Tim Soutphommasane
Biographic Data
| ID | 1260015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Soutphommasane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Soutphommasane |
| SIGNATURE | SOUTPHOMMASANE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5638-5558 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pimps, Star Chambers, Ratbags, and Westphalians
Australian public debates about race have featured intense contests about free speech and identity, including about the federal Racial Discrimination Act (RDA). While these developments may be understood as reflecting the contemporary ascendency of “culture war” politics, they may in fact follow a familiar pattern of political contestation around racism and anti‐racism. This article seeks to retrieve some of the history of this contestation by ex…
The state of multiculturalism
This article examines the state of scholarly research about multiculturalism, against the backdrop of the rise of rightwing populism and anti-immigrant sentiment across liberal democracies. Academic interest in multiculturalism has historically lagged political developments: multicultural policy emerged in Canada and Australia in the 1970s, but it was not until the 1990s that cultural diversity began attracting more sustained theoretical attentio…
Cultural Diversity in Leadership
Australia is frequently described as a success story of immigration and multiculturalism. This has been a part of recent Australian self-understanding and national myth-making. Yet, such a description may belie other realities. For all of Australian society’s celebration of cultural diversity, the leadership of its major institutions remains largely devoid of cultural diversity. This article draws upon recent research into the cultural compositio…
Forty Years of the Racial Discrimination Act
In October 1975, at a ceremony for the proclamation of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) ('the RDA'), then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam described the legislation as 'a historic measure', which aimed to 'entrench new attitudes of tolerance and understanding in the hearts and minds of the people'. The RDA was Australia's first federal human rights and discrimination law. Enacted shortly after the formal abandonment of the White Australia pol…
Racial Vilification Law Unites Australians
Few political debates have the effect of uniting Australians. Yet, in one sense, the contest over section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act did precisely that. There has been an emphatic affirmation of our commitment to racial tolerance
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad
Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
Reclaiming Patriotism
Affronted by the xenophobic nationalists who stalked the land during the Howard years, many progressive Australians have rejected a love of country, forgetting that there is a patriotism of the liberal left that at different times has advanced liberty, egalitarianism, and democratic citizenship. Tim Soutphommasane, a first-generation Australian and political philosopher who has journeyed from Sydney's western suburbs to Oxford University, re-imag…
The Ethics of Identity
Grounding Multicultural Citizenship
Whereas multicultural citizenship in theory has focused on minority and group-differentiated rights, multicultural citizenship in practice has been framed in terms of the universal rights and obligations of citizenship. This paper seeks to address this apparent gap. It evaluates ‘civic pluralist’ models of multiculturalism, such as those in Australia and Canada, in which cultural difference is expressed within the limits of a common civic culture…
Grounding Multicultural Citizenship
Whereas multicultural citizenship in theory has focused on minority and group-differentiated rights, multicultural citizenship in practice has been framed in terms of the universal rights and obligations of citizenship. This paper seeks to address this apparent gap. It evaluates ‘civic pluralist’ models of multiculturalism, such as those in Australia and Canada, in which cultural difference is expressed within the limits of a common civic culture…
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad
Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
Cultural Diversity in Leadership
Australia is frequently described as a success story of immigration and multiculturalism. This has been a part of recent Australian self-understanding and national myth-making. Yet, such a description may belie other realities. For all of Australian society’s celebration of cultural diversity, the leadership of its major institutions remains largely devoid of cultural diversity. This article draws upon recent research into the cultural compositio…
Grounding Multicultural Citizenship
Whereas multicultural citizenship in theory has focused on minority and group-differentiated rights, multicultural citizenship in practice has been framed in terms of the universal rights and obligations of citizenship. This paper seeks to address this apparent gap. It evaluates ‘civic pluralist’ models of multiculturalism, such as those in Australia and Canada, in which cultural difference is expressed within the limits of a common civic culture…
The Ethics of Identity
Reclaiming Patriotism
Affronted by the xenophobic nationalists who stalked the land during the Howard years, many progressive Australians have rejected a love of country, forgetting that there is a patriotism of the liberal left that at different times has advanced liberty, egalitarianism, and democratic citizenship. Tim Soutphommasane, a first-generation Australian and political philosopher who has journeyed from Sydney's western suburbs to Oxford University, re-imag…
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad
Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
Racial Vilification Law Unites Australians
Few political debates have the effect of uniting Australians. Yet, in one sense, the contest over section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act did precisely that. There has been an emphatic affirmation of our commitment to racial tolerance
Forty Years of the Racial Discrimination Act
In October 1975, at a ceremony for the proclamation of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) ('the RDA'), then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam described the legislation as 'a historic measure', which aimed to 'entrench new attitudes of tolerance and understanding in the hearts and minds of the people'. The RDA was Australia's first federal human rights and discrimination law. Enacted shortly after the formal abandonment of the White Australia pol…
Cultural Diversity in Leadership
Australia is frequently described as a success story of immigration and multiculturalism. This has been a part of recent Australian self-understanding and national myth-making. Yet, such a description may belie other realities. For all of Australian society’s celebration of cultural diversity, the leadership of its major institutions remains largely devoid of cultural diversity. This article draws upon recent research into the cultural compositio…
Pimps, Star Chambers, Ratbags, and Westphalians
Australian public debates about race have featured intense contests about free speech and identity, including about the federal Racial Discrimination Act (RDA). While these developments may be understood as reflecting the contemporary ascendency of “culture war” politics, they may in fact follow a familiar pattern of political contestation around racism and anti‐racism. This article seeks to retrieve some of the history of this contestation by ex…
The state of multiculturalism
This article examines the state of scholarly research about multiculturalism, against the backdrop of the rise of rightwing populism and anti-immigrant sentiment across liberal democracies. Academic interest in multiculturalism has historically lagged political developments: multicultural policy emerged in Canada and Australia in the 1970s, but it was not until the 1990s that cultural diversity began attracting more sustained theoretical attentio…
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Australian History and Society (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism (3 works) · Multiculturalism (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Citizenship (2 works) · Criminology (2 works)