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Homesickness for a foreign country: nostalgia and colonisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 August 2010

Rob McQueen
Rob McQueen*
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Monash Law School, Australia
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Abstract

‘[T]he other is the phantasm of historiography, the object that it seeks, honors and buries. A labor of separation concerning this uncanny and fascinating proximity is effected…Alphonse Dupront has said, “The sole historical quest for ‘meaning’ remains indeed a quest for the Other, but however contradictory it may be, this project aims at ‘understanding’ and, through ‘meaning’ at hiding the alterity of this foreigner; or, in what amounts to the same thing, it aims at calming the dead who still haunt the present, and at offering them scriptural tombs”.’ (De Certeau, 1998, p. 2)

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International Journal of Law in Context , Volume 6 , Special Issue 3: Law, Movement, Space , September 2010 , pp. 257 - 275
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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