Vanished Thresholds: Colonial Gentry and the Shaping of One of Sydney's Earliest Suburbs

Johnson, L

Vanished Thresholds: Colonial Gentry and the Shaping of One of Sydney's Earliest Suburbs

Johnson, L

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Publisher:: UTS ePress
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Cultural Studies Review, 2013, 19 (2), pp. 237 - 260
Issue Date:: 2013-01

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dc.contributor.author	Johnson, L	en_US
dc.date.issued	2013-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Cultural Studies Review, 2013, 19 (2), pp. 237 - 260	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	This article explores the way a colonial gentry was constituting itself as a social grouping in the mid nineteenth century through shaping the landscape and material culture of suburbs such as Darling Point in Sydney. In doing so , they sought to create an 'infrastructure of certainty' for themselves in the challenging and volatile world of what was still predominantly a penal colony. Important to this investigation is an understanding of the lack of stability of this social grouping, particularly in its earliest years, and how this was played out in the subdivisions of land and the building, ownship and furnishing of the early stone villas of this area. I am interested in what this built environment might suggest about the effectivity of material culture in the mobilisation and performance of class, gendered and racial identities in particular urban environments in the nineteenth century.	en_US
dc.publisher	UTS ePress	en_US
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dc.title	Vanished Thresholds: Colonial Gentry and the Shaping of One of Sydney's Earliest Suburbs	en_US
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Abstract:

This article explores the way a colonial gentry was constituting itself as a social grouping in the mid nineteenth century through shaping the landscape and material culture of suburbs such as Darling Point in Sydney. In doing so , they sought to create an 'infrastructure of certainty' for themselves in the challenging and volatile world of what was still predominantly a penal colony. Important to this investigation is an understanding of the lack of stability of this social grouping, particularly in its earliest years, and how this was played out in the subdivisions of land and the building, ownship and furnishing of the early stone villas of this area. I am interested in what this built environment might suggest about the effectivity of material culture in the mobilisation and performance of class, gendered and racial identities in particular urban environments in the nineteenth century.

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