Author: KAPFERER, JUDITH
Title: Being All Equal: Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice (Globa.
Description: Berg Publishers, UK, 1996. Softcover. New. 9781859731062 312 pages. Available Now. Book Description: Is there such a thing as an Australian national identity? Or Is Australia just a melting pot of different peoples and cultures without a common culture? - What Is distinctive and What Is universal about everyday life in Australia? in a post-colonial : Review: 'Being All Equal is a timely critique of repressive ideologies and practices that masquerade as populism or egalitarianism. By dissecting the motivations that animate the superficially bland inclusiveness of liberal nationalism, Judith Kapferer has made of Australian cultural politics a globally apposite object-lesson for political and social theory. Especially telling is her treatment of suburbia, which, in its unsettling capacity to excite both contempt and desire, emerges in this book as a central metaphor of the discursive alchemy of late capitalism and exposes the self-effacing sources of nationalist hegemony.'Professor Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University'Kapferer's Being All Equal, constitutes a readable, engaging and insightful, if theoretically somewhat limited discussion of contemporary projects of nation-building in Australia and how they might relate to the contemporary Australian state and people...'A significant strength of Kapferer's monograph is her attention to : About the Author: Judith Kapferer Freelance Sociologist,formerly Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Education, Flinders University of South Australia Size: 14 x 1.7 x 21.6 cm. 312 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Politics & Government; Paperback; ISBN: 1859731066. ISBN/EAN: 9781859731062. Inventory No: F210-1026.

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