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Transformative Soundscapes: Innovating De Forest Phonofilms Talkies In Australia, Brian M. Yecies
Transformative Soundscapes: Innovating De Forest Phonofilms Talkies In Australia, Brian M. Yecies
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The coming of sound to cinemas around the world traditionally has been included in the writings about great men and all-powerful companies and how their visions and integrated industry connections helped them maintain a dominating monopoly of the motion picture industry. Important and canonical reports of these business histories have been documented and offered by Tino Balio (1976; 1985; 1993), David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, and Kristin Thompson (1985), Douglas Gomery (1986), Thomas Schatz (1988), John Belton (1994), Robert Sklar (1994), Donald Crafton (1997) and Ruth Vasey (1997) in the US and by Sally Stockbridge (1979), Susan Dermody (1981), John Tulloch …
Review Of Women In The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia, 2 Vols, Louise D'Arcens
Review Of Women In The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia, 2 Vols, Louise D'Arcens
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At the 2003 International Congress at Leeds, a panel posed the question of whether feminist medieval studies can be said today to be "pressing or passé." Far from signalling the obsolescence of feminist investigations into the Middle Ages, the posing of such a question reflects the extent to which feminist scholarship, and in particular the study of medieval women, has consolidated its position within the larger field of Medieval Studies. Similarly, the appearance of a watershed resource such as Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia is a clear sign not of only how far scholarship on medieval women has …
Sites Of Articulation - An Interview With Larissa Lai, Robyn L. Morris, Larissa Lai
Sites Of Articulation - An Interview With Larissa Lai, Robyn L. Morris, Larissa Lai
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Re-Visioning Representations Of Difference In Larissa Lai's 'When Fox Is A Thousand' And Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner', Robyn L. Morris
Re-Visioning Representations Of Difference In Larissa Lai's 'When Fox Is A Thousand' And Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner', Robyn L. Morris
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Percy Grainger And The Early Collecting Of Polynesian Music, Graham Barwell
Percy Grainger And The Early Collecting Of Polynesian Music, Graham Barwell
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My interest in the Australian musician and composer, Percy Grainger, and his connections with the early collecting of Polynesian music, began when I visited the Australian National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. I saw there a portrait of Grainger painted in oils in 1941 by Ella Ström, Grainger’s wife. The three-quarter length portrait shows Grainger dressed in a short bolero-style jacket of towel-like material with elbow-length sleeves over a blue shirt, and what appears to be a skirt of khaki fabric at the waist and towel material below in a pattern of brown and white reminiscent of Maori design. Grainger faces …
Spitting The Dummy: Collaborative Life Writing And Ventriloquism, Michael Jacklin
Spitting The Dummy: Collaborative Life Writing And Ventriloquism, Michael Jacklin
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This article sets out to 'trace the deployment of the metaphor of ventriloquism in collaborative life writing, highlight the frequency with which it is utilised, and to suggest that its application in critical reading may have outrun its usefulness' (p69). It engages with life writing theorists including G. Thomas Couser and Paul John Eakin, and includes comment on Tim Rowse's reading of the Australian Aboriginal life writing text, I, the Aboriginal.
