Extremity : theorizing from the margins

• Main Author: Anderson, Kay J. (R9135)
• Other Authors: Institute for Culture and Society (Host institution), Baldwin, Andrew (Editor), Cameron, Laura (Editor), Kobayashi, Audrey (Editor)
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Canada, UBC Press 2011
• Subjects: 160403 - Social and Cultural Geography; 940111 - Ethnicity; Multiculturalism and Migrant Development and Welfare; Arctic; Canada; South Ice
• Online Access: http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/542841

Much like Great White North, Australia's Wide Brown Land is a rich and resilient myth of nation. Said to sit tenuously on both sides of the North-South divide, Australia is often characterized as a Western country under southern skies in a Third World environment. It is the flat, scorched land...