http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:837 This paper tracks the ways in which the deployment of Orientalist logic (in)forms the Australian film 'The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert' (1994) and responses to the film. I argue that Orientalism within Priscilla privileges a white hegemony that denies the potentialities of queer as destabilising normative coherence. I focus on the white protagonists’ relationship with Cynthia, the Filipina character, in order to interrogate how whiteness and Orientalism (in)forms their contact with one another, and I process queer (to a heterosexist social order) characters as normative protagonists because of their whiteness. Here, I insinuate my own readings of the film to show that while Orientalist whiteness shapes the film, it also produces and is produced by perceptual practices that deploy investments in and/or resignify the scope of white Orientalism. I track this simultaneous affirmation and reconceptualisation of normative structures through the characters’ use of drag. Such impermanence maintains whiteness as the speaking/subject position. Consequently, queer potentialities for extending the scope of white Orientalism cannot eventuate. This paper pushes towards recognising whiteness and Orientalism as integral facets of queerness within Priscilla and through responses to the film. With this, the multiple ways in which queer identities are experienced can be addressed. 2010-06-30T00:50:10.267Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:2311 Using the aims of my PhD project as a starting point, this article examines how the Philippine-Australia nexus constitutes a project that is developed through bilateral negotiations, such as the General Agreement on Development Cooperation (GADC). As an umbrella agreement, the GADC covers all bilateral development cooperation activities between Australia and the Philippines and provides general conditions for assistance. The article argues that this agreement between the two nations is a nation and/or "home" building initiative that is reiterated and deployed through bodily participation. 2010-01-27T23:05:46.875Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:2348 This article tracks the ways in which the sense of taste carries the memory of different experiences that enables the conceptualisation of identity. 2010-01-27T23:05:33.503Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:2349 This article tracks the ways in which oral communication, specifically story-telling, conceptualises experiences of hope in relating with oneself and with others. 2010-01-27T23:05:31.961Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:2375 This article argues that whiteness is a system of representation that produces specific discourses of power and knowledge that deploy racialised spaces and bodily movements. I use North America as the focus of this analysis to examine the systematic operation of whiteness as a discursive and legislative authority in daily life. 2010-01-27T23:05:16.381Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:2376 Using a self-reflexive approach, this article critically unpacks the ways in which Filipinos negotiate their self, national and international identity in conjunction with the figure of Spain as a past coloniser with continuing post-colonising affects. These material affects constitute many varied and different ways of embodying and disembodying 'home'. This article tracks how these various ways of experiencing 'home' can create cultural connections between and within Filipinos in the Filipino diaspora. 2010-01-27T23:05:15.231Z ]]>