Internet Chat As Collaborative Call: Language Learning Strategies In An Internet Chat Class, Ritsuko Saito
Internet Chat As Collaborative Call: Language Learning Strategies In An Internet Chat Class, Ritsuko Saito
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This paper describes an internet Chat class in a compulsory Japanese language subject at an Australian university. The study seeks evidence of the use of language strategies relating to social interaction in Chat classes and examines the importance of strategy use in this form of Collaborative CALL. It also presents the way the medium is used in the curriculum as a means of fostering student collaboration. A preliminary survey was conducted to investigate types of strategies used by the students in two specific situations: when they saw an unknown word in their Chat partner s message and when they did …
Practice Of Online Chat Communication Between Two Countries And Across Different Curricula, Ritsuko Saito, Noriko Ishizuka
Practice Of Online Chat Communication Between Two Countries And Across Different Curricula, Ritsuko Saito, Noriko Ishizuka
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Challenges In Understanding Public Responses And Providing Effective Public Consultation On Water Reuse, Stewart Russell, Gregory R. Hampton
Challenges In Understanding Public Responses And Providing Effective Public Consultation On Water Reuse, Stewart Russell, Gregory R. Hampton
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This paper suggests key challenges facing our understanding of public responses to water recycling and our efforts to provide effective public consultation. The current understanding of public reactions to water recycling is insufficient to predict support in general or for specific schemes, and cannot obviate a thorough investigation and engagement for each proposal. Such support as is evident may not be robust. We need to provide better opportunities and mechanisms, and a wider scope, for community involvement. These entail a broader conception of the information needs of participants, and careful integration of education and consultation processes. Our discussion forms the …
Researching The Australian New Right: A Glimpse At The Process Of Discovery, Damien Cahill
Researching The Australian New Right: A Glimpse At The Process Of Discovery, Damien Cahill
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When asked to contribute an article to this inaugural edition of Rhizome I felt a certain hesitancy. What, I wondered, would be an appropriate offering to a postgraduate journal from someone who has already graduated? This led me to decide upon an approach which is unusual for a scholarly journal. What follows is an outline of the central findings of my recently completed PhD thesis. This is done by guiding the reader through the process of discovery I underwent during my candidature. My hope is that students and educators will recognise the messy, uneven and often unpredictable process of academic …
Infiltrators, Illegals And Undesirables : Gender And Forced Migration In South Asia, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase
Infiltrators, Illegals And Undesirables : Gender And Forced Migration In South Asia, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase
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It will be argued within this paper, that women’s experiences of displacement and exclusion need to be situated in the relationship between globalisation and neoliberalism. I argue that forced and economic migrations are closely related and are often interchangeable expressions of global inequality. Neo liberal globalisation diminishes all human pursuits into buying and selling. It is elites in the North who have implemented neo-liberal policies into both the North and South over the past twenty five years. These policies have resulted in the eradication of social safeguards which have led to massive gendered displacement. While globalisation may conjure up a …
Globalisation, Liberalisation And The Transformation Of Women's Work In India, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Diane Vandenbroek
Globalisation, Liberalisation And The Transformation Of Women's Work In India, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Diane Vandenbroek
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Globalisation has set in motion large-scale population movements that render meaningless distinct categories of displacements. Yet, in recent years nation states have increasingly emphasized the distinction between ‘economic’ migrants and political refugees. This paper interrogates the overlapping processes of cross -border and internal displacements in postcolonial states. In particular, I argue that gendered complexities of internal and international displacement require urgent attention. Based on recent and ongoing ethnographic research among poverty induced internally displaced women in India and cross-border forced migrants, this paper considers the context of their experiences. Focusing on some of the shared spaces of ‘economic’ and ‘political’ …
Neoliberal Globalisation And Women's Experience Of Forced Migrations In Asia, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Gillian J. Vogl, Roberta Julian
Neoliberal Globalisation And Women's Experience Of Forced Migrations In Asia, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Gillian J. Vogl, Roberta Julian
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The world is now characterised by extensive and rapid movements of people. An increasingly important issue for industrialised countries, such as Australia, is the rising number of people who are becoming displaced within their homelands as a result of a multitude of interconnected factors. The majority of displaced persons and refugees in our region are women and children. Yet, they are severely underrepresented in refugee determination processes, claims for asylum and settlement. This paper will examine women's experiences of forced migration and the nee-liberal global context in which they occur. Over the past two decades the implementation of neoliberal policies …
Sovereignty And Intervention In The Western Pacific, Charles M. Hawksley
Sovereignty And Intervention In The Western Pacific, Charles M. Hawksley
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The possibility of an ‘arc of instability’1 across the Western Pacific states of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Fiji carries serious security concerns for the entire Pacific region. This paper examines Australian-led interventions in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands to analyse the effects that they are having on the concept of sovereignty, both for states in the Western Pacific region and for international relations more generally. It argues that the nation-state ideal is under severe strain and that failed states are symptomatic of a wider problem of legitimacy, caused in part by the liberal assumption underpinning …
Informing Curriculum Design Using Genre Analysis: A Study Of Three Genres In Japanese, Elizabeth A. Thomson
Informing Curriculum Design Using Genre Analysis: A Study Of Three Genres In Japanese, Elizabeth A. Thomson
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The notion that texts in Japanese can be described in terms of text type or genre is not a new or novel approach. However, such descriptions are not common. This paper presents a description of three genres in Japanese: the factual news commentary, the hard news story and the soft news story. The descriptions have been informed by systemic functional linguistics, in particular by work 011 the system of THEME (Halliday 1994, Martin 1993, Mathiessen 1995), thematic patterns of progression (Danes 1974, Fries 1983, Ghadessy /995) and generic structure potential (GSP) (Hasan 1996). The GSP representation o/the genres enables a …
In Their Voice - Experiences Of Australia's Mandatory Detention Policies, Jo Coghlan
In Their Voice - Experiences Of Australia's Mandatory Detention Policies, Jo Coghlan
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The Australian Goverment's approach to asylum seekers since the Australian Labor Party introduced mandatory detention in 1992 has been increasingly harsh and punitive. Legally, asylum seekers are dealt with under the 1958 Migration Act, which incorporates Australia's obligations as a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention. Since the influx of Asian asylum seekers in the 1970s the Act has been systematically politicised.
