This book brings together a selection of essays by David Walker, Alfred Deakin Professor of Australian Studies at Deakin University, Victoria, on Australian representation of Asia. It addresses the key themes in the Australian response to Asia—survivalist anxieties, climate and race, population and immigration, gender and mythologies, and regional identities.
Also, it reveals the central role that Asia has played in the formation of ideas of nation and identity in Australia from the late 19th century to the present. Finally, it underlines the often unpredictable character of engagement and the fluid nature of fear and fascination, proximity and distance in the Australia-Asia relationship.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Walker
David Walker is Professor of Australian Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia and a Visiting Professor in the School of Foreign Studies at Renmin University, Beijing. Professor Walker has given keynote addresses to conferences in New Delhi, Kolkata and Pune and is a member of the Indian Association for the Study of Australia. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has written extensively on Australian representations of Asia from the nineteenth century to the present. Anxious Nation was awarded the Ernest Scott Prize for History in 2001 and has been translated into Chinese. In February 2010 David Walker will take up the “Distinguished Visiting Chair in Australian Studies” at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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