The enigma of the bogan and its significance to class in Australia: A socio-historical analysis

摘要: This analysis offers a historical perspective to chart the contested discourses that inform understandings of figure ‘bogan’, suggesting its evocation reflects unresolved tensions and accumulated meanings left by various reconfigurations class politics since colonial settlement in Australia. We focus on three key periods show how socio-political formations influence both classed identities relations: 1890s, when ethos labour movement was established as central imaginative motif nascent Australian nation; post-war years, Robert Menzies offered political project grounded experiences middle classes; 1990s, where there were complex translocations allegiances. trace several meaning(s) have been reworked across these and, related this, ‘bogan’ is composite left- right-wing ideas articulate different kinds virtue unworthiness.