Abstract
It’s really a great honour for us, the authors of Reading the Country, that our book is the pretext for this festival. And I think I can speak for the other two in saying that we applaud your aim to ‘revisit and recapture the intellectual radicalism and political energy of that time’. We certainly need it, and I could go on to talk gloomily of the dark times we live in.But capturing such times is partly what I am getting at with my title, ‘How Many Countries?’ I will go on to talk about multiple ontologies and other arcane matters under that heading, but my first point is that reading the country, reading any part of the nation, including Roebuck Plains, for me means sooner or later confronting the effects of globalising corporate capital.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Reading the Country |
| Subtitle of host publication | 30 Years On |
| Editors | Philip Morrissey, Chris Healy |
| Place of Publication | Sydney |
| Publisher | UTS ePress |
| Chapter | 1 |
| Pages | 21-40 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780648124283 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780648124290 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Publication series
| Name | CSR Books |
|---|---|
| Number | 3 |
Bibliographical note
This book is copyright. The work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Non Derivatives License CC BY-NC-NDKeywords
- First Nations history
- Settlement and resistance
- Country and nomadology
- Culture and intertextuality
- Indigenous Australian studies
- Indigenous Australian culture
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Muecke, S. (2018). How many Countries? In P. Morrissey, & C. Healy (Eds.), Reading the Country: 30 Years On (pp. 21-40). (CSR Books; No. 3). UTS ePress. https://utsepress.lib.uts.edu.au/site/books/e/10.5130/978-0-6481242-8-3/