Law Commons^™

"It Was Filmed In My Home Town": Diasporic Audiences And Foreign Locations In Indian Popular Cinema, Andrew Hassam

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The defining feature of Hindi cinema for commentators in the West is the 'interruption' of the narrative, as Gopalan (2002) terms it, by the visualization of songs through dance. Headlines such as 'India's New Cinema has a Global Script' (Pfanner 2006) have, for the past decade, been proclaiming the birth of a globalized Bollywood, but the Bollywood that is 'globalizing' the UK and North America is the Bollywood culture industry of transcultural bhangra, dance fitness classes, and the celebrity world of Aishwarya Rai rather than Hindi cinema, notwithstanding the Oscar nomination of Lagaan (2001) for Best Foreign Language Film in …

Bullshit: An Australian Perspective, Or, What Can An Organisational Change Impact Statement Tell Us About Higher Education In Australia?, Katherine Bode, Leigh Dale

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

In the last few years, a scholarly critique of current forms and directions of higher education has become increasingly prominent. This work, often but not exclusively focussed on the American and British systems, and on humanities disciplines, laments the transformation of the university into ‘a fast-food outlet that sells only those ideas that its managers believe will sell [and] treats its employees as if they were too devious or stupid to be trusted’ (Parker and Jary 335). Topics include the proliferation of courses and subject areas seen as profitable, particularly for overseas students;1 the commensurate diminution or dissolution of ‘unprofitable’ …

Book Review: Sato And Imai (Ed): Japan's New Inequality: Intersection Of Employment Reforms And Welfare Arrangements., Kirsti Rawstron

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Japan’s New Inequality is a study of the effects of changes in welfare arrangements and employment reforms in Japan since the collapse of Japan’s Bubble Economy in the late 1980s. This volume draws heavily on theories and methods of social stratification studies to explore three general areas: regular and non-regular divisions in labour markets (i.e. between permanent full-time and non-permanent part-time employees); changes in employment structures for women and the self-employed; and changes in family structure, the ageing population and welfare provisions. This volume provides a concise and up-to-date picture of income, wealth and employment inequalities in Japan.

Signature And Illusion: Lessons From The Baroque For 'Truth' In Law, Arts And Humanities, Richard Mohr

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Basic to contemporary problems in the disciplines of representation and interpretation is a split between a naïve acceptance of bare facts, presumed to exist in their own ‘objective’ world of objects, and the actions of subjects who interpret an intersubjective world. The solution is sought in some ‘new’ epistemologies: Martín Alcoff, Grosz, Kristeva, Butler, as well as in Benjamin and Gadamer, who look back to older ways of knowing. The methodology is an archaeology of these ways of knowing, focussed on a crucial transition in the understanding of representation between the renaissance and the baroque. It uses quintessential methods of …

The Philippines And Japan In America's Shadow, Peter M. Sales

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

This book grew out of three intensive workshops and a great deal of collective brainstorming. The hard work has been worthwhile. As edited compilations go, this is a valuable collection that provides a number of insights into the occupation by the US of the Philippines from the beginning of the twentieth century and of Japan after the Pacific War. The project as a whole bears out the value of a collective enterprise that is planned and executed carefully and with a commonality of purpose. Many of the ideas that emerge from the shared focus are illuminating.

Editorial Essay: Networked Utopias And Speculative Futures, Su Ballard, Zita Joyce, Lizzie Muller

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The future began somewhere. The impulse behind this issue of The Fibreculture Journal was a crisis of imagination with regards to how the future might look and behave. Our starting point was the notion of post-millennial tension – the idea that in the decades following the year 2000 we find ourselves living in an era that was meant to be the future, but where many of our futuristic hopes and fantasies remain unfulfilled. Worse, our historical visions of hyper-technological futures seem to have propelled us into a perilous position where humankind may not have any kind of future at all. …

