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'Seeing Skippy?': Visualising and materialising the kangaroo

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posted on 2023-05-24, 04:56 authored by Katrina SchlunkeKatrina Schlunke
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, imaginations

Editors

R Brosch and K Crane

Pagination

171-180

ISBN

978-3-86821-551-9

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Place of publication

Trier

Extent

10

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Copyright 2014 WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

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  • Restricted

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Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture

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