Paul Muldoon
Biographic Data
| ID | 363593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Muldoon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Muldoon |
| SIGNATURE | MULDOON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7021-3592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The obstacles that frustrate (and the injustices that anger): A response to Mary Carman
Civil Disobedience and Collective Responsibility: A Reply to Barry Hindess
Contesting Australian Asylum Policy: Political Alienation, Socratic Citizenship, and Cosmopolitan Critique
In the face of the hard‐line approach to asylum‐seekers currently being taken by both the major political parties in Australia, alienated cosmopolitans have been increasingly inclined to disidentify with the Australian nation and declare “not in my name”. Although sympathetic both to the cosmopolitan position and to these acts of principled dissent, I express reservations about such an approach on the grounds that it distances the cosmopolitan el…
The Power of Forgetting: Ressentiment, Guilt, and Transformative Politics
Though long regarded as an injustice in its own right, willed forgetting is currently enjoying something of a revival in politics. Concerned by the threat memory poses to both the peace and vitality of the state, critics have championed forgetting for its power to release us from ressentiment and begin anew. In this article, I take a closer look at Nietzsche's conception of willed forgetfulness, specifically as it is set out in On the Genealogy o…
A reconciliation most desirable: Shame, narcissism, justice and apology
This paper seeks to draw attention to the narcissistic dimensions of the reconciliation movement in Australia and, more specifically, to the way in which the desire to ‘make innocent’ compromises the attempt to ‘make amends’ and construct a just polity. Building upon some early work by Anthony Moran (1998) and Elizabeth Povinelli (1998), it sets out to defend two claims: firstly, that the intensity of the desire for reconciliation in Australia (a…
Indigenous reconciliation is hard, it re-opens wounds to heal them
The injustice of territoriality
In recent works Nancy Fraser has developed a model of ‘metademocracy’ that promises to reconcile the competing claims of universal justice (grounded in human rights) and localized democracy (grounded in popular sovereignty). By instituting a global democratic procedure in which all enjoy participatory parity, Fraser hopes to ensure that some people are not denied standing as ‘subjects of justice’ simply because of their territorial location while…
Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Politics of Reconciliation: The Constituent Power of the Aboriginal Embassy in Australia
As a reoccupation of land immediately in front of Parliament House for six months in 1972, the Aboriginal Embassy was an inspiring demonstration of Aboriginal self-determination and land rights. Since 1972 demonstrators have maintained an Embassy on the site as part of the continuing Aboriginal struggle. Significantly, on its twentieth anniversary in 1992 Embassy protestors declared Aboriginal sovereignty just as the state-initiated formal reconc…
‘The Very Basis of Civility’: On Agonism, Conquest, and Reconciliation
What might be called the question of ‘society’ constitutes one of the key fault lines in the debate about the politics of reconciliation. One perspective—the perspective of society—celebrates reconciliation as a device that can be used to bring members of a national or civic community back to society after they have ‘fallen’ into war. From this point of view, war represents a break between two states of sociability or an interruption, more or les…
The Sovereign Exceptions: Colonization and the Foundation of Society
This article seeks to both re-examine the legal and political basis for the denial of Aboriginal `sovereignty' in Australia and to question the universality of the discourse of sovereignty itself. Drawing on Foucault's recently translated lectures from the Collège de France, Society Must Be Defended, it endeavours to show how the discourse of territorial sovereignty was mobilized in the colonial context (as a myth of foundation) to shore up the p…
The Moral Legitimacy of Anger
This article seeks to contest the frequently repeated assertion that anger poses the greatest threat to transitional societies moving from authoritarianism to democracy. Against suggestions that victims of past injustices should forswear their 'negative emotions' lest they spark a renewed cycle of violence, it argues that it is important to recognize the moral legitimacy of their anger. While anger is notoriously (though contestably) vulnerable t…
Globalisation, neo-liberalism and the struggle for indigenous citizenship
Using indigenous citizenship as a frame, the article examines the deeply ambiguous effects of globalisation for indigenous peoples in the Antipodes. We demonstrate that processes of economic globalisation have had an impact upon New Zealand Maori and Australian Aboriginals in ways that have heightened their vulnerability and undermined their citizenship entitlements. However, we also argue that Maori and Aboriginal peoples have used the reforms o…
