This book examines the experience of race and ethnicity in Australia after the withering away of official multiculturalism. The first chapter looks at the formation of the Australian state, the role that multiculturalism has played, and the impact of neoliberal ideas. The second chapter takes nightclubbing in the city of Perth during the 1980s, the peak period for official multiculturalism, to exemplify how diversity and exclusion functioned in everyday life. The third chapter con...
Table des matières
1. Introduction: Logics of Exclusion.- 2. Expression, Ethnicity and the Perth Nightclub Scene of the 1980s.- 3. With God on our Side: The Unholy Mixture...
A propos de l’auteur
Jon Stratton is an adjunct professor at the University of South Australia. He is attached to the Uni SA Creative unit. Jon has published widely in...