Gramsci, Hegemony And Globalisation, Alastair Davidson
Gramsci, Hegemony And Globalisation, Alastair Davidson
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Antonio Gramsci’s point that battles are won and lost on the terrain of ideology is a much earlier and more complex explanation of the mediations between objective economic and social conditions and politics. It accounts generally for the fact that the continuation of contradiction—as must ever be the case under capitalism—and the worsening conditions for the majority of the world’s population do not mean the emergence of a political opposition to capitalism. Put simply, the great traditional workforces cannot strike at capitalism in its new heart. On the other hand, the two percent might be able to do so if …
The British And Rubber In Malaya, C1890-1940, James Hagan, Andrew Wells
The British And Rubber In Malaya, C1890-1940, James Hagan, Andrew Wells
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This paper aims to explain the relations between Capital and Labour on the rubber plantations in Malaya until the time of the Japanese invasion. It examines the way in which the British acquired and controlled land as a resource, and the ways in which companies raised and applied investment capital. It considers the means of recruiting an adequate supply of labour, and controlling it as a workforce; it demonstrates a close relationship between the rubber companies and the State, which was modified by the special interests of the State itself.
The Limits Of Solidarity: The North Australian Workers Union As Advocate Of Aboriginal Assimilation, Julia Martinez
The Limits Of Solidarity: The North Australian Workers Union As Advocate Of Aboriginal Assimilation, Julia Martinez
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This chapter considers the role of the North Australian Workers' Union (NAWU) in shaping Aboriginal assimilation policies in the Northern Territory during the 1920s and 1930s. Their contribution to the government's policy directions was wide-ranging, covering diverse issues including the removal of children, calls for a non-discriminatory football code and a suggestion that so-called 'half-castes' be granted their own parliamentary representative. At each step, for better or worse, the NAWU was consistently in the frontline of the promotion of assimilation policy. Assimilation was important to the NAWU primarily as a means to achieve economic security. It was understood that Aboriginal …
When Wages Were Clothes: Dressing Down Aboriginal Workers In The Northern Territory, Julia Martinez
When Wages Were Clothes: Dressing Down Aboriginal Workers In The Northern Territory, Julia Martinez
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Prior to the introduction of equal wages in the 1960s, 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. In keeping with the protectionist ethos, clothing was encouraged as a substitute for cash wages, but in practice employers rarely equated clothing with wages. This paper explores the perspectives of pastoralists, employers of domestic servants, and the Army, considering how clothing primarily catered for the employers' needs.
