The culture wars : Australian and American politics in the 21st century / edited by Jim George & Kim Huynh

Bib ID:
4400215
Format:
Book
Author:
George, Jim, 1946-
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Description:
  • South Yarra, Vic. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 [i.e.2008]
  • x, 174 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9781420256178
Summary:

Culture wars exist as the location of the struggle between US and Australian anti-feminist women and their opponents on family values, are crucial to the so-called history wars and Australia's identity narrative in light of speculation concerning the US and Australian political landscape. Both authors are from the ANU.

Full contents:
  • Machine derived contents note: Chapter 1 Introduction: are the culture wars over? 1
  • Jim George
  • What are the culture wars? 6
  • Exploring the battlegrounds of the culture wars 9
  • The significance of this book 12
  • PART 1 Framing the Culture Wars 17
  • Chapter 2 The neo-conservatives and America's culture wars 19
  • Jim George
  • Culture war: as leftist disillusionment with the working masses 20
  • The other side of the coin: culture war as disillusionment with 22
  • the left and 'liberal progressivism'
  • Culture war: 'about everything that matters' in the modern world 26
  • Culture war: as interventionist foreign policy 27
  • The 'counter-culture' era and the challenge of the New Left 28
  • Culture war backlash: the New Right versus the New Left 31
  • Chapter 3 Culture war as foreign policy in the US and Australia 37
  • Jim George and Michael Hutchison
  • The Cold War and communism: shaping the US culture 37
  • wars as foreign policy
  • The Vietnam era: a hot culture war at the heart of the Cold War 39
  • Reformulating the culture war struggle after the Cold War 43
  • Conservatism in the ascendancy: the Bush doctrine, 9/11 44
  • and the War on Terror
  • Australia, culture war and foreign policy 45
  • John Howard as cultural warrior: the Australian conservative backlash 50
  • PART 2 Exploring the Battlegrounds of the Culture Wars 57
  • Chapter 4 The culture wars down under 59
  • Norman Abjorensen
  • The origins: the IPA and the Liberal offensive 59
  • The Cold War and Labor's woes 60
  • The Quadrant connection 61
  • Vietnam and the winds of change 63
  • The wind shifts: enter the progressives 63
  • Whitlam and the rise of a 'new' conservatism 64
  • Total (culture) war 65
  • The moral conservative offensive begins 65
  • Targeting the 'enemy': the struggle with the 'New Class' 67
  • Tony Abbott and the Santamaria legacy 68
  • Is the culture war a new 'class' war? 69
  • Who hates whom in the Australian culture wars? 70
  • Conclusion 71
  • Chapter 5 Us and them: National identity and the question
  • of 'belonging' 75
  • Kim Huynh
  • Patriots and nationalists 75
  • Nationalism at the 'end of history' 76
  • Illegal immigration and American national identity 77
  • The future as 'Mexifornia' 79
  • Refugee politics and Australian national identity 81
  • Dog whistling and the rhetoric of fear 82
  • National identity: out of control? 85
  • Looking ahead: national identity and future culture wars 87
  • The Rudd government: (re)balancing the national thymos 88
  • Chapter 6 The struggle for God 92
  • Kim Huynh
  • Introduction: faith and fantasy 92
  • Plato's shadowy religion 93
  • Strauss, and Nietzsche's devout disbelief 95
  • Irving Kristol and the shaping of the religious right 98
  • The Bush Administration, esotericism and religious instrumentalism 100
  • John Howard's government, esotericism and religious instrumentalism 102
  • Conclusion: the end of days? 106
  • Chapter 7 'Family values' 110
  • Heidi Hutchison
  • Family, nation, mankind - the virtue of the traditional family 110
  • Fighting for family values as conservative 'dissidents' 112
  • The spectre of nihilism 115
  • Family values as nostalgia for the era of 'containment' 117
  • The family: 'the greatest social welfare system that mankind has devised' 119
  • Conclusion 123
  • Chapter 8 'If there is hope it lies with the Bogans' 127
  • Kim Huynh
  • Introduction: the rise of the Bogans 127
  • The age of the cashed-up Bogans 129
  • The 'affluenza' epidemic: a progressivist critique of Bogan culture 131
  • The 'affluenza' sceptics: three cheers for the cashed-up Bogans! 135
  • Conclusion: a culture wars convergence theory on 'Boganism' 136
  • Chapter 9 The history wars 142
  • Norman Abjorensen
  • Introduction 142
  • Keating and Howard: cultural warriors at the heart of the history wars 144
  • Who are we?: the Bicentenary dispute 146
  • The 'black armband' controversy 148
  • Playing the man 153
  • 'Teach your children well' 154
  • Conclusion 156
  • Chapter 10 Conclusion: the culture wars reconsidered 159
  • Jim George, Norman Abjorensen and Kim Huynh
  • The coming culture wars 162
  • Towards the 'domestication of hostility'? 164.
Notes:
  • Includes index.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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