Australia and the insular imagination: beaches, borders, boats, and bodies

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'. INDICE: Girt by Sea - 'A Nation Contained Within a Beach' - Boats, Bodies and Borderscapes - The Bombing on Kuta Beach - The Good Neighbor: Tsunami 2004- Racial Horizons and Peacekeeping in the Pacific - Clearing the Waters - A Very Australian Pogrom.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61353-9
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 228
• Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés