ABOUT

Contry	Australia
Capital	Canberra
Currency	Australian dollar
Language	English
Intake	February and July

Australia studies is a field of theoretically, politically, and empirically engaged Australia analysis that concentrates upon the political dynamics of contemporary culture, its historical foundations, defining traits, conflicts, and contingencies.Australia studies researchers generally investigate how Australia practices relate to wider systems of power associated with or operating through social phenomena, such as ideology, class structures, national formations, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and generation. Australia studies views cultures not as fixed, bounded, stable, and discrete entities, but rather as constantly interacting and changing sets of practices and processes.The field of Australia studies encompasses a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives and practices. Although distinct from the discipline of Australia anthropology and the interdisciplinary field of ethnic studies, Australia studies draws upon and has contributed to each of these fields.

Australia studies was initially developed by British academics in the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, and has been subsequently taken up and transformed by scholars from many different disciplines around the world. Australia studies is avowedly and even radically interdisciplinary and can sometimes be seen as antidisciplinary. A key concern for Australia studies practitioners is the examination of the forces within and through which socially organized people conduct and participate in the construction of their everyday lives.