Fatal Attraction? A Non-Indigenous Feminist's Exploration Of Masculinities In Indigenous Literature, Kimberley Mcmahon-Coleman
Fatal Attraction? A Non-Indigenous Feminist's Exploration Of Masculinities In Indigenous Literature, Kimberley Mcmahon-Coleman
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“Diaporic literature” is a term frequently used to discuss writers who have written about transculturation and disjunction. Hence some literature can be classified as belonging to a sub-class of “Indigenous Diaspora,” where the authors’ work is informed by their people’s histories of transplantation, dispossession and alienation at the hands of colonial regimes. The Murri writer Sam Watson and Nyoongar author Kim Scott both fit into this category. The work of both novelists also shares a focus on shamanism and traditional magic, allowing for an exploration of spirituality and power from two cultural sources—that of the colonised and of the coloniser. …
Commonising The Enclosure: Online Games And Reforming Intellectual Property Regimes, Christopher L. Moore Dr
Commonising The Enclosure: Online Games And Reforming Intellectual Property Regimes, Christopher L. Moore Dr
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Online computer gamers are a creative bunch, from the mayhem of first-person shooters (FPS) to the more social experiences of massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG), gamers are producing new content for their favourite titles at an amazing rate. This paper explores the rewriting of the boundaries in the production and ownership of intellectual property in the computer games industry. The purpose is to examine the potential for computer game studies to contribute to an understanding of an alternative intellectual property regime known as the commons. This paper will explore how computer games users establish commons-like formations, specific to the …
Globalisation And Gendered Displacement, G. Vogl
Globalisation And Gendered Displacement, G. Vogl
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It will be argued within this paper, that women’s experiences of displacement and exclusion need to be situated in the relationship between globalisation, neo conservatism and neo liberalism. Neo liberal globalisation diminishes all human pursuits into buying and selling. It is elites in the North who have implemented neoliberal policies into both the North and South over the past twenty five years. These policies have resulted in the eradication of social safeguards which have led to massive gendered displacement. While globalisation may conjure up a vision of a borderless world, as a result of the free flow of goods, it …
If The Unemployment Rate Is So Low: Why Do I Feel So Insecure?, G. Vogl
If The Unemployment Rate Is So Low: Why Do I Feel So Insecure?, G. Vogl
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Changes which have occurred in the labour market over the last two decades have resulted in high levels of hidden unemployment. Many people are becoming increasingly aware of the chasm between the official employment statistics and the real extent of unemployment as those around them find it more and more difficult to find work. Those who are employed feel increasingly insecure about their jobs and are often employed in jobs which are casual, parttime or for which they are over-qualified. Certain groups, which will be highlighted in this paper, are more likely to become part of the hidden unemployed. In …
Globalisation Of The Powerless - A Zone Of Instability And The Disabled State, Andrew Wells
Globalisation Of The Powerless - A Zone Of Instability And The Disabled State, Andrew Wells
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Much of the debate on refugee issues has been concentrated in either the morality or the effectiveness of the treatment meted out to refugees as they attempt to enter Australia and are incarcerated as illegal migrants by an unyielding government. This debate is very important, and is comprehensively discussed elsewhere in this book. The principal themes are how Australia treats people once they seek protection as refugees, and what impact specific policies will have on future asylum seekers.
Unlocking Global Memory, James Hagan, Andrew Wells, Gavan Mccarthy, Bruce Smith
Unlocking Global Memory, James Hagan, Andrew Wells, Gavan Mccarthy, Bruce Smith
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Theory and method courses in the humanities and social sciences have for many years stressed the importance of the primary source. The best evidence is the original evidence, and oral sources apart, it is documentary. 1 Some of it finds its way into archives where it may become a check, via footnotes, on the ways in which scholars have interpreted events and evolved causal explanations. In its own right it may, with the aid of a scholar’s imagination, pose questions, suggest causes and lead to the evolution of theories.
Australia And Asia - Refugee Practices And Policies, Jo Coghlan, Robyn Iredale
Australia And Asia - Refugee Practices And Policies, Jo Coghlan, Robyn Iredale
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The demise of the old European empires and the rise of the modern nation state meant that masses of people were displaced by the new boundaries and new principles of the nation state. Mass migration, forced or voluntary-a consequence of the nationalist or ethnic makeup of many new states-created the modern refugee. Refugees are people who have been forced to leave their homelands because of a well-founded fear of persecution or a threat to their survival or that of their immediate families. International laws were developed to protect those not protected by their own governments or who came under threat …
Playing With Race: The Ethics Of Racialized Representations In E-Games, Dean Chan
Playing With Race: The Ethics Of Racialized Representations In E-Games, Dean Chan
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Questions about the meanings of racialized representations must be included as part of developing an ethical game design practice. This paper examines the various ways in which race and racial contexts are represented in a selected range of commercially available e-games, namely war, sports and action-adventure games. The analysis focuses on the use of racial slurs and the contingencies of historical re-representation in war games; the limited representation of black masculinity in sports games and the romanticization of ‘ghetto play’ in urban street games; and the pathologization and fetishization of race in ‘crime sim’ action-adventure games such as True Crime: …