Editorial: Election reflections Pal Ahluwalia and Toby Miller
Introduction Suvendrini Perera
1.Salt, sand and water: movement and citizenship in the narratives of displaced women Sivamohan Sumathy with Nazeera, Subaida, Latha, Kaushi, Nasrina, Felicia, Sharmila, Shiyana, Madeena Umma, Saseetha, Thahiya, Vasuki and Juweriya
2.Living through terror: everyday resilience in East Timor and Aceh Jacqueline Aquino Siapno
3.After the death of the island: Fiji May 1987 Mohit Prasad
4.Contesting refugeehood: squatting as survival in post-partition Calcutta Romola Sanyal
5.Storying: dream and deployment Merlinda Bobis
6.Coffee Grove (a chapter from Fish-Hair Woman) Merlinda Bobis
7.Tales from the South: a visual essay Antonio Traverso
8.Notes from a tense field: threatened masculinities in South Africa Joan Wardrop
9.Interventions, interceptions, separations: Australia’s biopolitical war at the borders and the gendering of bare life Kristen Phillips
10.Civil modalities of refugee trauma, death and necrological transport Joseph Pugliese
Biography
Suvendrini Perera is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Curtin University, Australia. Her most recent book is Australia and the Insular Imagination (NY: Palgrave 2009). She is the editor of Our Patch: Australian Post 2001 (Network 2008).
Antonio Traverso is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Curtin University and co-editor (with Mick Broderick) of Interrogating Trauma: Arts & Media Responses to Collective Suffering (Routledge 2010) and Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishers 2010).
