Australia and the insular imagination : beaches, borders, boats, and bodies / Suvendrini Perera.
Australia and the insular imagination : beaches, borders, boats, and bodies / Suvendrini Perera.
Australia and the insular imagination : beaches, borders, boats, and bodies / Suvendrini Perera.
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Publisher
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Date
2009.
Call Numbers
304.23099/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 220 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
Contents
Terra Australis infirma -- Girt by sea -- "All the water in the rough, rude sea" : insular dreamings -- Bodies, boats, borderscapes -- Torturous dialogues : bare life, dangerous geographies and the politics of proximity -- The gulliver effect : Australia and the arc of instability -- Our patch : rac...
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Publisher
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2009.
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Summary
Brings together events and themes relating to Australia and the effect of the 'war on terror'. Includes chapters on asylum seekers, the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, and the bombings in Bali in 2002. Author from Curtin University of Technology, Australia.
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Australia and the insular imagination : beaches, borders, boats, and bodies / Suvendrini Perera.
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Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-211) and index.
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Tertiary/Undergraduate.
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304.23099/1
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74Vva23xzzDO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vva23xzzDO
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ISBN
0230613535 (alk. paper)
9780230613539 (alk. paper)
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304.230994
MMS ID
991010227869702626
