Australian multicultural policy: social cohesion through a political conception of autonomy
Keddie, Amanda 2014, Australian multicultural policy: social cohesion through a political conception of autonomy, Journal of sociology, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 408-421, doi: 10.1177/1440783312462166.
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Australian multicultural policy: social cohesion through a political conception of autonomy
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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