Exploring bilateral narratives of identity at a socio-discursive level from 1990 onwards, this book provides a new approach to understanding how Chile and Australia imagine and discursively construct each other in light of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement signed in 2008.

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'This is a highly innovative and original cross-disciplinary work. It is thorough and insightful, weaving the complex issues involved in transnational connections and discourses of nationalism between two countries in the 'colonized' South. Strodthoff makes an important contribution and intervention in discussions about practices of exclusion and inclusion within and between nations. It is engaging in its development of new understandings of how countries imagine and construct themselves and others discursively.' - Alana Mann, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, The University of Sydney, Australia

'This book takes a fresh look at contemporary issues of multi-culturalism and global connections in Latin American contexts by exploring a novel and surprising conjunction: Chile and Australia. Its great strength is its narrative appeal. It tells many stories which provoke surprise and thought. In Irene Strodthoff's narrative, Chile and Australia go from seeming like an odd couple to emerging as a fascinating instance of the multiple new forms of connection produced by globalization.' - Bob Hodge, University of Western Sydney, Australia

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Irene Strodthoff holds a PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Chile and Australia
Book Subtitle: Contemporary Transpacific Connections from the South
Authors: Irene Strodthoff
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137479655
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Intern. Relations & Development Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47964-8Published: 26 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50249-3Published: 26 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47965-5Published: 26 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 213
Topics: Latin American Culture, International Relations, Social Sciences, general

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Unveiling Shifts in the Visibility of the Chilean-Australian Relations since 1990

Immigrants and the Indigenous Peoples: Challenging Official Constructs of Social Cohesion

Negotiating Chilean and Australian Projections of Masculinities and Whiteness in a Neoliberal Context

Shortening Imagined Distance: Toward the Bilateral Free Trade Agreement

The Asymmetrical Links between Chile and Australia

The Australian and the Chilean Bicentenaries (1988 and 2010)

Conclusion

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