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Australian multicultural policy: social cohesion through a political conception of autonomy

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posted on 2014-12-01, 00:00 authored by Amanda KeddieAmanda Keddie
This article provides an account of the governance discourses informing Australia’s multicultural policy history. The article problematises the liberal ideologies informing these discourses – as essentialising the cultural identity of minority groups within exclusionary values about what constitutes the common good. Highlighting the ongoing imperative of questioning current frames for understanding and approaching multiculturalism, the article strengthens existing research that calls for alternative models that support a political conception of autonomy. The key argument is that social cohesion, unity and solidarity can be engendered through this conception where a situationally defined, rather than essentialised, view of culture enables recognition and legitimising of a proliferation of voices and versions of national identity and the common good.

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Journal

Journal of sociology

Volume

50

Issue

4

Pagination

408 - 421

Publisher

Sage

Location

London, Eng.

ISSN

1440-7833

eISSN

1741-2978

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2012, The Author

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