Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies
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 even...
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| description | 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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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-272402017-01-30T12:57:47Z Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies Perera, Suvendrini 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. 2009 Book http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27240 Palgrave Macmillan restricted |
| spellingShingle | Perera, Suvendrini Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies |
| title | Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies |
| title_full | Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies |
| title_fullStr | Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies |
| title_short | Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies |
| title_sort | australia and the insular imagination: beaches, borders, boats, and bodies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27240 |