Australia and the Insular Imagination Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies

by Perera, Suvendrini

• ISBN13: 9780230613539
• ISBN10: 0230613535
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book explores how the boundaries and contours of Australia were made and remade in the first years of the war on terror, offering a striking reassessment of the territoriality of 'the island continent'.

Author Biography

Suvendrini Perera is a senior research fellow at Curtin University of Technology in Australia. Her previous books include Reaches of Empire and the edited collection Our Patch: Enacting Australian Sovereignty Post-2001.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Terra Australis Infirma	p. 1
Girty by Sea	p. 15
"All the Water in the Rough Rude Sea": Insular Dreamings	p. 33
Bodies, Boats, Borderscapes	p. 53
Toruturous Dialogues: Bare Life, Dangerous Geographies, and the Politics of Proximity	p. 75
The Gulliver Effect: Australia in "The Arc of Insecurity"	p. 93
Our Patch: Radical Horizons and the War on Terror	p. 113
A Program on the Beach	p. 137
Conclusion: Blood or Water? "Fluid-State Nationalism" and Terra Australis Infirma	p. 161
Notes	p. 169
Select Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 213
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