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.

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

Inhalt
Foreword; Raewyn Connell Introduction 1. Unveiling Shifts in the Visibility of the Chilean-Australian Relations since 1990 2. Immigrants and the Indigenous Peoples: Challenging Official Constructs of Social Cohesion 3. Negotiating Chilean and Australian Projections of Masculinities and Whiteness in a Neo-liberal Context 4. Shortening Imagined Distance: Towards The Bilateral Free Trade Agreement 5. The Asymmetrical Links between Chile and Australia 6. The Australian and the Chilean Bicentenaries (1988 and 2010)