G Hage
Biographic Data
| ID | 35213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Hage |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Hage |
| SIGNATURE | HAGE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2774-9236 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 664 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Writing About Pierre Bourdieu Amid a Genocide
Following the launch of my new book on Pierre Bourdieu's anthropological theory, someone asked me how I had it in me to devote time to writing a theoretical work amid the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. In this essay, I reflect on this question by looking back at the tensions and reflections that animated me as I was finishing my book
The antisemitism to come? Gaza and the colonial management of necropolitical pollution
What is the relation between Israel and the colonial West today? There are abundant folk, journalistic and academic views on that matter. They oscillate between seeing Israel as acting out the West's interests in the Middle East and seeing it as a more autonomous national actor influencing Western nations through 'Zionist lobbies.' In this piece I argue that there is much to be gained by viewing the Western‐Israeli colonial assemblage as an insta…
Sharpening the analytics of alienation
Gaza und das bevorstehende Zeitalter des „Kriegers“
Bibliographie: Hage, Ghassan: Gaza und das bevorstehende Zeitalter des „Kriegers“, PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur, Nr. 174-175 (2-2024), S. 179-185. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v44i2.02 ----- Open-Access-Lizenz: Dieser Beitrag ist ab dem 11.12.2024 im Open Access unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC BY 4.0 (Namensnennung 4.0 International) verfügbar. Weitere Informationen zur Lizenz und den Nutzungsbedingungen finden Sie hier
Zone of Interest” as an Ethnography of Indifference
The anthropological and the consequential
Though this text raises several important issues, there is one aspect that I want to particularly interact with. It has to do with a mode of valorizing anthropological inquiry in relation to a certain socio-political function it is invited to perform. While stressing that they do not want to imply that "research should respond only to current events," Gupta and Stoolman nonetheless argue that "the chase for novelty, which is so often elevated to …
The haunting figure of the useless academic: Critical thinking in coronavirus time
A critical intellectual, someone whose job is to think, reflect and critique can be the last thing one needs in times of practical urgency. If anything such people can be a hindrance to the recovery effort. Pardoxically, in such times, critical intellectuals are more necessary than ever. Pandemics, for instance, invite war metaphors, and unleash reactionary themes of ‘cohesion’, ‘unity’ and ‘common purpose’ that require being challenged. To be a …
Afterword: Bearable Life
Diasporic baraka
In this paper I reflect on two interconnected phenomena associated with Lebanese migration: a high incidence of gambling among immigrants and the experience of migration itself as a form of "gambling with the self." I show how both these dimensions are illuminated by Levy-Bruhl's reflections on gambling and risk-taking. I examine the affinity that Levy-Bruhl's ideas have with Bourdieu's notion of illusio that I've also used to explore these dimen…
On Not Being on The Brink of The Abyss
What Is Analysis
Recent years in anthropology have seen a noticeable trend, moving from debates about theory to a concern with method. So while some generations ago we would tend to identify ourselves as anthropologists with reference to particular theoretical paradigms-for example, Marxism, (post-)structuralism, cognitivism, cultural materialism, interpretivism-these days our tendency is to align ourselves, often eclectically, with proposals conceived as methodo…
Inside and Outside the Law
In this article I begin by noting a certain jouissance in Beiruti urban culture that co-exists with an ongoing history of intercommunal conflict and the failure of centralized planning. I then examine the irreverent celebration of this ‘outside-the-law’ culture by a group of middle-class immigrants who have returned to Beirut to enjoy its free spaces. I argue that these outside-the-law spaces are characterized by a particular form of sociality th…
Le racisme est-il une menace écologique
D'origine libanaise et professeur d'anthropologie à l'université de Melbourne, Ghassan Hage s'est beaucoup intéressé au multiculturalisme en Australie. En 1998, il a publié White Nation, un ouvrage qui est désormais un classique des whiteness studies 1 . Son nouveau livre Le loup et le musulman. Le racisme est-il une menace écologique ? est le premier traduit en français 2 . À partir d'une analyse sémantique du discours dominant, qui n'est pas sa…
Afterword
