Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Gewicht: 360 g
Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Gewicht: 360 g
ISBN: 978-0-9751967-8-6
Verlag: Federation Press
On the infamous afternoon of Sunday 11 December 2005, a crowd ofabout 5000, mostly white, English-speaking background young men, wenton a rampage at Sydney's Cronulla beach attacking anyone of MiddleEastern appearance. The day had begun as a protest against what manysaw as the unacceptable behaviour of some young men following a scufflebetween off-duty lifesavers and a group of Lebanese men. Such incidentsare not uncommon, yet rarely do they lead to large-scale, ethnicallymotivated violence in which people wrap themselves in the Australianflag. Many Australians, used to seeing racial violence in otherparts of the world, were shell-shocked. Yet the causes and consequencesof the riots and the revenge attacks that ensued are still beingdebated. Did the riots reveal the racist underbelly of Australiansociety? Did they demonstrate the failure of the multiculturalexperiment of the last 30 years? Were they yet another example of thecontemporary problems of youthful masculinities? Were we seeing theresurgence of an ugly nationalism, spread by populist media? In this provocative and insightful collection of essays, theauthors examine these and other issues in the first major criticalassessment of this significant moment in Australian history.
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Contents Acknowledgements List of Contributors List of Illustrations List of tables ‘Where the bloody hell are we?’ Multicultural manners in a world of hyperdiversity, Greg Noble Part 1: Making sense of the riots: contexts and perspectiveSydney’s Cronulla riots: the context and Implications,Jock CollinsScouring the Shire,Scott PoyntingRiotous Sydney take three (Cronulla) Confessions of a beach survivor, Wendy Shaw Part 2: 'We grew here, you flew here': nation, ethnicities and belongingPerforming Australian nationalisms at Cronulla, Kevin M Dunn'The Muslims are our misfortune!’, Geoffrey Brahm Levey and A Dirk MosesAustralian bodies, Australian sands, Affrica Taylor ‘It’s just an attitude that you feel’: inter-ethnic habitus before the Cronulla riots, Amanda Wise From Turko to Lebo: the Cronulla riot and the politics of Greekness, Andrew Lattas Part 3: Boys behaving badly? Gender, culture, territoryMasculinity, culture and urban power: the Cronulla conflicts and their amplification in popular media, Andrew Jakubowicz ‘The local boys’: violence, care, masculinity and the riots, Clifton Evers Bikini vs Burqa’ in contemporary Australia: a feminist response to the Cronulla riots, Judy Lattas Part 4: In the wake of the riots: responses and repercussionsLaw, policing and public order: the aftermath of Cronulla, Chris Cunneen Generation, class and community leadership, Paul Tabar Afterword: Zionists, Ghassan Hage Index
