Tracing the development of modern Australian society in the global age, this text focuses on key areas, such as settler/indigenous relations, economics and culture since the 1980s, and the effects of the growing diversity caused by globalization.
Tracing the development of modern Australian society in the global age, this text focuses on key areas, such as settler/indigenous relations, economic...
The themes 'trust', 'risk ' and 'uncertainty' seem especially pertinent in the context of the post-9/11 world. This book brings together a range of new research with a focus on the 'risk society' debate and on the themes of 'trust', 'uncertainty' and 'ambivalence'. Where much of the work within these crucial debates in the social sciences has been theory-based and theory-driven, Trust, Risk and Uncertainty combines theoretical sophistication with empirical analysis and research in the fields of philosophy, education, social policy, government, health and social care, sociology, and media and...
The themes 'trust', 'risk ' and 'uncertainty' seem especially pertinent in the context of the post-9/11 world. This book brings together a range of ne...
This book argues that in a globalising world in which nation-states have to manage population flows and intensifying cultural diversity within their borders, multicultural policy and approaches have never been more important. The author takes an extended case study approach, examining Australia s experiments with pragmatic forms of multiculturalism and multicultural policy since the early 1970s up to the present. The Public Life of AustralianMulticulturalism challenges some larger assumptions about multiculturalism either that it undermines national identity or that it is,...
This book argues that in a globalising world in which nation-states have to manage population flows and intensifying cultural diversity within thei...