Thinking Responsibility Differently: Reconciliation and the Tragedy of Colonisation
This paper explores the limits of conventional legal understandings of responsibility as a means of dealing with the legacies of colonisation of Australia. It suggests that the overriding focus upon ‘moral agency’ in contemporary legal and historical debates may actually restrict or derail the institution of reconciliation as a tool of justice. I suggest that the tragic tradition can enrich or extend our understanding of the reconciliation proces…
Reconciliation and Political Legitimacy: The Old Australia and the New South Africa
In both Australia and South Africa a state‐sponsored discourse of reconciliation has been deployed as a tool of national integration and state building. This usage has tended to encourage a politics of selective memory that runs contrary to the spirit of reconciliation as recognition of different views of the nation. This article seeks to recover (and promote) a more positive concept of reconciliation by treating it as a discursive, democratic sp…
Aboriginal Identity, Culture and Art
This chapter has twelve sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Genocide, Reconciliation and Aboriginal Writing; 3. Race and Identity; 4. A Long Way Home: Ongoing Debates on the Stolen Children; 5. Indigeneity and Rights Discourse; 6. Law, Land and Environment; 7. Australian History and Indigenous Australians; 8. Indigenous Women's History; 9. Art; 10. Aboriginality and Multiculturalism; 11. The Politics of Indigenous Health Creation; 12. Aboriginality and…
Moy Sand and Gravel
Paul Muldoon's most recent book is Poems 1968-98 (2001). He is Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and Professor of Poetry at Oxford
Between Speech and Silence: The Postcolonial Critic and the Idea of Emancipation
The concept of emancipation has an increasingly ambivalent status in postcolonial criticism. Under the influence of poststructuralism, the idea that the subaltern subject might overcome colonial relations of cultural domination through acts of self-representation has been thrown into disrepute. If there is to be emancipation, according to this view, it will not come through the recovery of an authentic speaking subject, but through strategies of …
The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry
Taking the death of Yeats in 1939 as its starting point, this anthology features selections from the work of ten Irish poets, including Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley
Globalisation, neo-liberalism and the struggle for indigenous citizenship
Using indigenous citizenship as a frame, the article examines the deeply ambiguous effects of globalisation for indigenous peoples in the Antipodes. We demonstrate that processes of economic globalisation have had an impact upon New Zealand Maori and Australian Aboriginals in ways that have heightened their vulnerability and undermined their citizenship entitlements. However, we also argue that Maori and Aboriginal peoples have used the reforms o…
Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Politics of Reconciliation: The Constituent Power of the Aboriginal Embassy in Australia
As a reoccupation of land immediately in front of Parliament House for six months in 1972, the Aboriginal Embassy was an inspiring demonstration of Aboriginal self-determination and land rights. Since 1972 demonstrators have maintained an Embassy on the site as part of the continuing Aboriginal struggle. Significantly, on its twentieth anniversary in 1992 Embassy protestors declared Aboriginal sovereignty just as the state-initiated formal reconc…
A reconciliation most desirable: Shame, narcissism, justice and apology
This paper seeks to draw attention to the narcissistic dimensions of the reconciliation movement in Australia and, more specifically, to the way in which the desire to ‘make innocent’ compromises the attempt to ‘make amends’ and construct a just polity. Building upon some early work by Anthony Moran (1998) and Elizabeth Povinelli (1998), it sets out to defend two claims: firstly, that the intensity of the desire for reconciliation in Australia (a…
The Sovereign Exceptions: Colonization and the Foundation of Society
This article seeks to both re-examine the legal and political basis for the denial of Aboriginal `sovereignty' in Australia and to question the universality of the discourse of sovereignty itself. Drawing on Foucault's recently translated lectures from the Collège de France, Society Must Be Defended, it endeavours to show how the discourse of territorial sovereignty was mobilized in the colonial context (as a myth of foundation) to shore up the p…
Thinking Responsibility Differently: Reconciliation and the Tragedy of Colonisation
