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ItemUNESCO Cultural Heritage Sites and Tourism: A paradoxical relationship(Routledge, 2020)Conservation and management of cultural heritage sites are characterised by several paradoxes, which also affect the tourism activities related to these sites. The World Monument Fund monitors damage to heritage buildings and sites. It identifies three major threats facing heritage sites: political conflict, climate change and tourism. The tourist is thus seen to be as damaging as war or rising sea levels. In the World Monument Fund’s (2018) list of the most endangered 25 monuments in the world, approximately one-third were diagnosed as being ‘in danger’, mainly from tourists.
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ItemArts, Culture and Country(Currency House, 2022)The past two years have been a particularly dark time for the arts in Australia. Not only are we living through a pandemic, but the federal government has shown little interest in—or understanding of—the plight of the sector and its artists. The pandemic comes on the back of seven years of continuous erosion of public assistance to the arts at the national level, with more than ninety arts organisations defunded, while funding to individual artists has been significantly reduced. Many are struggling to survive in the face of repeated lockdowns and border closures to control the pandemic. For years the arts sector has provided evidence of its economic benefits, as well as its intrinsic value to society. Yet politicians remain impervious to these arguments. Increasingly, it is ideology rather than evidence that determines government policy. In other words, support for the arts is not primarily a question of economics. It is a question of values. The pandemic has made people realise the seminal importance of the arts and culture to our national well-being, but politicians do not see them as a central part of policymaking. Arts and culture are intertwined. We need to change how we view the relationship between the two within the political framework. This monograph presents some ideas on how to do it.
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ItemVision and motivation of adolescent language learners in Australia(Multilingual Matters, 2024)
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ItemQ methodology, subjectivity, and language research(Multilingual Matters, 2024)
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ItemAustralian-Korean multicultural family members' emotions about their family language policy(Multilingual Matters, 2024)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableAn A/r/tographic Blueprint for Walking in Four Propositions(InSEA Publications, 2024-05-01)Our life narratives are intertwined and entangled with/in art, research and teaching. As digital a/r/tographers, our place stories have connections that have connected us further across spaces and sites. These are multiplicitous and invite new inter-actions and intra-actions across times. We-searching (Holman Jones & Harris, 2019) with Haraway digitally is an experiment that we followed as a series of propositions during 2020. A turn in our life narratives that hold us, yet opens us to living and working with and through the human, non-human and more-than-human interests us as re-searchers. This a/r/tographic blueprint for walking in four propositions explores making kin as a/r/tographers that work in often contested spaces of conservative educational research and across disciplinary boundaries.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableDrawing, Writing, and Walking: An A/r/t/graphic Proposition in 7 Prompts(InSEA Publications, 2024-05-01)This co-storied a/r/tographic proposition in seven prompts has been designed by three a/r/tographers at different stages of knowing between themselves, their worlds, and their practices in and through a/r/tography. We have co-designed these seven prompts in response to the renderings of a/r/tography from the spaces and places we have found ourselves in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. We live in the same city but each of our a/r/tographic practices and our inquiries differ. Our practices of living, walking, being, working, and travelling explore how the radical relatedness and collaborations (Bickel et al., 2010) found within an a/r/tography pedagogy and methodology occur. “Radical relatedness leads to further knowledge sources and cross disciplinary experience in regard to relational aesthetics, relational inquiry, and relational learning” (Bickel et al., 2010, p. 98). We believe that collaboration is central to our work as researchers and practitioners—we learn through, with, and together.
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ItemMixed methods research(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024-08)Mixed methods research designs meaningfully integrate both qualitative and quantitative methods to understand a research problem. Mixed methods research methodologies can be used to cast a nuanced light on complex legal problems, generating new answers which would not be perceived with one data source alone. However, mixed methods research appears rare in labour law research, perhaps reflecting gaps in legal data, the time and cost of undertaking such studies, and limited training in quantitative methods in some jurisdictions. This chapter identifies data sources that could enable a new generation of mixed methods labour law research.
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ItemRecalibrating Minimum Force: Some Unintended Consequences of Tom Swift's 'Electronic Rifle'(Springer Nature, 2024-05-23)This chapter explores some significant impacts of ‘electro-shock’ weapons on the practices and accountability of police. It argues that the introduction of conducted energy weapons (CEWs or ‘Tasers’) has resulted in the recalibration of the traditional policing principle of minimum force. Using evidence from a range of jurisdictions, we explore the way CEWs replace low-level and intermediate force options, rather than the use of deadly force they were initially marketed to reduce. We suggest that the adoption of this type of weapon fractures police conceptions of the use of force continuum. This results in a shift away from ensuring ‘coercive’ force as both threat of use of force and the actual use of force are minimised in model police practice towards the mission to appear ‘non-lethal’, or at least less ‘injurious’. While CEWs carry less risk of serious physical injury when deployed as compared with firearms, the increasing rates and normalisation of threatened use of force and associated threats of severe pain and injury in policing practice comprise a form of ‘weapons creep’ and carry a concomitant risk to police–community relations. We argue the widespread adoption of CEWs in policing has reinforced long-held concerns about ‘weapons drift’ and has consequently impacted police legitimacy for some observers and further served to materially subvert interpretations of the principle of ‘minimum force’ as a useful measure of the reasonableness of police use of force.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableTo sound the drum: A dialogue on value and change in relation to First Nations music and research in the academy(Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)A raft of complex and dynamic barriers to the participation and inclusion of First Peoples and Indigenous knowledges and practices in the academy exists. Not least of these barriers are assumptions about authority and ownership in relation to knowledge, that inform teaching and research. This chapter, co-authored by an Indigenous academic and multi-disciplinary artist and ethnomusicologist of settler/non-Indigenous ancestry, interrogates the contemporary academy and a vision that is inclusive of First Peoples and Indigenous knowledge systems through a reflective dialogue on individual and collaborative experiences of teaching and research related to Indigenous music. Through a reflection on axiological differences that come to bear in teaching and research related to Indigenous music, and on projects stemming from one author’s family practice of biganga (possum skin cloak) making, the authors consider the provocation: ‘what does it take to sound the drum?’, referring to the biganga (possum skin cloak) percussion instrument that has been used historically in much of south- eastern Australia and is undergoing a current process of reclamation. Through this dialogue and reflection, conventional notions of quality and value that are persistent in both teaching/learning and research in the contemporary university are addressed and expanded upon, and the question of what methodological and systemic change is required to centre Indigenous knowledges and people in the work of the university is considered.