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A Very Gendered Occupation: Australian Women As “Conquerors” And “Liberators”, Christine M. De Matos
A Very Gendered Occupation: Australian Women As “Conquerors” And “Liberators”, Christine M. De Matos
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The Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952) is usually rendered as a masculinist American exercise. Women, when portrayed, are usually Japanese and appear as victims of either Japanese patriarchy or American soldiers, or as the benefactors of Occupation reforms related to constitutional equality and suffrage. Individual American women based in the Occupation headquarters in Tokyo and involved in reforms, such as Beate Sirota Gordon, sometimes occasion mention. What is less known is how (white) women acted as occupiers and their participation in the ‘technologies’ of occupation power. The Pierson and Chaudhuri quote above refers to the need for gendered analyses of …
'Go Ask Alice': Remembering The Summer Of Love Forty Years On, Anthony Ashbolt
'Go Ask Alice': Remembering The Summer Of Love Forty Years On, Anthony Ashbolt
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In 1960s historiography today, the expression ‘Summer of Love’ is used in three senses. It refers generally to the explosion of psychedelic sounds, images and lifestyles in that decade. It is also code for the overall phenomenon of Haight-Ashbury between 1965 and 1968. Specifically, and more accurately, it applies to the summer of 1967 in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. While the multiple meanings all carry weight, too often that first general sense of the Summer of Love shields a dialectic of hope and despair behind a banner of optimism and dreams. To put it more bluntly, the hippie …
Public Education In The Universe Of Closed Discourse, Anthony Ashbolt
Public Education In The Universe Of Closed Discourse, Anthony Ashbolt
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IN HIS CLASSIC ANALYSIS of consumer capitalist society, One Dimensional Man, Herbert Marcuse pinpointed the crucial role of language in fashioning conformist thinking. A one-dimensional framework of thought prevailed and alternative ways of thinking were cast out, characterised as propaganda or absorbed into the dominant discourse and thus suitably domesticated: "The unification of opposites which characterises the commercial and political style is one of the many ways in which discourse and communication make themselves immune against the expression of protest and refusal . . . In exhibiting its contradictions as the token of its truth, this universe of discourse closes …
Questioning A Neoliberal Urban Regeneration Policy: The Rhetoric Of “Cities Of Culture” And The City Of Gwangju, Korea, Kwang-Suk Lee
Questioning A Neoliberal Urban Regeneration Policy: The Rhetoric Of “Cities Of Culture” And The City Of Gwangju, Korea, Kwang-Suk Lee
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The present study traces recent trends in cultural policy concerning “cities of culture” in South Korea. The paper is a case study of the city of Gwangju, known as the birthplace of modern democracy in Korea. Currently, public input from below into the urban regeneration project for Gwangju is almost nonexistent, while most urban regeneration policies have been implemented from the top by elites who enjoy exhibiting their performances through constructing massive edifices rather than encouraging the preservation of such intangibles as historical significance through cultural participation from below. The government’s policy of promoting Gwangju as the “city of culture” …
El Fondo Monetario Internacional Y La Promoción Del Estado De Derecho En Los Noventa: Condicionalidad Y Estados De Excepción En Suramérica , Gabriel Garcia
El Fondo Monetario Internacional Y La Promoción Del Estado De Derecho En Los Noventa: Condicionalidad Y Estados De Excepción En Suramérica , Gabriel Garcia
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No abstract provided.
