Adam Z Seet
Biographic Data
| ID | 287396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Z Seet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Seet |
| SIGNATURE | SEET A Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9563-9346 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Surviving the survival narrative, part 2: Conceptualising Whiteness-as-utility and internalised racism
This article interrogates how the concept of critical consciousness applies to racialised subjects’ lived experiences when attempting to resist racialisation and racism within Australian society. We first demonstrate the incongruence between the theoretical conceptualisation of critical consciousness-raising and its practical application for racialised subjects, examined through the concept of the will-to-resist. This foregrounds the individualis…
The paradox of Whiteness: Neoliberal multiculturalism and the case of Chinese international students in Australia
Since its formal inception in the 1970s, Australian (ethno-) ‘multiculturalism’ has been a source of debate over the nation’s imagined trajectory. This internal or national discourse has, inter alia, critiqued the unchanging racialised power relations between groups, where ethnocultural plurality becomes subsumed under a predominant White governmentality. In this article, however, we consider a particular difficulty in sustaining a ‘truly’ multic…
Serving the White nation: Bringing internalised racism within a sociological understanding
In this article I examine the current definitions of internalised racism in the extant literature and suggest where they may be expanded upon in order to further our sociological understanding of the phenomenon. I draw upon data from a wider study that investigates how internalised racism manifests within the lived experiences of racialised subjects in Australia. By introducing a re-reading of Hage's White nation thesis specifically from the pers…
Divide and Conquer: Gendered Division Within the Process of Internalised Racism
Utilising a socio-psychological understanding of the concept of internalised racism (IR), this article examines the racialised romantic/sexual preferences for White Western men amongst Asian Australians subjects. By psychoanalytically analysing the notion of White nation-building and its inherent gendered dynamics, the article examines how the White patriarchal national will aims to secure its dominance over national space. In doing so, it necess…
Surviving the Survival Narrative Part 1: Internalised Racism and the Limits of Resistance
The concept of internalised racism (IR) has been criticised for its potential utilisation to perpetuate 'victim blaming'. In describing the racialised subject's indoctrination to racist beliefs about themselves and/or their group, the concept of IR has been a point of difficulty for scholarship which sustains a hyper-focus on racialised resistance towards structural racism and its effects. Some scholars have highlighted that this hyper-focus on r…
Racialised Self-Marketisation: The Importance of Accounting for Neoliberal Rationality Within Manifestations of Internalised Racism
This article explores the impact of neoliberal rationality within manifestations of internalised racism. In doing so, it combines research on internalised racial oppression, race-relations in the contemporary Australian zeitgeist, and work on neoliberal subjectivities. Drawing on these, the article explains how internalising a contaminated notion of the universal subject is an important dynamic to consider within the phenomenon of internalised ra…
Silenced Realities: The Significance of the “Old Racism” in Contemporary Australian Society
This article revisits the “old/new” conceptualisation of racism within race scholarship from Western liberal democracies. Contemporary race scholars argue that racism in Australia, when not denied among the populace at large, is marked by subtle and covert forms. Often termed the “new” racism, these “racisms” are categorised as founded upon a belief in cultural superiority, where the particular out-group's supposed values are held against “Austra…
Silenced Realities: The Significance of the “Old Racism” in Contemporary Australian Society
This article revisits the “old/new” conceptualisation of racism within race scholarship from Western liberal democracies. Contemporary race scholars argue that racism in Australia, when not denied among the populace at large, is marked by subtle and covert forms. Often termed the “new” racism, these “racisms” are categorised as founded upon a belief in cultural superiority, where the particular out-group's supposed values are held against “Austra…
The paradox of Whiteness: Neoliberal multiculturalism and the case of Chinese international students in Australia
Since its formal inception in the 1970s, Australian (ethno-) ‘multiculturalism’ has been a source of debate over the nation’s imagined trajectory. This internal or national discourse has, inter alia, critiqued the unchanging racialised power relations between groups, where ethnocultural plurality becomes subsumed under a predominant White governmentality. In this article, however, we consider a particular difficulty in sustaining a ‘truly’ multic…
Serving the White nation: Bringing internalised racism within a sociological understanding
