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Thinking the Antipodes

Australian Essays

Peter Beilharz

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English
Monash University Publishing
09 March 2015
In 1956 Bernard Smith wrote that we in Australia were migratory birds. This was to become a leading motif of his own thinking and an 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. Beilharz is from La Trobe Uni

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Imprint:   Monash University Publishing
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 153mm, 
Weight:   368g
ISBN:   9781922235558
ISBN 10:   1922235555
Pages:   288
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for Thinking the Antipodes: Australian Essays

'Reading this collection, we are better able to appreciate the sustained intellectual commitment, breadth of sympathy, and responsiveness to changing cultural and political priorities, that characterises Beilharz's work.' -- Graeme Davison -- The Journal of Sociology,1-3, 2017


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