Post-Burden Or New Burden Korean Cinema?: Outside Looking In At The Latest Golden Age, 1996-?, Brian M. Yecies
Post-Burden Or New Burden Korean Cinema?: Outside Looking In At The Latest Golden Age, 1996-?, Brian M. Yecies
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This work-in-progress examines the paradoxical nature of what I call Koreas post-burden cinema a present-day film industry that has survived Japanese colonialism, American occupation, civil war, prolonged dictatorship, rapid industrialization, economic crisis and severe censorship. For nearly a century filmmakers have learned and practised their trade under these challenging social, political, cultural, economic and industrial constraints, and outlived them. This paper uses a case study of The President's Last Bang to illustrate the divergent freedoms that have enabled representative commercial, art-house, independent and animation filmmakers to transcend national and cultural borders by telling previouslyforbidden stories and breathing a universal but …
Talking Salvation For The Silent Majority: Projecting New Possibilities Of Modernity In The Australian Cinema, 1929-1933, Brian M. Yecies
Talking Salvation For The Silent Majority: Projecting New Possibilities Of Modernity In The Australian Cinema, 1929-1933, Brian M. Yecies
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This chapter analyses the distinctiveness of the coming of permanent sound (the talkies) to the Australian cinema in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The coming of sound resulted in fundamental, but not uniform, change in all countries and in all languages. During this global transformation, substantial capital was spent on developing and adopting modern technology. Hundreds of new cinemas were built; tens of thousands were wired with sound equipmentthat is, two film projectors with sound attachments, amplifiers, speakers and electrical motorsand some closed in financial ruin during the Great Depression. The silent period ended and sound became projected as …
Reviews: Australian Plays For The Colonial Stage 1834-1899 Edited By Richard Fotheringham, 2006, Louise D'Arcens
Reviews: Australian Plays For The Colonial Stage 1834-1899 Edited By Richard Fotheringham, 2006, Louise D'Arcens
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This volume offers an extremely valuable collection of nine nineteenth-century plays whose content engaged specifically with representations of life in the Australian colonies. Running the gamut of popular genres from melodrama to burletta, pantomime and masque, these plays’ significance lies in their reflection of ‘popular myths and . . . mass enthusiasms and anxieties’ (p. lxxvii) around such ideologically charged themes as bushranging, pioneering, indigenous Australia, urban life and convictism. It is this that warrants their resurrection in this volume, for, as Fotheringham points out, they were not necessarily representative of the colonial Australian theatre industry, dominated as it was …
'Not Another Hijab Row': New Conversations On Gender, Race And Religion., Tanja Dreher, Christina Ho
'Not Another Hijab Row': New Conversations On Gender, Race And Religion., Tanja Dreher, Christina Ho
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Headscarves in schools. Sexual violence in Indigenous communities. Muslim women at public swimming pools, Polygamy. Sharia law. Outspoken Imams on sexual assualt. Integration and respect for women. It seems that around the world in the media and public debate, women's issues are at the top of the agenda. Yet all too often, support for women's rights is proclaimed loudest by conservative politicians intent on policing communities and demonising Muslims during the 'war on terror'. This edition of the Transorming Cultures eJournal offers critical reflections on the contemporary politics of gender, race and religion, and provides a platorm for those perspectives …
Beyond Dualism: Towards Interculturality In Pictorialisations Of Miyazawa Kenji's 'Snow Crossing' (Yukiwatari), Helen Kilpatrick
Beyond Dualism: Towards Interculturality In Pictorialisations Of Miyazawa Kenji's 'Snow Crossing' (Yukiwatari), Helen Kilpatrick
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Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) is one of Japan's most renowned authors and his many children's stories (dowa) represent a Buddho-animist quest for a more integratcd cosmos. In his desire for this kind of holism, Kenji was largely writing against all the forms of scientific rationalism that, by his day, had cntered Japanese consciousness through intellectual thought and new forms of Naturalist literature. (For further discussion of this prevalcnce see, for example, Keene 1984, Chapters 11 & 16). Such rationalist modes of thought formed the foundation for a society that Kenji saw as responsible for many inequalities. Despite, or because of, Kenji's …
Interview With Rudy Wiebe (Edmonton, Alberta, August 9, 2002), Michael Jacklin
Interview With Rudy Wiebe (Edmonton, Alberta, August 9, 2002), Michael Jacklin
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MJ: I’m going to begin my questions by asking you about that first letter that Yvonne Johnson wrote introducing herself. In the parts you quote in the beginning of Stolen Life she asks for help researching her family’s past and her ancestry. In that first letter there is no mention at all about writing her life story. So that’s what I’d like to ask. How did that initial request for help tracing her ancestry change to the writing of her own life story?
