Australia and the Insular Imagination : Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies
by
S. Perera
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0230613535
ISBN-13
9780230613539
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 18th, 2009
Print length
220 Pages
Weight
356 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 14.70 x 1.70 cms
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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'.
Most studies of Australia begin with the "the island-continent." The surrounding oceans are little more than a backdrop for the dramas that occur on dry land. This is the first book to turn its attention to the oceans and coastlines that make and remake the limits of Australia through events such as the arrival of asylum seekers'' boats, the Indian Ocean tsunami, the Bali bombings and maritime peacekeeping missions in the Pacific. Against the imperatives of war, security, aid and disaster, various configurations of bodies, boats, borders and beaches testify to the power and the limits of Australia''s insular illusion.
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