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dc.contributor.authorMeadows, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:49:37Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:49:37Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.modified2014-09-11T01:57:46Z
dc.identifier.issn1030-4312
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10304312.2013.772104
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/55835
dc.description.abstractAustralian rockclimbing culture and climbers have been imagined in a particular way with the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century press playing a key role. Australian landscapes, including mountains, were incorporated into Indigenous cosmology for millennia before Aboriginal people discovered Europeans. But with the colonial invasion, the very nature of the landscape in the new colony meant that climbing culture was bound to take on a different persona from its European antecedent and undergo a rethinking or reinvention process. Figuring strongly in this discursive reconstruction was the particular geography of one region in Australia - southeast Queensland - with its diverse collection of volcanic peaks within range of a major population centre, along with a climate that encouraged the emergence of a set of complementary leisure activities. This article explores the emergence of rockclimbing culture in Australia from a range of often competing and contradictory discourses - Aboriginal cosmology, a unique landscape, the influence of the European idea of climbing and charismatic, visionary individuals. From the turn of the twentieth century, the role of local newspapers and magazines was a crucial element in this imagining process creating briefly a space for female climbers that has only recently been reclaimed. From the late 1880s, and particularly during the 1920s and 1930s, press reports of climbing and associated activities offered new ways of conceptualizing mountains and their place in shaping Australian culture.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom329
dc.relation.ispartofpageto346
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalContinuum
dc.relation.ispartofvolume27
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchScreen and digital media
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommunication and media studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommunication studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCultural studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3605
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4701
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode470101
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4702
dc.titleReinventing the heights: The origins of rockclimbing culture in Australia
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.rights.copyright© 2013 Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Continuum, Volume 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 329-346. Continuum is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com with the open URL of your article.
gro.date.issued2013
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gro.griffith.authorMeadows, Michael


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