Thinking the Antipodes

Name: Thinking the Antipodes
Brand: Monash University Publishing
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Australian Essays

Written by Peter Beilharz

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In 1956 Bernard Smith wrote that we in Australia were migratory birds. This was to become a leading motif of his own thinking, and a significant inspiration for Peter Beilharz. Beilharz came to argue that the idea of the antipodes made sense less in its geographical than its cultural form, viewed as a relation rather than a place. Australians had one foot here and one there, whichever ‘there’ this was. This way of thinking with and after Bernard Smith makes up one current of Beilharz’s best Australian essays.

Peter Beilharz is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology at La Trobe University. He has published 24 books and 200 papers across five continents. His major works include Imagining the Antipodes (1997) and Sociology – Antipodean Perspectives, with Trevor Hogan (2012). He has been affiliated with Harvard, Yale and Leeds universities, and in 2015 will work at STIAS in South Africa with Sian Supski.

ISBN-13: 9781922235558
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Imprint: Monash University Publishing
Publication date: 9 March 2015
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm
Language: English