Walking to Work: Community and Contact

Jan Idle

doi:10.5130/csr.v16i2.1704

Cultural Studies Review 16.2 September 2010 Critical Proximity

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v16i2.1704

Keywords:

Walking, community, the city, settler community, Sydney

Jan Idle

University of Technology, Sydney

Abstract

The settler community must negotiate the difference of the stranger and the melancholy and violence of a past haunted by colonization and death. Through writing the details of everyday contact in a walk across the city this essay explores notions of community. It owes much to the writing of Linnell Secomb who writes of the haunted nature of the settler community in the Australian context. Secomb writes of community through the ideas of Jean Luc Nancy where community is a process of negotiation of difference, a listening to the unfamiliar other in conflict and acceptance. The work of Alphonso Lingis and Richard Sennett has informed my ideas of the stranger and the city while Kim Scott’s “Benang” has influenced how I think and write about the echo of the past in the present. These theoretical interruptions punctuate this writing of negotiating community.

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Vol 16 No 2 (2010): Critical Proximity

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New Writing (Peer Reviewed)

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Jan Idle, University of Technology, Sydney

Jan Idle completed an MA Cultural Studies (UTS) in 2007 writing about community and walking. She works as project officer for the Listening Project (ARC, CRN) a collaborative project between Justine Lloyd (MQ), Tanja Dreher (UTS), Penny O’Donnell and Cate Thill (ND).

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Jan Idle, University of Technology, Sydney