Shanghai Dancers: Gender, Coloniality And The Modern Girl, Vera C. Mackie

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

In 1924, the artist Yamamura K6ka (1885-1942) produced a colour woodcut depicting the dance hall of the New Carlton Hotel in Shanghai. In this print, two women are seated at a round table. One has bobbed hair; the other wears a red hat. Both wear western dress, but the embroidered jacket draped on one of the chairs suggests the fashion for Chinoiserie. Two cocktail glasses on the table contain red cherries. Several couples dance in the background of the picture, the women all with similar bobbed hair. The male dancing partners are barely visible and the women are seen from …

Science, Biodiversity And Australian Management Of Marine Ecosystems, Richard Kenchington, Pat Hutchings

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) (United Nations 1982) came into effect in 1994. Signatory nations have substantial management obligations for conservation of marine natural resource and ecosystems. In this paper we discuss the challenges of defining and monitoring biodiversity at scales required for management of marine ecosystems. Australia's area of immediate responsibility under UNCLOS covers an area of 11 million sq km with further linked responsibilities for an estimated area of 5.1 million sq km of continental shelf. This presents substantial data challenges for development and implementation of management. Acoustic seabed mapping is providing substantial …

Perverts,’ ‘Terrorists,’ And Business As Usual; Fantasies And Genealogies Of U.S. Law, Penelope J. Pether

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The indefinite detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is exceptional in diverse ways. It is not only the postmodern exemplar of the jurisdiction of exception into which, Raphael Gross has argued, Carl Schmitt’s political theory conjured a paradigm of nation and other rooted in anti-Semitism and other supremacist doctrines of hatred, which moved from theory to praxis in the death camps of the Shoah; it also embodies what I have called the New American Exceptionalism of the post-9/11 era. In that iteration, the U.S. makes imperialist war in the pattern of the Crusades, accompanied in the contemporary domestic political realm …

Engaging In Good Faith: Ethics, Archives, Critical Constitutionalisms - An Invited Response To Samuel W. Calhoun, Stopping Philadelphia Abortion Provider Kermit Gosnell And Preventing Others Like Him: An Outcome That Both Pro-Choicers And Pro-Lifers Should Support, Penelope J. Pether

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Like Professor Calhoun, I hold little hope for an end to this distinctive national battle in what Australian constitutional law scholars Tony Blackshield and George Williams, echoing Justice Scalia’s opinion in Romer v. Evans, aptly call our “‘culture war’ over issues of sexuality.” Other battles in this war, such as the current litigation in the federal courts over the constitutionality of bans on same-sex marriage or the controversy of the Obama Administration’s departure from its “science standard” in refusing the National Institutes of Health’s recommendations that the “morning after pill” be made available over-the-counter to minors, presently dot the jurisdiction, …

"Free At Last"?: Epilogues, Aftermaths, And Plotting The Nation: Review Article: Christopher Tomlins, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, And Civic Identity In Colonizing English America, 1580-1865 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), Penelope J. Pether

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

To the right, one mile farther west, beyond the green-and-yellow BP station at Exit 176, down State route 338 and past the recently subdivided, gated country club community named Triple Crown, stands the same quaindy spired Presbyterian Church where Margaret Garner's owners, their neighbors, and many neighborhood slaves (including Margaret) attended Sunday services.7 Weisenburger goes on to tell that "[f ]rom the road one can see the rooms where Margaret Garner and her children did domestic labor and suffered whatever indignities or threats or assaults finally compelled her to run"8: [...] for reasons that might be obvious, I don't often …

Speech Acts And Performances Of Scientific Citizenship: Examining How Scientists Talk About Therapeutic Cloning, Nicola J. Marks

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Scientists play an important role in framing public engagement with science. Their language can facilitate or impede particular interactions taking place with particular citizens: scientists’ “speech acts” can “perform” different types of “scientific citizenship”. This paper examines how scientists in Australia talked about therapeutic cloning during interviews and during the 2006 parliamentary debates on stem cell research. Some avoided complex labels, thereby facilitating public examination of this field. Others drew on language that only opens a space for publics to become educated, not to participate in a more meaningful way. Importantly, public utterances made by scientists here contrast with common …

Arthur's Bath, Tara Goedjen

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Arthur’s mother spent most of her days waiting near the dark bathtub. The basement flat was always in shadows, even with its small windows at the ceiling that met the footpath outside. All evening she listened to the traffic and watched feet streaking past the windows, and with every car horn she thought of Arthur. Arthur! she’d yell, Arthur? Are you here yet? and she would run to check the tub as the landlord pounded on the ceiling.

