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Proper responses: On spectrality

NAO Robot Test

  • Authors: Rodan, Debbie , Mummery, Jane
  • Date: 2014
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Media International Australia Vol. , no. 153 (2014), p. 78-87
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  • Description: Although livestock welfare issues were once barely visible to mainstream consumers, animal welfare activists now combine traditional public media advocacy with digital media advocacy to spread their campaign message and mobilise consumers. This article examines one attempt to mainstream animal welfare issues: Animals Australia's' 'Make It Possible' multimedia campaign. Specifically, we contend that the campaign puts into circulation an 'affective economy' (Ahmed, 2004a, 2004b) aimed at proposing and entrenching new modes of everyday behaviour. Core affective positions and their circulation in this economy are considered from three interrelated articulations of this campaign: the release of and public response to the YouTube campaign video; Coles' short-lived offering of campaign shopping bags; and public engagement in the 'My Make It Possible Story' website. Analysis also opens up broader questions concerning the relationship between online activism and everyday life, asking how articulations in one domain translate to everyday practices.

Deconstructing the rational respondent - Derrida, Kant, and the duty of response

Reading the world as book, the book as world: Funke and Grossman's book-world fanatasies

Hermeneutic constructivism : one ontology for authentic understanding

  • Authors: Peck, Blake , Mummery, Jane
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Nursing Inquiry Vol. 30, no. 2 (2023), p.
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  • Description: Nursing and nurses rely upon qualitative research to understand the intricacies of the human condition. Acknowledging the subjective nature of reality and commonly founded in a constructivist epistemology, qualitative approaches offer opportunities for uncovering insights from the perspective of the individual participants, the insider's view, and the construction of representations that maintain an intimacy with the subject's realities. Debate continues, however, about what is needed for a qualitative construction to be considered an authentic understanding of a subject's realities. Authenticity in the context of qualitative research has been described as entailing consideration of a number of well‐trodden dimensions: fairness, ontological, educative, catalytic and tactical. Taking these dimensional requirements as key, this paper argues that authenticity may not always be as well‐developed through some of the standard practices in qualitative research as perhaps expected. In particular, qualitative understandings of authenticity stress that participants should not be merely reported on but instead should be dynamically involved in and changed by the constructions and interpretations of data developed throughout the research process. As this paper illustrates, such engagements appear problematic for qualitative research approaches that are beholden to designative commitments in the context of language and meaning‐making and which tend to prioritise commonality and generality at the expense of individual authenticity. An alternative qualitative approach, Hermeneutic Constructivism, is proposed as better able to achieve the requirements of the dimensions of authenticity. As outlined, this approach is well‐placed to present an understanding of human experience through a genuinely expressivist approach and transcends the stress upon the common or the general that can be pervasive and problematic.

The interpretation of Da-sein as a transformative, poetic and ethical being

  • Authors: Mummery, Jane
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: Heidegger and the aesthetics of living p. 95-111
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  • Description: Exploring some of the implications of Heidegger's depction of Da-sein is thus the aim of this paper. To begin with, as I will demonstrate, Da-sein's way of being, in escaping categorization in terms of any particular 'waht', points instead to a 'how' and an open and transformative potentiality, a potentiality that is best exemplified by a certain mode of being-with. This, however, has implications broader than just the transformation of our understanding of Da-sein's way of being-in-the-world. Specifically, I suggest that it is this understanding of Da-sein's potentiality that not only mirrors but underpins and enables Heidegger's later delineations of the ethical and aesthetic potentiality of thinking itself. Like Da-sein, or perhaps due to Da-sein, thinking is depicted as being able to escape its traditional or common forms and constraints. These possibilities, however, raise in their turn a series of important questions with regard to the very possibility of thinking - in particular, questions concerning whether we do in fact need to dwell in order to think. Such questions, as I will show, have some interesting implications with regard to the possibility and efficacy of ethical thinking.

