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'Race' On The Japanese Internet: Discussing Korea And Koreans On '2-Channeru', Mark J. Mclelland Dec 2008

'Race' On The Japanese Internet: Discussing Korea And Koreans On '2-Channeru', Mark J. Mclelland

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This paper investigates discourse about race on the Japanese Internet, particularly regarding resident Koreans and their relationship to the Japanese. One board relating to arguments about Korea on the notorious ‘Channel 2’ BBS, Japan’s most visited Internet site, is investigated, since it is one of the main public forums in which racial vilification takes place, perpetrated by both Japanese and Korean posters. Nakamura’s (Cybertypes) contention that the Internet is ‘a place where race is created as an effect of the net's distinctive uses of language’ is taken as a starting point to investigate the differences between Japanese and Anglophone notions …


Love, Sex And The Spaces In-Between: Kepri Wives And Their Cross-Border Husbands, Lenore T. Lyons, M. Ford Apr 2008

Love, Sex And The Spaces In-Between: Kepri Wives And Their Cross-Border Husbands, Lenore T. Lyons, M. Ford

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In the Riau Islands of Indonesia significant numbers of women have entered into marriages with men from the nearby countries of Singapore and Malaysia. In many cases, neither spouse migrates after marriage: instead, husband and wife continue to reside in their country of origin. Their close geographical proximity means that the couples can see each other regularly while at the same time taking advantage of the economic opportunities presented by living on different sides of the border. These cross-border marriages challenge the normative model of the nuclear cohabiting couple/family. Our research into the motivations and desires of these cross-border couples …


“Objectivity” And “Hard News” Reporting Across Cultures: Comparing The News Report In English, French, Japanese And Indonesian Journalism., Elizabeth A. Thomson, P R. White, P. Kitley Mar 2008

“Objectivity” And “Hard News” Reporting Across Cultures: Comparing The News Report In English, French, Japanese And Indonesian Journalism., Elizabeth A. Thomson, P R. White, P. Kitley

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This paper is concerned with comparisons of the language of hard news reporting across languages and cultures. Within English-language journalism, authorial “neutrality” and use of the “inverted pyramid” structure are frequently seen to be distinctive features of the modern hard news report and one of the grounds by which journalists assert the “objectivity” of their writing. This paper proposes a framework for investigating these notions linguistically and cross-linguistically, i.e. by reference to systematically observable features of the language and the text organizational structures used in the hard news reporting of different journalistic traditions. The paper reports that what might be …


La Cinematografia Nazionale Australiana Nella Seconda Metà Del Novecento E La Rappresentazione Del Fenomeno Migratorio Non Angloceltico, Gitano Rando Mar 2008

La Cinematografia Nazionale Australiana Nella Seconda Metà Del Novecento E La Rappresentazione Del Fenomeno Migratorio Non Angloceltico, Gitano Rando

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Although a significant minority of Australia’s population is of non angloceltic origin, Australia’s national cinema has consistently understated the impact and the multiple ramifications of the migration experiences of the many ethnic groups constituting Australia society. Initially geared, in the 1950s, to projecting an image of Australia as an all-accepting earthly paradise, films and documentaries produced up to the end of the 1970s present themes that underscore the superiority of Australian values and the need for the many ethnic groups that have settled in the country to assimilate into mainstream society. It is only in the last part of the …


Globalization, Electronic Empire, And The Virtual Geography Of Korea’S Information And Telecommunications Infrastructure, Kwang-Suk Lee Feb 2008

Globalization, Electronic Empire, And The Virtual Geography Of Korea’S Information And Telecommunications Infrastructure, Kwang-Suk Lee

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The present study focuses on the electronic infrastructural condition for current global capitalism. This study briefly surveys the genealogy of globalization theories, focusing especially on Marxist interpretations of capital accumulation on a global scale. The study situates the historical- geographical condition of South Korea’s informatization in relation to the new world system which Hardt and Negri have described as ‘empire’, the replacement for classical imperialism. Based on this concept of ‘empire’, the article explores how Korea has been rapidly and successfully incorporated into the imperial network by mobilizing its citizens toward high-speed telecom mobility and connectivity across the country. It …


