The remembered village between Europe and Asia-Minor: Nea Magnisia at Bonegilla

Abstract

The resilience of multiple troubled histories as constituent features of Australia’s immigrant heritage draws attention to processes outside recognised nation-building narratives, not necessarily captured at commemorative sites. Immigrant and refugee lives gain dignity and value through empathetic recognition of the ontological connections that shaped their natal subjectivity prior to displacement, but representing them proves challenging. A village modelled from memory by a former European immigrant and exhibited at Victoria’s Bonegilla heritage site inserts new knowledge of an early twentieth-century conflict into Australian border space. This chapter examines the commemorative practices a..