Our Patch
Racial Horizons and the War on Terror
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20042582 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Perera (0000-0002-0507-9905, corresponding author), Suvendrini Perera |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 113-136 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Australia and the Insular Imagination (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230103122_7 |
| OpenAlex | W2999798764 |
| ISBN | 9780230103122 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The speaker is Sir Samuel Griffith, Premier of Queensland, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, and "one of the major participants in the story of Federation."2 Griffith's description of the process that successfully annexed the Torres Strait Islands, though falling just short of acquiring Papua for Queensland, is terse and to the point. It lays bare the sweep of a colonial voracity. How does this appetite to take in the horizon shape the imaginative and affective borders of the island-nation and its contemporary maps of the region in a period of renewed imperial aspiration, the global war on terror? What are the processes of spatialization, the imaginative geographies, and the territorial teleologies at work in a war that, through the active, racially marked investment, emotional and material, of the state, remaps Australia's horizons? How do these imaginative geographies enable the spatializing of rated relations and contour the distributions, dispersions, and temporalities of power that enact and reproduce differential forms of sovereignty over national-regional space? These are the central questions I pursue in this chapter.KeywordsSolomon IslandSovereign PowerTransnational CrimeNative TitleBorder ProtectionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Mobilities · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Sovereignty · Spatialization · State (computer science) · Temporalities · Welsh · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |