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'''Ghassan J. Hage''' (born 1957 in [[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]]) is a [[Lebanese-Australian]] academic serving as Future Generation Professor of Anthropology at the [[University of Melbourne]], Australia. He has held a number of visiting professorships including at the American University of Beirut, University of Nanterre – Paris X, the University of Copenhagen and Harvard.
'''Ghassan J. Hage''' (born 1957 in [[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]]) is a [[Lebanese-Australian]] academic serving as Future Generation Professor of Anthropology at the [[University of Melbourne]], Australia. He has held a number of visiting professorships including at the American University of Beirut, University of Nanterre – Paris X, the University of Copenhagen and Harvard.
He has published several books on immigration, race and refugees in Australia.

He has published several books on immigration, race and refugees in Australia. In 2024, he was laid off by the [[Max Planck Society]] in response to some of his [[social media]] comments about the [[2023 Gaza war]].<ref>https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/professor-sacked-max-planck-society-over-israel-comments</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==
Hage grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, as part of a Maronite Catholic family. He moved to Sydney in 1976, aged 19. Hage's maternal grandparents, are of Lebanese background, but had migrated to Australia from [[Santo Domingo]] in the 1930s. His mother, born in Santo Domingo, was an Australian citizen and thirty years old when she went to Lebanon and married Hage's father, Lt Colonel Hamid Hage. After their marriage they lived in [[Baabda]], near Beirut, where Hage was born.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/s677558.htm| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020925151625/http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/s677558.htm| archive-date = 2002-09-25| title = Four Corners - 16/9/2002: Interview with Dr Ghassan Hage . Australian Broadcasting Corp| website = [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]}} </ref> Hage completed his schooling in Lebanon. He obtained his Baccalaureat 2eme Partie as a student of the International College (section française). Hage had enrolled at the [[American University of Beirut]] as a pre-med student when the [[Lebanese civil war]] (1975–90) erupted. He left Lebanon in 1976 and joined the maternal side of the family in Australia. Hage completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) at [[Macquarie University]] in 1982, a Diplome de 3eme Cycle ([[Universite de Nice]], 1983) and a PhD in anthropology (a study of communal identification among Christian Lebanese during the Lebanese civil war - Macquarie University, 1989). From 1987–88 he was a part-time lecturer at UTS, then until 1994 a lecturer in Social Sciences at the [[University of Western Sydney]]. He was at the [[University of Sydney]] from 1994–2008 before moving to the [[University of Melbourne]]. He has also held a post-doctoral research position and a visiting professorship at [[Pierre Bourdieu]]’s research centre in Paris at the [[Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales]] which has been of particular importance in his intellectual formation.{{cn|date=February 2024}} In 2023 he launched his [https://www.swf.org.au/festivals/2023-festival/launch-the-racial-politics-of-australian-multiculturalism/ new book] at [[Sydney Writers' Festival]]
Hage grew up in [[Beirut]], Lebanon, in a [[Maronite]] Catholic family. He moved to [[Sydney]] in 1976, aged 19. Hage's maternal grandparents are of Lebanese background, but had migrated to Australia from [[Santo Domingo]] in the 1930s. His mother, born in Santo Domingo, was an Australian citizen and thirty years old when she moved to Lebanon and married Hage's father, Lt Colonel Hamid Hage. After their marriage they lived in [[Baabda]], near Beirut, where Hage was born.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/s677558.htm| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020925151625/http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/s677558.htm| archive-date = 2002-09-25| title = Four Corners - 16/9/2002: Interview with Dr Ghassan Hage . Australian Broadcasting Corp| website = [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]}} </ref>


Hage completed his schooling in Lebanon. He obtained his ''Baccalaureat 2eme Partie'' as a student of the International College (''section française''). Hage had enrolled at the [[American University of Beirut]] as a pre-med student when the [[Lebanese civil war]] (1975–90) erupted. He left Lebanon in 1976 and joined the maternal side of the family in Australia. He completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) at [[Macquarie University]] in 1982, a ''Diplome de 3eme Cycle'' ([[Universite de Nice]], 1983) and a PhD in [[anthropology]] ("a study of communal identification among Christian Lebanese during the Lebanese civil war" - Macquarie University, 1989). From 1987 he was a part-time lecturer at UTS, then until 1994 a lecturer in Social Sciences at the [[University of Western Sydney]]. He was at the [[University of Sydney]] from 1994–2008 before moving to the [[University of Melbourne]]. He has also held a post-doctoral research position and a visiting professorship at [[Pierre Bourdieu]]’s research centre in Paris at the [[Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales]] which has been of particular importance in his intellectual formation.{{cn|date=February 2024}}
From 2023 to 2024 he was a visiting professor at the [[Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology]] in [[Halle]] (Germany).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stellungnahme der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zu Ghassan Hage |url=https://www.mpg.de/21510533/stellungnahme-ghassan-hage |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=www.mpg.de |language=de}}</ref>

