Ghassan Hage

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Ghassan Hage (born 1957, Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese-Australian academic currently serving as Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne. He is on leave as Professor of Anthropology at Sydney University until 2012. Professor Hage has been a very high-profile contributor to debates on multiculturalism in Australia and has published widely on the topic. His most influential work is White Nation, which draws on theory from Whiteness studies, Jacques Lacan and Pierre Bourdieu to interpret ethnographic work undertaken in Australia. The book has been widely debated in Australia, with many of its themes picked up by anti-racism activists 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.

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  • 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 0958597316)
  • 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)
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