1st Edition

Borderwork in Multicultural Australia

By Bob Hodge Copyright 2006
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Refugees. Border protection. Ethnic gangs. Terrorism. History wars. Pauline Hanson. Australia's faith in multiculturalism has been shaken by fierce attacks from its enemies and a sense of crisis among its friends. Multiculturalism has become a political tool to win votes and generate community anxiety. What is left of the multicultural ideal? Bob Hodge and John O'Carroll take the pulse of... Read more
Preface

1. Borderwork

2. The Tolerance Paradox

3. Anglo-Celts in Multicultural Australia

4. Racism and Schismogenesis

5. Sorry is not the Hardest Word: Aboriginal Australia and Multiculture

6. Imagining Islam: Australia and a Global World

7. Austral/Asia

8. Beyond Donut Vision: Rethinking the Pacific

9. The Dynamics of Multiculture

Appendix: Tools for Analysing Multiculture and its Contexts

Biography

Bob Hodge is Foundation Professor of Humanities in the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney, and author of many books including Social Semiotics and Myths of Oz. John O'Carroll lectures in the School of Social Sciences and Liberal Studies at Charles Sturt University.