Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Being on Christmas Island
A Place in Movements
Animal movement
Into liminal terrain
Arriving by boat into (un)Australia
Being local on Christmas Island
Leaving Home
A Moving disciplinary orientation
Chapter 1: An ethnographic introduction to Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia.
Finding Christmas Island
Island Places
Some notes on sensual movement
Chapter 2: The more than human world of Christmas
Chromatic Variance
Gold
Blue
Red
Walking, listening and remembering with animals
Animals in Analysis
Animals, movement and metaphor
Animals and claims to place
Food, animals and borders
Chapter 3: Staying and Moving in Local Places
How to make a neighbourhood
Making locals on Christmas Island
The sensual past in the present body
Labour and reliably local locals
Running on local status: government elections
Future labour, future movement
Chapter 4: Moving Between Places
Of Borders
National angst, national borders
The safe interior: constructing islandic borders
Island metaphors and dangers from over the water
Internal borders
Sensual divisions
Crossing the internal divide: pan islandic crabs
Chapter 5: Leaving Christmas Island
Away
Lost
Seeking same
Almost found
Leaving it all behind
Chapter 6: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
