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2008

Politics

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The Politics Of Rising Expectations: Middle Class Experiences Of Economic Restructuring In India And Australia, Timothy J. Scrase, John Robinson Jan 2008

The Politics Of Rising Expectations: Middle Class Experiences Of Economic Restructuring In India And Australia, Timothy J. Scrase, John Robinson

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Media, Multiculturalism And The Politics Of Listening, Tanja Dreher Jan 2008

Media, Multiculturalism And The Politics Of Listening, Tanja Dreher

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To date both research and policy on media and cultural diversity have emphasised questions of speaking, whether in mainstream, community or diaspora media. There is also a vast literature examining questions of representation, including stereotyping, racialisation, hybridisation and self-representations. This paper extends these discussions to focus on questions of listening. Attention to listening provokes important questions about media and multiculturalism: How do media enable or constrain listening across difference? How can a diversity of voices be heard in the media? Drawing on recent work in ethics and political theory, this paper explores the productive possibilities of a shift from the …