Australia and the insular imagination
Subtitle: beaches, borders, boats, and bodies
By: Suvendrini Perera.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230613539
Subjects: National characteristics, Australian; Geopolitics -- Australia; Ocean -- Social aspects -- Australia; Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Australia; Australia -- Boundaries -- Social aspects
Table of contents: title: Terra Australis infirma; title: Girt by sea; title: "All the water in the rough, rude sea" : insular dreamings; title: Bodies, boats, borderscapes; title: Torturous dialogues : bare life, dangerous geographies and the politics of proximity; title: The gulliver effect : Australia and the arc of instability; title: Our patch : racial horizons and the war on terror; title: A pogrom on the beach; title: Blood or water? "fluid-state nationalism" and terra Australis infirma.