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BL
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973117
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b727487
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| Main Entry
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Perera, Suvendrini.
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| Title & Author
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Australia and the insular imagination : : beaches, borders, boats, and bodies /\ Suvendrini Perera.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
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| Page. NO
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viii, 220 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0230613535
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: 9780230613539
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: 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 in "the arc of insecurity" -- Our patch : racial horizons and the war on terror -- A pogrom on the beach -- Conclusion: Blood or water? "Fluid-state nationalism" and terra Australis infirma.
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| Abstract
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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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Geopolitics-- Australia.
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Human beings-- Effect of environment on-- Australia.
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National characteristics, Australian.
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Ocean-- Social aspects-- Australia.
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Boundaries-- Social aspects.
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Geopolitics.
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Human beings-- Effect of environment on.
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National characteristics, Australian.
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Ocean-- Social aspects.
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Abgrenzung.
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Abgrenzung.
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Geopolitik.
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Geopolitik.
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Mentalität.
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Mentalität.
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Nationalbewusstsein.
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Nationalbewusstsein.
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Nationalcharakter.
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Nationalcharakter.
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Australia, Boundaries, Social aspects.
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Australia.
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Australie.
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Australien.
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Australien.
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| Dewey Classification
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304.2/30994
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| LC Classification
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DU107.P436 2009
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| NLM classification
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LB 52680rvk
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