Australia and the insular imagination : beaches, borders, boats, and bodies /
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."
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Perera, Suvendrini. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Australia and the insular imagination : |b beaches, borders, boats, and bodies / |c Suvendrini Perera. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Palgrave Macmillan, |c 2009. | ||
| 300 | |a viii, 220 p. : |b ill. ; |c 22 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-211) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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." | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Ocean |x Social aspects |z Australia. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Human beings |x Effect of environment on |z Australia. | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Politics and Government. |2 eflch | |
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