Local Myths In A Global Work: Merlinda Bobis' 'White Turtle', Tara Goedjen

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

If only we all had porous bones, and thinner skin, when listening to a tale. Such is one token offered by Merlinda Bobis’ prismatic short story, ‘White Turtle’, which harnesses the uncanny in an intercultural meeting of the ear1 and tongue.2 ‘White Turtle’ is a story inside a story, as Bobis’ character, the Filipina chanter Lola Basyon, sings in her native language to conjure a white turtle that ferries the dreams of dead children in the presence of an Australian crowd at a Sydney writers’ festival.

Excerpt From Merlinda Bobis’ Novel ‘Fish-Hair Woman’, Merlinda C. Bobis

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Three soldiers, two killed by their own guns, the third by asphyxiation. Under the berries ripening in haste: a crimson chest, a shattered groin, a snapped neck. And no moon, not even a firefly now to light the men’s frozen stare, this attempt to memorise the final tableau so they can take it to the other side. It was stingy dark in the coffee grove, a no-face night. One went by feel alone.

Listen to that night when the soldiers came to take me to the river, and how the coffee grove detained us. Tony, I want you to hear …

Yellow Sweatered Woman (Tags), Tara Goedjen

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Yellow sweatered woman, I saw you before you started crying. You were walking up the street, toward town. I was on my way back from the trails along the cliff, from looking at the three sandstone sisters. You held the leash of a wrinkle-faced dog, and you had brown shoes and crooked legs and gray hair that met your shoulders. You were small and slightly hunched and your dog seemed to know that you couldn’t walk fast, although sometimes he would pull, ever so gently, on his ropey leash, his white paws speeding up into a trot. He saw me …

Because Children Are Still Brave, Tara Goedjen

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Lucky it couldn’t do what it wanted, they say. Easy to get rid of, now that it’s locked up. Three days, they say. Three days and it’s gone. From my cage in the dark .......................

The Wicker Baby, Tara Goedjen

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

A woman is told to collect rocks and wood for the hearth. She walks across a field beside a cliff where she finds a pile of tiny stones. By and by, one begins to move. She picks it up and it cracks open, dousing her hands................

The Dirt Baby, Tara Goedjen

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

A woman has nothing in her hands and she is lonely. She goes outside and the sky is black without stars or planets. In the middle of the yard she kneels and spits on the ground beside her legs. Her saliva mixes..........................

The Fish Baby, Tara Goedjen

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

A young mother carries her drooling baby through the parking lot. Shiny cars pass on either side of her as her heels click on the pavement. The baby begins to cry and its face turns red and swollen. The mother hushes............................

The Pool Baby, Tara Goedjen

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

A woman swimming laps wants desperately to have a child. She dries off and asks the man doing backstroke if he would like to a have a baby. He says no. She continues to ask the other swimmers. No one wants ...................................

Waiting, Sally Evans

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

she knows his engine’s sound —— & the car door closing waits at the window ..................

Old Earth, Jo Law

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Jo Law works across multiple artforms and media. Her approach to material and conceptual experimentation is expansive with a particular interest on an engagement with objects. The focus of her practice is in the making of things. These things include: films, videos, collages, drawings, diagrams, maps, prints, books, installations, interactive and online works.

Jo"s works have been shown widely across Australia and internationally in Hong Kong, the United States, Mexico, Norway, the Philippines, and Taiwan. She has received awards including the Silver Spire Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. She was the Australia Council"s artist-inresidence in Tokyo in …

Cubicles, Joshua M. Lobb

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Research Background: The work is an original short prose piece. It uses as its starting point the hypothesis that narratives surrounding gay male sexual encounters tend towards visual details, where as heterosexual narratives often depend on verbal exchanges. The research questions for the project are: what are the narrative and formal implications of writing about heterosexual and homosexual ‘courtship’? Which narrative form is the more limiting for characters’ agency?