In this afterword, I begin by sharing a brief history of my early career as a non-Anglo-Celtic academic in an overwhelmingly Anglo-Celtic university environment in Australia. I examine how questions of non-Anglo-Celtic academic authority and accent play out in the process of teaching. I also explore the decolonizing impetus behind my early work White Nation (2000) both in terms of its conceptualization of Whiteness and Third-World-looking people …
Towards an ethics of the theoretical encounter
This article is taken from a presentation I give graduate students on how to make use of theory in the process of writing their thesis. It aims to highlight a pragmatic and practical orientation to theory and to subordinate it to the more important goal of making sense of one's research object and one's research material. As such it is structured by the tension between the deployment of theory as a mark of sophistication and a form of cultural ca…
État de siège: A dying domesticating colonialism
The sentiment of being "surrounded by barbarians" was once specific to settler-colonial societies. But as the European refugee crisis made headlines in 2015, it became evident that this sentiment is gaining widespread currency in the Western world. Three developments lie behind its extension: first, the resurgence in the militarized Western appropriation of world resources and its colonial imaginary; second, the crisis in the order of the nationa…
Questions Concerning a Future-Politics
Needless to say, I am more than pleased that my work has helped propel an area of investigation of such importance as the exploration of configurations of hope in our social world. Hope has activat
Recalling anti-racism
Despite its many achievements and some remarkable victories against the forces of racism in their variety of forms, it cannot be said that anti-racism has been particularly successful as a social, cultural, and political force. This essay uses Bruno Latour's figure of the 'recall' to rethink certain elements of the anti-racist tradition. Latour sees the figure as combining both 'recalling' in the sense of remembering, but also 'recalling' in the …
Eavesdropping on Bourdieu’s Philosophers
Continuity and Change in Australian Racism
Keywords: RacismRacismsAustralian RacismNew RacismNeo RacismAnti-racism
Antipodean fields: Working with Bourdieu
The papers collected in this special issue of the Journal of Sociology seek both to develop a sense of the cumulative impact of Bourdieu’s work on Australasian (‘antipodean’) debates, and to get a sense of how these debates might raise questions regarding the portability of Bourdieu’s categories. We discuss the distinctive disciplinary orientations of the uptake of Bourdieu’s work both here and internationally, and propose some explanations of th…
Eavesdropping on Bourdieu's philosophers
While working on an auto-ethnographic account of my deafness and concurrently offering a seminar on the philosophical dimensions of Pierre Bourdieu's work, I was struck by how permeated my ethnographic language was with the very Bourdieu-ian concepts I was examining. Initially, some of the moments captured in the ethnography played docilely a function of exemplification of Bourdieu's theories and the philosophies behind them. At times, however, I…
Truncating anthropology's political imagination
Genetics of autoimmune thyroid disease in the Lebanese population
Critical anthropological thought and the radical political imaginary today
This article begins by defining the specificity of critical anthropological thought and the way it can articulate with radical politics. It shows how the anthropology of Eduardo Vivieros de Castro offers a paradigmatic example of an anthropology that is both critical and radical, highlighting both the critical and political nature of Viveiros de Castro's perspectivism and his concept of multinaturalism. It shows how this concept can offer a polit…
A not so multi-sited ethnography of a not so imagined community
This article reflects on key analytical concepts used in the anthropology of migration in the light of the author's own ethnographic work on Lebanese migrants in a number of international locations. It first examines the notion of multi-sited ethnography and argues that in the study of migrants sharing a unifying culture across a number of global locations, multi-sitedness is less helpful than a notion of a single geographically discontinuous sit…
Critical anthropological thought and the radical political imaginary today
This article begins by defining the specificity of critical anthropological thought and the way it can articulate with radical politics. It shows how the anthropology of Eduardo Vivieros de Castro offers a paradigmatic example of an anthropology that is both critical and radical, highlighting both the critical and political nature of Viveiros de Castro's perspectivism and his concept of multinaturalism. It shows how this concept can offer a polit…
État de siège: A dying domesticating colonialism
