Beskrivning
Beskrivning
This bookpresents a philosophical history of Tasmania’s past and present with aparticular focus on the double stories of genocide and modernity. On the onehand, proponents of modernisation have sought to close the past off from thepresent, concealing the demographic disaster behind less demanding historicalnarratives and politicised preoccupations such as convictism andenvironmentalism. The second story, meanwhile, is told by anyone, aboriginalor European, who has gone to the archive and found the genocidal horrorshidden there. This volume blends both stories. It describes the dual logics ofgenocide and modernity in Tasmania and suggests that Tasmanians will notbecome more realistic about the future until they can admit a full recognitionof the colonial genocide that destroyed an entire civilisation, not much morethan 200 years ago.