Design-Based Research: Learning Italian At University In A Community Of Learners, Mariolina Pais Marden, Janice A. Herrington, Anthony J. Herrington
Design-Based Research: Learning Italian At University In A Community Of Learners, Mariolina Pais Marden, Janice A. Herrington, Anthony J. Herrington
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This paper describes a study where design-based research (DBR) is used as a framework for the design and implementation of an online community of foreign language learners, in the context of learning Italian as a second language at university. An online community of practice that included a group of second and third year students of Italian, and seven native speakers facilitators, was developed and implemented according to the principles that guide community development (Lave and Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998). For one semester community members interacted and collaborated with each other through the communication tools of an online learning management system …
Chinese Rice Trade And Shipping From The North Vietnamese Port Of Hai Phong, Julia T. Martinez
Chinese Rice Trade And Shipping From The North Vietnamese Port Of Hai Phong, Julia T. Martinez
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This overview of Chinese trade in northern Vietnam explores the role of the Chinese rice traders there, especially in Hải Phòng, and their connections with Hong Kong and southern China, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It shows they were never mere colonial middlemen but economic actors with ties to German and English business interests as well as to the French. The article traces what various primary sources can tell us of their community and business history, as well as revealing the intricate business ties of Chinese rice exporters in colonial Hải Phòng with German shipping companies, up until …
Ruling Class Men: Money, Sex, Power, Mike Donaldson, Scott Poynting
Ruling Class Men: Money, Sex, Power, Mike Donaldson, Scott Poynting
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Very few people have more money than they can possibly spend in their own lifetime. It is hard to comprehend what it must be like to be able to spend $3 million on yourself every week of your life and still remain incredibly wealthy. According to Australian political commentator Robert Haupt (1989: 14), this was the fate of Australia’s richest man – media magnate Kerry Packer. The Forbes Rich List for 2005 ranked Packer at 94 of the 691 billionaires in the world, whose combined wealth amounted to US$2.2 trillion (Nason, 2005: 8). According to the Merrill Lynch and Capegimini …
Aboriginal Surfing: Reinstating Culture And Country, Colleen Mcgloin
Aboriginal Surfing: Reinstating Culture And Country, Colleen Mcgloin
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Mainstream surfing in Australia is a discursive cultural practice, institutionally sanctioned as integral to national identity. Surfing represents the nation through a mode of white heterosexual orientation that is encoded into its practices and its texts. Surfing represents an historical transformation in the national psyche from the bush, inaugurated by the nation’s literary canon, to the beach, which has become the modern site of the nation’s identity. Indigenous surfing provides an oppositional view of nation and country that reinscribes the beach with cultural meanings specific to Aboriginal cultures. Surfing in this context can be seen as a reclamation of culture …
Recognising 'Japaneseness': The Politics Of Recognition By The Philippine Nikkeijin, Shun Ohno
Recognising 'Japaneseness': The Politics Of Recognition By The Philippine Nikkeijin, Shun Ohno
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"Ethnic identities" are not only made and re-made, but are created through a constant interplay with other evolving identities, this is what Tessa Morris-Suzuki (2000,p.165), a British-Australian historian, has stated about peoples living in the modern nation-state.
Publishing's Consequences And Possibilities For Literacy In The Pacific Islands, Linda Crowl
Publishing's Consequences And Possibilities For Literacy In The Pacific Islands, Linda Crowl
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The Pacific Islands were among the most recent countries to acquire presses, but within 70 years all major island groups and some single island countries had presses. Catholic and Protestant missionaries not only assisted the foreign missionaries but also they outnumbered them and often entered the field before them.
Sedition And The Question Of Freedom Of Speech, Sarah Sorial
Sedition And The Question Of Freedom Of Speech, Sarah Sorial
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Since September 11 2001, the Australian Federal Government has passed a number of pieces of legislation designed to fight terrorism.1 Included in the legislative package is an expansion of laws that target sedition. The law of sedition prohibits speech or writing that is intended to lead to violent conduct, or to 'incite' violence against and 'hatred' of elected governments. Given that sedition presents limitations and prohibitions against freedom of speech -- widely recognised as one of the most fundamental freedoms of liberal democratic societies - the law of sedition presents a series of problems in the context of western liberal …
Obstacles To Academic Integrity, Brian Martin
Obstacles To Academic Integrity, Brian Martin
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Five obstacles to academic integrity are fear, double standards, personal connections, formal processes and corruptions of power. These are illustrated with personal examples. The five obstacles can be used as pointers to tactics to promote integrity.
