Ghassan Hage

Ghassan J. Hage (born 1957 in

He divides his time between Melbourne, Sydney, Beirut and Europe, and is fluent in French, Arabic and English.^[citation needed]

Hage is

Hage works on the comparative anthropology of racism, nationalism and multiculturalism, particularly in Australia and the Middle East. He has written and conducted fieldwork on the Lebanese transnational diaspora in Australia, the US, Europe, Canada and Venezuela. He also researches and writes in social theory, particularly the work of Pierre Bourdieu.

He has been a high-profile contributor to debates on multiculturalism in Australia and has published widely on the topic. His book, White Nation, draws on theory from Whiteness studies, Jacques Lacan and Pierre Bourdieu to interpret ethnographic work undertaken in Australia. The book has been widely debated in Australia, with many of its themes picked up by anti-racism activists in other countries.^[6] The follow-up Against Paranoid Nationalism is an analysis of certain themes in Australian politics that Hage believed were prominent under the government of John Howard.

He has also written on the political dimensions of critical anthropology (which appears in the volume Alter-Politics: Critical Thought and the Radical Imagination (Melbourne University Press 2015)). His recent writings include: Is Racism an Environmental Threat? which views racism and the domination of nature as originating from the same ideology, which Hage refers to as 'domestication': "a mode of feeling at home in the world by dominating it".

Hage's most recent book, The

Controversies

Hage was terminated by the

The Max Planck Society published a press release, stating that many of the views he had shared via social media after the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel are incompatible with their core values and that “racism, anti-Semitism, islamophobia, discrimination, hatred and agitation have no place in the Max Planck Society”.^[11] Hage rejected any accusation in a statement.^[12]

Following the dismissal, global

Hage had previously expressed support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel.^[19]

Memberships & Awards

• Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences
• Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
• Fellow of the British Academy of the Social Sciences
• Past President of the Australian Anthropological Society
• 2004 winner, Community Relations Commission Award, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, for Against Paranoid nationalism.^[20]

Selected publications

• Hage, G. (2023), The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism: White Nation, Against Paranoid Nationalism & Later Writings. Sydney: Sweatshop ISBN 9780645717990
• Hage, G. (2021), The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (
  ISBN 9780226547060
  )
• Hage, G. (ed.)(2021), Decay. New York and London: Duke University Press (
  ISBN 9781478014737
  )
• Hage, G. (2021), L'Alterpolitique: anthropologie critique et imaginaire radical. Toulouse: EuroPhilosophie Éditions (
  ISBN 9791095990239
  )
• Hage, G. (2017), Is Racism an Environmental Threat?. Cambridge: Polity Press (
  ISBN 978-0-7456-9226-5
  )
• Hage, G. (2017). Le Loup et le Musulman. Paris: Wildproject. (
  ISBN 2918490679
  )
• Hage, G. (2015), Alter-Politics: Critical anthropology and the Radical Imagination. Carlton: Melbourne University Press.
• Hage, G. and R. Eckersley (eds.) 2012. Responsibility. Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press.
• Hage, G. and E. Kowal (eds.) (2011) Force, Movement, Intensity: The Newtonian Imagination in the Social Sciences, Carlton South, Vic.: Melbourne University Press (
  ISBN 978-0-522-86081-8
  )
• Hage, G (2009) Waiting. Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press (
  ISBN 978-0-522-85693-4
  )
• Hage, G., Worpole K, and Scruton R. (2004). What Would You Die For?. The British Council.
• Hage, G (2003) Against Paranoid Nationalism: searching for hope in a shrinking society, Annandale, NSW: Pluto Press (
  ISBN 1864031964
  )
• Hage, G (Ed)(2002) Arab-Australians today : citizenship and belonging, Carlton: Melbourne University Press (
  ISBN 0522849792
  )
• Hage, G (2000) White Nation: fantasies of White supremacy in a multicultural society, New York: Routledge (
  ISBN 1-86403-056-9
  )
• Hage, G and Couch, R (Eds)(1999) The future of Australian multiculturalism : reflections on the twentieth anniversary of Jean Martin's The Migrant Presence, Sydney, N.S.W. : Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sydney (
  ISBN 0-9585973-1-6
  )
• Hage, G, with Grace, H, Johnson, L, Langworth, J, and Symonds, M. (1997) Home/World: Space, community and marginality in Sydney's west, Annandale: Pluto Press.