TY - JOUR
T1 - A Future for Australian Studies?
AU - Mead, Philip
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This article provides a personal and anecdotal reflection on the question of a future for Australian studies. It briefly recounts the history and signification of the interdisciplinary descriptor “Australian studies” and its political and social context from the late 1980s. In particular, it emphasises the importance of Indigenous and constitutional foundations to any new Australian studies and its shaping of knowledge. The anecdotal topics I explore include Indigenous writers, the national capital's inflection of Australian studies, Garma, Global South film studies and Australia's geographical relations to the Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the North. It argues that modelling a new Australian studies needs to countenance the idea that Australia has to be begun again.
AB - This article provides a personal and anecdotal reflection on the question of a future for Australian studies. It briefly recounts the history and signification of the interdisciplinary descriptor “Australian studies” and its political and social context from the late 1980s. In particular, it emphasises the importance of Indigenous and constitutional foundations to any new Australian studies and its shaping of knowledge. The anecdotal topics I explore include Indigenous writers, the national capital's inflection of Australian studies, Garma, Global South film studies and Australia's geographical relations to the Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the North. It argues that modelling a new Australian studies needs to countenance the idea that Australia has to be begun again.
KW - Australian studies
KW - biopolitics
KW - film studies
KW - Indigenous sovereignty
KW - interdisciplinarity
KW - Pacific and Indian Ocean perspectives
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85101916382&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14443058.2021.1890635
DO - 10.1080/14443058.2021.1890635
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85101916382
SN - 1444-3058
VL - 45
SP - 236
EP - 245
JO - Journal of Australian Studies
JF - Journal of Australian Studies
IS - 2
ER -