Views from Australia and the Asia Pacific

Authors

Diana Wood Conroy, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

104445

Publication Details

Wood Conroy, D. (2016). Views from Australia and the Asia Pacific. In J. Jefferies, D. Wood Conroy & H. Clark (Eds.), Handbook of Textile Culture (pp. 25-33). United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Abstract

Standing on the shore of Melville Island at the top of Australia in July 2014, I looked out at the opaque turquoise waters of the Arafura Sea stretching towards Timor. I thought about how long trajectories of travel to Asia and beyond had become an unthinking assumption of the settler European Australian.