The Corporate Assault On Democracy, Sharon Beder Jan 2008

The Corporate Assault On Democracy, Sharon Beder

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The revolutionary shift that we are witnessing at the beginning of the 21st Century from democracy to corporate rule is as significant as the shift from monarchy to democracy, which ushered in the modern age of nation states. It represents a wholesale change in cultural values and aspirations.


Media, Multiculturalism And The Politics Of Listening, Tanja Dreher Jan 2008

Media, Multiculturalism And The Politics Of Listening, Tanja Dreher

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To date both research and policy on media and cultural diversity have emphasised questions of speaking, whether in mainstream, community or diaspora media. There is also a vast literature examining questions of representation, including stereotyping, racialisation, hybridisation and self-representations. This paper extends these discussions to focus on questions of listening. Attention to listening provokes important questions about media and multiculturalism: How do media enable or constrain listening across difference? How can a diversity of voices be heard in the media? Drawing on recent work in ethics and political theory, this paper explores the productive possibilities of a shift from the …


Formal And Informal Gender Quotas In State-Building: The Case Of The Sahara Arab Democratic Republic, S. Rossetti Jan 2008

Formal And Informal Gender Quotas In State-Building: The Case Of The Sahara Arab Democratic Republic, S. Rossetti

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In the last fifteen years peacebuilding and gender sensitive approaches have been promoted in order to restore some form of stability in places emerging from conflicts. Recent literature on armed conflicts, women and peacebuilding claims that the international community has still not given sufficient attention to the means by which women’s participation could be enhanced, but the recent introduction of gender quotas system in many post-conflict countries, seems to succeed in elevating political representation of women. Saharawi refugee women, during the latest parliamentarian election in February 2008, increased their representation to over 30%. The introduction of women quotas at province …


The 2007 Federal Election In Australia: Framing Industrial Relations, Diana J. Kelly Jan 2008

The 2007 Federal Election In Australia: Framing Industrial Relations, Diana J. Kelly

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The 2007 Federal election campaigns in Australia were characterised by three factors. Most notably, industrial relations played a central role for many voters. Secondly, there was intense and innovative use of media representation and imagery. The substance of the differences between the parties was dominated by the framing of concepts and images which represented industrial relations in 30-second sound bytes and slogans. Thirdly, what offset the effect of that framing was the new media which offered new opportunities for shaping the public discourse and was utilised extensively. This paper seeks to understand how industrial relations was framed in some of …


Making Sense Of Place: Further Descriptions Of Circumstance Of Location, Shoshana Dreyfus, P. Jones Jan 2008

Making Sense Of Place: Further Descriptions Of Circumstance Of Location, Shoshana Dreyfus, P. Jones

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In the year in which the new Australian government has officially apologized to the Stolen Generations for taking them away from their "place" of origin, that is to say, from their families, communities and lands, we think it appropriate to revisit the notion of place as it relates to voice, identity and culture. In systemic functional theory, notions of place are typically accounted for experientially through the subsystem of Circumstance (of spatial location or place) within the system of Transitivity. This paper concerns itself with further classification of the category of spatial location. The work reported on in this paper …


It’S About Bang For Your Buck, Bro: Singaporean Men’S Online Conversations About Sex In Batam, Indonesia, S Williams, Lenore T. Lyons, M Ford Jan 2008

It’S About Bang For Your Buck, Bro: Singaporean Men’S Online Conversations About Sex In Batam, Indonesia, S Williams, Lenore T. Lyons, M Ford

