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Deconstruction And The Medieval Indefinite Article: The Undecidable Medievalism Of Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale, Louise D'Arcens

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Studies in medievalism have made inroads into questioning the forensic impulse to restore, know, and possess the medieval past. And yet many of these studies continue to exhibit anxiety about anachronism within medievalist texts, and persist in privileging the medieval' original' as the 'transcendental signified' that determines what is pennissible in medievalist adaptations. By examining Brian Helgeland's provocatively anachronistic film A Knight's Tale,.we gain insight into the residual Platonism within studies ofmedievalist film, which continue to evaluate these films' fidelity to a medieval zeitgeist. A deconstmctive approach to Helgeland's film, however, allows us to challenge the devaluation of the medievalist …

Beyond Silence: Giving Voice To Kure Mothers Of Japanese-Australian Children, Kathleen Cusack

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Within the complex process of historical production, silence is created, imposed and fostered. Encountering the existence of a cast of hitherto silent actors within history, therefore, is wholly unsurprising. This article draws focus to a cohort of Japanese women who have been excluded from conventional interpretations. Indeed, the experiences of the Kure women who bore children fathered by Australian servicemen during the occupation have been consistently marginalised to the periphery of existing scholarship on this period.

By applying a gendered perspective to the analysis of a selection of previously unexamined newspaper articles, this article will demonstrate that a meaningful history …

Book Review: "Assembling Women: The Feminization Of Global Manufacturing". By Teri L. Caraway, Vicki D. Crinis

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Teri Caraway’s study of Indonesian labor in workplaces such as the garment, textile, electronics, timber, tobacco, and automobile industries is a contribution to the literature on the feminization of factory work in Southeast Asia. Overall, the book, presented in six chapters, questions why female inequality in the workforce continues. Why do women outnumber male workers in export-processing industries while the same numbers of women are not represented in capital-intensive industries? According to Caraway, political economists believe that once women entered the paid labor force, they would eventually equal male workers in number, but political economy analysis has not been able …

On The Technique Of Working-Class Journalism, Rowan Cahill

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The Utilization Of Discourses Of Femininity By Japanese Politicians: Tanaka Makiko Case Study, Emma Dalton

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This paper investigates the gendering of politicians’ identities and considers the dominant Japanese discourses of femininity and their relationship to female politicians. Taking the former foreign minister, Tanaka Makiko (April 2001—February 2002), as an example, this paper discusses how female politicians in Japan strategically use gendered discourses to further their political aims, and how the public and other politicians apply their preconceived notions of femininity to women in public positions of power. Tanaka both adopted and subverted discourses of femininity in her political ambitions by utilising the housewife identity while simultaneously resisting certain stereotypical behaviours associated with femininity. This paper …

Representations Of Women In Six Japanese Folk Tales, Elizabeth Thomson

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Folk tales are a valuable means of socializing children into the accepted cultural practices and beliefs in any given society. They are designed to entertain but also "to reflect and disclose our cultural presuppositions and values" (Toolan 1998:164). However, just what these values are depends on the nature and priorites of the culture in which they occur.

Hearing Community Voices: Public Engagement In Australian Human Embryo Research Policy, 2005 - 2007, Rachel Ankeny, Susan M. Dodds

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This paper investigates the recent public policy processes in Australia with regard to embryo research, including the work of the legislative review committee, parliamentary debates, and the production of the National Health and Medical Research Council guidelines for embryo research.

Gramsci, Class And Post-Marxism, Mike Donaldson

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Often Gramsci is presented in the social sciences, particularly by post-Marxists, as a precursor of and justification for abandoning the concept of class. This is incorrect. This article outlines Gramsci’s ideas of class, class composition, formation and alliance which Gramsci based on a detailed, accurate reconnaissance of the Italy of his time.

The Nature Of ‘Reporter Voice' In A Vietnamese Hard News Story, V. T. H. Tran, Elizabeth Thomson

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This chapter investigates the attitude of the reporter in an article about Iraq war published in a newspaper in Vietnam, the Nhan Dan Daily. Appraisal theory, especially attitude and engagement, is used as the tools of analysis to explore the reporter’s opinions and ideological positioning expressed in the article. The analysis reveals the reporter’s negative attitude towards US government as well as the strategies used to engage other parties in support of the reporter’s point of view.

