ABSTRACT A permit for a Buddhist place of worship in suburban Melbourne was rejected by the local Planning Committee. The application by the Mirror of the Dhamma Society to hold small religious gatherings in a semi-detached single storey house in an area zoned General Residential was deemed inappropriate. The paper focuses on this event that circulated contagious global white affects of anxiety and fear in response to potential changes in the Australian suburban infrastructure. What escaped scrutiny, however, was state-sanctioned aesthetic judgements of appropriate suburban infrastructures that were underpinned by invisible but dominant social and cultural norms. This paper calls for undoing these norms, recomposing white affects, and remaking Australian suburbia in ways that veer away from stigmatising or exoticizing material expressions of cultural diversity in the built landscape. Responding to Felix Guattari’s call for a new aesthetic paradigm with ethico-political implications, I explore the possibilities for new suburban ecologies that transcend the secular/sacred binary. The paper is written from my shifting positionality as a first-generation migrant woman and Australian of Indian heritage who arrived in Melbourne 19 years ago. It is informed by my broad research agenda on everyday multiculturalism, grounded religiosity, and belonging in cities with white majority cultures.

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重构审美焦虑和渗透郊区基础设施：墨尔本的非正式宗教聚会场所

摘要 墨尔本郊区的佛教礼拜场所的许可被当地规划委员会拒绝。法会镜报申请在一般住宅区的半独立式单层房屋内举行小型宗教聚会被认为不合适。这篇论文的重点是这一事件，该事件在全球范围内传播了具有传染性的焦虑和恐惧情绪，以应对澳大利亚郊区基础设施的潜在变化。然而，逃脱审查的是国家认可的对适当郊区基础设施的审美判断，这些基础设施是由无形但占主导地位的社会和文化规范支撑的。这篇论文呼吁取消这些规范，重新组合白人情感，并以远离对建筑景观中文化多样性的物质表现形式进行污名化或异国化的方式重塑澳大利亚郊区。响应 Felix Guattari 对具有伦理政治意义的新美学范式的呼吁，我探索了超越世俗/神圣二元的新郊区生态的可能性。这篇论文是根据我 19 年前抵达墨尔本的第一代移民女性和印度裔澳大利亚人的身份转变而写成的。我对日常多元文化主义、根深蒂固的宗教信仰和对白人占多数文化的城市的归属感的广泛研究议程为它提供了信息。我探索了超越世俗/神圣二元的新郊区生态的可能性。这篇论文是根据我 19 年前抵达墨尔本的第一代移民女性和印度裔澳大利亚人的身份转变而写成的。我对日常多元文化主义、根深蒂固的宗教信仰和对白人占多数文化的城市的归属感的广泛研究议程为它提供了信息。我探索了超越世俗/神圣二元的新郊区生态的可能性。这篇论文是根据我 19 年前抵达墨尔本的第一代移民女性和印度裔澳大利亚人的身份转变而写成的。我对日常多元文化主义、根深蒂固的宗教信仰和对白人占多数文化的城市的归属感的广泛研究议程为它提供了信息。