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Cricket in the ‘contact zone’: Australia’s colonial far north frontier, 1869–1914 / Stephen, Matthew

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The ‘contact zone’ is a concept developed by Mary Louise Pratt (1992). It is a space of colonial encounters where people from very different cultures meet and often clash, but despite their differences and asymmetrical power relations, new relationships are forged. Cricket is generally acknowledged as an important agent in developing imperial bonds and its vicissitudes a barometer of the ‘Britishness’ of a community. While the belief was strong in most Australian colonies that cricket was a valuable ‘civilising’ tool in developing relationships between Aborigines and White settlers, the same could not be said of northern Australia’s ‘contact zone’. The small White minority of the towns of Broome and Palmerston defined and differentiated northern Australia from other Australian colonial societies. A hybrid imagined community evolved in the publicly contested social terrain surrounding sporting activities, providing a microcosm to examine the complex social interrelationships of the ‘contact zone’.

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Globalisation and resistance: struggles over common sense in the global political economy / Stephen, Matthew

Stephen, Matthew	Journal Article
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2011.

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This article develops and applies the role of 'common sense' in a Gramscian theory of transnational counter-hegemony. Building on recent interpretative literature on the alter-globalisation movement, it applies this framework to then evaluate empirically the impact of the alter-globalisation movement on the realm of global 'common sense' understandings of the world in the period 2002 to 2007. It shows that there is little empirical support for the notion that the alter-globalisation movement effected a legitimation crisis for neo-liberalism as a hegemonic project on a global scale. Instead, a more ambivalent and potentially reactionary situation amongst collectively held norms is revealed. This indicates the shortcomings of the alter-globalisation movement as a coalition of social forces capable of mounting an ideological attack on neo-liberalism and forging a new intellectual-moral bloc.

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Globalization ; Political Economy ; Global Political Economy ; Neo-Liberalism

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