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'Seeing Skippy?': Visualising and materialising the kangaroo
Eaten, stuffed, branded, iconised and militarized, the kangaroo is both empty signifier and volatile assemblage. This paper will move between the photographic depictions of the roo as domesticated pet and those of the kangaroo as international televisual image to trace an historical imagining that simultaneously exposes and silences Indigenous knowledges and sovereignty. Representations of the kangaroo remain anchored in the colonial moment when an Indigenous home became an exoticised 'nature'. This paper questions the 'naturalness' of the kangaroo through its visual record spanning the transnational environments of national branding and its role as 'national' representative.
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Publication title
Visualising Australia: images, icons, imaginationsEditors
R Brosch and K CranePagination
171-180ISBN
978-3-86821-551-9Department/School
School of Social SciencesPublisher
WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag TrierPlace of publication
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