A Linguistic Analysis Of Social Attitudes Towards The Quality Issues Of Postgraduate Education In Vietnam, V. T. H. Tran, Elizabeth Thomson

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This paper proposes the PhD project A linguistic study on social attitudes towards the quality of postgraduate education in Vietnam. The study uses Appraisal theory as the framework to analyse interviews with different stakeholders involved in the postgraduate education sector, namely bureaucrats, management, academics and students. The study aims to find out:

• What the stakeholders’ perceived quality issues in relation to MA and PhD education in Vietnam are
• Who the stakeholders’ believe to bear the responsibility for the quality issues.

Taking into account the facts that the quality of postgraduate education in Vietnam is in question and the fact that …

Save Public Schools, Not Corporate Fat Cats, Anthony Ashbolt

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Kevin Rudd's vigorous attack upon "extreme capitalism" revealed he does not understand the nature of the current crisis. This is not a meltdown caused purely and simply by rogue traders, bizarre mortgage lending, gross corporate salaries and payouts and, in general, the politics of greed. All those are symptoms of a much more systemic disease. That disease is the ideology of privatisation and deregulation, an ideology Mr Rudd has shown no inclination to challenge. This Government's persistent embrace of neo-liberal ideology and practice is highlighted by its school funding policy and also its market-driven approach to schooling policy in general.

Consultation And Critique: Implementing Cultural Protocols In The Reading Of Collaborative Indigenous Life Writing, Michael Jacklin

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Anyone working towards the publication of indigenous life narratives is aware of the significance of cultural protocols to both the narrative exchange and the writing and editing process. In the telling and the writing of an indigenous life story, protocols determining what gets told – where, when, to whom, or for whom – influence and sometimes complicate decisions regarding the final published narrative. This is the case whether the subject of the life narrative is the writer or whether the narrative is mediated by others. Indigenous protocols – including authority and moral rights over indigenous narratives and culture, kinship rights …

Governing Global Slums: The Biopolitics Of Target 11, Timothy Dimuzio

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Recent literature has focused on the ways in which civil society organizations are contributing to practices of global governance in an era of neoliberalism. As UN Habitat has pointed out, what has also coincided with the shift to neoliberalism is the proliferation and growth of global slums. As slums have become an increasingly widespread form of human settlement, a global campaign to improve the life of slum dwellers has emerged under the Millennium Development Goals. In this article, I argue that this project can be conceived of as a biopolitical campaign where nongovernmental and community-based organizations are viewed as a …

Paper(Less) Selves : The Refugee In Contemporary Textual Culture, Tony Simoes Da Silva

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Refugees, the human waste of the global frontier-land, are the 'outsiders incarnate', the absolute outsiders, outsiders everywhere and out of place everywhere except in places that are themselves out of place - the 'nowhere places' that appear on the maps used by ordinary humans on their travels. (Zygmunt Bauman 2004 80)

Ambitious Angel: Jean Batten And The Performance Of Gender In A Man's Country, Anne A. Collett

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Sydney has witness similar demonstrations of enthusiasm, but never one that was more spontaneous, wrote one Sydney reportetr of Jean Battens arrivalo in Mascot in October 1936 on completion of her record breaking solo-flight from England to Australia. Batten greeted the crowd that had waited long hours for her arrival, with and apology and the reminder that it was of course a womens prerogative to be a little late.

'Aurukun, We're Happy, Strong People': Aurukun Kids Projecting Life Into Bad Headlines, Lisa Slater

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Public discourse about remote Aboriginal communities tells a story of crisis. The Northern Territory Intervention and other events that have taken place in Aboriginal communities are portrayed as if the Aboriginal child is a docile, cowering, vulnerable body, which needs to be protected by the state. This story has become a narrative of dysfunction, which not only shapes how broader Australia engages with Indigenous life worlds, but also informs the environment in which Aboriginal people, and notably children, live. This essay explores a multimedia program held at Aurukun School, West Cape York, in which students produced their own films, which …