The sentiment of being "surrounded by barbarians" was once specific to settler-colonial societies. But as the European refugee crisis made headlines in 2015, it became evident that this sentiment is gaining widespread currency in the Western world. Three developments lie behind its extension: first, the resurgence in the militarized Western appropriation of world resources and its colonial imaginary; second, the crisis in the order of the nationa…
Hating Israel in the Field: On ethnography and political emotions
This article chronicles the beginning of my fieldwork among Lebanese Shi'a in South Lebanon and in the diaspora. The fieldwork coincided with Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon that destroyed its only just rebuilt infrastructure, killed more than 1000 civilians and left behind in agricultural areas and villages thousands of unexploded cluster bombs. The village where I was preparing to do my fieldwork was destroyed and my prospective key inform…
The Spatial Imaginary of National Practices: Dwelling-Domesticating /Being-Exterminating
The prevalence of a culture of 'tolerance' towards ethnic minorities in the West in the face of the practices of 'ethnic cleansing' in Eastern Europe and of other more general practices of intolerance and extermination in parts of the Third World has led to a popular as well as a sometimes academic conception of 'Western' and 'Eastern' nationalisms essentialised into two radically different kinds of nationalism. In this paper I offer a critique o…
The Affective Politics of Racial Mis-interpellation
This article is concerned with some of the ramifications of the affective dimension of Fanon's writing. In their latest book, Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri take Fanon's attempt to transcend European universality through the struggle for a 'new universality' as an exemplary schema that informs their politics of alter-modernity. In the article, I show that the affective dimension of Fanon's search for a new universality is far more …
Comes a Time We Are All Enthusiasm: Understanding Palestinian Suicide Bombers in Times of Exighophobia
Research Article| January 01 2003 "Comes a Time We Are All Enthusiasm": Understanding Palestinian Suicide Bombers in Times of Exighophobia Ghassan Hage Ghassan Hage Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 65–89. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-1-65 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools…
Recalling anti-racism
Despite its many achievements and some remarkable victories against the forces of racism in their variety of forms, it cannot be said that anti-racism has been particularly successful as a social, cultural, and political force. This essay uses Bruno Latour's figure of the 'recall' to rethink certain elements of the anti-racist tradition. Latour sees the figure as combining both 'recalling' in the sense of remembering, but also 'recalling' in the …
Questions Concerning a Future-Politics
Needless to say, I am more than pleased that my work has helped propel an area of investigation of such importance as the exploration of configurations of hope in our social world. Hope has activat
Eavesdropping on Bourdieu's philosophers
While working on an auto-ethnographic account of my deafness and concurrently offering a seminar on the philosophical dimensions of Pierre Bourdieu's work, I was struck by how permeated my ethnographic language was with the very Bourdieu-ian concepts I was examining. Initially, some of the moments captured in the ethnography played docilely a function of exemplification of Bourdieu's theories and the philosophies behind them. At times, however, I…
Continuity and Change in Australian Racism
Keywords: RacismRacismsAustralian RacismNew RacismNeo RacismAnti-racism
The Ethics of Apology: A Set of Commentaries
■ On 13 February 2008, the Australian government apologized to the 'stolen generations': those children of Aboriginal descent who were removed from their parents (usually their Aboriginal mothers) to be raised in white foster-homes and institutions administered by government and Christian churches - a practice that lasted from before the First World War to the early 1970s. This apology was significant, in the words of Rudd, for the 'healing' of t…
Religious Fundamentalism as a Political Strategy: The evolution of the Lebanese Forces' religious discourse during the Lebanese Civil War
The article begins by showing the existence of a religious imagery that permeates the Chnstian Lebanese nationalist discourse, particularly that of the Phalangist Party. It then proceeds to show how this religious dimension evolved at the hands of Lebanese Forces' leader Bashir Gemayel until it became a fundamentalist political project in its own nght following Gemayel's assassination
Afterword: Bearable Life
The haunting figure of the useless academic: Critical thinking in coronavirus time
A critical intellectual, someone whose job is to think, reflect and critique can be the last thing one needs in times of practical urgency. If anything such people can be a hindrance to the recovery effort. Pardoxically, in such times, critical intellectuals are more necessary than ever. Pandemics, for instance, invite war metaphors, and unleash reactionary themes of ‘cohesion’, ‘unity’ and ‘common purpose’ that require being challenged. To be a …
