lang=EN-AU><v:shapetype id=_x0000_t75 path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" o:spt="75" coordsize="21600,21600" stroked="f" filled="f" o:preferrelative="t"><v:stroke joinstyle="miter"></v:stroke><v:formulas><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></v:f></v:formulas><v:path o:connecttype="rect" gradientshapeok="t" o:extrusionok="f"></v:path><o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></o:lock></v:shapetype><v:shape id=_x0000_i1025 style="WIDTH: 205.5pt; HEIGHT: 274.5pt" type="#_x0000_t75" o:ole=""><v:imagedata o:title="" src="file:///C:\Users\John\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.emz"></v:imagedata></v:shape></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></v:textbox><?xml:namespace prefix = w ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" /><w:wrap type="square"></w:wrap></v:shape><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond">The year 2001, the centenary of federation, was the year of the </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><I><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond-Italic">Tampa</SPAN></I></st1:City><I><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond-Italic"> </SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond">and of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s entry into the global war on terror. Since then, new border protection and security regimes couple with interventionism in the Pacific to redraw our national and regional maps. Internally, new arrangements for Aboriginal communities redirect 1990s debates on sovereignty and self-determination. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this book commentators at the cutting edge of social and cultural theory link these developments together for the first time.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0.75pt"><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"><STRONG><EM>How is Australian sovereignty being acted out at home and abroad in the second century of federation?<o:p></o:p></EM></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0.75pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><STRONG><SPAN><EM>What are the imaginative and political boundaries of ‘Our Patch’</EM>?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'">TIM ANDERSON, RUTH BALINT, ANTHONY BURKE, MAXINE CHI, MARIA GIANNACOPOULOS,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'">SUVENDRINI PERERA, HENRY REYNOLDS, JON STRATTON, DINESH WADIWEL, IRENE WATSON<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><I><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond-Italic">‘As the risks caused by Australian neoliberalism meet the panics constructed by its security apparatus, the question of sovereignty becomes ever more urgent. With First Peoples and refugees as its targets, this risk-panic complex needs to be chronicled and challenged. </SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond">Our Patch </SPAN><I><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond-Italic">does just that.’<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: right; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=right><I><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond-Italic"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><I><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond-Italic">‘Through detailed studies of how the violence of colonial practices comes clothed in the familiar, everyday sentiments of nationalism, </SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond">Our Patch </SPAN><I><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond-Italic">offers many lessons in how the sovereign power of the nation is established through violence enacted on racialized bodies, a violence understood as civility.’<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: right; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=right><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond">Sherene H Razack, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Toronto</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: right; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=right><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond">Author, </SPAN><I><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond-Italic">Dark Threats and White Knights: Peacekeeping and the New Imperialism<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> csaa-forum-bounces@lists.cdu.edu.au on behalf of kiley gaffney<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sun 8/07/2007 11:14 AM<BR><B>To:</B> csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [csaa-forum] a possible letter from CSAA about theHoward/Brough intervention<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Paul,<BR><BR>I agree. Realistically, a drafted letter from an organization that garners<BR>very little political might seems futile and more bureaucratic than anything<BR>particularly useful.<BR><BR>The shift needs to occur at the root and not at the branch. On the<BR>anniversary of celebrating the aborigine's shift from fauna to citizen, many<BR>of my students were a little shocked to realize they knew more about the US<BR>civil rights movement than Australia's. Even in mapping the term<BR>UnAustralian and including aboriginality in there, some uncomfortable<BR>silences gave way to something a little more fruitful. I think in teaching<BR>the basics of cultural studies 101 - the interrogation of institutional<BR>power, hegemony, symbolic violence, the making of common sense - something<BR>more dynamic and useful might be gained because the great thing about those<BR>first year communications/cultural studies courses is the sheer volume of<BR>students they attract, with most going on to other areas and majors. In<BR>locating these ideas in their everyday, we might nurture a little critical<BR>inquiry in them.