Full Description
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.
Contents
Russell WEST-PAVLOV and Anja SCHWARZ: Introduction
A. Dirk MOSES: Coming to Terms with Genocidal Pasts in Comparative Perspective: Germany and Australia
Steffi HOBUß: „Ein komplexes und wechselhaftes Spiel": Sprachliche Resignifikation in Kanak Sprak und Aboriginal English
Anja SCHWARZ: Strategic Uses of Multiculturalism in Germany and Australia
Katharine GELBER: Privileged Discourses of Hate in Australia and Germany: the Holocaust and the
Stolen Generation
Russell WEST-PAVLOV: Discourses of Uprooting, Discourses of Re-Routing. Autobiographical Discourse
and Cultural Nomadism in Foucault, Castro and Flusser
Tim MEHIGAN: Towards another Modernity? Multicultural Discourse in German and Australian Film
from the 1970s to the 1990s
Fiona ALLON: "We will decide who comes to this country": Inclusion, Exclusion and the National Imaginary
Ulrich LÖLKE: Von der Expansion zur Lokalisierung der Wissenschaften in multikulturellen Gesellschaften: Australische und Europäische Erfahrungen
Nicholas K. WHITE: Negotiating Nationhood in Multi-Ethnic Germany: an Australian Perspective
Justine LLOYD and Anja SCHWARZ: The Pacific Solution meets Fortress Europe: Emerging Parallels in
Transnational Refugee Regimes
Index
Notes on Contributors
