...This chapter examines the process of transformation and maintenance of the social imaginary in Cambodia in relation to moral categories or qualities such as clarity, wildness, and civility as they are applied to social forms of behavior. More specifically, it considers how the categories connoting...

...The introduction establishes the terms of reference for the book, by first explaining the context of the Wild Rivers Act and land rights in Australia before then examining the history of concepts of ‘the wild’ and wilderness. As this shows, ‘the wild’ has long been a concept open...

...In Chapter 1, I argue that ‘wildness’ is a product settler attempts to understand and thereby spatially remake the Northern Australia since the first colonial encounters in the 17^th Century. For European explorers, a region like Cape York Peninsula was a wilderness to be surveyed...