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He was sacked by the [[Max Planck Society]] in early 2024 over his comments on the Israeli army's conduct in Gaza.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus249881966/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft-Antisemitismus-Skandal-erschuettert-deutsche-Nobelpreis-Schmiede.html|title=Antisemitismus-Skandal erschüttert deutsche Nobelpreis-Schmiede|date=2024-02-05|work=Die Welt|access-date=2024-02-09|language=de|issn=0173-8437}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/ghassan-hages-hetze-gegen-israel-gastwissenschaftler-am-max-planck-institut-19503593.html|title=Hasstiraden gegen Israel|date=2024-02-07|work=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung|access-date=2024-02-09|language=de|issn=0174-4909}}</ref><ref>https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/professor-sacked-max-planck-society-over-israel-comments</ref>
In 2023-2024 Hage was a visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology in [[Halle (Saale)]], Germany.<ref name="mpg.de">{{Cite web |title=Stellungnahme der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zu Ghassan Hage |url=https://www.mpg.de/21510533/stellungnahme-ghassan-hage |access-date=2024-02-26 |website=www.mpg.de |language=de}}</ref> On 7 February 2024, Hage was laid off by the [[Max Planck Society]] due to its positions on Israel's [[2023 Gaza war]].<ref name="timeshighereducation.com">{{Cite web |date=2024-02-08 |title=Professor sacked by Max Planck Society over Israel comments |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/professor-sacked-max-planck-society-over-israel-comments |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240209110219/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/professor-sacked-max-planck-society-over-israel-comments |archive-date=2024-02-09 |access-date=2024-02-26 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}</ref> On 7 October 2023, the day of the [[2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel|Hamas-led attack on Israel]], Hage published a poem entitled "Israel-Palestine: The Endless Dead-End That Will Not End."<ref>https://hageba2a.blogspot.com/2023/10/</ref>


He divides his time between Melbourne, Sydney, Beirut and Europe, and is fluent in French, Arabic and English.{{cn|date=February 2024}}
He divides his time between Melbourne, Sydney, Beirut and Europe, and is fluent in French, Arabic and English.{{cn|date=February 2024}}


He is [[deaf]], possibly due to a bomb explosion in Beirut in his teenage years. His hearing declined considerably in the 1980s and 1990s. He has had one [[cochlear implant]] fitted in 2004 and another in 2012.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/1924759/Eavesdropping_on_Bourdieus_philosophers Article by Hage</ref>
Hage is [[deaf]]. His hearing declined considerably in the 1980s and 1990s. He has had one [[cochlear implant]] fitted in 2004 and another in 2012.<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/1924759/Eavesdropping_on_Bourdieus_philosophers Academia.edu Article by Hage]</ref>


==Contributions==
==Contributions==
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.
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]].

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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 [[Ethnography|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.<ref>Tseen Khoo. "Polemic Publication: Ghassan Hage's 'White Nation'." M/C Reviews 16 Oct. 1999. http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/reviews/words/white.html{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 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]].

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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".

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Hage's most recent book, ''The [[Diasporic]] Condition: [[Ethnographic]] Explorations of the Lebanese in the World'', is concerned with affirming the importance of a continuity between classical anthropological questions and the study of diasporic culture.


== Controversies ==
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He has been a high-profile contributor to debates on [[multiculturalism]] in Australia and has published widely on the topic. His most influential work is ''[[White Nation]]'', which draws on theory from [[Whiteness studies]], [[Jacques Lacan]] and [[Pierre Bourdieu]] to interpret [[Ethnography|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.<ref>Tseen Khoo. "Polemic Publication: Ghassan Hage's 'White Nation'." M/C Reviews 16 Oct. 1999. http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/reviews/words/white.html</ref> The follow-up ''[[Against Paranoid Nationalism]]'' is an analysis of certain themes in Australian politics that became prominent under the government of [[John Howard]].
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Hage was terminated by the [[Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology]] on 7 February 2024 over his comments on the [[2023 Gaza war]] and the [[2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus249881966/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft-Antisemitismus-Skandal-erschuettert-deutsche-Nobelpreis-Schmiede.html|title=Antisemitismus-Skandal erschüttert deutsche Nobelpreis-Schmiede|date=2024-02-05|work=Die Welt|access-date=2024-02-09|language=de|issn=0173-8437}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/ghassan-hages-hetze-gegen-israel-gastwissenschaftler-am-max-planck-institut-19503593.html|title=Hasstiraden gegen Israel|date=2024-02-07|work=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung|access-date=2024-02-09|language=de|issn=0174-4909}}</ref><ref name="timeshighereducation.com"></ref><ref>https://theconversation.com/as-the-war-in-gaza-continues-germanys-unstinting-defence-of-israel-has-unleashed-a-culture-war-that-has-just-reached-australia-223329</ref> On 7 October 2023, Hage published a text on his blog stating "the [[Palestinian]]s, like all [[colonised]] people, are still proving that their capacity to resist is endless. They don’t only dig tunnels. They can fly above walls."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://hageba2a.blogspot.com/2023/10/israel-palestine-endless-dead-end-that.html?spref=tw |title=Israel-Palestine: The Endless Dead-End That Will Not End |publisher=hageba2a.blogspot.com |accessdate=2024-03-06}}</ref>


