AUSTRALIAN HUMANITIES REVIEW

issue 51 2011

Edited by Monique Rooney and Russell Smith Australian Humanities Review

Editors: Monique Rooney, The Australian National University Russell Smith, The Australian National University

Guest Editor: Lisa Milner

Ecological Humanities Editors: Dr Deborah Rose, Macquarie University Dr Thom van Dooren, University of Technology, Sydney

Editorial Advisors: Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology Ned Curthoys, The Australian National University Guy Davidson, University of Wollongong Ken Gelder, University of Melbourne Andrew Hassam, Monash University Marilyn Lake, La Trobe University Sue Martin, La Trobe University Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, University of Sydney Susan Sheridan, Flinders University Rosalind Smith, University of Newcastle, NSW Terry Threadgold, Cardiff University, Wales McKenzie Wark, Eugene Lang College, New York Terri-Ann White, University of Western Australia Adi Wimmer, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Elizabeth McMahon, University of New South Wales Libby Robin, The Australian National University

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AHR Issue 51 (2011) ISSN 1835-8063 (PRINT), ISSN 1325-8338 (ONLINE) Table of Contents

Editors’ Introduction ...... 1 Monique Rooney and Russell Smith

Essays ‘Every Right to be There’: Cinema Spaces and Racial Politics in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia...... 5 Maria Nugent A Transnational Gallipoli?...... 25 Roger Hillman

Special Section: ‘On the Table’: Food in Our Culture Guest Editor’s Introduction—‘On the Table’: Food in Our Culture’. 45 Lisa Milner

Essays Making Australian Food History...... 49 Colin Bannerman Nineteenth-Century Experimentation and the Role of Indigenous Foods in Australian Food Culture ...... 65 Barbara Santich Kill Skippy? Red Meat versus Kangaroo Meat in the Australian Diet...... 79 Adrian Peace Swimming with Tuna: Human-Ocean Entanglements...... 97 Elspeth Probyn Small, Slow and Shared: Emerging Social Innovations in Urban Australian Foodscapes...... 115 Ferne Edwards The Civilised Burger: Meat Alternatives as a Conversion Aid and Social Instrument for Australian Vegetarians and Vegans ...... 135 Jemàl Nath and Desireé Prideaux iii Book Reviews Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness, by Lisa M . Hamilton, Reviewed by Kelly Donati...... 153 The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics and Civil Society, by Janet A . Flammang, Reviewed by Bethaney A . Turner ...... 159 A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The Social Appetite (3rd edition), edited by John Germov and Lauren Williams, Reviewed by Mandy Hughes...... 163 The Slow Food Story: Politics and Pleasure, by Geoff Andrews; Bite Me: Food in Popular Culture, by Fabio Parasecoli; The Globalisation of Food, edited by David Inglis and Debra Gimlin, Reviewed by Lauren Williams and John Germov...... 167 Cake: A Global History, by Nicola Humble; Cheese: A Global History, by Andrew Dalby; Tea: A Global History, by Helen Saberi; Soup: A Global History, by Janet Clarkson; The Bloody History of the Croissant, by David Halliday, Reviewed by Donna Lee Brien...... 175

The Ecological Humanities Introduction...... 183 Thom van Dooren and Deborah Rose Dogs, Meat and Douglas Mawson...... 185 Elizabeth Leane and Helen Tiffin Justice Towards Animals Demands Veganism...... 201 Gary Steiner The Posture of the Human Exception ...... 203 Dominique Lestel ‘Babe’: the Tale of the Speaking Meat: Part I ...... 205 Val Plumwood L’animal est l’avenir de l’homme, by Dominique Lestel, Reviewed by Hollis Taylor ...... 209

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