Towards an ethics of the theoretical encounter
This article is taken from a presentation I give graduate students on how to make use of theory in the process of writing their thesis. It aims to highlight a pragmatic and practical orientation to theory and to subordinate it to the more important goal of making sense of one's research object and one's research material. As such it is structured by the tension between the deployment of theory as a mark of sophistication and a form of cultural ca…
Afterword
In this afterword, I begin by sharing a brief history of my early career as a non-Anglo-Celtic academic in an overwhelmingly Anglo-Celtic university environment in Australia. I examine how questions of non-Anglo-Celtic academic authority and accent play out in the process of teaching. I also explore the decolonizing impetus behind my early work White Nation (2000) both in terms of its conceptualization of Whiteness and Third-World-looking people …
The anthropological and the consequential
Though this text raises several important issues, there is one aspect that I want to particularly interact with. It has to do with a mode of valorizing anthropological inquiry in relation to a certain socio-political function it is invited to perform. While stressing that they do not want to imply that "research should respond only to current events," Gupta and Stoolman nonetheless argue that "the chase for novelty, which is so often elevated to …
Beyond the Intention of the State: A Response to Burchell
Asia', Hansonism and the discourse of white decline
Sharpening the analytics of alienation
Zone of Interest” as an Ethnography of Indifference
Diasporic baraka
In this paper I reflect on two interconnected phenomena associated with Lebanese migration: a high incidence of gambling among immigrants and the experience of migration itself as a form of "gambling with the self." I show how both these dimensions are illuminated by Levy-Bruhl's reflections on gambling and risk-taking. I examine the affinity that Levy-Bruhl's ideas have with Bourdieu's notion of illusio that I've also used to explore these dimen…
Antipodean fields: Working with Bourdieu
The papers collected in this special issue of the Journal of Sociology seek both to develop a sense of the cumulative impact of Bourdieu’s work on Australasian (‘antipodean’) debates, and to get a sense of how these debates might raise questions regarding the portability of Bourdieu’s categories. We discuss the distinctive disciplinary orientations of the uptake of Bourdieu’s work both here and internationally, and propose some explanations of th…
Warring Societies (and Intellectuals)
I’m going to talk about warring societies and the role of academics in them. I’m trying to describe a logic of colonial settler states, which have always conceived themselves to be besieged by uncivilised others and which structure themselves defensively and legitimise these structures in the sense that they have to protect themselves from the uncivilised others surrounding them
West Asia
Religious Fundamentalism as a Political Strategy: The evolution of the Lebanese Forces' religious discourse during the Lebanese Civil War
The article begins by showing the existence of a religious imagery that permeates the Chnstian Lebanese nationalist discourse, particularly that of the Phalangist Party. It then proceeds to show how this religious dimension evolved at the hands of Lebanese Forces' leader Bashir Gemayel until it became a fundamentalist political project in its own nght following Gemayel's assassination
Pierre Bourdieu in the nineties: Between the church and the atelier
Nationalist Anxiety or the Fear of Losing Your Other
The nation of the nationalists is always conceived to be in crisis. There is always an other standing between them and ‘it’. ‘It’ is often the impossible goal of a ‘totally gratifying nation’. Within a psychoanalytic framework, gratifying this nation is perceived as a fantasy, an object‐cause of desire (Lacan), that is, a practical impossibility that neverthless keeps the practitioner trying to reach it. Within such a framework the other standing…
The Spatial Imaginary of National Practices: Dwelling-Domesticating /Being-Exterminating
The prevalence of a culture of 'tolerance' towards ethnic minorities in the West in the face of the practices of 'ethnic cleansing' in Eastern Europe and of other more general practices of intolerance and extermination in parts of the Third World has led to a popular as well as a sometimes academic conception of 'Western' and 'Eastern' nationalisms essentialised into two radically different kinds of nationalism. In this paper I offer a critique o…
On ‘Having’ Ethnography: Mimic Me. If You Can
White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society