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, [[Antisemitism during the Israel–Hamas war|anti-Semitism]], islamophobia, discrimination, hatred and agitation have no place in the Max Planck Society”.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mpg.de/21510445/statement-ghassan-hage |title=Statement of the Max Planck Society about Prof. Ghassan Hage |publisher=mpg.de |accessdate=2024-02-27}}</ref> Hage rejected any accusation in a statement.<ref>https://hageba2a.blogspot.com/2024/02/statement-regarding-my-sacking-from-max.html</ref>
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He has also written on the political dimensions of critical anthropology (His work in this area 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 is an invitation to see racial/colonial domination and the domination of nature as off shoots of the same mode of inhabiting the earth. What Hage refers to as 'domestication': a mode of feeling at home in the world by dominating it. ''Decay'', an edited volume that highlights the importance of including the permanent processes of decomposition and disintegration that is part of all existing forms.


Following the dismissal, global [[academic]] communities, including Israeli scholars,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/14zLOH4ErUoDwqcPrbGnh6awNSx-DIWuL/view |title=Letter in support of Prof. Ghassan Hage - Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer.pdf |publisher=drive.google.com |accessdate=2024-02-18}}</ref> the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dgska.de/stellungnahme-des-vorstands-zur-wissenschaftsfreiheit-in-deutschland/ |title=Statement of the Board of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA) on Academic Freedom in Germany |publisher=dgska.de |accessdate=2024-02-18}}</ref> the [[British Society for Middle Eastern Studies]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/letter-max-planck-society-professor-ghassan-hage|title=Letter to Max Planck Society Regarding Professor Ghassan Hage |publisher=brismes.ac.uk |accessdate=2024-02-18}}</ref> the [[European Association of Social Anthropologists]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://easaonline.org/outputs/support/mps0224.shtml|title=EASA letter regarding academic freedom and Prof. Ghassan Hage |publisher=easaonline.org |accessdate=2024-02-18}}</ref> the [[American Anthropological Association]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://americananthro.org/advocacy-statements/letter-to-max-planck-institute-for-social-anthropology/ |title=Letter to Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |publisher=americananthro.org |accessdate=2024-02-18}}</ref> the Council for Humanities, Arts and Sciences and the [[Australian Anthropological Society]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.aas.asn.au/content.aspx?page_id=2507&club_id=143481&item_id=3696&pst=23552|title=Letter to Max Plank Society re: Ghassan Hage 15/02 |publisher=aas.asn.au |accessdate=2024-02-27}}</ref> rallied in support of Hage, urging the society to reverse its decision.
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Hage's most recent book, ''The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World'', is seen as his most important contribution to anthropology as a discipline. The book is concerned with affirming the importance of a continuity between classical anthropological questions and the study of diasporic culture. It also highlights the critical anthropological task of expanding our knowledge of the plurality of modes of existing in the world.


On 7 February 2024, the [[Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology]] ended its working relationship with Hage. 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 fundamental values and that racism, anti-Semitism, islamophobia, discrimination, hatred and agitation have no place in the Max Planck Society.<ref>[https://www.mpg.de/21510533/stellungnahme-ghassan-hage]</ref> Hage rejected any accusation in a statement: "Believing in a multi-religious society and critiquing those who work against it is not antisemitism. I will not accept to be put in a defensive position where I have to justify myself for holding and working for such ideals."
<ref>hageba2a.blogspot.com/2024/02/statement-regarding-my-sacking-from-max.html Statement Regarding my sacking from the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology (February 9 2024)]
Hage had previously expressed support for the [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions]] campaign against Israel.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/24487338/Why_I_have_voted_in_support_of_BDS |title=Why I have voted in support of BDS |publisher=Academia.edu |accessdate=2024-02-08}}</ref>
Hage had previously expressed support for the [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions]] campaign against Israel.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/24487338/Why_I_have_voted_in_support_of_BDS |title=Why I have voted in support of BDS |publisher=Academia.edu |accessdate=2024-02-08}}</ref>


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*Fellow of the British Academy of the Social Sciences
*Fellow of the British Academy of the Social Sciences
*Past President of the Australian Anthropological Society
*Past President of the Australian Anthropological Society
*2004 winner, Community Relations Commission Award, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, for ''Against Paranoid nationalism''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=258|title = News}}</ref>
*2004 winner, Community Relations Commission Award, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, for ''Against Paranoid nationalism''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=News |url=http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=258 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304101303/http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=258 |archive-date=2016-03-04}}</ref>