This paper explores the limits of conventional legal understandings of responsibility as a means of dealing with the legacies of colonisation of Australia. It suggests that the overriding focus upon ‘moral agency’ in contemporary legal and historical debates may actually restrict or derail the institution of reconciliation as a tool of justice. I suggest that the tragic tradition can enrich or extend our understanding of the reconciliation proces…
The Moral Legitimacy of Anger
This article seeks to contest the frequently repeated assertion that anger poses the greatest threat to transitional societies moving from authoritarianism to democracy. Against suggestions that victims of past injustices should forswear their 'negative emotions' lest they spark a renewed cycle of violence, it argues that it is important to recognize the moral legitimacy of their anger. While anger is notoriously (though contestably) vulnerable t…
The Power of Forgetting: Ressentiment, Guilt, and Transformative Politics
Though long regarded as an injustice in its own right, willed forgetting is currently enjoying something of a revival in politics. Concerned by the threat memory poses to both the peace and vitality of the state, critics have championed forgetting for its power to release us from ressentiment and begin anew. In this article, I take a closer look at Nietzsche's conception of willed forgetfulness, specifically as it is set out in On the Genealogy o…
The injustice of territoriality
In recent works Nancy Fraser has developed a model of ‘metademocracy’ that promises to reconcile the competing claims of universal justice (grounded in human rights) and localized democracy (grounded in popular sovereignty). By instituting a global democratic procedure in which all enjoy participatory parity, Fraser hopes to ensure that some people are not denied standing as ‘subjects of justice’ simply because of their territorial location while…
Between Speech and Silence: The Postcolonial Critic and the Idea of Emancipation
The concept of emancipation has an increasingly ambivalent status in postcolonial criticism. Under the influence of poststructuralism, the idea that the subaltern subject might overcome colonial relations of cultural domination through acts of self-representation has been thrown into disrepute. If there is to be emancipation, according to this view, it will not come through the recovery of an authentic speaking subject, but through strategies of …
The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry
Taking the death of Yeats in 1939 as its starting point, this anthology features selections from the work of ten Irish poets, including Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley
The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry
Taking the death of Yeats in 1939 as its starting point, this anthology features selections from the work of ten Irish poets, including Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley
Between Speech and Silence: The Postcolonial Critic and the Idea of Emancipation
The concept of emancipation has an increasingly ambivalent status in postcolonial criticism. Under the influence of poststructuralism, the idea that the subaltern subject might overcome colonial relations of cultural domination through acts of self-representation has been thrown into disrepute. If there is to be emancipation, according to this view, it will not come through the recovery of an authentic speaking subject, but through strategies of …
Aboriginal Identity, Culture and Art
This chapter has twelve sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Genocide, Reconciliation and Aboriginal Writing; 3. Race and Identity; 4. A Long Way Home: Ongoing Debates on the Stolen Children; 5. Indigeneity and Rights Discourse; 6. Law, Land and Environment; 7. Australian History and Indigenous Australians; 8. Indigenous Women's History; 9. Art; 10. Aboriginality and Multiculturalism; 11. The Politics of Indigenous Health Creation; 12. Aboriginality and…
Moy Sand and Gravel
Paul Muldoon's most recent book is Poems 1968-98 (2001). He is Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and Professor of Poetry at Oxford
Reconciliation and Political Legitimacy: The Old Australia and the New South Africa
In both Australia and South Africa a state‐sponsored discourse of reconciliation has been deployed as a tool of national integration and state building. This usage has tended to encourage a politics of selective memory that runs contrary to the spirit of reconciliation as recognition of different views of the nation. This article seeks to recover (and promote) a more positive concept of reconciliation by treating it as a discursive, democratic sp…
Thinking Responsibility Differently: Reconciliation and the Tragedy of Colonisation
This paper explores the limits of conventional legal understandings of responsibility as a means of dealing with the legacies of colonisation of Australia. It suggests that the overriding focus upon ‘moral agency’ in contemporary legal and historical debates may actually restrict or derail the institution of reconciliation as a tool of justice. I suggest that the tragic tradition can enrich or extend our understanding of the reconciliation proces…
