Realigning the sacred and secular among a marginalised population of caravan park residents
- Authors: Newton, Janice
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Religion Studies Review Vol. 25, no. 1 (2012), p. 3-26
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- Description: This article addresses calls for qualitative research into the realignment of the sacred and secular among contemporary Western individuals.."From the abstract"
- Description: This article addresses calls for qualitative research into the realignment of the sacred and secular among contemporary Western individuals, as well as considering the signi
Revolutionary doctrines and political imaginaries : American modernities in the republican age
- Authors: Smith, Jeremy
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Critical Horizons Vol. 13, no. 1 (2012), p. 52-73
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- Description: The social thought of Castoriadis and Lefort address Old World constellations. Yet both are positioned in a critical relationship to the Enlightenment and Romanticism, and pose questions about power, the political and citizenship relevant to different civilizational settings. Two political philosophies that emerged in the era of revolutionary critique are examined in this paper alongside Castoriadis and Lefort. Thomas Jefferson's philosophy of republic and empire and Simon Bolivar's creed of independence were American visions that connected with the political imaginary. Each set down traditions open to interpretation and mythologization. Both invoked an older rivalry of two images of the New World, as American or as Colombian, which was really a rivalry of Spanish and British Empires and their civilizational influences. Where earlier republican visions developed at the cusp of virtue and interest cultures had posed a particular range of questions about democracy, civic constitution and independence, American states now contained democratic and authoritarian potential. Even though Castoriadis and Lefort did not make these American contexts the centre of their work, each conceive the political and politics in ways that are relevant to American modernities. A key argument put in this paper with respect to Castoriadis and Lefort is that Castoriadis's conception of creation is more salient to the republican revolutions more generally, while Lefort's notion of political imaginary finds a strong case in the North American revolution. © Equinox Publishing Ltd 2012.
First World War cemeteries : Insights from visitor books
- Authors: Winter, Caroline
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Tourism Geographies Vol. 13, no. 3 (2011), p. 462-479
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- Description: This study concerns some of the military cemeteries that were built in Belgium and France by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission following the First World War of 1914-18. The cemeteries articulate one of the main social memories of the war to remember the dead individually. The performance of tourists and pilgrims in their visits to the cemeteries can be seen as ritual behaviour which helps to perpetuate the memories. The visitor books in 39 cemeteries were examined in order to identify reasons for visitation and patterns across sites. Three clusters were formed using the percentage of visitor book entries in which visitors made reference to specific graves. Half of the cemeteries formed into a cluster which had high visitation but where less than five percent of visitor book entries referred to particular graves.Most of these cemeteries were located close to well-known sites, battlefields or national memorials. A small cluster of seven cemeteries showed relatively low visitation but up to sixty percent of visitors sought a particular grave. The data indicated that relationships between national identity and particular cemeteries were important. © 2011 Taylor & Francis.
Poverty, philanthropy, and professionalism: the establishment of a district nursing service in Wellington, New Zealand, 1903
- Authors: Wood, Pamela , Arcus, Kerri
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Health and History Vol. 13, no. 1 (2011), p. 44-64
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- Description: The establishment in 1903 of a professional district nursing service in Wellington, New Zealand's capital city, was a philanthropic response to the need for skilled care for the sickpoor in their own homes, as hospital and charitable aid boards believed chronic patients drained their resources. This paper argues that it was the timely combination of the individual philanthropy of Sarah Ann Rhodes, the organisational philanthropy of the St John Ambulance Association and the new professional standing and availability of registered nurses such as Annie Holgate that ensured its successful foundation. It also argues that district nursing services blurred spatial, social, and public-private boundaries in new ways. Finally, it considers the district nurse's role as the philanthropist 's proxy, the means for realising the philanthropist's desire to help the sick poor.
Representing militancy: photographs of the Broken Hill industrial disputes, 1908-20
- Authors: Adams, Paul , Eklund, Erik
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Labour History Vol. 101, no. (2011), p. 1-34
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- Description: The Big Strike of 1919-20 was Broken Hill’s greatest industrial battle but the photographic record of this militant era on the Barrier mines is dominated by pictures of the Great 1909 Lockout. Rather than cover the details of these well-known disputes, this article considers the value and power of photographs of the disputes – their presence, absence, production and presentation in major newspapers and in postcards – an area which has secured far less attention from Australian labour historians. Our concern is not only to read this visual material as evidence of industrial disputes but also to consider how the widespread circulation of such images affected contemporary perceptions of The Hill. We argue that images of a militant locality with a determined labour movement, popular after the 1909 dispute, may well have attracted militant organisers to the town who were important players in the major 1919-20 Big Strike. These images have dominated perceptions of Broken Hill as a bastion of unionism ever since
Integrating the historiography of the nineteenth-century gold rushes
- Authors: Reeves, Keir , Frost, Lionel , Fahey, Charles
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Economic History Review Vol. 50, no. 2 (2010), p. 111-128
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- Description: In the century preceding World War I, the world experienced a series of gold rushes. The wealth derived from these was distributed widely because of reduced migration costs and low barriers to entry. While gold mining itself was generally unprofitable for diggers and mine owners, the increase in the world's gold supply stimulated global trade and investment. In this introductory article we integrate the histories of migration, trade, colonisation, and environmental history to identify endogenous factors that increased the world's gold supply and generated sustained economic growth in the regions that were affected by gold rushes.
