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Australia and the insular imagination : beaches, borders, boats, and bodies
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Title
Australia and the insular imagination : beaches, borders, boats, and bodies / Suvendrini Perera.
ISBN
9780230103122
023010312X
9781349378142
1349378143
9780230613539
0230613535
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource. (viii, 220 pages) : illustrations
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Summary
This book maps the seascape borders of Australia's insular imagination. It explores how the boundaries and contours of the nation were made and remade in the first years of the war on terror, offering a striking reassessment of the territoriality of "the island continent."
Variant and related titles
Palgrave political & international studies collection 2010.
Other formats
Print version: Perera, Suvendrini. Australia and the insular imagination. 1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 19, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Terra Australis infirma
Girt by sea
"All the water in the rough rude sea" : insular dreamings
Bodies, boats, borderscapes
Torturous dialogues : bare life, dangerous geographies, and the politics of proximity
The Gulliver effect : Australia in "the arc of insecurity"
Our patch : racial horizons and the war on terror
A pogrom on the beach
Conclusion: Blood or water? "Fluid-state nationalism" and terra Australis infirma.
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