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Studies of sexuality and the Internet have focused on how the web provides individuals with opportunities to perform new sexual acts and establish new sexual communities, thus challenging heteronormative models of sexuality. But Internet bulletin boards and chat rooms can also provide a medium for the recuperation and performance of forms of hetereosexual masculinity that have become marginalised and rendered unacceptable in the offline world. Faced with the challenges of the globalised economy and changing expectations about gender roles in the public and private spheres, some men seek to reclaim power over women through the performance of a hyper-sexualised subjectivity …


Internalized Boundaries: Aware’S Place In Singapore Emerging Civil Society, Lenore T. Lyons Jan 2008

Internalized Boundaries: Aware’S Place In Singapore Emerging Civil Society, Lenore T. Lyons

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In the foundational narratives that members of the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) tell about the organisation’s formation, many topics remain (to echo the state’s vernacular) ‘out-of-bounds’. In this paper I examine the ways in which AWARE members construct their own ‘OB markers’ in telling the history of AWARE. The constructedness of this history in itself is not remarkable. In telling stories about themselves and others, we expect situated actors to re-construct and re-present the past. In this paper, however, I argue that during its first decade of activism the process of delineating the boundaries of AWARE’s …


Rescue Public Schools Not Corporate Profiteers, Anthony Ashbolt Jan 2008

Rescue Public Schools Not Corporate Profiteers, 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 Rudd has shown no inclination to buck. This Government's persistent embrace of neoliberal ideology and practice is highlighted by its school funding policy and also its market-driven approach to schooling policy in general.


Market Mechanisms, Ecological Sustainability And Social Equity, Sharon Beder Jan 2008

Market Mechanisms, Ecological Sustainability And Social Equity, Sharon Beder

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In most cases the use of market mechanisms to protect the environment aim to maximise economic efficiency rather than environmental effectiveness or equity. The use of emissions trading to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is used as a case study to demonstrate this.


Making It Accessible: Mary Alice Evatt And Australian Modernist Art, Melissa Boyde Jan 2008

Making It Accessible: Mary Alice Evatt And Australian Modernist Art, Melissa Boyde

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In his autobiography art historian Bernard Smith recounts how, as a young art teacher posted to a school at Murraguldrie in country New South Wales (NSW) in the mid 1930s, he tried unsuccessfully to borrow books on modern art from the country lending service of the State Public Library. On a visit to Sydney he made an appointment to see the NSW Chief Librarian W. H. Ifould, “a man of considerable power and influence in New South Wales” who was also a trustee of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW). Smith took to the meeting the small …


Mapping Literature Infrastructure In Australia, Wenche Ommundsen, Michael Jacklin Jan 2008

Mapping Literature Infrastructure In Australia, Wenche Ommundsen, Michael Jacklin

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This report, a partnership project co-funded by the University of Wollongong and the Australia Council for the Arts, presents findings from research into the literature infrastructure of Australia. ‘Literature infrastructure’ refers to the organisations within the literature sector that actively support writers and their work: state writers’ centres, Varuna – The Writers’ Centre, the Australian Society of Authors, literary journals, genrebased organisations, and writers’ festivals. The study aims to determine where each organisation sits in the ‘supply chain’ of support and what contribution it makes to the literature sector as a whole: what services and opportunities are offered to writers, …


Private Funding Has Been Taken To Extremes, Anthony Ashbolt Jan 2008

Private Funding Has Been Taken To Extremes, 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 buck. This Government's embrace of neo-liberal ideology and practice is highlighted by its school funding policy and also its market-driven approach to schooling policy.


Review Of Celia Marshik, British Modernism And Censorship, Guy R. Davidson Jan 2008

Review Of Celia Marshik, British Modernism And Censorship, Guy R. Davidson

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With this book, Celia Marshik makes a significant contribution to the growing critical literature on the interrelations between censorship and sexual representation in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century British literature.


