Inside Australian Culture - Legacies of Enlightenment Values

Informationen zum Autor Baden Offord, Erika Kerruish, Rob Garbutt, Adele Wessell and Kirsten Pavlovic, with a Foreword by Ashis Nandy and Afterword by Vinay Lal Klappentext '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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rob Garbutt, Erika Kerruish, Kerruish Erika, Baden Offord, Baden Kerruish Offord, Pavlovic Kirsten, Wessell Adele
• Con la collaborazione di: Nandy Ashis (Prefazione), Lal Vinay (Postfazione)
• Editore: Anthem Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.07.2014
• EAN: 9781783082315
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-231-5
• Pagine: 164
• Serie: Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series; Anthem Studies in Australian Politics, Economics and Society
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Western philosophy: Enlightenment