- Title
- Introduction (Thesis Eleven, Number 92, February 2008: 5–10)
- Creator
- Smith, Philippa Mein; Hempenstall, Peter
- Relation
- Thesis Eleven Vol. 92, Issue 1, p. 5-10
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513607085039
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- What is New Zealand, and where is New Zealand other than alone in the earth’s watery hemisphere, immersed in the South Pacific, 2000 kilometres from anywhere including Australia? Like Australia, New Zealand was imagined long before it became a political entity. Co-constituted with the future Australia as part of Australasia, this settler community is an invention of two worlds, firstly Polynesia, followed 500 years later by the British world south of Asia, which grew from a beachhead at Sydney. What was the experience of modernity and modernism at the edge, by voyagers to this thinly populated archipelago, the last major landmass occupied by humans? We ask these questions in exchange with our trans-Tasman friends and neighbours at Thesis Eleven, with whom we share the region which our authors call ‘Australasia’, and which we call the ‘Tasman world’ (Mein Smith and Hempenstall, 2008). This issue is designed, however, to demonstrate the distinct perspectives on the ‘antipodean condition’ (Pocock, 2005: 6) which New Zealanders possess.
- Subject
- New Zealand; antipodean condition; national identity; culture
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43590
- Identifier
- uon:5676
- Identifier
- ISSN:0725-5136
- Language
- eng
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