Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1092569

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP1092569

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Inhumanities: Asylum seeker letters and the precarious 'human' rights of contemporary life narrative. Letters exchanged between asylum seekers and activists between 2001-05 are a powerful repository of cross cultural exchange and political activism in Australia this century, and they offer unique insights into debates about citizenship and national identity in the very recent past. When read as a distinctive genre of life narrative, these letters and the epistolary communities which they engender are important new resources in current scholarship on human rights and testimony. This project will make a vital and distinctive Australian contribution to debates about representations of the human and the inhuman in contemporary literature.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-03-2010

End Date: 28-02-2015

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $518,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Cultural Studies | Australian And New Zealand | Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross-Cultural Studies | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

Australian And New Zealand | Cultural Studies | Languages and Literature | Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross-Cultural Studies | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies | Understanding Australia'S Past

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