Recently added articles from Borderlands:
Reflections and insights: the gender, violence and protection workshops and forum.
May 01, 2009; ... This paper presents an edited transcript of the interview conducted by Goldie Osuri, co-convenor of the Gender, Violence and Protection workshops and forum, with the project Advisory Group, Sue Stanton, Shakira Hussein, Alia Imtoual and Nicole Watson, immediately following the final forum ...
Race and the city: series one.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... Mass media are everywhere. Race is elusive. Resistance is unclear. --Darnell M. Hunt Introduction 2008 will be archived as the year when race was the subject du jour in the sphere of global discourse. I can't recall a time where so many texts in the ...
Eavesdropping with permission: the politics of listening for safer speaking spaces.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... In this paper I reflect on my role in a series of small workshops focused on the politics of gendered protectionism faced by Indigenous and Muslim women in Australia. My involvement began with a challenge overheard at two events held on the first anniversary of the Cronulla riots, in early ...
'Acting sovereign' in the face of gendered protectionism.(INTRODUCTION)(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... In recent years, a number of studies of sovereignty have linked its governmental practices to the reassertion of white Australian nationalism. In her discussion of the consolidation of white Australian sovereignty, for example, Suvendrini Perera states that the Australian state embraces ...
A fraught search for common political ground: Muslim communities & alliance-building in post-9/11 Australia.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... In the years since 9/11, Muslim communities in Australia have formed a central element of public discourse on issues of security as well as migration and settlement. During the years of the conservative federal government led by Prime Minister John Howard, Muslim communities and Islam were ...