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Occupying the "Other": Australia and Military Occupations from Japan to Iraq

Editat de Christine De Matos, Robin Gerster
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 feb 2009
To what extent has Australia's willingness to support the United States been an expression of independent policy-making or meek acquiescence in the neocolonial imperatives of the global superpower? How do occupations differ? This title includes essays that place Australia's historical role as an occupier on the critical map.
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ISBN-13: 9781443803397
ISBN-10: 1443803391
Pagini: 326
Dimensiuni: 152 x 208 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Notă biografică

Christine de Matos is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS) at the University of Wollongong, where she is currently writing a social history of the Australian role in the Allied Occupation of Japan (1946-1952) using gender, race and class to elucidate the power dynamics of the occupier-occupied relationship. Her book on Australian diplomacy and the Occupation, Imposing Peace and Prosperity: Australia, Social Justice and Labour Reform in Occupied Japan (2008) is published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. Robin Gerster is Associate Professor in the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies at Monash University, and was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo during the 1990s. He is the author of several books, including Big-noting: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing (1987) and Legless in Ginza: Orientating Japan (1999), and has published extensively in Australia and abroad. His latest book is Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan (Scribe, 2008).