Refugee Lives in the Archives - A Pacific Imaginary

Drawing on the letters, photographs, drawings, maps and craftwork they exchanged with humanitiarian activists, this book explores the life narratives of asylum seekers in detention on Nauru, and how their lives in the camp are narrated in their own words

About the author

Gillian Whitlock is Emeritus Professor in the school of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland, Australia. Inhumanities completes a trilogy of monographs on life narratives of the dispossessed, following Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit (2007), and Postcolonial Life Narratives: Testimonial Transactions (2015).

Product details

• Authors: Gillian Whitlock, Gillian Whitlock
• Assisted by: Anna Poletti (Editor), Kate Douglas (Editor), John David Zuern (Editor), Kate Douglas (Editor), Anna Poletti (Editor), John David Zuern (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 19.03.2026
• EAN: 9781350280021
• ISBN: 978-1-350-28002-1
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: New Directions in Life Narrative
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Political activism, Social welfare & social services, Social welfare and social services, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Political activism / Political engagement