An Email From the Ether: After the Cronulla Events
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| Title: | An Email From the Ether: After the Cronulla Events |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Burchell, David |
| Source: | Australian Universities' Review. May 2006 48(2):6-8. |
| Availability: | National Tertiary Education Union. PO Box 1323, South Melbourne 3205, Australia. Tel: +61-3-92541910; Fax: +61-3-92541915; e-mail: editor@aur.org.au; Web site: http://www.aur.org.au |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 3 |
| Publication Date: | 2006 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Opinion Papers Reports - Descriptive |
| Descriptors: | Racial Bias, Social Bias, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Racial Relations, Civil Disobedience, Cultural Influences, Violence, Immigrants |
| Geographic Terms: | Australia |
| ISSN: | 0818-8068 |
| Abstract: | An email calling for support against racism during the late 2005 Cronulla riots left some wondering about the incapacity of critical intellectuals to consider the riots and revenge attacks which followed them in the same light--as an instance of inter-communal strife. The author of this article argues that the call for support against racism was about racism of a particular community that did not represent Australians as a whole. The key problem with this way of "doing" multiculturalism is that it provides no vantage-point from which disputes between members of "peripheral" groups and members of the core can be understood, except through the prism of cultural domination. (Contains 3 endnotes.) |
| Abstractor: | ERIC |
| Entry Date: | 2008 |
| Access URL: | https://www.nteu.org.au/publications/aur/4802 |
| Accession Number: | EJ803965 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | An email calling for support against racism during the late 2005 Cronulla riots left some wondering about the incapacity of critical intellectuals to consider the riots and revenge attacks which followed them in the same light--as an instance of inter-communal strife. The author of this article argues that the call for support against racism was about racism of a particular community that did not represent Australians as a whole. The key problem with this way of "doing" multiculturalism is that it provides no vantage-point from which disputes between members of "peripheral" groups and members of the core can be understood, except through the prism of cultural domination. (Contains 3 endnotes.) |
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| ISSN: | 0818-8068 |
