AUSTRALIA'S MULTICULTURALISM AND ASIA PACIFIC REGIONALISM
Research program: Australia in the Asia-Pacific
This research will redefine historical assumptions about multiculturalism in Australia and its importance for regional polity. While it looks at a defining period in Australian and Regional debates about national and regional identity (1980s – mid 1990s), the outcomes for this thesis will have implications for understanding current Australian policymaking in the Asia Pacific. The thesis will draw on critical theory to explain the connected political economy of regionalism and multiculturalism, as well as examine the conceptual sustainability and stasis of ‘the Region' as a contemporary mode of global economic and social organization.
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