Repositioning resistance: Basque separatism, religion and cultural security in regional Queensland, 1945-1970
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Article Title | Repositioning resistance: Basque separatism, religion and cultural security in regional Queensland, 1945-1970 |
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ERA Journal ID | 36905 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Mason, Robert |
Journal Title | Queensland Review |
Journal Citation | 20 (1), pp. 37-51 |
Number of Pages | 15 |
Year | 2013 |
Publisher | Equinox Publishing |
Place of Publication | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
ISSN | 1321-8166 |
2049-7792 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2013.4 |
Abstract | This article investigates expressions of ethnic difference amongst the Basque community of north Queensland. Large numbers of Basques migrated to north Queensland during the 1920s and 1930s, and remained in contact with family members in the Provinces themselves. Few Australian Basques were present during the bombing of Guernica in 1937, but all were aware of the event and believed it proved the perfidy of Nationalist Spain. The highly symbolic nature of the violence wrought at Guernica exposed Australia's Basques to a form of cultural trauma, and emphasised their difference from Castilian Spaniards. Within Queensland, the trauma was experienced as a distancing from Spanish identities and an attempt to accrue a whiteness that could be recognised and validated by local Anglophone communities. |
Keywords | immigration; North Queensland history; Spanish minorities; Basqu separatists |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 440107. Social and cultural anthropology |
430302. Australian history | |
440811. Political theory and political philosophy | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Humanities and Communication |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q23qq/repositioning-resistance-basque-separatism-religion-and-cultural-security-in-regional-queensland-1945-1970
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