Sexuality And The Statistical Imaginary In Samuel R. Delany's Trouble On Triton, Guy R. Davidson Jan 2008

Sexuality And The Statistical Imaginary In Samuel R. Delany's Trouble On Triton, Guy R. Davidson

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In common with most of his work, Samuel Delanys science fiction novelTrouble on Triton (1976) is subscribed with a tag providing the geographical and temporal co-ordinates of its composition - in this case, 'London, Nov. '73-July '74'.


Planet Hallyuwood's Political Vulnerabilities: Censuring The Expression Of Satire In The President's Last Bang (2005), Brian M. Yecies Jan 2008

Planet Hallyuwood's Political Vulnerabilities: Censuring The Expression Of Satire In The President's Last Bang (2005), Brian M. Yecies

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South Korea's cinema has recently enjoyed a Golden Age that has opened up new spaces for creative and cultural expression in Korea and probably in the larger Asia-Pacific region. Domestic market share of local films, lucrative pre-sales, a robust screen quota and fresh genre-bending narratives and styles have attracted admiration in Korea and abroad. However, since its peak of success in late 2005 and early 2006, extreme competition between domestic films, piracy and illegal downloading, halving of the screen quota and the erosion of ancillary markets have impacted on the industry's ability to sustain vitality and profitability. Among the challenges …


The Past Is A Foreign Country: The Australian Middle Ages, Louise D'Arcens Jan 2008

The Past Is A Foreign Country: The Australian Middle Ages, Louise D'Arcens

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'The Last Thing One Might Expect': The Mediaeval Court At The 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition, Louise D'Arcens Jan 2008

'The Last Thing One Might Expect': The Mediaeval Court At The 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition, Louise D'Arcens

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In his preface to the Guide to the Intercolonial Exhibition of 1866, the exhibition's commissioner John George Knight concludes by underlining the event's principal significance as a showcase for colonial commercial and industrial achievement: The great aim of an Exhibition is to give the fullest possible notoriety to new manufactures and processes, and bring the manufacturer and inventor more closely into contact with the merchant, speculator, and capitalist; and, by this most practical method of advertising, to enlarge the basis of trade.1 Given this avowedly mercantile and progressivist vision—a vision borne out by the numerous displays of colonial manufacture—it might …


Review Keyes, Roger S. 2006. Ehon: The Artist And The Book In Japan., Helen Kilpatrick Jan 2008

Review Keyes, Roger S. 2006. Ehon: The Artist And The Book In Japan., Helen Kilpatrick

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This handsome tome is based on an exhibition of Japanese picture books held by the New York Public Library from October 2006 to February 2007. Despite the more contemporary connotations associated with the term ehon, this is not a catalogue of books for children. The collection is best described as a volume that traces the traditions of Japanese artists’ books. With the inclusion of two more recent works by non-Japanese (American and German) artists, the volume also features international entries that are currently ‘‘contribut[ing] to the living Japanese book tradition’’ (p. 313). Although it excludes neither children’s nor contemporary books …


Review Caring Cultures: Sharing Imaginations: Australia And India, Michael Jacklin Jan 2008

Review Caring Cultures: Sharing Imaginations: Australia And India, Michael Jacklin

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The reading of Australian literature from international perspectives is vital, not only for the publication and promotion of Australian literature overseas, but also for the maintenance of a robust and energetic discipline that is both national and global in its reach. India, increasingly, is a contributor to this international network of scholarly engagement, with at least four anthologies of critical essays on Australian literature published in New Delhi in as many years. The present collection of papers, Caring Cultures: Sharing Imaginations: Australia and India, adds to this growing body of work. Several of its essays offer fascinating views on Australian …


Making Paper Talk: Writing Indigenous Oral Life Narratives, Michael Jacklin Jan 2008

Making Paper Talk: Writing Indigenous Oral Life Narratives, Michael Jacklin

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How spoken words arc written is a corc concern in collaborative Indigenous life writing. Especially imporram, as Kimberly Blaeser notes in the citation above, are the efforts to present Indigenous narratives in a visual form that will facilitate their fe-speaking. Mindful of this goal, my argument will concentrate on (he panicular dilemma of presenting Indigenous narratives in paragraph form or formatting them in an arrangement resembling poetic lin es. While aware that this is bur one of many considerations in the process of transforming speech to writing, I argue that in a number of Indigenous li fe-writing publications it is …