Globalisation, neo-liberalism and the struggle for indigenous citizenship
Using indigenous citizenship as a frame, the article examines the deeply ambiguous effects of globalisation for indigenous peoples in the Antipodes. We demonstrate that processes of economic globalisation have had an impact upon New Zealand Maori and Australian Aboriginals in ways that have heightened their vulnerability and undermined their citizenship entitlements. However, we also argue that Maori and Aboriginal peoples have used the reforms o…
‘The Very Basis of Civility’: On Agonism, Conquest, and Reconciliation
What might be called the question of ‘society’ constitutes one of the key fault lines in the debate about the politics of reconciliation. One perspective—the perspective of society—celebrates reconciliation as a device that can be used to bring members of a national or civic community back to society after they have ‘fallen’ into war. From this point of view, war represents a break between two states of sociability or an interruption, more or les…
The Sovereign Exceptions: Colonization and the Foundation of Society
This article seeks to both re-examine the legal and political basis for the denial of Aboriginal `sovereignty' in Australia and to question the universality of the discourse of sovereignty itself. Drawing on Foucault's recently translated lectures from the Collège de France, Society Must Be Defended, it endeavours to show how the discourse of territorial sovereignty was mobilized in the colonial context (as a myth of foundation) to shore up the p…
The Moral Legitimacy of Anger
This article seeks to contest the frequently repeated assertion that anger poses the greatest threat to transitional societies moving from authoritarianism to democracy. Against suggestions that victims of past injustices should forswear their 'negative emotions' lest they spark a renewed cycle of violence, it argues that it is important to recognize the moral legitimacy of their anger. While anger is notoriously (though contestably) vulnerable t…
The injustice of territoriality
In recent works Nancy Fraser has developed a model of ‘metademocracy’ that promises to reconcile the competing claims of universal justice (grounded in human rights) and localized democracy (grounded in popular sovereignty). By instituting a global democratic procedure in which all enjoy participatory parity, Fraser hopes to ensure that some people are not denied standing as ‘subjects of justice’ simply because of their territorial location while…
Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Politics of Reconciliation: The Constituent Power of the Aboriginal Embassy in Australia
As a reoccupation of land immediately in front of Parliament House for six months in 1972, the Aboriginal Embassy was an inspiring demonstration of Aboriginal self-determination and land rights. Since 1972 demonstrators have maintained an Embassy on the site as part of the continuing Aboriginal struggle. Significantly, on its twentieth anniversary in 1992 Embassy protestors declared Aboriginal sovereignty just as the state-initiated formal reconc…
Indigenous reconciliation is hard, it re-opens wounds to heal them
Civil Disobedience and Collective Responsibility: A Reply to Barry Hindess
Contesting Australian Asylum Policy: Political Alienation, Socratic Citizenship, and Cosmopolitan Critique
In the face of the hard‐line approach to asylum‐seekers currently being taken by both the major political parties in Australia, alienated cosmopolitans have been increasingly inclined to disidentify with the Australian nation and declare “not in my name”. Although sympathetic both to the cosmopolitan position and to these acts of principled dissent, I express reservations about such an approach on the grounds that it distances the cosmopolitan el…
The Power of Forgetting: Ressentiment, Guilt, and Transformative Politics
Though long regarded as an injustice in its own right, willed forgetting is currently enjoying something of a revival in politics. Concerned by the threat memory poses to both the peace and vitality of the state, critics have championed forgetting for its power to release us from ressentiment and begin anew. In this article, I take a closer look at Nietzsche's conception of willed forgetfulness, specifically as it is set out in On the Genealogy o…
A reconciliation most desirable: Shame, narcissism, justice and apology
This paper seeks to draw attention to the narcissistic dimensions of the reconciliation movement in Australia and, more specifically, to the way in which the desire to ‘make innocent’ compromises the attempt to ‘make amends’ and construct a just polity. Building upon some early work by Anthony Moran (1998) and Elizabeth Povinelli (1998), it sets out to defend two claims: firstly, that the intensity of the desire for reconciliation in Australia (a…
The obstacles that frustrate (and the injustices that anger): A response to Mary Carman
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