The lived experience of Australian opioid replacement therapy recipients in a community-based program in regional Victoria

  • Authors: Patil, Tejaswini , Cash, Penelope , Cant, Robyn , Mummery, Jane , Penney, Wendy
  • Date: 2019
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Drug and Alcohol Review Vol. 38, no. 6 (2019), p. 656-663
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  • Description: Introduction and Aims Treatment of opioid dependence through opioid replacement therapy is widely recognised as effective. Nonetheless, while there has been a community-based program in the state of Victoria for over two decades, consumer experiences have received little attention. This study aimed to describe the experiences of opioid replacement therapy consumers living in rural and regional areas of the state. Design and Methods A qualitative design employed an interpretative phenomenological approach. Sixteen consumers were interviewed. Thematic analysis was conducted by the researchers to examine the phenomena of consumers ' experiences and findings were verified by a stakeholder group. Results Findings centred on themes of consumers ' experience of becoming recipients; consumer perceptions of pharmacists and pharmacy settings and psychosocial impacts on consumers. A majority of participants believed opioid replacement therapy brought increased normality to their life, however systemic and psychosocial barriers impacted on well-being. The pharmacy setting itself as a public dosing space commonly provoked feelings of stigma and discrimination among consumers. Other barriers prominently reported were restrictions on number of takeaways, cost of dispensing and lack of access to medical practitioners and allied supports. Discussion and Conclusions There were psychosocial impacts on opioid replacement therapy consumers relating to financial and social burdens, stigma and discrimination. Access to medical care and a choice of pharmacy appeared to be restricted in rural regions. The findings suggest a need to address, in particular, the financial and dispensing point burdens experienced by consumers to facilitate program retention.

Doing animal welfare activism everyday : Questions of identity

  • Authors: Rodan, Debbie , Mummery, Jane
  • Date: 2016
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Continuum-Journal of Media & Cultural Studies Vol. 30, no. 4 (2016), p. 381-396
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  • Description: Animals Australia focuses on making animal welfare issues visible to consumers so as to direct consumer behaviour and invoke everyday activism, an objective integral to their Make it Possible' campaign. In this paper, we primarily explore the claimed and practised identity of everyday or mainstream animal activists. This is an identity that, whilst partially and communally elaborated and affirmed online (in the online Animals Australia community), is enacted more commonly through personal and familial everyday actions such as shopping, cooking and eating than it is through such public actions as explicitly advocating or demonstrating for better welfare standards for animals involved in factory farming. A discourse analysis was conducted of 2198 posts from October 2013 to January 2014 to analyse contributors' accounts of their feelings (notably their gut reactions) and reasons for pledging, as well as to examine how contributors' accounts of their everyday practices might be understood as the development of a voice for these voiceless animals'. Overall, then, our analysis has shown supporters, participants and/or consumers who support the Make it Possible' campaign self-select into and identify themselves in terms of four overlapping frames: being vegan or vegetarian, shopping for change, personal activism and public activism and advocacy. This paper contributes to the debate concerning intersectional activism within the food activism movement.

Engaging Gadamer and qualia for the mot juste of individualised care

  • Authors: Peck, Blake , Mummery, Jane
  • Date: 2019
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Nursing Inquiry Vol. 26, no. 2 (2019), p. 1-10
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  • Description: The cornerstone of contemporary nursing practice is the provision of individualised nursing care. Sustaining and nourishing the stream of research frameworks that inform individualised care are the findings from qualitative research. At the centre of much qualitative research practice, however, is an assumption that experiential understanding can be delivered through a thematisation of meaning which, it will be argued, can lead the researcher to make unsustainable assumptions about the relations of language and meaning-making to experience. We will show that an uncritical subscription to such assumptions can undermine the researcher's capacity to represent experience at the high level of abstraction consistent with experience itself and to thus inform genuinely individualised care. Instead, using qualia as a touchstone for the possibilities of understanding and representing experience, we trace the ‘designative’ and ‘expressive’ distinction to language in order to raise critical questions concerning both these assumptions and common practices within qualitative research. Following the ‘expressive’ account of language, we foreground in particular the hermeneutic work of Gadamer through which we explore the possibilities for a qualitative research approach that would better seek the mot juste of individual experience and illuminate qualia in order to better inform genuinely individualised care.

