[csaa-forum] FW: 'LINES IN THE SAND'

[Gregory Noble]

The perfect christmas present?
 
Lines in the Sand: The Cronulla Riots, multiculturalism and national belonging
Edited by Greg Noble
The Institute of Criminology Press

 

 

 On the infamous afternoon of Sunday 11th December, 2005, a crowd of about 5000 - mostly White, English-speaking background young men - went on a rampage at Sydney's Cronulla beach attacking anyone of 'Middle Eastern Appearance'. The day had begun as a protest against what many saw as the unacceptable behaviour of some young men following a scuffle between off-duty lifesavers and a group of Lebanese men. Such incidents are not uncommon, yet rarely do they lead to large-scale, ethnically motivated violence in which people wrap themselves in the Australian flag.

 

Many Australians, used to seeing racial violence in other parts of the world, were shell-shocked. Yet the causes and consequences of the riots, and the revenge attacks that ensued, are still being debated. Did the riots reveal the 'racist underbelly' of Australian society? Did they demonstrate the failure of the multicultural experiment of the last 30 years? Were they yet another example of the contemporary problem of youthful masculinities? Were we seeing the resurgence of an ugly nationalism, spread by populist media?

 

In this provocative and insightful collection of essays, the authors examine these and other issues in the first major critical assessment of this significant moment in Australian history.

 

Table of contents

 

Chapter one: 'Where the bloody hell are we?' Multicultural manners in a world of hyperdiversity             

Greg Noble                                                                                                 1                

Part one:

Making sense of the riots: contexts and perspective    23                

Chapter two: Sydney's Cronulla riots: the context and 

Implications

Jock Collins                                                                                                27

Chapter three: Scouring the shire                                                           

   Scott Poynting                                                                                         44

Chapter four: Riotous Sydney take three (Cronulla)

 Confessions of a beach survivor 

Wendy Shaw                                                                                            58

Part two:

 'We grew here, you flew here': nation, ethnicities         

and belonging                                                                                         72

Chapter five: Performing Australian nationalisms at 

Cronulla 

Kevin M. Dunn                                                                                        76

Chapter six: 'The Muslims are our misfortune!' 

Geoffrey Brahm Levey and A. Dirk Moses                                   95

Chapter seven: Australian bodies, Australian sands 

Affrica Taylor                                                                                         111

Chapter eight: 'It's just an attitude that you feel':

 inter-ethnic habitus before the Cronulla riots 

Amanda Wise                                                                                        127

Chapter nine: From Turko to Lebo: the Cronulla riot 

and the politics of Greekness 

Andrew Lattas                                                                                          146

   Part three:

Boys behaving badly? Gender, culture, territory       164

Chapter ten: Masculinity, culture and urban power: 

the Cronulla conflicts and their amplification in popular 

media 

Andrew Jakubowicz                                                                            169

Chapter eleven: 'The local boys': violence, care, 

masculinity and the riots 

 Clifton Evers                                                                                             185

Chapter twelve: 'Bikini vs Burqa' in contemporary 

Australia: a feminist response to the Cronulla riots 

Judy Lattas                                                                                              200

  Part four:

In the wake of the riots: responses and 

repercussions                                                                                        218

Chapter thirteen: Law, policing and public order: the 

aftermath of Cronulla 

Chris Cunneen                                                                                      220

Chapter fourteen: Generation, class and community 

leadership 

Paul Tabar                                                                                               232

Afterword: Zionists 

Ghassan Hage                                                                                       252

 

 

Greg Noble

Associate Professor

The Centre for Cultural Research

University of Western Sydney

Tel  +61 2 9685 9600

G.Noble at uws.edu.au

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