Anthropologist and social critic Ghassan Hage explores one of the most complex and troubling of modern phenomena: the desire for a white nation
Asia', Hansonism and the discourse of white decline
Response to the reviews
Beyond the Intention of the State: A Response to Burchell
Multiculturalism and white paranoia in Australia
Comes a Time We Are All Enthusiasm: Understanding Palestinian Suicide Bombers in Times of Exighophobia
Research Article| January 01 2003 "Comes a Time We Are All Enthusiasm": Understanding Palestinian Suicide Bombers in Times of Exighophobia Ghassan Hage Ghassan Hage Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 65–89. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-1-65 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools…
Multicultural situations
A not so multi-sited ethnography of a not so imagined community
This article reflects on key analytical concepts used in the anthropology of migration in the light of the author's own ethnographic work on Lebanese migrants in a number of international locations. It first examines the notion of multi-sited ethnography and argues that in the study of migrants sharing a unifying culture across a number of global locations, multi-sitedness is less helpful than a notion of a single geographically discontinuous sit…
Warring Societies (and Intellectuals)
I’m going to talk about warring societies and the role of academics in them. I’m trying to describe a logic of colonial settler states, which have always conceived themselves to be besieged by uncivilised others and which structure themselves defensively and legitimise these structures in the sense that they have to protect themselves from the uncivilised others surrounding them
Der unregierbare Muslim. Jenseits der Bipolarität von Multikultur und Assimilation
Hating Israel in the Field: On ethnography and political emotions
This article chronicles the beginning of my fieldwork among Lebanese Shi'a in South Lebanon and in the diaspora. The fieldwork coincided with Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon that destroyed its only just rebuilt infrastructure, killed more than 1000 civilians and left behind in agricultural areas and villages thousands of unexploded cluster bombs. The village where I was preparing to do my fieldwork was destroyed and my prospective key inform…
The Ethics of Apology: A Set of Commentaries
■ On 13 February 2008, the Australian government apologized to the 'stolen generations': those children of Aboriginal descent who were removed from their parents (usually their Aboriginal mothers) to be raised in white foster-homes and institutions administered by government and Christian churches - a practice that lasted from before the First World War to the early 1970s. This apology was significant, in the words of Rudd, for the 'healing' of t…
Thesis Eleven: Negotiating the Passion for the Political
The Affective Politics of Racial Mis-interpellation
This article is concerned with some of the ramifications of the affective dimension of Fanon's writing. In their latest book, Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri take Fanon's attempt to transcend European universality through the struggle for a 'new universality' as an exemplary schema that informs their politics of alter-modernity. In the article, I show that the affective dimension of Fanon's search for a new universality is far more …
Truncating anthropology's political imagination
Genetics of autoimmune thyroid disease in the Lebanese population
Critical anthropological thought and the radical political imaginary today
This article begins by defining the specificity of critical anthropological thought and the way it can articulate with radical politics. It shows how the anthropology of Eduardo Vivieros de Castro offers a paradigmatic example of an anthropology that is both critical and radical, highlighting both the critical and political nature of Viveiros de Castro's perspectivism and his concept of multinaturalism. It shows how this concept can offer a polit…
Antipodean fields: Working with Bourdieu
The papers collected in this special issue of the Journal of Sociology seek both to develop a sense of the cumulative impact of Bourdieu’s work on Australasian (‘antipodean’) debates, and to get a sense of how these debates might raise questions regarding the portability of Bourdieu’s categories. We discuss the distinctive disciplinary orientations of the uptake of Bourdieu’s work both here and internationally, and propose some explanations of th…
Eavesdropping on Bourdieu's philosophers
While working on an auto-ethnographic account of my deafness and concurrently offering a seminar on the philosophical dimensions of Pierre Bourdieu's work, I was struck by how permeated my ethnographic language was with the very Bourdieu-ian concepts I was examining. Initially, some of the moments captured in the ethnography played docilely a function of exemplification of Bourdieu's theories and the philosophies behind them. At times, however, I…
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