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The politics of identity in Australia
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Issues of identity are central to many historical and current debates in Australia. This superb collection of essays represents a significant rethinking of received ideas on identity, and reveals h...
Issues of identity are central to many historical and current debates in Australia. This superb collection of essays represents a significant rethinking of received ideas on identity, and reveals how issues of identity lie at the heart of Australian political thought, and form the foundation of Australian society and culture. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the political discourse surrounding Australian identity through key themes including identity theory, the manipulation of identity for political ends, gender and sexuality, immigration and national identity, citizenship and Aboriginality, and literature and film. The book rejects many of the assumptions underlying contemporary political debates, including the promulgation of a singular national identity in historical fact or as a political goal. This is a thought-provoking study of identity, its links with nationalism, and its potentially divisive effects.
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- Creator
- edited by Geoffrey Stokes
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997
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- 1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
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- ISBNs
- 9781139166911, 9780521583565, 9780521586726, 9780521583565
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Situating Australian national identity in theory and practice / Jeff Archer -- 'Other times': Thatcher, Hawke, Keating, and the politics of identity / Carol Johnson -- Universal obligations: liberalism, religion and national identity / Gregory Melleuish -- 'Manly, true and white': masculine identity and Australian socialism / Michael Leach -- 'Stirring tales': Australian feminism and national identity, 1900-40 / Marilyn Lake -- The making of an Australian civic identity: the bodies of men and the memory of war / Helen Pringle
- (Cont'd.) (Homo)sexual identities, queer theory and politics / Dennis Altman -- Racialism and democracy: the legacy of white Australia / John Kane -- Immigration and national identity: multiculturalism / James Jupp -- Australia and Asia: place, determinism and national identities / Wayne Hudson and Geoffrey Stokes -- Citizenship and aboriginality: two conceptions of identity in aboriginal political thought / Geoffrey Stokes -- Political identity in contemporary Australian literature: David Malouf and Peter Carey / M.D. Fletcher -- Australian film and national identity in the 1990s / Graeme Turner