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Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging
An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion: Australia from 1788
Politics, Media and Campaign Language: Australia’s Identity Anxiety
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Anthem Studies in Australian Politics, Economics and Society Series

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Neoliberalism has transformed work, welfare, and democracy. However, its impacts, and its future, are more complex than we often imagine. Alongside growing inequality, social spending has been rising. Medicare was entrenched alongside privatization. How do we understand this contradictory politics, and what opportunities are there to advance equality? This book takes the three big drivers of inequality – conditionality of benefits, marketisation of services and financialisation of the life course– to explore how inequality has been contested. Alongside the rise of the market, it reveals the building blocks of a more egalitarian order and opportunities for new models of solidarity based on an ethic of care.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherAnthem Press
Release dateApr 3, 2017
Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging
An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion: Australia from 1788
Politics, Media and Campaign Language: Australia’s Identity Anxiety

Titles in the series (4)

  • Politics, Media and Campaign Language: Australia’s Identity Anxiety

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    Politics, Media and Campaign Language: Australia’s Identity Anxiety
    Politics, Media and Campaign Language: Australia’s Identity Anxiety

    Politics, Media and Campaign Language' is an original, groundbreaking analysis of the story of Australian identity, told in Australian election campaign language. Stephanie Brookes argues that the story of Australian identity is characterized by recurring cycles of anxiety and reassurance, which betray a deep underlying feeling of insecurity. Introducing the concept of ‘identity security’, the book focuses on electoral language and demonstrates that election campaigns provide a valuable window into an overlooked part of Australia’s political and cultural history. 'Politics, Media and Campaign Language' reclaims Australian campaign speech and electoral history to tell the story of changing national values and priorities, and traces the contours of collective conversations about national identity.

  • Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging

    Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging
    Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging

    Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging explores mediated debates about belonging in contemporary Australia by combining research that proposes conceptual and historical frameworks for understanding its meaning in the Australian context. A range of themes and case studies make the book a significant theoretical resource as well as a much-needed update on work in this area. Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging also provides an intervention that engages with key contemporary issues, questions and problems around the politics of belonging that are relevant not only to academic debate, but also to contemporary policy development and media and popular discussion.

  • An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion: Australia from 1788

    An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion: Australia from 1788
    An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion: Australia from 1788

    An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion presents Australian traditions, myths and legends in an understanding but often critical light in the belief that such devices have often been used by interested parties and even governments to maintain social solidarity and to mould a very complex people into a coherent and obedient whole. Australia is not and never has been an equal society. It has not always been a peaceful and tolerant society but it is more so than most other states and especially many of those sending immigrants. It is not a perfect democracy. Many have been mistreated and even persecuted but that most of those suffering at present are either indigenous or refugees should not be a cause of indifference. Australians may be suspicious of foreigners and social and political deviants. But they have passed a whole series of reforming laws since the Federation in 1901, not all of which have been as racist as the White Australia policy. An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion attempts to get a little bit closer to the truth of two hundred years of creating a liveable society in what was a remote and unknown part of the world.

  • Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation

    Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation
    Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation

    Neoliberalism has transformed work, welfare, and democracy. However, its impacts, and its future, are more complex than we often imagine. Alongside growing inequality, social spending has been rising. Medicare was entrenched alongside privatization. How do we understand this contradictory politics, and what opportunities are there to advance equality? This book takes the three big drivers of inequality – conditionality of benefits, marketisation of services and financialisation of the life course– to explore how inequality has been contested. Alongside the rise of the market, it reveals the building blocks of a more egalitarian order and opportunities for new models of solidarity based on an ethic of care.

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