Discourses of Danger & Dread Frontiers

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Discourses of Danger & Dread Frontiers is written by Graeme Cheeseman and published by Allen & Unwin. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1863739750 (ISBN 10) and 9781863739757 (ISBN 13).

"The contributors to this volume offer a comprehensive theoretical critique of the closed and introspective approaches which both define and determine contemporary Australian defence and security policy. They critically assess the basic assumptions of mainstream security thinking challenging existing orthodoxies and means of framing reality. The authors call on policy makers, academics and others working on defence and security issues to think more critically and theoretically; to begin to ask some of the difficult questions that are being raised in other disciplines; and finally, to recognise and accept the contested and problematic nature of many of the concepts that they advance as if they were self-evident. Discourses of Danger is a timely and provocative book which complements and advances the work of the Secure Australia Project and other critics of the Australian security mainstream." -- Back cover.