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This book examines claims for recognition of cultural difference
from immigrant and Indigenous minorities, highlighting the ways in
which they intersect with ideas of national community. Busbridge
argues that there is an important, albeit under-explored,
relationship between nation and multicultural politics of
recognition. Drawing on the Australian context, the book explores
how nation features as a productive, if somewhat ambivalent,
discursive resource in contemporary Muslim and Aboriginal struggles
to be recognised. In demanding recognition, minorities enter into
the business of 'making the nation' by positing alternative
conceptions of national identity, culture and belonging that are
more attentive to their differences and claims. This dynamic is
engaged as an expression of 'postcolonial citizenship'.
Postcolonial citizenship is imagined in terms of the ways in which
minority groups actualise multicultural realities through rewriting
ideas of national community. It underlines the critical importance
of revising the power relations that deem some groups 'more
national' and others less so - and which, in Western multicultural
societies, are typically tied to notions of the 'West' and its
'others'. This book is an important conceptual, theoretical and
political intervention that brings postcolonialism and
multiculturalism into dialogue on the increasingly potent issues of
nation and national identity. It will be of great interest to
scholars and students of sociology, politics, postcolonial studies,
culture, identity and nation.
This book examines claims for recognition of cultural difference
from immigrant and Indigenous minorities, highlighting the ways in
which they intersect with ideas of national community. Busbridge
argues that there is an important, albeit under-explored,
relationship between nation and multicultural politics of
recognition. Drawing on the Australian context, the book explores
how nation features as a productive, if somewhat ambivalent,
discursive resource in contemporary Muslim and Aboriginal struggles
to be recognised. In demanding recognition, minorities enter into
the business of 'making the nation' by positing alternative
conceptions of national identity, culture and belonging that are
more attentive to their differences and claims. This dynamic is
engaged as an expression of 'postcolonial citizenship'.
Postcolonial citizenship is imagined in terms of the ways in which
minority groups actualise multicultural realities through rewriting
ideas of national community. It underlines the critical importance
of revising the power relations that deem some groups 'more
national' and others less so - and which, in Western multicultural
societies, are typically tied to notions of the 'West' and its
'others'. This book is an important conceptual, theoretical and
political intervention that brings postcolonialism and
multiculturalism into dialogue on the increasingly potent issues of
nation and national identity. It will be of great interest to
scholars and students of sociology, politics, postcolonial studies,
culture, identity and nation.
While local governments have traditionally been thought relatively
powerless and unpolitical, this has been rapidly changing. Recent
years have seen local governments jump headfirst into a range of
so-called culture war conflicts like those concerning LGBTI rights,
refugee protection, and climate change. Using the Australia Day and
Columbus Day controversies as case studies, this Element
rejuvenates research on how local governments respond to culture
war conflicts, documenting new fronts in the culture wars as well
as the changing face of local government. In doing this, this
Element extends foundational research by advancing four new
categories of responsiveness that scholars and practitioners can
employ to better understand the varied roles local governments play
in contentious culture war conflicts.
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