ISBN:
9781741156317
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Hodge, Bob Borderwork in Multicultural Australia
DDC:
305.8
Abstract:
Australia's faith in multiculturalism has been shaken by ferocious attacks in the public arena over the past decade. Borderwork in Multicultural Australia, reviews the hot spots, reasserts the value of multiculturalism and argues that a multicultural society is the best bulwark against terrorism, racism and injustice
Abstract:
Front cover -- Part title -- Title page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Trials and triumphs of multicultural Australia -- Introduction -- Unshrinking 'multiculturalism' -- Stories -- Coping with complexity -- Rethinking racism -- Multiculturalism and the left -- Revisiting consensus histories -- Principles of multiculture -- 2 Borderwork -- Rethinking Tampa -- Moral panics and borderwork -- Borderwork that works -- How to not take sides -- And the facts are ...? -- Borderwork over time: A sketch -- From little things, big things come -- 3 Tolerance paradoxes -- 'Multiculturalism' and 'tolerance' in discourse -- The roots of 'tolerance' -- Does tolerance have limits? -- The attack on 'tolerance' -- Tolerance as civic duty -- The democracy paradox -- The 'PC' tolerance paradox -- Tolerance and multiculturalism -- 4 Anglo-Celts in multicultural Australia -- Not me? -- First thoughts on Anglo-Celt Australia -- What to do with identities? -- Nation and identity: imagined communities -- A Kelly tour -- A multicultural Kelly? -- Just Australian: An Anglo-Celt culture nevertheless? -- 5 Racism and schismogenesis -- 'Racist taunts draw blood' -- Racism is personal -- Schismogenesis: Rethinking difference -- The United Nations and the coalition against racism -- Science and racism -- The 'White Australia' policy -- Racism explained to our children -- 6 Aboriginal Australia and multiculture -- Aboriginal Australians against multiculturalism -- Aboriginal disadvantage in multicultural Australia -- Why say sorry? -- Reconciliation -- The 'history wars' -- Rethinking histories: local stories -- Aboriginal identities -- Living Aboriginal culture -- 7 Imagining Islam -- A tale of two jihads -- September 11 -- The day the world changed? -- Life after death -- Sex in the suburbs: A problem for multiculturalists -- Language in multicultural Australia
Abstract:
Afghans in the Australian heartland -- The Ahmadiya -- 8 Austral/Asia -- Problematising 'Asia' -- Australia in Asia, Asia in Australia -- The new Chinese revolution -- What is a 'successful' immigration program? -- Crime and Fortress Australia: A cautionary tale -- Eating Asia -- Memorials to Asia -- Global Austral/Asia -- 9 Rethinking the Pacific -- The large island, the far sea: Donut vision -- Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Across the Tasman -- What is our 'backyard' -- The Pacific superpower -- Difficult histories -- The circulating spirit of multiculture -- Donut corn salsa: invisible Mexico -- A new materialism -- 10 Imagining multicultural Australia -- Weird geographies -- Australia: East/West -- New terms for a global world -- Australia as a 'settler-society' -- Scenes and origins -- Writing the land -- Aboriginal maps -- Appendix: Tools for analysing multiculture and borderwork -- References -- Index
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