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Judith Kapferer - Being All Equal: Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice (Global Issues Series) - 9781859731062 - KNW0008570
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Being All Equal: Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice (Global Issues Series)

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Description for Being All Equal: Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice (Global Issues Series) Paperback.
- 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 age of globalizing economies, the political quest for national 'identity' is increasingly urgent. This topical book traces the ways in which the Australian state and its people struggle to represent the social and cultural practices of everyday life in an attempt to draw meaning from diverse understandings of pasts, presents and futures. Class, gender and ethnicity are ... Read more

Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Berg Publishers Oxford
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781859731062
SKU
KNW0008570
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Judith Kapferer
Judith Kapferer Freelance Sociologist,formerly Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Education, Flinders University of South Australia

Reviews for Being All Equal: Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice (Global Issues Series)
'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 ... Read more

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