Against Paranoid Nationalism

Ghassan Hage teaches anthropology at the University of Sydney and is fast becoming one of Australia's most controversial public intellectuals. He has an international reputation, teaching at Pierre Bourdieu's Centre de Sociologie Europeenne, Paris, and elsewhere. His previous books include White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society, The Future of Multiculturalism, and Home/World.

Preface: Camera obscura, or the unbearable lopsidedness of being - Introduction - Transcendental capitalism and the roots of paranoid nationalism - On worrying: the lost art of the well-administered national cuddle - Border dis/order: the imaginary of paranoid nationalism - A brief history of White colonial paranoia - The rise of Australian fundamentalism: reflections of the rule of Ayatollah Johnny - Polluting memories: migration and colonial responsibility in Australia - The class aesthetics of global multiculturalism - Exighophobia/ homorophobia: 'Comes a time we are all enthusiasm' - A concluding fable: the gift of care, or the ethics of pedestrian crossings - Endnotes - Bibliography - Index