==Selected publications==
==Selected publications==
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==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}
* [http://www.ssps.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/hage]
* [http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/racism-is-not-simply-black-and-white/2006/06/11/1149964406963.html Racism is not simply black and white, opinion, Sydney Morning Herald, 12/6/06]
* [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/12/1026185109460.html Stevenson, A 'Open eyes to ethnic crime', Sydney Morning Herald, 13/7/06]
* [http://upclose.unimelb.edu.au/episode/143 Podcast]
* Conversation with Professor Ghassan Hage at Australian National University (2022) https://cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/conversation-professor-ghassan-hage


==External links==
==External links==
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Ghassan Hage
Born1957
Beirut, Lebanon
Academic background
Alma materMacquarie University, Universite de Nice
InfluencesPierre Bourdieu
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropology
Main interestsMulticulturalism, nationalism, racism

Ghassan J. Hage (born 1957 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese-Australian academic serving as Future Generation Professor of Anthropology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has held a number of visiting professorships including at the American University of Beirut, University of Nanterre – Paris X, the University of Copenhagen and Harvard. He has published several books on immigration, race and refugees in Australia.

Biography[edit]

Hage grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, in a Maronite Catholic family. He moved to Sydney in 1976, aged 19. Hage's maternal grandparents are of Lebanese background, but had migrated to Australia from Santo Domingo in the 1930s. His mother, born in Santo Domingo, was an Australian citizen and thirty years old when she moved to Lebanon and married Hage's father, Lt Colonel Hamid Hage. After their marriage they lived in Baabda, near Beirut, where Hage was born.[1]

Hage completed his schooling in Lebanon. He obtained his Baccalaureat 2eme Partie as a student of the International College (section française). Hage had enrolled at the American University of Beirut as a pre-med student when the Lebanese civil war (1975–90) erupted. He left Lebanon in 1976 and joined the maternal side of the family in Australia. He completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) at Macquarie University in 1982, a Diplome de 3eme Cycle (Universite de Nice, 1983) and a PhD in anthropology ("a study of communal identification among Christian Lebanese during the Lebanese civil war" - Macquarie University, 1989). From 1987 he was a part-time lecturer at UTS, then until 1994 a lecturer in Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney. He was at the University of Sydney from 1994–2008 before moving to the University of Melbourne. He has also held a post-doctoral research position and a visiting professorship at Pierre Bourdieu’s research centre in Paris at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales which has been of particular importance in his intellectual formation.[citation needed]

In 2023-2024 Hage was a visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany.[2] On 7 February 2024, Hage was laid off by the Max Planck Society due to its positions on Israel's 2023 Gaza war.[3] On 7 October 2023, the day of the Hamas-led attack on Israel, Hage published a poem entitled "Israel-Palestine: The Endless Dead-End That Will Not End."[4]

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

Hage is deaf. His hearing declined considerably in the 1980s and 1990s. He has had one cochlear implant fitted in 2004 and another in 2012.[5]

Contributions[edit]

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 Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World, is concerned with affirming the importance of a continuity between classical anthropological questions and the study of diasporic culture.

Controversies[edit]

Hage was terminated by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology on 7 February 2024 over his comments on the 2023 Gaza war and the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.[7][8][3][9] On 7 October 2023, Hage published a text on his blog stating "the Palestinians, like all colonised people, are still proving that their capacity to resist is endless. They don’t only dig tunnels. They can fly above walls."[10]

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 academic communities, including Israeli scholars,[13] the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology,[14] the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies,[15] the European Association of Social Anthropologists,[16] the American Anthropological Association,[17] the Council for Humanities, Arts and Sciences and the Australian Anthropological Society[18] rallied in support of Hage, urging the society to reverse its decision.

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

Memberships & Awards[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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.

References[edit]

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  4. ^ https://hageba2a.blogspot.com/2023/10/
  5. ^ Academia.edu Article by Hage
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  11. ^ "Statement of the Max Planck Society about Prof. Ghassan Hage". mpg.de. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  12. ^ https://hageba2a.blogspot.com/2024/02/statement-regarding-my-sacking-from-max.html
  13. ^ "Letter in support of Prof. Ghassan Hage - Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer.pdf". drive.google.com. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
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  16. ^ "EASA letter regarding academic freedom and Prof. Ghassan Hage". easaonline.org. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  17. ^ "Letter to Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology". americananthro.org. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  18. ^ "Letter to Max Plank Society re: Ghassan Hage 15/02". aas.asn.au. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  19. ^ "Why I have voted in support of BDS". Academia.edu. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  20. ^ "News". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.

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