The Elgar Companion to the Arts and Global Multiculturalism includes 'Impact and legacy: cultural diversity in the UK’s visual arts sector – a critical history, 1976–2006', revised extracts from Chapter 1 & 2 of my book The Nature of the Beast: Cultural Diversity and the Visual Arts Sector. A study of policies, initiatives and attitudes 1976-2006, (2007).
Edited by the late Sneja Gunew, Formerly, Emeritus Professor of English and Women''s Studies, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia, Canada, Nikos Papastergiadis, formerly Director, Research Unit for Public Cultures, University of Melbourne, Fazal Rizvi, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne and Paula Muraca, Associate Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University Melbourne, Australia
This Companion examines the evolution of multiculturalism as a political philosophy, public policy and cultural practice. Demonstrating the key role of artists, activists and migrants in the inception of multiculturalism, it explores how to renew the concept for the modern world, extending the possibilities of social belonging and communal relations.
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Contents
Introduction 1
1 Introduction: the multiple origins and open futures for global
multiculturalism 2
Nikos Papastergiadis, Sneja Gunew, Paula Muraca and Fazal Rizvi
PART I MULTICULTURAL FORMATIONS AND STATE INTERVENTIONS
2 Meeting half-way, the poetics of no man’s land 14
Paul Carter
3 Impact and legacy: cultural diversity in the UK’s visual arts sector – a
critical history, 1976–2006 30
Richard Hylton
4 Australian multiculturalism as a social movement: a biography of the first
generation, 1968–1996 45
Andrew Jakubowicz
5 European Americans: making ethnicity in multiculturalism, moving
toward post-ethnicity 67
Yiorgos Anagnostou
6 Mapping social inclusion in the arts: global cultural policy and concentric
multiculturalism in decolonial Singapore 81
Audrey Yue
7 The art of prefiguration: building a future collectivity at documenta fifteen 97
Anne Ring Petersen
PART II SPACES OF CULTURAL ACTIVISM AND TRANSFORMATION
8 What a (non-) difference a half-century makes: juxtaposing the AfricanCanadian verse anthologies of 1973 and 2022 113
George Elliott Clarke
9 Migrant rights activism and the community origins of Australian
multiculturalism, 1970s 132
Alexandra Dellios
10 ‘I had imagined the world differently’: Anil Ramdas and the convolution of
a postcolonising Europe 151
Ien Ang
11 Making place-based multicultural art ecologies: reflections from
community arts in Australia 167
Bo Svoronos, John Svoronos, Paula Muraca and Carmen Grostal
12 Around the world in words: Giramondo Publishing Company 189
Cecelia Cmielewski
13 Artistic practice as transformation, learning, awakening, and agency:
twenty years as a post-Sino-Indonesian diaspora artist 207
Tiong Ang
PART III CRITICALITY AND PEDAGOGIC POSSIBILITIES
14 Interpreting violence: pedagogies of ethical criticism for the support of
critical multiculturalism 221
Suzanne S. Choo and Angela Chew
15 Representing themselves: international students in the creative space 236
Catherine Gomes
16 Postcolonial reading: multiculturalism beyond nations 251
Aparna Mishra Tarc
17 Reimagining multiculturalism: a transcultural perspective on music
education 267
Niranjan Casinader
18 Aroundness, awareness: to rework art out of Asia 278
Patrick Flores
PART IV MAKING AESTHETIC FUTURES
19 Writing nearby, Alanis Obomsawin 290
Monika Kin Gagnon
20 Performance and Makarrata: Indigenising Interculturalism 304
Jacqueline Lo, Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain
21 Re-imagining a multicultural Europe: the experience of the R.E.D.
(Reframing the European Dream) Carpet 322
Pierluigi Musarò, Valentina Cappi, Lorenza Villani and Paola Parmiggiani
22 Kichwapi rap: hip-hop and rap as intercultural and multicultural strategies
for the revitalisation and resistance of the Kichwa language in Ecuador 337
Cristian Angel Quezada Vera
23 On distance and adjacency – or, some conditions of art criticism in
Southeast Asia 352
Lee Weng-Choy
24 From the decolonial and the postmigrant and back to aliens and
multiculturalism 366
Nikos Papastergiadis
Conclusion 377
25 Conclusion: a future anterior to multicultural criticality 378
Fazal Rizvi, Paula Muraca and Nikos Papastergiadis