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 : racial horizons and the war on terror -- A pogrom on the beach -- Blood or water? "fluid-state nationalism" and terra Australis infirma
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
Analysis
National characteristics
Power (International relations)
Oceans and seas
Borders
Social impact
Australian studies
Notes
Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-211) and index
