Cultivating a nation: why the mythos of the Australian farmer is problematic
- Written by Christopher Mayes, DECRA Research Fellow, Deakin University
As a society, we need to address the role of farming in dispossession and violence in the colonial-settler era.Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND
This article is part of a series focusing on the politics of food – what we eat, how our views of food are changing and why it matters from a cultural and political standpoint.
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