In this article I examine the current definitions of internalised racism in the extant literature and suggest where they may be expanded upon in order to further our sociological understanding of the phenomenon. I draw upon data from a wider study that investigates how internalised racism manifests within the lived experiences of racialised subjects in Australia. By introducing a re-reading of Hage's White nation thesis specifically from the pers…
Surviving the Survival Narrative Part 1: Internalised Racism and the Limits of Resistance
The concept of internalised racism (IR) has been criticised for its potential utilisation to perpetuate 'victim blaming'. In describing the racialised subject's indoctrination to racist beliefs about themselves and/or their group, the concept of IR has been a point of difficulty for scholarship which sustains a hyper-focus on racialised resistance towards structural racism and its effects. Some scholars have highlighted that this hyper-focus on r…
Racialised Self-Marketisation: The Importance of Accounting for Neoliberal Rationality Within Manifestations of Internalised Racism
This article explores the impact of neoliberal rationality within manifestations of internalised racism. In doing so, it combines research on internalised racial oppression, race-relations in the contemporary Australian zeitgeist, and work on neoliberal subjectivities. Drawing on these, the article explains how internalising a contaminated notion of the universal subject is an important dynamic to consider within the phenomenon of internalised ra…
Silenced Realities: The Significance of the “Old Racism” in Contemporary Australian Society
This article revisits the “old/new” conceptualisation of racism within race scholarship from Western liberal democracies. Contemporary race scholars argue that racism in Australia, when not denied among the populace at large, is marked by subtle and covert forms. Often termed the “new” racism, these “racisms” are categorised as founded upon a belief in cultural superiority, where the particular out-group's supposed values are held against “Austra…
Racialised Self-Marketisation: The Importance of Accounting for Neoliberal Rationality Within Manifestations of Internalised Racism
This article explores the impact of neoliberal rationality within manifestations of internalised racism. In doing so, it combines research on internalised racial oppression, race-relations in the contemporary Australian zeitgeist, and work on neoliberal subjectivities. Drawing on these, the article explains how internalising a contaminated notion of the universal subject is an important dynamic to consider within the phenomenon of internalised ra…
Divide and Conquer: Gendered Division Within the Process of Internalised Racism
Utilising a socio-psychological understanding of the concept of internalised racism (IR), this article examines the racialised romantic/sexual preferences for White Western men amongst Asian Australians subjects. By psychoanalytically analysing the notion of White nation-building and its inherent gendered dynamics, the article examines how the White patriarchal national will aims to secure its dominance over national space. In doing so, it necess…
Surviving the Survival Narrative Part 1: Internalised Racism and the Limits of Resistance
The concept of internalised racism (IR) has been criticised for its potential utilisation to perpetuate 'victim blaming'. In describing the racialised subject's indoctrination to racist beliefs about themselves and/or their group, the concept of IR has been a point of difficulty for scholarship which sustains a hyper-focus on racialised resistance towards structural racism and its effects. Some scholars have highlighted that this hyper-focus on r…
Surviving the survival narrative, part 2: Conceptualising Whiteness-as-utility and internalised racism
This article interrogates how the concept of critical consciousness applies to racialised subjects’ lived experiences when attempting to resist racialisation and racism within Australian society. We first demonstrate the incongruence between the theoretical conceptualisation of critical consciousness-raising and its practical application for racialised subjects, examined through the concept of the will-to-resist. This foregrounds the individualis…
The paradox of Whiteness: Neoliberal multiculturalism and the case of Chinese international students in Australia
Since its formal inception in the 1970s, Australian (ethno-) ‘multiculturalism’ has been a source of debate over the nation’s imagined trajectory. This internal or national discourse has, inter alia, critiqued the unchanging racialised power relations between groups, where ethnocultural plurality becomes subsumed under a predominant White governmentality. In this article, however, we consider a particular difficulty in sustaining a ‘truly’ multic…
Serving the White nation: Bringing internalised racism within a sociological understanding
In this article I examine the current definitions of internalised racism in the extant literature and suggest where they may be expanded upon in order to further our sociological understanding of the phenomenon. I draw upon data from a wider study that investigates how internalised racism manifests within the lived experiences of racialised subjects in Australia. By introducing a re-reading of Hage's White nation thesis specifically from the pers…
Gender Studies (7 works) · Racism (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works)