Overview
- Comprehensively assesses the political history of Australian multiculturalism
- Analyses both left wing and right wing critiques
- Engages with Indigenous and multicultural imaginaries, and cosmopolitan/post-multicultural critiques
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book argues that in a globalising world in which nation-states have to manage population flows and intensifying cultural diversity within their borders, multicultural policy and approaches have never been more important. The author takes an extended case study approach, examining Australia’s experiments with pragmatic forms of multiculturalism and multicultural policy since the early 1970s up to the present. The Public Life of Australian Multiculturalism challenges some larger assumptions about multiculturalism – either that it undermines national identity or that it is, and should strive to be, a post-national approach to identity issues. Instead, it argues that framing multiculturalism by inclusive national identity has been the key to multiculturalism’s continuity and general success in Australia. The book also directly challenges the claim that we have entered a post-multicultural world, making a case instead for the continuing relevance of pragmatic approaches to multiculturalism.
Students and scholars researching in sociology, politics, migration, multiculturalism, ethnic and racial studies, nationalism, and identity studies will find this study of interest.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Anthony Moran is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University, Australia. He has published widely on race, ethnicity, nationalism, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism and indigenous/settler politics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Public Life of Australian Multiculturalism
Book Subtitle: Building a Diverse Nation
Authors: Anthony Moran
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45126-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45125-1Published: 15 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83217-3Published: 04 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45126-8Published: 26 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 298
Topics: Cultural Studies, Political Sociology, Ethnicity Studies, Comparative Social Policy