Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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“Say no to burqas”: geographies of nation and citizenship in Newtown
Published 2012-01-01This thesis is concerned with the ways in which instances of everyday racism reproduce geographies of national belonging and exclusion in the city, focusing specifically on an activist campaign in Newtown, Australia, which ...Open AccessThesis -
'What A Girl Wants, What A Girl Needs': Father-Daughter Intimacies in Therapeutic Literature and Teen Film
Published 2012-01-01This dissertation tracks the operations of broken family discourse through both therapeutic literature and popular teen film. It is interested in the way that young women and girls are implicated in supporting and maintaining ...Open AccessThesis -
Seeing blue: negotiating the politics of Avatar media activism
Published 2011-01-01This thesis examines how the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar (2009) has been taken-up in media activism directed towards Indigenous struggles against imperialism. It assumes the importance of locating this phenomenon within ...Open AccessThesis -
Menstruating the Past, Consuming the Future: Analysing Sanitary Hygiene Products through the work of Walter Benjamin
Published 2011-01-01This thesis explores how the menstruating subject is articulated in contemporary consumer culture and through practices of consumption. This results in an alternate reading of the menstruating subject that brings together ...Open AccessThesis