Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Reveries of the Solitary Islands : From Sensuous Geography to Ecological Sensibility
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'This [essay] uses the beach in relation to the Solitary Islands to consider the intimacy of sensuous geographies active in the landscapes of the coast. As spaces of nurture, refuge and the practice of everyday life, sensuous geographies are relevant to the place-making experiences of exile (forced, self-imposed, psychic and existential). The practice of space contingent to place-making in this manner turns upon embodied knowledge, the immediacy of experience, lucid reverie and the familiarity of the everyday. The status of the beach as a cultural icon, embodied en masse in summer holidays and ritualised throughout life stages has become embedded in the national psyche of Australia. The beach resonates with the notion of 'landscapes of exile' in complex and ambiguous ways that deserve critical examination. This becomes apparent in the context of negotiations concerning the entanglement of nature and culture, settler and indigenous culture and the ethics of belonging. These come into sharp relief through an ecological reading of space, place and region.'

Source: Landscapes of Exile conference website, http://www.scu.edu.au/research/cpsj/landscapesofexiles/abstracts2.html#KimSatchel Sighted: 31/10/08.

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    y separately published work icon Landscapes of Exile: Once Perilous, Now Safe Anna Haebich (editor), Baden Offord (editor), Berne : Peter Lang , 2008 Z1486522 2008 anthology criticism essay 'Inspired by the international conference 'Landscapes of Exile: Once Perilous, Now Safe' held in Australia in 2006, this book examines the experience and nature of exile - one of the most powerful and recurrent themes of the human condition. In response to the central question posed of how the experience of exile has impacted on society and culture, this book offers a rich collection of essays. Through a kaleidoscope of views on the metaphorical, spatial, imaginative, reflective and experiential nature of exile, it investigates a diverse range of landscapes of belonging and exclusion - social, cultural, legal, poetic, literary, indigenous, political - that confront humanity. At the very heart of landscapes of exile is the irony of history, and therefore of identity and home. Who is now safe and who is not? What was perilous? Who now is in peril? What does it mean to belong? This book provides key examinations of these questions.' (Publisher's blurb) Berne : Peter Lang , 2008 pg. 97-114
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  • Coffs Harbour area, Urunga - Coffs Harbour - Woolgoolga area, Mid North Coast, New South Wales,
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