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Geographical imaginaries of escape: Discourses of escapism in the Tasmanian archive
Lifestyle migration and existential threats of the climate crisis are unified through the need for escape. Geographical imaginaries of distant, pristine refuges not only define contemporary relationships with these phenomena, but these imaginaries have their inception in colonialism. Research into how geography and colonial history influence imaginaries of escape is underdeveloped. This article uses the Australian island state of Tasmania to address this gap through a critical discourse analysis of online news articles, travel blogs, and history texts. These texts sample the Tasmanian archive and popular cultural discourses about Tasmania’s identity. Martin Polin’s bunker, the Earth’s Black Box project, and tourism and tree-change emerge as key sites for showing how Western geographical imaginaries of Tasmania are reciprocally related to escapism. Analysing the archive through these texts reveals what place identities are deemed desirable in Tasmania, why and by whom, and illustrates how they are unequally distributed. Investigating escapism in Tasmania offers opportunities for similar analyses in other setter colonies and wilderness places, begins conversations about the relationships between apocalypticism, tourism, and migration, and asks how we may decolonise them.