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<div><font color="#000000">Dear Colleagues,</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">My book<i> The Locals: Identity, Place and
Belonging in Australia and Beyond</i> has now been published and is
available from Peter Lang.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><i>The Locals</i> 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.</font></div>
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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.detai<span
></span>lseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=54511&cid=538<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
Rob Garbutt.<br>
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<div><font color="#000000"><i>The Locals: Identity, Place and
Belonging in Australia and Beyond<br>
</i>by Rob Garbutt, Southern Cross University<br>
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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'.</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">Dr. Rob Garbutt</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Lecturer</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">School of Arts and Social Sciences<br>
Southern Cross University<br>
PO Box 157 Lismore 2480<br>
Australia<br>
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e: rob.garbutt@scu.edu.au</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">t: + 61 2 6620 3162</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">f: + 61 2 6622 1683</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">i:
http://works.bepress.com/robert_garbutt/</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">SCU CRICOS Provider Nos: NSW 01241G; QLD
03135E; WA 02621K</font></div>
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