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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.

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Andrew McLean

Andrew McLean lives on sovereign Wangal land and is an upcoming poet and critic with a deep investment in the nurturing of a better and more just Australia. He is an avid reader and writer of Australian fiction and non-fiction that shares this investment. In 2022 he received the Dr Colin Roderick Prize in Australian Literature for best honours thesis in Australian Literature.

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9 August 202322 August 2023 · History

Reappraising the value of nostalgia in the fight to reclaim the commons

Andrew McLean

By historicising cultural nostalgia, we may reveal the fundamental object of its longing—the retainment of communal land sovereignty—and prevent it from serving as a blank canvas for far-right populists. In solidaric dialogue with all victims of global colonial capitalism, then, let us reclaim nostalgia in service of its original cause: the ongoing struggle against private enclosure of the natural resources of which are our collective birthright. Our collective fate might depend on it.