58224 Australian Pasts and Places

Students investigate the idea of 'Australia' through an exploration of the idea of place and the embodied pasts that become known to us through place. They study the ways in which landscape, country and spatial poetics have given rise to a particular way of imagining Australia through various disciplinary approaches. In this subject students question not just how Australia 'appears' but how we can write the affective force of a placed Australia over time. They research ways in which ideas of belonging to a country or attempting an embodied history challenges ideas of both place and the past as well as a unitary notion of 'Australia'.