Empowerment as an alternative to traditional patient advocacy roles

  • Authors: Cole, Clare , Mummery, Jane , Peck, Blake
  • Date: 2022
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Nursing Ethics Vol. 29, no. 7-8 (2022), p. 1553-1561
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  • Description: There has long been acceptance within healthcare that one of the roles that nurses fulfil is to do with patient advocacy. This has historically been positioned as part of the philosophical and inherent requirements of the nursing profession at large and is supported through shared conceptualisations of the nursing profession. Such conceptualisations are communicated to nursing professionals by way of first their education, and second their professional codes, guidelines and standards for practice. The focus on advocacy is further embedded within patient-centred care frameworks and concepts of the nurse–patient therapeutic relationship. Nurses have also been considered ideally placed to undertake the work of patient advocacy due to the 24/7 nature and intimacy of the care provided. What this means is that nurses are under the impression that that they must be an advocate for their patients through their nursing practice. However, for a fundamental concept of nursing, advocacy is poorly defined, and practices commonly associated with advocacy are undercut by the professionalisation of nursing and other constraints. In addition, nursing standards and frameworks of care are being actively reframed around ideas of empowerment which do not necessarily fit well with those of advocacy. This article thus suggests that it is time to recognise that the work of advocacy is no longer representative of what nurses (can) do in practice, and to explicitly reorient conceptualisations of nurse practice around empowerment. This article will further analyse what this may look like in practice. © The Author(s) 2022.

‘Making change: Digital activism and public pressure on livestock welfare’

  • Authors: Mummery, Jane , Rodan, Debbie , Nolton, Marnie
  • Date: 2016
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: New Media Philosophy Vol. 6, no. (2016), p.
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  • Description: Legal protection of animal welfare in Australia is problematic with livestock (defined here as all animals farmed for use and profit, including poultry and aquatic animals) being effectively excluded from the majority of animal protection statutes. Such legal exclusions, joined with the inherent challenges of legal reform in this field—significant issues to do with standing, costs bearing and jurisdiction—have increased the difficulties of successful litigation. Despite explicit recognition of the necessity for reform in Australian animal law—in 2008 the Australian Law Reform Commission journal, Reform, described animal welfare and animal rights as the ‘next great social justice movement’—a number of legal strategies for reform have been summed up by the Principal Solicitor for the Pro Bono Animal Law Service (PALS), the national legal referral service for animal law operating between 2009 and 2013, as having been exhausted. Specifically, the challenges of standing and costs bearing have meant that many meritorious animal welfare matters have not been able to be pursued within the legal domain

The multiple modes of protesting live exports in Australia

  • Authors: Mummery, Jane , Rodan, Debbie
  • Date: 2019
  • Type: Text , Journal article , Review
  • Relation: Contention Vol. 7, no. 1 (2019), p. 49-65
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  • Description: Signaling dissatisfaction with particular events, policies, or situations, modes of protest encompass individual expressions through to the development and mobilization of social movements. Indeed, protests can range from bodies blocking space and time to the aggregation of clicked signatures in an online petition and the sharing of campaign content through social media. All of these modes are currently employed within the Australian public sphere to bring about change or closure of the live export industry. This article analyzes the current dimensions and flows of public protest against Australia’s live export industry, examining how they are shaped not only by a myriad of organizations but also by differing modes of protest, as well as by the different modes of appeal in use by activists to mobilize the Australian public sphere in protest. Through this discussion, insight is gained into some of the capacities and efficacies of multimodal protest and its significance for both public engagement and political and industry uptake. © 2020 Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association Academic Press. All rights reserved.

Jewgreek justice and the ethical possibilities of the “Post”

  • Authors: Mummery, Jane
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Contretemps: an online journal of philosophy Vol. 3, no. (2002), p. 122-132
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  • Description: With the focus of much of contemporary continental philosophy being the escaping of the conditions and constrictions of an ontotheologic metaphysics (to use an expression favoured by Martin Heidegger), its resultant instantiations have tended to comprise the common project of producing some sort of thinking of a ‘post-’. It is with the possibilities of this ‘post-’—possibilities which I suggest are delineated as ethical (at least by virtue of their shared instigation)—that this paper is concerned. So we have, for instance, picking a few of the instantiations associated with such possibilities, Jean-François Lyotard’s proposed replacement of metaphysical delimitation and homogeneity through the theorizing of the excess and incommensurability of that heterogeneity opened by his thinking of agonistics, the differend and justice. Secondly, we have the Deleuzean projection of a thinking which functions otherwise than—therefore escaping from—the delimitative processes and systems seen as making up the metaphysical thinking of the State.

