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Beyond left and right.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
SIR: In his address to the Quadrant dinner (October 2007), Tom Switzer points to examples within the Australian economy, judiciary and media that prove "the tide is turning in Australia's culture wars", and with a notable degree of pride.
In reference to the discipline of Australian history--where "nothing better demonstrates the cultural sea change"--his argument breaks down. In 2007, it is important to recognise that by maintaining "Windschuttle's success" as a victory for the conservative front in the culture wars, Switzer (like many others) risks further trivialising the condition of the Australian discipline of history. History, objective and neutral in its goals for the pursuit of truth, should at once see beyond right and left, conservative and progressive.
One need not identify as "conservative" to agree with Windschuttle's premise that much of recent Australian historiography has been written with an exceedingly sympathetic pen. One need not identify as "conservative" to have grown bored of the recurring defeatism which peppers Australian opinions on the history of our nation (and it should be noted here that nation-state histories in themselves are becoming increasingly recognised as boring approaches). And one does not have to be "conservative" to confess a scepticism of the popular genocide thesis of Australian ...
- The Packaging of Australia: Politics and Culture Wars.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History Ely, Richard March 1, 1999 700+ words
...original; but some will find parts unpersuasive. I am one such. Melleuish posits three phases in European-Australian history -- Colonial, Modern and Contemporary. The Colonial period (he seems mainly to mean the 1840s to 1880s) was...
- Culture Wars and Local Politics.(Review)
- Magazine article from: American Political Science Review Ferman, Barbara March 1, 2001 700+ words
Culture Wars and Local Politics. Edited by Elaine...U.S. cities, the contributors to Culture Wars suggest that a new kind of conflict...morality-based nature of these new culture wars has, according to the contributors...
- The culture wars in a time of war. (A Column).(Column)
- Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review Rector, Liam January 1, 2002 700+ words
...graduate course called "Censorship: The Culture Wars," a moment of stunned silence came...only been talking about the so-called culture wars. Perhaps politics truly is, as has...to the fore in the controversies of culture wars, because literature is by its very...
- The Acquisitions Culture Wars.(electronic and printed library resources)
- Magazine article from: Library Trends SHREEVES, EDWARD March 22, 2000 700+ words
...resembles in many ways the so-called culture wars made famous in the political rhetoric...maximum. INTRODUCTION The so-called culture wars have become a standard topic in recent...the future resembles in many ways the culture wars made famous in the political rhetoric...
- Culture wars, canonicity, and A Basic Music Library.
- Magazine article from: Notes Komara, Edward December 1, 2007 700+ words
Since the emergence of the phrase "culture wars" in print and other media in 1991...librarians to become aware of the notion of culture wars and its impact on the musicological...the role of canonicity in the recent "culture wars," and its appearances in scholarly...
- The culture wars continue.
- Magazine article from: Daedalus Stimpson, Catharine R. June 22, 2002 700+ words
The culture wars that began in the 1960s in the United...United States is no more beyond the culture wars than it is beyond tornadoes and hurricanes...education has been prominent in the culture wars, at once a source of dissent and experimentation...
- Procrustes and the Culture Wars.
- Magazine article from: American Scholar PHILONOE June 22, 1999 700+ words
...dispiriting aptness as a metaphor for the Culture Wars, right down to the blandishments with...sometimes he stretched them, but the Culture Wars only lop off. I have never seen cultural...literature, only diminish it. By the Culture Wars, of course, I mean that peculiar development...
- Culture wars? Insights from ethnographies of two Protestant seminaries.
- Magazine article from: Sociology of Religion Carroll, Jackson W. Marler, Penny Long March 22, 1995 700+ words
...another purpose to shed light on the culture wars thesis, especially the issue of the...our data should shed some light on the culture wars thesis. As Hunter notes, these two...disparate moral visions that lie behind the culture wars. The data were collected by teams of...
- Religion and the Culture Wars: Dispatches from the Front.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State Oldfield, Duane M. September 22, 1997 700+ words
...Collected together in Religion and the Culture Wars, they are must reading for anyone...neither participants in the "culture wars" nor are they providing a systematic argument for or against the "culture wars" thesis. (As advanced by James...
- Review of whose America? Culture wars in the public schools.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Teacher Education Conklin, Hilary G. May 1, 2004 700+ words
...Jonathan. (2002). Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools. Cambridge...school classrooms. In Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools, Zimmerman argues...chronicling a century's worth of "culture wars," in which ordinary Americans struggled...
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