期刊名称：Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
印刷版ISSN：1832-3898
电子版ISSN：1838-8310
出版年度：2011
卷号：7
期号：2
出版社：Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (ACRAWSA)
摘要：This article brings critical race and whiteness theory and gambling studies together with recent academic 'history experiments' to engage with a field of academic research surrounding the figure of Captain Cook. An investigation of how 'Cook culture' is refracted through everyday practices, spaces and products of gambling highlights a habitus of white possession which continues to define Australian belonging against Indigenous sovereignty claims. I show how the belief that Cook, as an agent of history, couldn't have done otherwise in his first encounters with Indigenous people in this place renders non-Indigenous people incapable of being otherwise than subjects of white possession. After linking processes of white home-making to a gambling logic implicit to Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the illusio, I conclude with personal reflections to illustrate the role of fantasy in sustaining everyday manifestations of Cook Culture
