Ghassan Hage 

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Work Information

Senior Lecturer 
Department of Anthropology
University of Sydney

Teaching

Publications

Books
Ghassan Hage (ed) (2001), Arab-Australians Today: Citizenship and Belonging, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. (Introduction and two chapters by editor) (Forthcoming)

Ghassan Hage and Rowanne Couch (eds) (1999), The Future of Multiculturalism, Sydney: Research Institute for the Humanities and the Social Sciences.

Ghassan Hage (1998), White Nation; Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society, 220p, Sydney: Pluto Press.

Helen Grace, Ghassan Hage, Leslie Johnson, Julie Langsworth and Michael Symonds (1997), Home/World: Space and Marginality in Western Sydney, Sydney: Pluto Press.

Caroline Alcorso and Ghassan Hage (1994), Bargained Away? NESB migrant women and enterprise bargaining, Sydney: ANESBWA Publication.

Edited Volumes

Ghassan Hage and Lesley Johnson (eds) (1995), Inquiry into the State of Anglo-Saxonness within the Nation, Communal/Plural 4, Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies .

Ghassan Hage and Lesley Johnson (eds) (1994), Pluralising the Asia-Pacific, Communal/Plural 3, Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies.

Ghassan Hage and Lesley Johnson (eds) (1993), Republic, Citizenship, Community,Communal/Plural 2, Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies.

Ghassan Hage and Lesley Johnson (eds) (1993), Identity, Community, Change, Communal/Plural 1, Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies.

Articles in refereed journals

Ghassan Hage, Polluted Memories: Migration and Colonial responsibility in Australia, in Traces.Cornell University, No. 2, 2001 (Forthcoming).

Ghassan Hage, On the Ethics of the Pedestrian Crossing or why ‘mutual obligation’ does not belong to the language of neo-liberal economics, Meanjin, December 2000

Ghassan Hage, Response to critics, Oceanea, special White Nation review issue, June 2000.

Ghassan Hage, ‘Asia’ and the Crisis of Whiteness in the Western World in Movements: a Journal of Inter-Asian Cultural Studies, No. 1, 2000 .

Ghassan Hage, On Having Ethnography: mimic me if you can, Australian Journal of Anthropology, December 1998.

Ghassan Hage, The Spatial Imaginary of Nation-Building, in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space , 1996, vol.14, pp..

Ghassan Hage, Nationalist anxiety or the fear of losing the Other in Australian Journal of Anthropology, August 1996 7:2, pp. 121-140.

Ghassan Hage, 'The limits of Anti-Racist Sociology', in UTS Review, no. 1, vol. 1, 1995, pp. 59-82. .

Ghassan Hage, Locating Multiculturalism's other: critique of practical tolerance in New Formation, No. 24, 1994, pp. 19-34.

Ghassan Hage, Pierre Bourdieu in the nineties: between the church and the atelier inTheory and Society, Vol.23, No.3, June 1994, pp. 419-440.

Ghassan Hage, Religious Fundamentalism as a Political Strategy in Critique of Anthropology, Vol.12, No.1., March 1992, pp. 26-45.

Ghassan Hage, Racism, Multiculturalism and the Gulf War in Arena, No. 96, Spring 1991, pp. 8-13.

Chapters in books

Ghassan Hage, ‘Critique de la tolérance pratique’, in Caroline Mackenzie (ed), Australie: Autoportraits, éditions de l'aube: La Tour d'Aigues, (France), 2000

Ghassan Hage, 'The condition of Lebanon since 1958' in James Jupp (gen. ed.), The Australian People, An encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins (2nd edition), Angus and Robertson Publishers, 2000.

Ghassan Hage, 'Understanding the superpowers: the USA' in Rachel Sharp (ed), Apocalypse Now, An Australian guide to disarmament and the peace movement, Pluto Press, 1984.

Ghassan Hage, 'The condition of Lebanon since 1958' in James Jupp (gen. ed.), The Australian People, An encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins, Angus and Robertson Publishers, 1988.

Non-refereed articles

Ghassan Hage, Taking Asian Racism Seriouslyin The Asia-Australia Papers, no. 2, September 1999.

Ghassan Hage, The Multiculturalism of the Liberal Party, in Paul Patton and Di Austin-Broos, Transformations in Australian Society, Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, 1997.

Ghassan Hage, Anglo-Celtics today: Cosmo-multiculturalism and the phase of the fading phallus, in Communal/Plural 4, Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies, 1995.

Ghassan Hage, Republicanism, Multiculturalism and Zoology in Communal/Plural, 2/1993.

Ghassan Hage, Nation-building Dwelling Being in Communal/Plural, 1/1993, pp.73-103.

Book Reviews

Ghassan Hage, Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East: a review in Asian Studies Review, No.1, January 1992.

