[csaa-forum] New book - The Locals - now published

[Rob Garbutt]

Dear Colleagues,

My book The Locals: Identity, Place and Belonging in Australia and 
Beyond has now been published and is available from Peter Lang.

The Locals examines the idea of being one of the locals through the 
use of the term in the Australian print media. This examination is 
situated in the context of international literature on being a local, 
as well as literature on identity and place.

I have included some details from the back of the book below. Full 
details can be found at 
http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=54511&cid=538

Kind regards,
Rob Garbutt.

-- The Locals --

The Locals: Identity, Place and Belonging in Australia and Beyond
by Rob Garbutt, Southern Cross University

This book presents the first comprehensive survey of being a local, 
in particular in Australia. As in much of the colonised, 
English-speaking world, in Australia the paradox is that the locals 
are not indigenous peoples but migrants with a specific ethnic 
heritage who became localised in time to label other migrants as the 
newcomers and outsiders. Claims of belonging as 'local' provide a 
crucial insight into power relations that extend beyond the local 
level to questions of national identity and the ethics of belonging 
in a postcolonial, multicultural nation. How have Anglo-Celtic 
Australians installed themselves as locals? Where do Indigenous 
Australians stand in this local politics of identity? What are the 
ethical considerations for how we connect our identities to places 
while also relating to others in a time of intensifying migration? 
This book explores these questions via a multidisciplinary cultural 
studies approach and a mixed methodology that blends a critical 
language study of being local with auto-ethnographical accounts by 
the author, himself a 'local'.


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Dr. Rob Garbutt
Lecturer
School of Arts and Social Sciences
Southern Cross University
PO Box 157 Lismore 2480
Australia

e: rob.garbutt at scu.edu.au
t: + 61 2 6620 3162
f: + 61 2 6622 1683
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