Simpson, his donkey and the rest of us : Public pedagogies of the value of belonging
- Authors: Tsolidis, Georgina
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Educational Philosophy and Theory Vol. 42, no. 4 (2010), p. 448-461
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- Description: At the heart of this paper is an exploration of belonging and how this is assumed to connect with a set of values represented as national. There is a particular interest in the relationship between these values and education. Because the significance of the learning that occurs through the public domain outside educational institutions such as schools is assumed, several cultural texts are examined in order to consider public pedagogies of Australianness including iconic displays such as those associated with the Sydney Olympics and the Melbourne Commonwealth Games. Media reports surrounding the Cronulla riots are also examined as a means of understanding the values associated with non-belonging. These cultural texts are considered along side curriculum and policy concerned with values education. Through an exploration of the imaginary, the argument is made that in relation to ethnic difference, an hegemonic narrative has remained at the core of how Australianness is represented, despite multicultural incursions and fears about the cultural dissipation associated with globalisation and so-called postmodern fragmentation. © 2010 The Author. Journal compilation © 2010 Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia.
Sojourners or a new diaspora? Economic implications of the movement of Chinese miners to the south-west Pacific goldfields
- Authors: Reeves, Keir
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Economic History Review Vol. 50, no. 2 (2010), p. 178-192
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- Description: Chinese gold seekers were the largest non-British group on the goldfields of Australasia and constituted the largest nationality on some diggings. In considering the movement of Chinese miners to and throughout the goldfields colonies of the southwest Pacific, this articles argues there existed a more complex pattern of migration than that suggested by the sojourner model of arrival, brief stay and departure. It examines the links between migration patterns and economic activity, and argues that economic history perspectives complement the insights offered by recent social and cultural history in the field.
Solomon Maimon
- Authors: Jones, Graham
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage p. 104-129
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The transition from Keynesian to Monetarist economics in Australia : Joan Robinson’s 1975 visit to Australia
- Authors: Millmow, Alex
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: History of Economics Review Vol. 49, no. Winter 2009 (2009), p. 15-31
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- Description: When Joan Robinson visited Monash University in 1975 she was at the height of her fame. She had just brought out a new alternative economics textbook and was strongly tipped, in the International Women’s Year, to win the Nobel Prize in economics. The Cambridge School of Economics, which she represented, was in late bloom but it was the neoclassical school that was proving resurgent and already exhibiting a strong presence at Monash. It would make for theatrics when she arrived there. Although the visit to Australia overall was only for a few months, she gave lectures to first-year students at several universities and made several public presentations. The timing of her visit was poignant, with Australia, like Britain, caught in the throes of stagflation. There was an ongoing reappraisal of macroeconomic policy. Robinson’s visit occurred while Milton Friedman, too, was visiting Australia on a stockbroker-funded lecture tour to push the monetarist explanation of inflation. Drawing on her correspondence with Richard Kahn and some of the lectures and the reaction they provoked, this paper recalls Robinson’s visit and assesses the impact, if any, it had upon Australian economics.
A canary in the coalmine : A rejoinder
- Authors: Kates, Stephen , Millmow, Alex
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: History of Economic Ideas Vol. XVI, no. 3 (2008), p. 112-118
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A canary in the coalmine : The near death experience of the history of economics in Australia
- Authors: Kates, Stephen , Millmow, Alex
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: History of Economic Ideas Vol. XVI, no. 3 (2008), p. 79-94
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A tale of two towns: industrial pickets, police practices and judicial review
- Authors: Baker, David
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Labour History (Australia) Vol. 95, no. (2008), p. 151-167
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- Description: Both the 1992 APPM Burnie dispute and the late December 1999 Lyttelton industrial dispute involved small bands of local police adopting peace-keeping and non-interventionist control of picket-lines. Considerable criticism from management, and subsequently the judiciary, was directed against the non-confrontational police response. Judicial criticisms of police handling of both disputes failed to consider the adverse consequences of a return to a traditionally aggressive policing approach. This article argues that the local relationship between union officials and local police was a significant factor in limiting violence and that a resort to belligerent policing of picketing should be resisted. The similarities of police and union approaches in both cases were stark, as were the criticisms of alleged police inactivity
Crank or Proto-Monetarist? : J.K Gifford and the cost-push inflation fallacy
- Authors: King, John E. , Millmow, Alex
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: History of Economics Review Vol. 47, no. Winter (2008), p. 54-71
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- Description: Abstract: This paper examines the career and contribution of J. K. Gifford (1899-1987), the Foundation Professor of Economics and first Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Queensland, and one of the first in Australia to write an introductory textbook. Gifford's publications were often poorly written and with few references. They focussed mainly on monetary theory and inflation and towards the end of his career concentrated on challenging the notion of a wage-price spiral. Much of his work on the 'cost-push fallacy' seems to have been based on a crude kind of monetarist thinking: governments were prone to allow monetary growth to sustain high profit levels that businesses enjoyed in an inflationary environment. However, his policy proposals were not those of the freemarket Right and focussed on safeguarding employees' interests by ensuring that their wages increased at the rate of inflation plus productivity growth, thereby limiting the scope for employers to benefit from inflation. Although he saw the money supply as exogenous and prone to be mismanaged by governments, be did not articulate a model of the demand for money or defend the stability of the velocity of circulation. His most important article, a brief paper in the Journal of Political Economy in 1968, came about from his objections to the original Phillips analysis, and argued that correlation does not establish causation. Precisely this argument could also be levelled against the monetarist thinking of Milton Friedman and it was not long before the paper's basic argument was used by Nicholas Kaldor in this way
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The History wars of economics : The Classification struggle in the history of economic thought
- Authors: Kates, Stephen , Millmow, Alex
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: History of Economics Review Vol. 47, no. Winter (2008), p. 110-124
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Issues and debates in contemporary social and critical philosophy
- Authors: Rundell, John , Petherbridge, Danielle , Bryant, Jan , Hewitt, John , Smith, Jeremy
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophy Chapter p. 1-26
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The power of economic ideas : Australian economists in the thirties
- Authors: Millmow, Alex
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: History of Economics Review Vol. 37, no. (2003), p. 84-99
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