Reporting Armistice: Grammatical Evidence And Semantic Implications Of Diachronic Context Shifts, Claire Scott Jan 2008

Reporting Armistice: Grammatical Evidence And Semantic Implications Of Diachronic Context Shifts, Claire Scott

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Journalists reporting war have increasingly been embedded with military units, especially in the recent Iraq War (e.g. Cottle, 2006: 76; Tumber, 2004). Being ‘on the ground’ amongst the action might suggest that the news produced is more strongly ‘grounded in reality’ than reports constructed in the newsroom from news ‘off the wire’. However, this investigation of seven armistice reports from the Sydney Morning Herald spanning a century (1902-2003) suggests that there has been a gradual shift away from strongly grounded, accountable reporting towards engaging, crafted prose. Across the archive of these texts, the patterning of circumstantial elements reflects shifts in …


Reporting Armistice: Authorial And Non-Authorial Voices In The Sydney Morning Herald 1902-2003, Claire Scott Jan 2008

Reporting Armistice: Authorial And Non-Authorial Voices In The Sydney Morning Herald 1902-2003, Claire Scott

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Media discourse is dialogic in nature (cf. Bakhtin, 1981; Zelizer, 1989), frequently including information or opinions sourced from beyond the reporter (e.g. Fairclough, 1995; Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004: 252; Waugh, 1995). The way reporters include other voices in the dialogue, as well as the range of meanings permitted in the dialogue, are crucial factors in the issue of ‘grounding’ news reports (Carey, 1986; Waugh, 1995: 132). This paper presents findings from an analysis of non-authorial sourcing in armistice reports from the Sydney Morning Herald over a century (1902-2003), and considers how the uptake of resources for attributing this kind of …


Genetic Preselection And The Moral Equality Of Individuals, David A. Neil Jan 2008

Genetic Preselection And The Moral Equality Of Individuals, David A. Neil

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Suppose that it becomes possible to control the genetic traits of our descendants, and thus treat them as a product which can be engineered to our liking. Employing a Kantian yocabulary, Habermas says that this is a kind of intervention which should only be exercised over things, never over persons. In The Future of Human Nature, Habermas develops a version of a common objection to genetic engineering - that it would involve treating humans as meanS rather than as ends. His formulation of this argument is important because he makes the novel daim that there is a somatic basis …


Inclusion And Exclusion In Women's Access To Health And Medicine, Susan M. Dodds Jan 2008

Inclusion And Exclusion In Women's Access To Health And Medicine, Susan M. Dodds

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Women's access to health and medicine in developed countries has been characterized by a range of inconsistent inclusions and exclusions. Health policy has been asymmetrically interested in women's reproductive capacities and has sought to regulate, control, and manage aspects of women's reproductive decision making in a manner unwitnessed in relation to men's reproductive health and reproductive decision making. In other areas, research that addresses health concerns that affect both men and women sometimes is designed so as not to yield data relating to the ways in which women's physiology and gendered location may affect their experience of the condition and …


Minority Women And Forced Migrations: A Comparative Study Of Flight And Settlement Experiences Of Women Refugees In India And Australia, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Roberta Julian Jan 2008

Minority Women And Forced Migrations: A Comparative Study Of Flight And Settlement Experiences Of Women Refugees In India And Australia, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Roberta Julian

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This paper draws attention to the factors and experiences of displacement and the ways in which women cope with forced migration and resettlement. Through our comparative analysis of the resettlement experiences of women within the developing countries in the South Asian region and women from the Asin region who have settled in Australia, we challenge and problematise the various bureaucratic categories of 'the displaced' (such as political refugee, economic migrant, asylum seeker, illegal immigrant).