1st Edition
The Times Will Suit Them Postmodern conservatism in Australia
By Geoff Boucher
Copyright 2008
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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John Howard said, The times will suit me,' and they did. For over a decade John Howard took advantage of international crises and local anxieties to not only stay in government, but to radically reshape Australian public life. The Times Will Suit Them digs behind the headlines to explain the success of Howard's radical new conservatism. It shows how the Howard government and its small legion of... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Postmodern Kind of Conservatism
Part 1
Chapter 1: Relaxed and Comfortable; Alert and Alarmed
Chapter 2: Refounding Australia and Getting It Right This Time
Chapter 3: In Whom Did We Trust?
Chapter 4: The New Spirit of Howard's Laws
Part 2
Chapter 5: Integration Crisis, or: Why Culture Wars Now?
Chapter 6: Culture Wars and the New Religiosity
Chapter 7: Social Solidarity or Postmodern Tribalism?
Chapter 8: The Politics of Fear and the Authoritarian Personality
Conclusion: After Howard Postmodernism or a Revitalized Australia?
Introduction: A Postmodern Kind of Conservatism
Part 1
Chapter 1: Relaxed and Comfortable; Alert and Alarmed
Chapter 2: Refounding Australia and Getting It Right This Time
Chapter 3: In Whom Did We Trust?
Chapter 4: The New Spirit of Howard's Laws
Part 2
Chapter 5: Integration Crisis, or: Why Culture Wars Now?
Chapter 6: Culture Wars and the New Religiosity
Chapter 7: Social Solidarity or Postmodern Tribalism?
Chapter 8: The Politics of Fear and the Authoritarian Personality
Conclusion: After Howard Postmodernism or a Revitalized Australia?
Biography
Geoff Boucher and Matthew Sharpe lecture at Deakin University.
