Way Out West: Mapping Western Australia
Western Australia, like Tasmania, can slip too easily off the map, a periphery on the periphery, its significance occluded by the hegemony of the eastern states of Australia. Yet Western Australia is core to Australia's economy, not least through mining, and through its proximity to Asia. The W...
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| description | Western Australia, like Tasmania, can slip too easily off the map, a periphery on the periphery, its significance occluded by the hegemony of the eastern states of Australia. Yet Western Australia is core to Australia's economy, not least through mining, and through its proximity to Asia. The West is itself connected more closely to region, in both the local and transnational senses. Its tradition of secessionist thinking indicates a kind of exceptionalist culture. This is a difference which begs for explanation. This essay introduces some motifs and themes of this special issue of Thesis Eleven, entitled 'Way Out West: Mapping Western Australia'. It locates the West in some recent historical, geographical and narrative context. It gestures toward the biography of its editors, Jon Stratton and Peter Beilharz, and their locations spread across the west and east of the continent. It calls for further scrutiny of these, and other antipodes. © Thesis Eleven Pty, Ltd., SAGE Publications.. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-513992017-09-13T15:41:42Z Way Out West: Mapping Western Australia Stratton, Jon Beilharz, Peter Western Australia, like Tasmania, can slip too easily off the map, a periphery on the periphery, its significance occluded by the hegemony of the eastern states of Australia. Yet Western Australia is core to Australia's economy, not least through mining, and through its proximity to Asia. The West is itself connected more closely to region, in both the local and transnational senses. Its tradition of secessionist thinking indicates a kind of exceptionalist culture. This is a difference which begs for explanation. This essay introduces some motifs and themes of this special issue of Thesis Eleven, entitled 'Way Out West: Mapping Western Australia'. It locates the West in some recent historical, geographical and narrative context. It gestures toward the biography of its editors, Jon Stratton and Peter Beilharz, and their locations spread across the west and east of the continent. It calls for further scrutiny of these, and other antipodes. © Thesis Eleven Pty, Ltd., SAGE Publications.. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51399 10.1177/0725513616657882 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Stratton, Jon Beilharz, Peter Way Out West: Mapping Western Australia |
| title | Way Out West: Mapping Western Australia |
| title_full | Way Out West: Mapping Western Australia |
| title_fullStr | Way Out West: Mapping Western Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Way Out West: Mapping Western Australia |
| title_short | Way Out West: Mapping Western Australia |
| title_sort | way out west: mapping western australia |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51399 |