Reimagining Australia at the Cosmopolitan Intersection

Living with difference is an unavoidable part of living in Australia. How we live with difference, therefore, impacts how people imagine and reimagine Australia. This paper considers the matter of reimagining Australia as a phenomenon that is located within the microecology of our everyday urban spa...

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Main Author: Watson, Greg
Format: Journal Article
Published: Universitat de Barcelona, Observatori: Centre d' Estudis Australians i Transnacionals / The Australian and Transnational Studies Centre 2018
Online Access:http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/22086
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76517
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description Living with difference is an unavoidable part of living in Australia. How we live with difference, therefore, impacts how people imagine and reimagine Australia. This paper considers the matter of reimagining Australia as a phenomenon that is located within the microecology of our everyday urban spaces. It is interested in knowing about these spaces and how they can contribute to the reimagining of Australia at the microlevel of society. It considers two examples of spaces that engage people in this task and advances the notion of the cosmopolitan intersection, framing reimagining within Anthony Kwame Appiah’s vision of cosmopolitanism and Jean-Luc Nancy’s vision of coexistence.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-765172020-12-03T03:52:46Z Reimagining Australia at the Cosmopolitan Intersection Watson, Greg Living with difference is an unavoidable part of living in Australia. How we live with difference, therefore, impacts how people imagine and reimagine Australia. This paper considers the matter of reimagining Australia as a phenomenon that is located within the microecology of our everyday urban spaces. It is interested in knowing about these spaces and how they can contribute to the reimagining of Australia at the microlevel of society. It considers two examples of spaces that engage people in this task and advances the notion of the cosmopolitan intersection, framing reimagining within Anthony Kwame Appiah’s vision of cosmopolitanism and Jean-Luc Nancy’s vision of coexistence. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76517 http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/22086 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Universitat de Barcelona, Observatori: Centre d' Estudis Australians i Transnacionals / The Australian and Transnational Studies Centre fulltext
spellingShingle Watson, Greg
Reimagining Australia at the Cosmopolitan Intersection
title Reimagining Australia at the Cosmopolitan Intersection
title_full Reimagining Australia at the Cosmopolitan Intersection
title_fullStr Reimagining Australia at the Cosmopolitan Intersection
title_full_unstemmed Reimagining Australia at the Cosmopolitan Intersection
title_short Reimagining Australia at the Cosmopolitan Intersection
title_sort reimagining australia at the cosmopolitan intersection
url http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/22086
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76517