Beauty Contest for British Bulldogs? Negotiating (Trans)national identities in Suburban Melbourne

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ID2985677
AuthorsSara Will, Sara Wills (0000-0002-2436-9393, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author), K Darian-Smith (0000-0001-7773-1205, The University of Melbourne)
Year2013
Volume9
Issue2
Pages65-83
Publication date2013-09-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1446-8123 • E-ISSN: 1837-8692
PublisherUniversity of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5130/csr.v9i2.3564
OpenAlexW2008965231
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited9

Notwithstanding the absence of bulldogs, Britfest with its re-creation and representation of Britishness provides an entry point for investigating the complex meanings within the transitional narratives of migrancy, ethnicity and 'belonging' among British migrants in modern Australia. The identification and promotion of Britishness at this event reflects recent trends in the re-imagining of that Britishness, which has also become the focus of popular and scholarly debate. In much of this debate, events such as Britfest are seen as representative of a newly emergent sense of identity among British migrants-as an organic reawakening of community pride, nationhood and sense of (an often privileged) place in Australia

Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Britishness · CONTEST · Identity (music · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Negotiation · Political science · Pride · Project commissioning · Publishing · Social science · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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