‘Now I fight for belonging’: a cosmopolitan refugee meets regional Australia in Constance on the Edge

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dc.contributor.authorKhorana, Sukhmani
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-10T10:47:32Z
dc.date.available2018-05-10T10:47:32Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis article addresses cosmopolitan cinema through the figure of a former refugee in an Australian-made documentary, Constance on the Edge (Belinda Mason, 2016). Beginning with an overview of cosmopolitanism as a project and a political ideal, as well as its relevance now, I then trace its manifestation in the discourses of refugee advocacy that have been evident in Australia over the last couple of decades. This helps set the stage for a close reading of the film, in which a Sudanese asylum seeker who has been resettled in a regional town with her family is struggling to find a sense of belonging in her new home. I argue that such an instance of cosmopolitan cinema facilitates the audience’s capacity to see both similarities and differences in the refugee other, thereby enabling a politics of solidarity that is simultaneously in dialogue with global and national discourses.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationKhorana, S. (2017) ‘‘Now I fight for belonging’: a cosmopolitan refugee meets regional Australia in Constance on the Edge’, Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 14, pp. 61–73. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.14.03en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.14.03
dc.identifier.endpage73
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued14
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage61
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/6061
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue14/ArticleKhorana.pdf
dc.rights© 2017, The Author(s)en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectCosmopolitan cinemaen
dc.subjectRefugeeen
dc.subjectDocumentaryen
dc.subjectBelinda Masonen
dc.subjectCosmopolitanismen
dc.subjectPolitical idealen
dc.subjectRefugee advocacyen
dc.subjectAustraliaen
dc.subjectAsylum seekeren
dc.subjectSudanen
dc.subjectSolidarityen
dc.title‘Now I fight for belonging’: a cosmopolitan refugee meets regional Australia in Constance on the Edgeen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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