ABSTRACT
The essays collected here derive from the conference ‘Postcolonial Formations: Nations, Culture, Policy’ that was held at Griffith University, Brisbane, in July 1993.1 Hosted by the Institute for Cultural Policy Studies, the conference was organized by an international committee with Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand representatives and brought together a rich mix of critical scholars, cultural producers, and policy workers from each of these countries.2 The purpose of the conference was to provide a forum for debate regarding the respects in which the forms of cultural politics and policies discernible in these (as they are customarily but now contentiously known) ‘white settler societies’ exhibit similar characteristics as they move into the postcolonial phases of their formation.
