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Performance Measurement, Reporting, Obstacles and Accountability

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This special issue of Humanities Research journal draws on a selection of
papers from The Australian National University’s ‘Key Thinkers’ lecture series,
which I convened in 2008 and 2009 under the aegis of the Research School of
Humanities. As a postgraduate at the University of Sydney in the early 2000s,
I had the pleasure of hearing Ghassan Hage give an inspirational lecture on the
acclaimed French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu as a contribution to their successful
Key Thinkers lecture series, which was popular with the general public. In his
leisurely, explorative and amiably digressive style—replete with anecdotes
from recent field trips to Lebanon and Venezuela—Hage brilliantly evoked
Bourdieu as a critical thinker and public intellectual, illuminating the personal
investments and emancipative politics of a thinker who has been overshadowed
by the more luminous representatives of French high theory. That Hage had
recently given a powerful exposition of the applicability of Bourdieu’s concepts
to the reassertion of a white Australian nationalist imaginary (White Nation:
Fantasies of white supremacy in a multicultural society, 1998) gave his dynamic
talk a real frisson of contemporary significance—a sense that we, his audience,
were witnessing a living dialogue between two transformative social theorists.

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Australia : ., 2006

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English

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9781920942793

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Philosophy

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Paul G. Thomas

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Jemadi

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