This ‘phantasmatic diversity’, this multiculturalism ‘for all of us’, dissuades recognition of diversity as structural difference with historical antecedents… While the political struggles over migrant rights aren’t at the centre of Gippsland Immigration Park, the local history of the coal industry and its implications for working life and mobility, are. Here, the Park challenges celebratory state multiculturalism and histories of industrial progress.
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Living Transcultural Spaces and Gippsland Immigration Park research
I’m in the middle of my first full teaching semester at ANU. And while I’m loving teaching the course ‘Introduction … More