Teaching ethical development and integrity as a transferable skill

  • Authors: Mummery, Jane , Nolton, Marnie
  • Date: 2016
  • Type: Text , Conference proceedings
  • Relation: 10th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, INTED 2016; Valencia, Spain; 7th-9th March 2016; published in INTED Proceedings p. 6928-6937
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  • Description: There is agreement between national governments, employers, and teaching practitioners and researchers that one of the foundational objectives of higher education is to teach not only higher order knowledge but key generic, transferable or employability skills, with such skills seen as essential in allowing graduates to make the transition between the world of learning and the world of work [1]. Typically described with reference to employer concern that graduates be able to practically and effectively apply their knowledge in a competitive social world, and further display flexibility and adaptability in their management of workplace and social change (e.g. [2]; [3]), such skills must be applicable to different cognitive domains or subject areas and/or a variety of social, and in particular employment, situations [4]. There is thus a burgeoning literature concerned with students' development of transferable skills, and which teaching practices may be optimal for developing their abilities (e.g. [5]; [6]; [7]; [8]). These skills have been variously defined, but lists typically include: logical and analytical reasoning, problem-solving, effective communication skills, and teamwork skills, as well as personal attributes such as imagination, ethical practice, integrity and tolerance (e.g. [9]). Within any of the above definitions are notions of personal development for not only professional environments, but also for participation in the community as an engaged citizen. As is stated by Sin and Reid [10], however, and also evident throughout the literature on such skills, a key weakness is the "vagueness in the conception" of these skills. Barrie ([11]; [12]) also reports on a lack of shared understanding of when and how to integrate and develop such skills in the curriculum and classroom. Of these skills, personal attributes prove particularly challenging to teach. This paper describes how transferable skills in ethical decision-making and practice, as well as the attributes of integrity and tolerance, can be taught within the classroom. It is based on the review of three courses, one taught to undergraduate students and the others to graduate students. The undergraduate course is a general applied ethics course that is available to students from across multiple programs. Each of these programs counts successful completion of the course as contributing to student development of ethical attributes and skills. The graduate courses are both framed with regards to professional ethical development requirements, one addressing pre-service teachers and the other graduates in the information technologies sectors. Under examination here are the modes of teaching and presentation of curricula, as well as forms of assessment. In particular our aim is to present another side to the story: student's own beliefs regarding their development as ethical thinkers. Our discussion of student beliefs and their evaluation of our teaching practices will be based upon a variety of self-reporting mechanisms active during course delivery between 2012 and 2015: formal and informal qualitative feedback received from course and teaching evaluations, unsolicited correspondence and feedback received from students, as well as self-reports collected annually.

Mediating legal reform : Animal law, livestock welfare and public pressure

  • Authors: Mummery, Jane , Rodan, Debbie , Ironside, Katrina , Nolton, Marnie
  • Date: 2014
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Annual Conference
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  • Description: Legal protection of animal welfare in Australia is problematic with livestock (defined here as all animals farmed for use and profit, including poultry and aquatic animals) being effectively excluded from the majority of animal protection statutes. Such legal exclusions, joined with the inherent challenges of legal reform in this field – significant issues to do with standing, costs bearing and jurisdiction – have increased the difficulties of successful litigation. Despite explicit recognition of the necessity for reform in Australian animal law – in 2008 the Australian Law Reform Commission journal, Reform, took as its subject the ‘next great social justice movement’ of animal welfare and animal rights – a number of legal strategies for reform have been summed up by the Principal Solicitor for the Pro Bono Animal Law Service (PALS), the national legal referral service for animal law operating between 2009 and 2013, as having been exhausted. Specifically, the challenges of standing and costs bearing have meant that many meritorious animal welfare matters have not been able to be pursued within the legal domain. Alternative strategies for the achievement of legal reform in this field are thus required, and at this point in the history of the Australian animal welfare movement, one significant strategy is arguably emerging: that of strategically using social media to develop public interest in these issues and to focus this interest into effective pressure in the political, social and industry domains. This paper thus carries out an analysis of this development and focusing of pressure by animal welfare organisations through their use of social media, specifically considering a) the social media strategies utilised by such peak animal welfare bodies as Animals Australia and Voiceless, and b) the recently released Animal Effect smartphone app. More generally, this is a paper outlining and analysing the architecture of social media and public pressure being conjoined in the service of the livestock law reform movement. This paper is part of a larger project in which we record and analyse how animal welfare issues are conceived, articulated and argued within the public domain.

