[csaa-forum] New Book: Inside Australian Culture

[Baden Offord]

Anthem Press is pleased to announce 'Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values' by Baden Offord, Erika Kerruish, Rob Garbutt, Kirsten Pavlovic and Adele Wessell, with a Foreword by Ashis Nandy and Afterword by Vinay Lal.
 
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Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values
by Baden Offord, Erika Kerruish, Rob Garbutt, Kirsten Pavlovic and Adele Wessell, with a Foreword by Ashis Nandy and Afterword by Vinay Lal. )]

HB, £60.00 / $99.00, ISBN13: 9781783082315
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Series: Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series

Advance Praise
“Through powerful analysis, five voices propose a new normative rationale to counteract the modern fundamentalisation of Enlightenment underpinning Australian public culture. Courageously, they call for new ways of “understanding” if cultural equity is to be created, demanding Australian culture be reformulated if it is to become reflective and embracive.” —Prof. Susan Ballyn, The Australian Studies Centre, Barcelona University

 “This book is a bold statement on issues of deep importance in Australian life: our cultural history, our racial politics, and the shape of our public culture. It is based on sharp analysis, historical knowledge, and a significant encounter with ideas that come, not from Australia's usual mentors in the United States and Europe, but from contemporary thinkers in India. The authors have produced a highly readable and also disturbing book, most relevant to our disturbing times.” —Professor Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney and author of 'Southern Theory'

About This Book
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: Legacies of Enlightenment Values’ offers a critical intervention into the continuing effects of colonization in Australia and the structures it brought, which still inform and dominate its public culture. Through a careful analysis of three disparate but significant moments in Australian history, the authors investigate the way the British Enlightenment continues to dominate contemporary Australian thinking and values. Employing the lens of Indian cultural theorist Ashis Nandy, the authors argue for an Australian public culture that is profoundly conscious of its assumptions, history and limitations.

Author Information
Baden Offord is professor of cultural studies and human rights, Erika Kerruish teaches cultural studies and philosophy, Rob Garbutt is a lecturer in cultural studies and written communication, Adele Wessell is a senior lecturer in history, and Kirsten Pavlovic is a researcher candidate in law and justice studies, all at Southern Cross University, Australia.
 
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