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Title Polyculturalism and discourse / edited by Anja Schwarz and Russell West-Pavlov
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 279 pages) : illustrations, map
Series At the interface/probing the boundaries
At the interface/probing the boundaries.
Contents Polyculturalism and Discourse; Contents; Introduction; Coming to Terms with Genocidal Pasts in Comparative Perspective: Germany and Australia; "Ein komplexes und wechselhaftes Spiel": Sprachliche Resignifikation in Kanak Sprak und Aboriginal English; Strategic Uses of Multiculturalism in Germany and Australia; Privileged Discourses of Hate in Australia and Germany: the Holocaust and the Stolen Generation; Discourses of Uprooting, Discourses of Re-Routing: Autobiographical Discourse and Cultural Nomadism in Foucault, Castro and Flusser
Towards another Modernity? Multicultural Discourse in German and Australian Film from the 1970s to the 1990s"We will decide who comes to this country": Inclusion, Exclusion and the National Imaginary; Von der Expansion zur Lokalisierung der Wissenschaften in multikulturellen Gesellschaften: Australische und europäische Erfahrungen; Negotiating Nationhood in Multi-Ethnic Germany: an Australian Perspective; The Pacific Solution meets Fortress Europe: Emerging Parallels in Transnational Refugee Regimes; Index; Notes on Contributors
Summary 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 p
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English or German with abstracts in English
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Subject Multiculturalism -- Germany
Multiculturalism -- Australia
Politics and culture -- Germany
Politics and culture -- Australia
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations -- Political aspects
Multiculturalism
Politics and culture
Race relations -- Political aspects
SUBJECT Germany -- Race relations -- Political aspects
Australia -- Race relations -- Political aspects
Germany -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects
Australia -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects
Subject Australia
Germany
Form Electronic book
Author Schwarz, Anja, 1976-
West-Pavlov, Russell, 1964-
ISBN 9781435612150
1435612159
9789401205184
9401205183
9042023074
9789042023079