Open AccessEmpires of the Sun
Author(s) -
Andrew Jakubowicz
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
cosmopolitan civil societies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.31
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 1837-5391
DOI - 10.5130/ccs.v3i1.1850
Subject(s) - multiculturalism , politics , government (linguistics) , political science , white paper , white (mutation) , media studies , sociology , political economy , law , philosophy , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
“The Chinese” have been Australia’s Other since before Federation, and a major driver behind both the creation and abolition of White Australia. The complex and multiple layers of engagement of the Chinese (an omnibus term with many strands and contested perspectives which the paper will explicate) in the Australian political system, from the government to government machinations, to their involvement in a wide range of political parties, indicates something important occurring that transcends the problematic of multiculturalism. The paper argues they help us understand the challenges of globalised post-multicultural politics