Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference 14-17th December 2016 Program Index

protests against a proposed Islamic school in the Sydney suburb of Camden and – in social-policy terms –
triggered a renewed emphasis on the importance of the secular principle in schooling. In this presentation,
Low will argue that the notion of the secular is not a principle per se. Instead, it is a strategic term deployed
within particular political contexts. He will approach this through a genealogy of how religious and secular
schooling have come to be understood in NSW.
Eve Mayes
ethnography
Student voice and (so-called) radicalisation: The politics of belonging in an Australian school
To feel “at home” is to feel safe and affectively engaged enough to be not only “positive and warm”, but
also, “at times, angry, resentful, ashamed, indignant” (Yuval-Davis, 2011, p. 10). The political question is who
decides what feelings are acceptable and unacceptable, and when, how and to whom negative feelings may
be expressed. This paper intersects two ways in which the relationship between political feelings and schools
can be understood: as fostering critical political engagement, and as forming docile political subjects.
Contemporary interest in the “radical collegiality” of student voice practices (Fielding and Moss, 2011) is
brought into relation with the recent positioning of schools, school leaders and teachers as agents in
processes of deradicalisation of particular students in Australian schools (Commonwealth of Australia, 2015).
Working with vignettes from a school ethnography, the embodied deterritorialisations and
deterritorialisations of the concepts of student voice and radical are mapped, and their associated politics of
belonging.
Sherene Idriss & Omid Tofighian*
discriminations
Why Is My Curriculum White? Australasian universities and intersectional
The WIMCW? campaign is a transnational initiative designed to critically analyse the curriculum in education
and its replication and reinforcement of whiteness. This paper analyses what the campaign has done so far
to challenge and expose the role of whiteness as a social category and an ideology of power, and the
connections between the curriculum in Australian universities and the legacy of colonialism. Idriss and
Tofighian address the exclusionary practices affecting 1) staff relationships; 2) student relationships; 3)
educator-student relationships. They illustrate how ignoring the primacy and currency of whiteness harms
faculty conviviality; hinders classroom dynamics and student performance; complicates educator-student
interaction; obstructs social and cultural awareness; clouds the ability to see and think beyond racial
categories; and injures dignity and integrity. Finally, they suggest ways to decolonise the curriculum by
introducing thinkers and methods that explicitly criticise the reproduction of whiteness; encouraging staff
and students to take an active role in initiating change; and addressing systemic exclusion, implicit bias and
intersectional discrimination.
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Cultural politics in Hong Kong (Chair, Lisa Leung)
Tobias Zuser
One Country, Two Teams: The Cultural Politics of Football in Hong Kong
Since the early days of British colonization, Hong Kong was known as a forerunner for association football in
Asia. However, aside from being called the “Football Kingdom of the Far East”, Hong Kong’s most popular
sport has also been entangled in political, cultural and social agendas, ranging from overseas visits to
Australia and New Zealand in the 1920s to the political impossibility of challenging China as a “non-nation
state” during the most recent World Cup Qualifiers. In this paper I aim to analyze the conditions of possibility
that have shaped football as a cultural resource in Hong Kong. By inter-referencing the cultural histories of
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