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Picturing Citizenship
Images, Belonging and Colonial Legacies in the Settler Nation
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For many, the conditions and privileges of citizenship, and the access it provides to equal civil, political and social rights, are taken for granted. Yet citizenship always implies histories of inclusion and exclusion. In settler nations with colonial roots, the history of citizenship is entangled with...
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This book collection considers the unique role of visual culture in defining, contesting and advancing ideas of citizenship and its attendant rights in settler national contexts.
This book collection considers the unique role of visual culture in defining, contesting and advancing ideas of citizenship and its attendant rights in settler national contexts.
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For many, the conditions and privileges of citizenship, and the access it provides to equal civil, political and social rights, are taken for granted.
Yet citizenship always implies histories of inclusion and exclusion. In settler nations with colonial roots, the history of citizenship is entangled with the legacies of colonisation. Looking beyond its legal definition to the wider historical processes through which citizenship and its associated ideas of rights and belonging have been imagined, debated and found lasting form, this collection considers the unique role of visual culture in defining, contesting and advancing ideas of citizenship in settler national contexts from the 19th century to the present day.
Addressing citizenshipβs particular entanglements with colonial histories in contemporary settler nations, the collection examines how images have shaped the meanings and experiences of citizenship from the colonial era, through periods of mass global migration, to contemporary geopolitical change and debates on Indigenous rights and recognition. Contributors explore the role visual culture has played in imagining or interrogating ideas about belonging, rights, civic identity, and the ideal citizen in societies that continue to grapple with their settler colonial origins.
They ask how image-making may be used to negotiate or contest the limits of citizenship, whether as a legal or as an imagined cultural category, and the role of visual culture in building relationships between citizens, non-citizens and the state. This collection provides a new and compelling history of citizenship and the ways it has been defined, not only by historicising citizenshipβs visual imagery but by exploring its present effects and legacies.
Picturing Citizenship offers an insightful perspective on the interplay between visual culture and the development of citizenship concepts in settler nations.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781350455887
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 21 August 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Illustration: 45 illus
Contributors:
- Edited by Melissa Miles
- Edited by Jane Lydon
- Edited by Fay Anderson
- Edited by Professor Amanda Nettelbeck
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 158.0mm
Height: 236.0mm
Weight: 664g
Pages: 264
About the Author
Fay Anderson is an Associate Professor in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia. She has published widely on Australian and journalism history, news photography, war, genocide, trauma, migration and crime. Her latest book is The Holocaust and Australian Journalism: Reporting and Reckoning (2024).
Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at the University of Western Australia. Her books include Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire (2020) and Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire (2016) which explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights.
Melissa Miles is Professor of Art History at Monash University, Australia. Her books include Photography, Truth and Reconciliation, Pacific Exposures: Photography and the Australia-Japan Relationship (with Robin Gerster) and The Language of Light and Dark, which examines the productive role of visual culture in public life, politics and intercultural relations.
Amanda Nettelbeck is Professor of History in the Institute of Humanities & Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University. Her last book Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood (2019) won the 2020 ANZLHS Legal History Prize, and her current book project explores how ideas of colonial citizenship were produced and contested in the 19th century settler empire.
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