Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> World - Australian & Oceanian

Given Australia s status as an (unfinished) colonial project of the British Empire, the basic institutions that were installed in its so-called empty landscape derive from a value-laden framework borne out of industrialization, colonialism, the consolidation of the national statist system and democracy all entities imbued with British Enlightenment principles and thinking. Modernity in Australia has thus been constituted by the importation, assumption and triumph of the Western mind materially, psychologically, culturally, socio-legally and cartographically. Inside Australian Culture:...

Australia as a Western society in the Orient faces a unique and paradoxical challenge in her relations with her close but unfamiliar neighbors of Southeast Asia. Explicitly dependent upon British foreign policy until the fall of Singapore in 1942, Australia has reluctantly and painfully begun the task of developing a policy of her own.

The Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia and many of the Pacific islands during the Second World War awakened Australia to the need to secure her own defenses and later, when Britain began a gradual withdrawal from Southeast Asia, Australia was thrown...

We are confronted by neoliberalism and the inhumane consequences of its economic policies. The claim that -there is no alternative- to profit-making simply denies basic features of everyday reality. The Politics of Disability asks: Just where does all of this leave people with disabilities? What are their alternatives? They are among the most downtrodden people, frequently treated as losers for not trying hard enough. This meritocratic principle is antiquated and yet as a basic element of a political system it means that here is at most a little left-over welfare for those with...

Given Australia s status as an (unfinished) colonial project of the British Empire, the basic institutions that were installed in its so-called empty landscape derive from a value-laden framework borne out of industrialization, colonialism, the consolidation of the national statist system and democracy all entities imbued with British Enlightenment principles and thinking. Modernity in Australia has thus been constituted by the importation, assumption and triumph of the Western mind materially, psychologically, culturally, socio-legally and cartographically. Inside Australian Culture:...