Baden Offord, Erika Kerruish, Rob Garbutt

Inside Australian Culture

Legacies of Enlightenment Values

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Produktbeschreibung

'Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values' offers a critical intervention into the effects of colonialism in Australia, which continue to inform and dominate its public culture and institutions. Through an analysis of three significant moments in Australian history, the authors investigate how the public sphere continues to derive its values from the British Enlightenment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781783082315
• ISBN-10: 1783082313
• Artikelnr.: 40199654

Autorenporträt

Baden Offord, Erika Kerruish, Rob Garbutt, Adele Wessell and Kirsten Pavlovic, with a Foreword by Ashis Nandy and Afterword by Vinay Lal

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Ashis Nandy
Preface
Part One: Getting Inside Australian Public Culture
Chapter One: The Enlightenment and Tradition in Early Colonial Society
Chapter Two: Australian Values and Their Public Culture(s)
Part Two: Three Moments of the Enlightenment
Chapter Three: Moment One - An Act to Regulate Chinese Immigration, 1858
Chapter Four: Moment Two - Cubillo v. the Commonwealth, 2000
Chapter Five: Moment Three - Australian Localism and the Cronulla Riot, 2005
Part Three: Working with the Necessary Other
Chapter Six: The Closing of Public Culture to Communal Difference
Afterword by Vinay Lal