Return To Formula: Narrative Closures In Representations Of Aboriginal Identity In Australian Cinema, Suneeti Rekhari
Return To Formula: Narrative Closures In Representations Of Aboriginal Identity In Australian Cinema, Suneeti Rekhari
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This article discusses the impact of narrative closures on Aboriginal identity representations in the Australian film texts of Jedda, Walkabout and Rabbit-Proof Fence. It argues that filmic representations of Aboriginal identity have been framed within the historical, political and social mileu of the time they were produced, which contributes to the placement of narrative closures in film texts that reinforce the status quo and a return to predictable equilibrium. It concludes with a discussion on the changes that may or may not occur in the representation of the reality of the lives of the Aboriginal 'Other'.
Opposing Surveillance, Brian Martin
Opposing Surveillance, Brian Martin
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If surveillance is potentially seen as unfair, then it is predictable that its proponents will use a number of methods to reduce public concern: cover up surveillance activities, devalue targets and opponents, offer plausible interpretations for actions, use official processes that give an appearance of fairness, and intimidate and bribe targets and opponents. Opponents of surveillance can be more effective by being prepared for these tactics and working out ways to counter them.
“The Four Horsemen Of The Greenhouse Apocalypse”: Apocalypse In The Science Fiction Novels Of George Turner, Roslyn Weaver
“The Four Horsemen Of The Greenhouse Apocalypse”: Apocalypse In The Science Fiction Novels Of George Turner, Roslyn Weaver
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This paper surveys some of the developments in apocalyptic writing in recent decades, and then examine the use of apocalypse in George Turner's science fiction novels. Global events such as World War Two, terrorism, the Cold War, and increasing environmental problems have contributed to a growth in apocalyptic fictions. While novels warning about the dangers of nuclear war were prolific in post-WWII speculative literature, other issues such as technological and ecological disaster have since become dominant threats. Apocalypse literally means revelation, but the popular imagination more frequently associates it with widespread destruction. The form therefore offers a useful approach for …
Film, Representation And The Exclusion Of Aboriginal Identity: Examples From Australian Cinema, Suneeti Rekhari
Film, Representation And The Exclusion Of Aboriginal Identity: Examples From Australian Cinema, Suneeti Rekhari
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Throughout the latter half of the past century cinema has played a significant role in the shaping of the core narratives of Australia. Films express and implicitly shape national images and symbolic representations of cultural fictions in which ideas about Indigenous identity have been embedded. In this paper, exclusionary practices in Australian narratives are analysed through examples of films representing Aboriginal identity. Through these filmic narratives the articulation, interrogation, and contestation of views about filmic representations of Aboriginal identity in Australia is illuminated. The various themes in the filmic narratives are examined in order to compare and contrast the ways …
'On Your Knees, White Man': African (Un)Belongings In Rian Malan's 'My Traitor's Heart', Antonio J. Simoes Da Silva
'On Your Knees, White Man': African (Un)Belongings In Rian Malan's 'My Traitor's Heart', Antonio J. Simoes Da Silva
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No abstract provided.
When Wages Were Clothes: Dressing Down Aboriginal Workers In Australia's Northern Territory, Julia T. Martinez
When Wages Were Clothes: Dressing Down Aboriginal Workers In Australia's Northern Territory, Julia T. Martinez
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Prior to the introduction of equal wages for Aboriginal Australians in 1968, it was not unusual for Aboriginal workers in the Northern Territory to be paid in kind; in basic food, clothing and tobacco. Some workers received a few shillings a week, but even this wage could be withheld completely or placed in a trust fund. In keeping with a supposedly humanitarian protectionist ethos, clothing was encouraged as a substitute for cash wages. But in practice employers rarely equated clothing with wages. Within the exploitative colonial context of Northern Territory few employers believed that any form of payment was owed …