'In this paper it is argued that a "situated cosmopolitanism" might be one way to begin thinking beyond the category of the nation that has historically informed Australian Studies. This would involve imagining new types of cultural hsitory that are concerned with the traffic of people, capital, practices, ideas and institutions within but also beyond the conceptual space of the nation. It would involve types of cultural history that accepted rather than left out divided affilitations and multiple identities.' (67)