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The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism brings together some of the most important and sought-after works by one of Australia's leading anthropologists and cultural critics: Ghassan Hage. This groundbreaking collection features the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Hage's seminal publication, White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society, and the twentieth anniversary edition of Hage's follow-up publication, Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society. Along with a compendium of Hage's later writings, The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the complexities of modern-day race politics on the unceded lands of a settler colonial society.

Lebanese Capitalism and the Emergence of a Transnational Mode of Existence -- On Being Propelled into the World: Existential Mobility and the Migratory Illusio -- Diasporic Anisogamy -- From Ambivalent to Fragmented Subjects -- On Diasporic Lenticularity -- Lenticular Realities and Anisogamic Intensifications -- The Lebanese Transnational Diasporic Family -- Diaspora and Sexuality: A Case Study -- Diasporic Jouissance and Perverse Anisogamy: Negotiated Being in the Streets of Beirut.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. STATES OF DECAY -- 1. Forever "Falling Apart": Semiotics and Rhetorics of Decay -- 2. Trash and Treasure: Pathologies of Permanence on the Margins of Our Plastic Age -- 3. Infrastructure as Decay and the Decay of Infrastructure -- 4. The Waterfall at the End of the World: Earthquakes, Entropy, and Explanation -- 5. "Vile Corpse": Urban Decay as Human Beauty and Social Pollution -- 6. Decay or Fresh Contact? The Morality of Mixture after War's End -- 7. Seeds of Decay -- 8. Discourses of Decay in Settler Colonial Australia -- 9. Decay as Decline in Social Viability among Ex-Militiamen in Lebanon -- 10. Relational Decay: White Helpers in Australia's Indigenous Communities -- 11. Decay, Rot, Mold, and Resistance in the US Prison System -- References -- Contributors -- Index

Anomic Context: Too Little Socialization with Any Social Grammar -- Conclusion: Creative Minds and Society -- Notes -- Chapter Three Knowledge Creators: Radical Organizational Innovation -- Radical Organizational Innovation at the Production Unit and the Concept of Technical Progress -- Radical product innovations -- Radical process innovations -- Organizational Contexts Discouraging Innovation -- Organizational Contexts Encouraging Innovation -- Innovations in industrial organizations -- Innovations in service organizations -- Innovation in research organizations

Knowledge evolution punctuates the equilibrium of society and requires us to develop adaptive solutions. One new rule is that as the discovery of fresh knowledge grows more difficult, more complex organizational and institutional arrangements have to be adopted. Knowledge Evolution and Societal Transformations proposes a new paradigm based on the evolution of knowledge that synthesizes existing social science theories at three analytical levels. Its central theme is how knowledge creates new problems and explains growing inequality. The book suggests systemic networks in education, economy and political system to solve these problems.

The ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life. This trenchant book examines its relation to Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today, showing how both share roots in domination, colonialism, and the logics of capitalism. Ghassan Hage proposes that both racism and humanity's destructive relationship with the environment emanate from the same mode of inhabiting the world: an occupying force imposes its own interest as law, subordinating others for the extraction of value, eradicating or exterminating what gets in the way. In connecting these two issues, Hage gives voice to the claim taking shape in many activist spaces that anti-racist and ecological struggles are intrinsically related. In both, the aim is to move beyond what makes us see otherness, whether human or nonhuman, as something that exists solely to be managed.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1. The globalisation of the late colonial settler condition -- 2. On stuckedness: The critique of crisis and the crisis of critique -- Part II -- 3. Critical anthropological thought and the radical political imaginary today -- 4. The Arab social sciences and the two critical traditions -- Part III -- 5. On ethnography and political emotions: Hating Israel in the field -- 6. Alter-political rationality and anti-political emotions: The case of Fanon -- Part IV -- 7. On narcissistic victimhood -- Appendix to chapter 7: I don't write poems but, in any case, poems are not poems. -- 8. The unoccupied -- 9. Recalling anti-racism: Towards a critical anthropology of exterminability -- Appendix to chapter 9: Against colonial rubbishing -- 10. Dwelling in the reality of utopian thought -- 11. Other belongings -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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