Polyculturalism and discourse / / edited by Anja Schwarz and Russell West-Pavlov

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809917703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2007
• ISBN: 94-012-0518-3; 1-4356-1215-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Collana: At the interface/probing the boundaries
• Classificazione: ES 110; MR 6600; MS 3300
• Altri autori (Persone): SchwarzAnja; West-PavlovRussell <1964->
• Disciplina: 305.800943
• Soggetti: Multiculturalism - Germany; Multiculturalism - Australia; Politics and culture - Germany; Politics and culture - Australia; Germany Race relations Political aspects; Australia Race relations Political aspects; Germany Ethnic relations Political aspects; Australia Ethnic relations Political aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Coming to Terms with Genocidal Pasts in Comparative Perspective: Germany and Australia / A. Dirk Moses -- „Ein komplexes und wechselhaftes Spiel“: Sprachliche Resignifikation in Kanak Sprak und Aboriginal English / Steffi Hobuß -- Strategic Uses of Multiculturalism in Germany and Australia / Anja Schwarz -- Privileged Discourses of Hate in Australia and Germany: the Holocaust and the Stolen Generation / Katharine Gelber -- Discourses of Uprooting, Discourses of Re-Routing: Autobiographical Discourse and Cultural Nomadism in Foucault, Castro and Flusser / Russell West-Pavlov -- Towards another Modernity? Multicultural Discourse in German and Australian Film from the 1970's to the 1990's / Tim Mehigan -- “We ; will decide who comes to this country”: Inclusion, Exclusion and the National Imaginary / Fiona Allon -- Von der Expansion zur Lokalisierung der Wissenschaften in multikulturellen Gesellschaften: Australische und europäische Erfahrungen / Ulrich Lölke -- Negotiating Nationhood in Multi-Ethnic Germany: an Australian Perspective / Nicholas K. White -- The Pacific Solution meets Fortress Europe: Emerging Parallels in Transnational Refugee Regimes / Justine Lloyd and Anja Schwarz -- Index -- Notes on Contributors.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume gathers together research by ten scholars engaging with multicultural discourse in Australia and Germany. The term ‘polyculturalism’ rather than ‘multiculturalism’ is employed deliberately to re-open a space in which the workings of discourse on culturally diverse societies, both as archive or practice, and as intervention, can be considered in greater depth. The inter-cultural perspective and wide range of disciplinary affiliations exhibited by the essays in this volume contribute to this goal: whereas the majority of discourse analytical work addresses the diversity of speaking positions, as well as the arbitrariness of ascribed meanings, within a historical framework delimited by national boundaries and disciplinary boundaries, the texts collected here transgress this perspective in working comparatively between Australia and Germany.