This acclaimed international journal explores the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. Papers featured in this issue include: The Aboriginal Version of Ken Done: banal aboriginal identites in Australia; Creolite and Francophonie in Music: socio-musical repositioning where it matters; To Serve and Protect: textualizing the Falklands conflict; The Risk of Empathy: interrogating multiculturalism's gaze; Danger in the Safety Zone: notes on race, resentment, and the discourse of crime, violence and suburban society; Building Diaspora and Nation: the 1991 Cultural Festival of India; Unpopular Culture: the case of white trash.