ISBN:
9780230613539
,
9781282664968
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 220 p.)
,
ill
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Australia and the Insular Imagination : Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies
DDC:
304.2/30994
Keywords:
National characteristics, Australian
;
Human beings Effect of environment on
;
Ocean Social aspects
;
Geopolitics
;
Australien
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Australia Boundaries
;
Social aspects
Abstract:
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."
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Terra Australis Infirma; 1 Girt by Sea; 2 "All the Water in the Rough Rude Sea": Insular Dreamings; 3 Bodies, Boats, Borderscapes; 4 Torturous Dialogues: Bare Life, Dangerous Geographies, and the Politics of Proximity; 5 The Gulliver Effect: Australia in "The Arc of Insecurity"; 6 Our Patch: Racial Horizons and the War on Terror; 7 A Pogrom on the Beach; Conclusion: Blood or Water? "Fluid-State Nationalism" and Terra Australis Infirma; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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