Research Contribution: The work is situated in the methodology of research-led practice. It is a practical application of research, combining analysis of dialogue in realism with the writing on the ideological …

Towards Aphrodite, Diana Wood Conroy

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

I wasn't sure I could walk that far to be honest - 17 km seemed quite a long way for a day's walk. It had been in my mind for years to make the walk from new Paphos to old Paphos along the pilgrim's way mentioned by the geographer Strabo in the first century. He wrote that every year 'men and women came from other cities to celebrate all along the road' ITom the port at new Paphos to the sanctuary of Aphrodite on the hill high above the coast. I tried to research the ro ute by looking for …

'Integration', Vietnamese Australian Writing, And An Unfinished Boat Story, Michael R. Jacklin

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

This article contributes to the critical commentary on boat narratives through a reading of an early and little-known example of a Vietnamese Australian boat story: ‘The Whitish-Grey Dove on the Disorientated Boat’, a serialised novella which was published in Integration: The Magazine for Multicultural and Vietnamese Issues from 1994 to 1998. Focusing on this novella and the magazine in which it appeared serves two objectives: the first is to make the argument that Vietnamese Australian writing has a longer and more active history than may be commonly recognized or acknowledged and that ‘the boat’ is a significant figure in this …

Heterogeneous Agendas Around Public Engagement In Stem Cell Research: The Case For Maintaining Plasticity, Sarah Parry, Wendy Faulkner, Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Nicola J. Marks

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Although public engagement is now part of the business of doing science, there is considerable divergence about what the term means and what public engagement ought to be doing. This paper refl ects on these heterogeneous meanings and agendas through an analysis of focus group data from research on public engagement in stem cell research. Three broad visions of public engagement are identifi ed: as education and information provision; as dialogue; and as participation in policy making. In analysing the implications of these visions three dimensions are highlighted: weakly and strongly structured visions of public engagement; the co production of …

Transitivity Analysis Of Heroic Mother By Hoa Pham, Thu Hanh Nguyen

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The paper investigates the application of Halliday’s theory of transitivity in the construction of personality. The essay aims to identify and explain how the main character’s personality is portrayed and represented through language used in Hoa Pham’s “Heroic Mother”. The findings hope to prove that linguistic choices in transitivity play an important role in building up the main character of the story.

The essay is divided into six parts. The first part explains the roles of language and language studies in social life. The second part notes the functions of Halliday’s transitivity system in literary studies by reviewing previous studies …

Islands Of Multilingual Literature: Community Magazines And Australia’S Many Languages, Michael R. Jacklin

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Australian literary studies has for some decades recognised the significance and contribution of multicultural writers to the national literary landscape; however, it has shown less interest in the multilingual nature of much of this writing. This article brings into focus a number of Australian magazines in which multilingual literature has been promoted, from the 1920s Brisbane publication The Muses Magazine, to the 1990s multicultural, multilingual women’s magazine Ambitious Friends, which featured creative work in Arabic, Lao, Spanish and Vietnamese. Further illustrations, specific to Vietnamese Australian writing, will be provided from Integration: The Magazine for Vietnamese and Multicultural Issues, published in …

Researching With Communities: Towards A Leading Edge Theory And Practice For Community Engagement, Robin Durie, Craig A. Lundy, Katrina Wyatt

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

This project seeks to determine the extent to which complexity theory might offer the most effective means for understanding how communities can be successfully engaged in and with academic research. In the project, we adopted a case study approach, working with participants in a number of projects which had significant community engagement. These projects were all supported by the UK Beacons for Public Engagement, with which we also collaborated in our work. From the outset our research was informed by a Community Advisory Group, comprising community partners and engagement specialists.

The objective of our research was to identify the initial …