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Hage brings insights from political economy and psychoanalysis, defining societies as mechanisms for the production and distribution of hope. He argues that the rise of paranoid nationalism throughout the world is linked to the shrinking of western nation-states' ability to distribute hope among their citizens. Neo-liberal policies have loosen social bonds, diminish our hopes for a better life and make us anxious and worried.
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Ghassan Hage teaches anthropology at the University of Sydney and is fast becoming one of Australia's most controversial public intellectuals. He has an international reputation, teaching at Pierre Bourdieu's Centre de Sociologie Europeenne, Paris, and elsewhere. His previous books include White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society, The Future of Multiculturalism, and Home/World.
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