Ghassan Hage, Occidental Fictions:Racism and Middle Eastern thrillers' inEditions, No. 4,November 1989.

Keynote AddressesAnd Guest Lectures in 2000

‘Discussing White Nation’, Sydney Writers Festival, Sydney, May 20, 2000.

Multiculturalism, migration and Aboriginal rights, Migrants, Murras and Migarloos Forum, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, June 2, 2000.

‘Migration and the formation of ethical space’, Sydney and Vancouver comparative migration project, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June24-25, 2000.

‘On the rise and fall of One Nation’, Non-Fiction Writers’ Festival, State Library of NSW, Sydney, July 8, 2000.

“L’Immigration et l’éthique de la participation’, Université de Montréal, Montréal, August 1, 2000.

‘Whiteness and the Aesthetics of colonialism’, Whiteness conference, Dartmouth College, August 4-6, 2000.

Towards an Anthropology of Practical Being: an introduction to some of the philosophical undercurrents in the work of Pierre Bourdieu. The Interdisciplinary Seminar, University of Tasmania, September 22, 2000.

‘Migrants and Mabo: towards an ethics of participation’ The Ethics Seminar, University of Technology, Sydney, October 12, 2000.

Keynote AddressesAnd Guest Lectures in 1999

‘Tristes Antipodes’, Japan foundation seminar, Fukuoka Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, December 15, 1999.

‘Recovery and Moral Space’, Sites of Recovery Conference, International Association of Theoretical Architecture, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, October 27, 1999.

‘Multiculturalism and the crisis of whiteness’, Cornell University’s Humanities Foundation Lectures, October 22, 1999.

‘The Honourable society and its Enemies’ at the Re-imagining Multiculturalism Conference, Monash University, Melbourne Convention Centre, 1-3 October 1999.

‘The Spunk, the Investor and the Piece worker; competing images of Asianness in Australia’ at the Asian-Australian Identities, ANU, 27-29 September 1999.

‘The Crisis of Whiteness in the Post Colonial West’ at the University of Adelaide Research Centre, 13 September 1999.

‘Migration and Reciprocity’ at the Department of Anthropology, University of Adelaide, 14 September 1999.

‘The National Pulse’, ‘hatespeech’ and ‘writing and authenticity’, addresses during the Melbourne Writers Festival, 27-29 August.

Alternate Dialogue: in conversation with Greg Noble around White Nation, University of Western Sydney, Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies, 5 August 1999.

‘On being everything’, Inaugural seminar for the opening of the Department of Anthropology’s first seminar series at La Trobe University, 30-31 July 1999.

‘The differential intensity of reality’ at the Australian Anthropological Association conference, University of NSW, 11 July 1999.

‘Taking Asian Racism Seriously’, guest Address to the Asia-Institute, University of NSW, 9 June, 1999.

‘Home and Hope’, Home Conference, University of Sydney, 11 June 1999.

‘Capitalism and the unequal distribution of Hope’ Guest lecture at the University of Chicago, Nationalism Workshop, 12 may 1999.

‘What is Participation?’ Guest lecture, American Studies, New York University, 27 April 1999.

Capitalism, Racism and Hope, guest lecture, University of Bristol, 21 April 1999.

‘On White Nation’, guest lecture, Bribeck College, University of London, 22 April 1999.

‘La crise du multiculturalism en Australie’ guest lecture at the Université de Toulouse, 7 April 1999.

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Work Address:
Department of Anthroplogy (A14)
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
Australia

E-mail address

Ghassan.hage@anthropology.usyd.edu.au

Web address

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Office phone*

Administrative Assistant (Anthropology): 61 2 93512360.

* Please note that Ghassan Hage is hearing impaired and prefers not to engage in telephone conversations.

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Current Projects

*Globalisation and Migration: Towards a Political Economy of Hope 
*The decline of Whiteness in the Post-Colonial World 

*The Honourable Society and its’ Enemies

*Logics of Domestication

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Biographical Information

Ghassan Hage was born in 1957 in Beirut (Baabda), Lebanon. He finished his schooling in 1975 in Lebanon at the IC (International College ? Section Française). In 1981 he graduated with a BA(Hons) in Politics at Macquarie University, Sydney. He went on to do a Diplome de Troisième Cycle at the Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales; Université de Nice. Thesis: Solidarnosc ou l'existentialisme politique:Politique et structure en Europe de l'Est . His PhD, The Fetishism of Identity, is a study of communal identification among Christian Lebanese during the Lebanese civil war.
He has worked at the University of Technology Sydney and at the University of Western Sydney, Nepean. He has been a Postdoctoral scholar (1991) and a visiting professor (1995) at Pierre Bourdieu’s Centre de Sociologie Européenne. He has been a guest lecturer at several international universities in the US, Canada,UK, Japan, Taiwan, Lebanon and France.

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Last revised: Date 14/08/2001