Ghassan Hage is a Lebanese-Australian academic serving as Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

. Professor Hage has been a very high-profile contributor to debates on multiculturalism

Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is the appreciation, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures, applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g...

 in Australia and has published widely on the topic. His most influential work is White Nation, which draws on theory from Whiteness studies

Whiteness studies

Whiteness studies is an interdisciplinary arena of academic inquiry focused on the cultural, historical and sociological aspects of people identified as white, and the social construction of whiteness as an ideology tied to social status...

, Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan

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 and Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher.Starting from the role of economic capital for social positioning, Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location,...

 to interpret ethnographic

Ethnography

Ethnography is a qualitative method aimed to learn and understand cultural phenomena which reflect the knowledge and system of meanings guiding the life of a cultural group...

 work undertaken in Australia

Australia

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. The book has been widely debated in Australia, with many of its themes picked up by anti-racism

Racism

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 hacktivists in other countries. The follow-up Against Paranoid Nationalism is an analysis of certain themes in Australian politics that became prominent under the government of John Howard

John Howard

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. Ghassan's recent work is on the relation between the ecological crisis and the crisis in inter-cultural relations.

Lectures/Talks

• http://www.usyd.edu.au/podcasts/2006/keyconcepts5.mp3
• http://qtlisten.lecture.unimelb.edu.au/download-media/Sem074/0807301755Sem07412300056282059.mp3
• http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2009/03/tsy_20090314_1405.mp3
• Ghassan Hage SBS World View hosted on SoundCloud
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• http://www.themonthly.com.au/taxonomy/term/378

Selected publications

• Hage, G and Johnson, L (Eds)(1993) Identity, community, change, Kingswood, NSW : Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Hage, G and Couch, R (Eds)(1999) The future of Australian multiculturalism : reflections on the twentieth anniversary of Jean Martin's The Migrant Presence, Sydney, N.S.W. : Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sydney (ISBN 0-9585973-1-6)
• Hage, G (1998) White Nation: fantasies of White supremacy in a multicultural society, Annandale, NSW:Pluto Press (ISBN 1-86403-056-9)
• Hage, G (Ed)(2002) Arab-Australians today : citizenship and belonging, Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press (ISBN 0522849792)
• Hage, G (2003) Against Paranoid Nationalism: searching for hope in a shrinking society, Annandale, NSW: Pluto Press (ISBN 1864031964)
• Hage, G (2009) Waiting, Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press (ISBN 978-0-522-85693-4)