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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0984449
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Travelling Home: A Study of Walkabout, Australia's Geographic Magazine (1934-74). Walkabout was one of mid-twentieth century's most popular magazines with a focus on inland Australia, as well as the Pacific region. It graced suburban lounge rooms, doctors' and dentists' surgeries, railway waiting rooms, ministerial offices, and school libraries. Walkabout's mixture of entertainment and education ensured its influence across a spectrum of readers: across age, class, and educational boundaries. This project explores the role of Walkabout in the development of a modern national identity. Walkabout deliberately cultivated one of Australia's key modern economic foundations-the travel industry-and did so whilst also influencing knowledge formation and circulation.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2009
End Date: 01-2013
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $109,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Literary Studies | Australian And New Zealand | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
