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This article argues that the political success of the economic discourses of globalization within Australia over the last two decades has been accompanied by a compensatory and regressive revival of an exclusivist model of cultural nationalism. Within a society that once prided itself upon developing the tolerance required to manage the cultural policy of multiculturalism, the reappearance of a nostalgic, monocultural nationalism has been unexpected. It has thrown into question those narratives used within Australian cultural studies to understand the process of nation formation as directed toward the production of hybridity. Further, and despite the continuing presence of an official policy of multiculturalism, these developments have highlighted the highly provisionalized forms of national belonging now available to Australian citizens in certain immigrant communities, particularly to those from Middle Eastern backgrounds.

"This book presents an analysis of television histories across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, India and Sri Lanka. It offers a set of standard data on the history of television's cultural, industrial and political structures in each specific national context, allowing for cross-regional comparative analysis. Each chapter presents a case study on a salient aspect of contemporary television culture of the nation in question, such as analyses of ideology in television content in Japan and Singapore, and transformations of industry structure vis-à-vis state versus market control in China and Taiwan. The book provides a comprehensive overview of TV histories in Asia as well as a survey of current issues and concerns in Asian television cultures and their social and political impact"--

Locating Television: Zones of Consumption takes an important next step for television studies: it acknowledges the growing diversity of the international experience of television today in order to address the question of 'what is television now?' The book addresses this question in two interrelated ways:by situating the consumption of television within the full range of structures, patterns and practices of everyday life;and by retrieving the importance of location as fundamental to these structures, patterns and practices - and, consequently, to the experience of television. This approach, in

Making culture / David Rowe, Graeme Turner and Emma Waterton -- The literary field : the book trade and the arts ecology : transnationalism and digitization in the Australian literary field / David Carter and Michelle Kelly -- The art field : beyond nation, beyond art? The "rules of art" in contemporary Australia / Tony Bennett -- The Australian art field : fairs and markets / Deborah Stevenson -- The music field : "the music nation" : popular music and Australian cultural policy / Shane Homan -- The media field : television : commercialization, the decline of nationing, and the status of the media field / Graeme Turner -- The heritage field : A history of heritage policy in Australia : from hope to philanthropy / Emma Waterton -- The sport field : the sport field in Australia : the market, the state, the nation and the world beyond in Pierre Bourdieu's favourite game / David Rowe -- The digital : "crossing the technical Rubicon" : marketizing culture and fields of the digital / Brett Hutchins -- Tourism : touring nation : the changing meanings of cultural tourism / Chris Gibson -- Indigeneity : indigeneity, cosmopolitanism and the nation : the project of NITV / Ben Dibley and Graeme Turner -- Multiculturalism : making multiculture : Australia, culture and the ambivalent politics of diversity / Ien Ang and Greg Noble -- Undoing the bonds of nation/rediscovering dead souls / Ien Ang and Greg Noble