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Kiley<BR><BR><BR><BR>Kiley Gaffney<BR>School of English, Media Studies and Art History<BR>University of Queensland,<BR>St Lucia. Qld. 4072<BR>(617) 3365 2687<BR><BR><BR><BR>On 7/7/07 5:55 PM, "Paul.Magee" <Paul.Magee@canberra.edu.au> wrote:<BR><BR>> Dear All,<BR>><BR>> Sorry to take a while to respond to the suggestion of a CSAA letter to<BR>> Howard/Rudd; Iıve been on hols. As President this would be an appropriate<BR>> thing for me to do. Yet much as I appreciate Stephenıs suggestion, backed up<BR>> by a few people now, Iım disinclined to follow it up. This is for a number of<BR>> reasons:<BR>><BR>> The first, is that Iım not convinced that such a letter, to either leader,<BR>> would have any impact on their actions. Thatıs not an overwhelming reason,<BR>> however, as it might still be a good thing for us as an association to take<BR>> public stands.<BR>><BR>> The real reason is that I donıt think unanimity is the best place for us to be<BR>> at the moment. Partially this is because I donıt believe we actually have<BR>> unanimity on this issue. I mean, I could write a letter against the<BR>> intervention, but then again, Iım got some pretty weird ideas, as many of you<BR>> know. Iım not sure youıd all want me putting the name of your association to<BR>> them. I might sound trite here, but actually this is precisely my point. If I<BR>> were to draft the sort of document that averaged out the opinions of all of<BR>> us, I think weıd lose much of the value of what we, as Cultural Studies<BR>> scholars, have to offer on this, or any other political issue ­ the freedom<BR>> and experience to say, from an informed perspective, exactly what one thinks.<BR>> We, as a discipline, have allowed freedom of expression more than most others<BR>> and it often produces exciting work. On the other hand, I donıt think weıve<BR>> ever done consensus particularly well. Not that weıve tried all that often.<BR>> Itıs not what weıre trained for.<BR>><BR>> I think we should particularly avoid unanimity when it comes to a wedge issue<BR>> designed, as Mark pointed out, to make firm stances appear foolish. Iıd rather<BR>> we treat this association as a space in which we disagree on and debate over<BR>> issues that are contentious, precisely on the grounds that we donıt<BR>> necessarily have all these things in common. In other words, I think the CSAA<BR>> should be a space for risky thinking ­ seeing what happens when you throw an<BR>> idea that youıve thought long and hard on out there. Iım delighted that CSAA<BR>> forum has taken on this character over the last week. Here's to disagreement,<BR>> and feedack!<BR>><BR>> I think that the real possibility for political action for CSAA members at<BR>> this particular moment is much closer to hand than Parliament House. The<BR>> electionıs looming and we, those of us who are teachers in particular, have a<BR>> very real capacity to have impact upon one of the Howard governmentıs most<BR>> vulnerable support bases: the young. I wonıt rehearse the distressing<BR>> statistics on Australian youthıs support of the Co-alition. Iıd rather focus<BR>> on the fact that weıre in a very good position to make them think very hard<BR>> about it. Maggie Nolanıs suggestion, on this list, that we incorporate issues<BR>> like Mal Brough into our teaching strikes me as a great one. Teaching that way<BR>> is risky of course, Œcause you can often, in the heat of the issue, get the<BR>> facts wrong, and you can also often fall into the trap of preaching, when the<BR>> real challenge is to persuade people to think. Thatıs also where I think the<BR>> politics of this list come into play. The discussions and disagreements we<BR>> have in spaces like this list inform our teaching, not to mention our general<BR>> interaction with other minds. So too can the valuable resources people have<BR>> been putting forward all week. This is a good thing - though the issue itself,<BR>> like so many Howard issues, is so distressing and many of the political<BR>> manouvres are so disgraceful. We should be confronting them. CS has been far<BR>> too reticent in the past ­ with notable exceptions of course ­ about applying<BR>> its various methodologies and expertises to Australian parliamentary politics.<BR>> Maybe we took Foucaultıs comments about the ³Head of the King² in the History<BR>> of Sexuality too seriously. Or maybe we shied away from what is an inherently<BR>> risky endeavour. Either way, I want to call - in lieu of a letter to<BR>> politicians who canıt read - for us to use this forum as a space for<BR>> discussion of each and every upcoming political ploy over the next few months.<BR>> Iıd particularly like to see people sending in more links to good resources.<BR>><BR>> This is where we do our real political work, right here in the so called ivory<BR>> walls. They're not any more. The democratisation of the Australian university<BR>> system, these last 30 years (we've gone from 2% of school leavers attending<BR>> Uni, to something more like 30%), has also vastly increased our potential<BR>> political power. Let's focus it.<BR>><BR>> In sum, I suggest we fly under the radar, and rely on the fact that the true<BR>> politicians are the teachers, 'cause they're closer to the future.<BR>><BR>> best<BR>><BR>> Paul<BR>><BR>><BR>> Dr. Paul Magee<BR>><BR>> President, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia<BR>> Lecturer in Creative Reading<BR>> School of Creative Communication<BR>> University of Canberra<BR>> ACT 2601<BR>> 02 6201 2402<BR>><BR>> Australian Government Higher Education (CRICOS)<BR>> Registered Provider number: #00212K<BR>><BR>> _______________________________________<BR>><BR>> csaa-forum<BR>> discussion list of the cultural studies association of australasia<BR>><BR>> www.csaa.asn.au<BR>><BR>> change your subscription details at<BR>> <A href="http://lists.cdu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/csaa-forum">http://lists.cdu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/csaa-forum</A><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________<BR><BR>csaa-forum<BR>discussion list of the cultural studies association of australasia<BR><BR>www.csaa.asn.au<BR><BR>change your subscription details at <A href="http://lists.cdu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/csaa-forum">http://lists.cdu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/csaa-forum</A><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>