For many, the conditions and privileges of citizenship, and the access it provides to equal civil, political and social rights, are taken for granted. Yet citizenship always implies histories of inclusion and exclusion and in settler nations with colonial roots, the history of citizenship is entangled with the legacies of colonisation. Looking beyond its legal definition to the wider historical processes through which citizenship and its associated ideas of rights and belonging have been imagined, debated and found lasting form, this collection considers the unique role of visual culture in defining, contesting and advancing ideas of citizenship in settler national contexts from the 19th century to the present day. Addressing citizenship's particular entanglements with colonial histories in contemporary settler nations, the collection considers how images have shaped the meanings and experiences of citizenship from the colonial era, through periods of mass global migration to contemporary geopolitical change and debates on Indigenous rights and recognition. Contributors explore the role visual culture has played in imagining or interrogating ideas about belonging, rights, civic identity, and the ideal citizen in societies that continue to grapple with their settler colonial origins. They ask how image-making may be used to negotiate or contest the limits of citizenship, whether as a legal or as an imagined cultural category, and the role of visual culture in building relationships between citizens, non-citizens and the state. This collection will provide a new and compelling history of citizenship and the ways it has been defined, not only by historicising citizenship's visual imagery but by exploring its present effects and legacies.

Table of Contents:
Foreword, Eddie Synot (Indigenous Law Centre, Griffith University, Australia) 1. Introduction: Picturing Citizenship: Images, Belonging and Colonial Legacies in the Settler Nation, Fay Anderson, Melissa Miles, Jane Lydon and Amanda Nettelbeck (Monash University, Australia, University of Western Australia, Australia, and Australian Catholic University, Australia) Part I. Navigating Citizenship: Picturing Belonging 2. Projecting the Good Colonial Citizen: Hawkers in Settler-Colonial Australia, Amanda Nettelbeck (Australian Catholic University, Australia) 3. Apirana Ngata, John Pascoe and The Ngarimu Hui: Picturing Maori Citizenship in 1940s Aotearoa New Zealand, Lachy Paterson, Angela Wanhalla, Sarah Christie and Erica Newman (Otago University, New Zealand) 4. Citizenship, Art and Aspiration: 'New Australian' Artists in the Post-War Period, Melissa Miles (Monash University, Australia) 5. The Photographic and Democratic Encounter: News Photography and the 1967 Referendum, Fay Anderson and Julian Rawiri Kusabs (Monash University, Australia and University of Melbourne, Australia) Part II. Alternative Citizenships: Challenging the Limits of Belonging and Place 6. He Tipare Taua, He Tipare Aho: Photographic Legacies and the Price of Citizenship, Natalie Robertson (AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand) 7. Photographic Acts of Refugee Citizenship, Ty Phu (University of Toronto, Canada) 8. Dark Beach: Visual Assertions of Australian Citizenship, Jane Lydon (University of Western Australia, Australia)