Geoffrey Stokes (ed.)

The Politics of Identity in Australia

Herausgeber: Stokes, Geoffrey

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Table of contents:
Part I. Theorising Identity: 1. Situating Australian national identity in theory and practice Jeff Archer; 2. 'Other times': Thatcher, Hawke, Keating and the politics of identity Carol Johhson; 3. Universal obligations: liberalism, religion and national identity Gregory Melleuish; Part II. Gender and Sexuality: 4. 'Manly, true and white': masculine identity and Australian socialism Michael Leach; 5. 'Stirring tales': Australian feminism and national identity, 1900-1940 Marilyn Lake; 6. The making of an Australian civic identity: the bodies of men and the memory of war Helen Pringle; 7. (Homo)sexual identities, queer theory and politics Denis Altman; Part III. Race, Place and Citizenship: 8. Racialism and democracy: the legacy of White Australia John Kane; 9. Immigration and national identity: multiculturalism James Jupp; 10. Australia and Asia: place, determinism and national identities Wayne Hudson and Geoff Stokes; 11. Citizenship and Aboriginality: two conceptions of identity in Aboriginal political thought Geoff Stokes; Part IV. Culture, Literature and Film: 12. Political identity in contemporary Australian literature: David Malouf, Peter Carey and M. D. Fletcher; 13. Australian film and national identity in the 1990s Graeme Turner.

This superb collection of essays provides a comprehensive introduction to the political discourse surrounding Australian identity. It represents a significant rethinking of received ideas on identity, and reveals how issues of identity lie at the heart of Australian political thought, society and culture.

This superb collection of essays provides a comprehensive introduction to political discourse on identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780521586726
• ISBN-10: 0521586720
• Artikelnr.: 21768062

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Theorising Identity: 1. Situating Australian national identity in
theory and practice Jeff Archer; 2. 'Other times': Thatcher, Hawke, Keating
and the politics of identity Carol Johhson; 3. Universal obligations:
liberalism, religion and national identity Gregory Melleuish; Part II.
Gender and Sexuality: 4. 'Manly, true and white': masculine identity and
Australian socialism Michael Leach; 5. 'Stirring tales': Australian
feminism and national identity, 1900¿1940 Marilyn Lake; 6. The making of an
Australian civic identity: the bodies of men and the memory of war Helen
Pringle; 7. (Homo)sexual identities, queer theory and politics Denis
Altman; Part III. Race, Place and Citizenship: 8. Racialism and democracy:
the legacy of White Australia John Kane; 9. Immigration and national
identity: multiculturalism James Jupp; 10. Australia and Asia: place,
determinism and national identities Wayne Hudson and Geoff Stokes; 11.
Citizenship and Aboriginality: two conceptions of identity in Aboriginal
political thought Geoff Stokes; Part IV. Culture, Literature and Film: 12.
Political identity in contemporary Australian literature: David Malouf,
Peter Carey and M. D. Fletcher; 13. Australian film and national identity
in the 1990s Graeme Turner.