Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
List of tables
‘Where the bloody hell are we?’ Multicultural manners in a world of hyperdiversity
Greg Noble

Part one: Making sense of the riots: contexts and perspective

Sydney’s Cronulla riots: the context and Implications
Jock Collins
Scouring the Shire
Scott Poynting
Riotous Sydney take three (Cronulla) Confessions of a beach survivor
Wendy Shaw

Part two: ‘We grew here, you flew here’: nation, ethnicities and belonging

Performing Australian nationalisms at Cronulla
Kevin M Dunn
‘The Muslims are our misfortune!’
Geoffrey Brahm Levey and A Dirk Moses
Australian bodies, Australian sands
Affrica Taylor
‘It’s just an attitude that you feel’: inter-ethnic habitus before the Cronulla riots
Amanda Wise
From Turko to Lebo: the Cronulla riot and the politics of Greekness
Andrew Lattas

Part three: Boys behaving badly? Gender, culture, territory

Masculinity, culture and urban power: the Cronulla conflicts and their amplification in popular media
Andrew Jakubowicz
‘The local boys’: violence, care, masculinity and the riots
Clifton Evers
Bikini vs Burqa’ in contemporary Australia: a feminist response to the Cronulla riots
Judy Lattas

Part four: In the wake of the riots: responses and repercussions

Law, policing and public order: the aftermath of Cronulla
Chris Cunneen
Generation, class and community leadership
Paul Tabar
Afterword: Zionists
Ghassan Hage
Index