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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Verdana><STRONG><FONT size=3>Everyday Multiculturalism<BR></FONT></STRONG><BR></FONT><FONT face=Verdana><EM>A two day Conference<BR>28th and 29th September 2006<BR>Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University<BR>and the ARC Cultural Research Network<BR></EM><BR><BR><STRONG>CALL FOR PAPERS</STRONG><BR><BR>While research on Australian multiculturalism and racism is well developed in Australia, qualitative research into everyday modes of lived multiculturalism, remains fairly limited. This two day conference seeks to bring together researchers exploring everyday experiences of cultural diversity and difference. <BR><BR>The conference will be divided into two parts:<BR><BR><STRONG>1) Everyday Multiculturalism - Open theme<BR></STRONG>Day one will be an open themed day on Everyday Multiculturalism. Papers in this section will engage with the quotidian dimensions of living with diversity. Quotidian diversity has variously been described as togetherness-in-difference (Ang 2000), and inhabiting difference (Hage 1998). We take the term to mean those perspectives on cultural diversity which recognise the embodied or inhabited nature of living with cultural difference. We are particularly interested in papers that focus on the intersections and relationships between cultural groups, rather than research taking a single ethnic group as a focus. Papers may explore the interconnections between the everyday and larger discourses; everyday interconnections, affinities, and solidarities, and everyday disjunctures, discomforts, and racisms. Papers may explore modes of living with and across difference in suburbia or regional Australia such as through food, neighbouring, shopping or sport, or issues such as multicultural place-sharing, and battles over place identity and belonging. Papers which take an embodied approach, such as through frameworks such as affect or Bourdieu's habitus are also particularly welcome. <BR><BR><STRONG>2) Cronulla and the Everyday Politics of Cultural Difference in Suburbia<BR></STRONG>Day two papers will present a collection of new work reflecting on the Cronulla riots - the causes, the riots themselves, and their ramifications. The Cronulla riots caught many commentators by surprise. Some commentators argued that the riots were a symptom of everyday tensions, others argued that Cronulla represents a failure of multiculturalism, while still others argued that it was a result of a decade of dog-whistle politics in Australia. Racism, ethnocentrism and other forms of prejudice are often born out of everyday encounters with difference intertwined with national and global politics and discourses. The aim of this day will be to offer an opportunity to scholars to present works-in-progress around the Cronulla issue.<BR><BR>We invite proposals from any discipline that engage with any aspect of everyday multiculturalism with a special focus on those employing grounded methodologies such as fieldwork, interviews, focus groups and ethnographic participant observation.<BR><BR>Registration details, keynotes, and conference info will be announced shortly.<BR>Please submit abstracts of 250 words or less with a short biographical paragraph by 30th June 2006 to <U><A href="mailto:selvaraj.velayutham@scmp.mq.edu.au"><FONT color=#000000>selvaraj.velayutham@scmp.mq.edu.au</FONT></A></U> <BR><BR><STRONG>Convenors: </STRONG>Dr Amanda Wise and Dr Selvaraj Velayutham<BR>Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University</FONT><FONT face=Verdana><BR><STRONG>Enquiries:</STRONG><U> <A href="mailto:selvaraj.velayutham@scmp.mq.edu.au"><FONT color=#000000>selvaraj.velayutham@scmp.mq.edu.au</FONT></A></U> or <U><A href="mailto:amanda.wise@scmp.mq.edu.au"><FONT color=#000000>amanda.wise@scmp.mq.edu.au</FONT></A></U> <BR><STRONG>Website:</STRONG><U> <A href="http://www.crsi.mq.edu.au/"><FONT color=#000000>www.crsi.mq.edu.au</FONT></A></U> <BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Verdana><FONT face=Garamond color=#808080 size=2>Dr. Selvaraj Velayutham<BR>ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow<BR>Centre for Research on Social Inclusion<BR>Building E7A 706<BR>Macquarie University NSW 2109 <BR>Australia <BR>Tel: 9850-4426</FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>