‘Doing diversity’ in a social work context: reflecting on the use of critical reflection in social work education in an Australian University

  • Authors: Patil, Tejaswini , Mummery, Jane
  • Date: 2020
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Social Work Education Vol. 39, no. 7 (2020), p. 893-906
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  • Description: There is abundant literature that teaches social work graduates to be culturally competent and critically reflective on issues of cultural diversity. However, it is evident that many competency based approaches do not effectively address issues of privilege, power and diversity. Such approaches can fail to challenge entrenched and/or unconscious biases concerning other cultures. This paper argues we need to move away from over-prioritizing the teaching and use of competency based models for dealing with diversity in disciplines such as Social Work. Using Sara Ahmed’s work on diversity and critical reflection, we present the findings from a survey of social work students. The positive news is that students’ reflections in critical essays and their responses to the learnings they achieved from a unit on race, suggested they were becoming more aware of how privilege and power worked in everyday interactions as well as professional interactions. The other side of the coin was their understanding of the social, political and ethical grounding of values was limited. Students tended to focus more on declaring their allegiance to social work values of ‘honesty, integrity or social justice’ to the point they were mere declarations or saying which become substitutes for actions. © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

The post to come : An outline of post-metaphysical ethics

  • Authors: Mummery, Jane
  • Date: 2005
  • Type: Text , Book
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Problematising autonomy and advocacy in nursing

  • Authors: Cole, Clare , Wellard, Sally , Mummery, Jane
  • Date: 2014
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Nursing Ethics Vol. 21, no. 5 (2014), p. 576-582
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  • Description: Customarily patient advocacy is argued to be an essential part of nursing, and this is reinforced in contemporary nursing codes of conduct, as well as codes of ethics and competency standards governing practice. However, the role of the nurse as an advocate is not clearly understood. Autonomy is a key concept in understanding advocacy, but traditional views of individual autonomy can be argued as being outdated and misguided in nursing. Instead, the feminist perspective of relational autonomy is arguably more relevant within the context of advocacy and nurses' work in clinical healthcare settings. This article serves to highlight and problematise some of the assumptions and influences around the perceived role of the nurse as an advocate for patients in contemporary Western healthcare systems by focusing on key assumptions concerning autonomy inherent in the role of the advocate. © The Author(s) 2014.

Exploring the lived experiences of migrants in regional Victoria, Australia

  • Authors: Patil, Tejawswimi , Mummery, Jane , Pedersen, Cassie , Camilleri, Marg
  • Date: 2019
  • Type: Text , Technical report , Report
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  • Description: This research project has been undertaken by Federation University Australia and was commissioned by the EVOLVE Strategic Multicultural Capacity Building Partnership. The purpose of this research was to examine the lived experiences of migrants living and/or working in the areas of Ballarat, Horsham, and Nhill from 2009 to 2018 in accordance with the nine key priority areas set out in the Department of Social Services National Settlement Framework (2016). These include language services; employment; education and training; housing; health and wellbeing; transport; civic participation; family and social support; and justice. The research analysed the lived experiences of migrants to identify key benefits and barriers to settlement within Central and Western Victoria, and will be used to enhance service provision available to migrants in Ballarat, Horsham, and Nhill. The research has utilised interpretative phenomenology, which is a qualitative methodology that draws on participants’ multilayered descriptions of their lived experiences. In accordance with this methodological framework, nine individual interviews were conducted in Ballarat as well as two focus groups that consisted of one group of women and one group of men. In Horsham, four individual interviews were conducted in addition to one focus group. In Nhill, the research team conducted five individual interviews and one focus group. Participants were presented with a range of open-ended questions concerning their settlement experiences across Ballarat, Horsham, and Nhill.

The 'make it possible' multimedia campaign : Generating a new 'everyday' in animal welfare

  • Authors: Rodan, Debbie , Mummery, Jane
  • Date: 2014
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Media International Australia Vol. , no. 153 (2014), p. 78-87
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  • Description: Although livestock welfare issues were once barely visible to mainstream consumers, animal welfare activists now combine traditional public media advocacy with digital media advocacy to spread their campaign message and mobilise consumers. This article examines one attempt to mainstream animal welfare issues: Animals Australia's' 'Make It Possible' multimedia campaign. Specifically, we contend that the campaign puts into circulation an 'affective economy' (Ahmed, 2004a, 2004b) aimed at proposing and entrenching new modes of everyday behaviour. Core affective positions and their circulation in this economy are considered from three interrelated articulations of this campaign: the release of and public response to the YouTube campaign video; Coles' short-lived offering of campaign shopping bags; and public engagement in the 'My Make It Possible Story' website. Analysis also opens up broader questions concerning the relationship between online activism and everyday life, asking how articulations in one domain translate to everyday practices.