A Fine Healthy Place’
The role of local newspapers in civilizing the Queensland bush
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12604371 |
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| Authors | Sue Lovell (Griffith University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-100 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-8804 • E-ISSN: 1469-9729 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13688804.2014.956712 |
| OpenAlex | W1522808036 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
This paper presents a close reading of Australian local newspapers The Queenslander, The Week, and The Logan Witness. It argues that by representing triumph over local challenges these newspapers also constituted a late-nineteenth-century civilizing process. They played a vital role in generating community cohesion. Stability and civilization were represented to the target audience of families and entrepreneurs as ‘natural’ and appropriately embodied by colonizers. Embedding a sense of belonging established a ‘civilising (sic) goodness’ through disavowal of the displacement of indigenous peoples as familiar community practices were enacted. In this highly literate population newspapers, rather than books, provided local Australian content. A case study of the Lahey family, who arrived as South East Queensland became available for serious settlement in the early 1870s, personalizes the settlement ideology produced by local newspapers
Archaeology · Civilization · Community cohesion · Ideology · Indigenous · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Population · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Witness · Australian History and Society · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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