Anti-racist Discourses on Muslims in Australian Parliamentary Debates

Download or read book Anti-racist Discourses on Muslims in Australian Parliamentary Debates written by Jennifer Cheng and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using critical discourse analysis, this thesis identified the existence of 'culturalist racism' in Australian parliamentary debates and investigated how politicians contested this... Parliamentary speeches from 2006-2007 showed that politicians' anti-racist talk about Muslims employed the concept of culturalist racism... This thesis makes two important contributions to existing research on racist and anti-racist political discourses. From a theoretical perspective, it shows that racism against Muslims is possible due to the way in which Muslim identities are essentialised through a complex blend of religion, culture and ethnicity. From a practical perspective, it develops new techniques for analysing anti-racist political discourses." -- abstract.