Research Catalog

Title

Australia's ambivalence towards Asia : politics, neo/post-colonialism, and fact/fiction / J.V. D'Cruz and William Steele.

Author

D'Cruz, J. V.

Publication

Clayton, Vic. : Monash Asia Institute, c2003.

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Additional Authors

Steele, William (William Joseph), 1958-

Description

466 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

The colonial history of Australia has left it with an enduring fear of the non-Anglo other, a fact that D'Cruz and Steele (both of the Monash Asia Institute, Monash U., Australia) argue continues to impact the country's relations with Asia. They describe how white Australia has "othered" people of c.

Subject

• Asia > Relations > Australia
• Australia > Race relations
• Australia > Relations > Asia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [388]-435) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword: The need to have inferiors and enemies / Ashis Nandy -- Post-colonial explorations -- Significant other Australian voices -- Introduction: Of words and life -- Some formative elements of white Australia -- Of literature, linguistics, postcolonialism and post-colonialism -- A negative superiority: Self-perception of Anglo-Australians -- The superiority-of-being-us: The ideology in the Anglo-ethnic gaze -- The Western gaze, agency and post-colonialism -- Anglo-ethnic Australian politics, liberal democracy, race relations, and education -- The modern state: Liberal democracy, a partisan public culture, and the naked citizen -- The privileged classes and non-privileged underclasses -- The Anglo core of Australian multiculturalism, and the culturally reproductive role of schooling -- Race relations, restitution, the environment, glass-ceilings and radio hate -- Wanted: a treaty between equals -- Australia's imperial and colonial amnesia, its militarist tradition, and impending legacies -- Calling Asia home--or indulging in geographic promiscuity? -- Marketing Australia in Asia: Students from abroad -- Sporting scandals: Cricket, Olympics -- Australian entrepreneurs abroad -- Representation and benchmarks: Naming and terminology -- Mis/representation, and concerned Asian and Western voices -- Naming and appropriating 'Asia' -- Naming 'the West' and globalisation -- Western 'enlightenment' in Asia -- Western and non-Western perpectives on the agenda for change in Asia -- How the West is One?

ISBN

1876924098 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004380394

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library