After Cronulla: ‘Where the Bloody Hell Are We Now?’

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Notes on contributors

Amelia Johns is a Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute. Her work spans the fields of digital media studies, cultural studies, and youth studies and examines issues of: whiteness and youth identity; Muslim, migrant, and diaspora youth negotiations of racism and citizenship in digitally networked publics. Her current research project examines Malaysian-Chinese youth digital practices, and the role ‘the digital’ plays in negotiations of political participation, citizenship, and belonging. She is the author of Battle for the Flag (MUP 2015), an empirical investigation of youth performances of racism, nationalism and whiteness in the Cronulla riots of 2005. She is also a co-editor of recently published book Negotiating Digital Citizenship: Control, Contest, Culture (with Anthony McCosker and Sonja Vivienne, Rowman & Littlefield 2016).

Greg Noble is Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. Greg has conducted research in multiculturalism for 30 years, with particular interests in: Lebanese communities; racism; youth, ethnicity, and gender; Bourdieusian analysis; cultural pedagogies and education. His books include Cultural Pedagogies and Human Conduct (2015, Routledge), Disposed to Learn (with Megan Watkins 2013, Bloomsbury), Bin Laden in the Suburbs (with Scott Poynting, Paul Tabar, and Jock Collins 2004, Sydney Institute of Criminology) and, of course, Lines in the Sand: The Cronulla Riots, Multiculturalism and National Belonging (2009, Sydney Institute of Criminology).

Anita Harris is a Research Professor in the Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Australia. She researches in the area of youth citizenship, youth cultures, and participatory practice in changing times. She is completing an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship investigating intercultural relations amongst youth in multicultural cities in Australia and around the world (‘Young People and Social Inclusion in the Multicultural City’) and has recently undertaken a major project on ‘The Civic Life of Young Muslim Australians’. She is the author of several books in youth studies, most recently Young People and Everyday Multiculturalism (2013, Routledge, New York).