Times Will Suit Them - Postmodern Conservatism in Australia

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A Postmodern Kind of Conservatism

Part 1

Chapter 1: Relaxed and Comfortable; Alert and Alarmed

Chapter 2: Refounding Australia and Getting It Right This Time

Chapter 3: In Whom Did We Trust?

Chapter 4: The New Spirit of Howard's Laws

Part 2

Chapter 5: Integration Crisis, or: Why Culture Wars Now?

Chapter 6: Culture Wars and the New Religiosity

Chapter 7: Social Solidarity or Postmodern Tribalism?

Chapter 8: The Politics of Fear and the Authoritarian Personality

Conclusion: After Howard Postmodernism or a Revitalized Australia?

Summary

A biting analysis of the shifting values of Australian politics in the last decade.

Product details

• Authors: Geoff Boucher, Geoff Sharpe Boucher, Matthew Sharpe
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367719913
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71991-3
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Australia, Politics & government, Politics and government