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ItemDon't Be Like the Jebarra: Reconsidering the Ethics of Ethnomusicological Practice in an Indigenous Australian Context(Routledge, 2022-11-30)An implicit goal of ethnomusicology is acquisition of knowledge about music—historically the music of a cultural world other than that held by the outsider ethnomusicologist prior to their study. Our methods are often sound recording and other forms of collection, and participation in musical practices. Complex issues arise when the assumptions and methods of ethnomusicology are valued differently by region, group, generation, individual, or otherwise. Likewise, complex issues arise when the ethical framework for holding knowledge in a particular cultural context is at odds with institutional and disciplinary expectations with regard to authority, publication, and ownership of knowledge, in the academy. Via two provocations–that sound recording and collection, and participation in musical practice such that the ethnomusicologist acquires knowledge that is then held in their bodies, might be compared to the actions of the Jebarra (and ancestral figure in Ngarinyin lifeworld who stole communal resources and broke the Law of sharing) – in this chapter the authors (one an outsider ethnomusicologist and one an insider researcher and cultural custodian) reconsider the ethics of outsider ethnomusicological practice. Through reflection on a 20-year history of collaboration, the chapter considers local frames for understanding the role of the work of repatriation and return, and other forms of collaboration. It finds that there are local strategies for sustaining people and place across generations despite massive periods of disruption, and that these are also deployed to manage the risks attendant with the interventions of outsiders, and makes a case for outsider and insider researchers and practitioners to consider the role of care and nurturing in research.
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ItemMusic Endangerment, Repatriation, and Intercultural Collaboration in an Australian Discomfort Zone(Oxford University Press, 2021-04-15)To the extent that intercultural ethnomusicology in the Australian settler state operates on a colonialist stage, research that perpetuates a procedure of discovery, recording, and offsite archiving, analysis, and interpretation risks repeating a form of musical colonialism with which ethnomusicology worldwide is inextricably tied. While these research methods continue to play an important role in contemporary intercultural ethnomusicological research, ethnomusicologists in Australia in recent years have become increasingly concerned to make their research available to cultural heritage communities. Cultural heritage communities are also leading discovery, identification, recording, and dissemination to support, revive, reinvent, and sustain their practices and knowledges. Repatriation is now almost ubiquitous in ethnomusicological approaches to Aboriginal music in Australia as researchers and collaborating communities seek to harness research to respond to the impact that colonialism has had on social and emotional well-being, education, the environment, and the health of performance traditions. However, the hand-to-hand transaction of research products and represented knowledge from performers to researcher and archive back to performers opens a new field of complexities and ambiguities for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants: just like earlier forms of ethnomusicology, the introduction, return, and repatriation of research materials operate in “social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination” (Pratt 2007 [1992]). In this chapter, we recount the processes and outcomes of “The Junba Project” located in the Kimberley region of northwest Australia. Framed by a participatory action research model, the project has emphasized responsiveness, iteration, and collaborative reflection, with an aim to identify strategies to sustain endangered Junba dance-song practices through recording, repatriation, and dissemination. We draw on Pratt’s notion of the “contact zone” as a “discomfort zone” (Somerville & Perkins 2003) and look upon an applied/advocacy ethnomusicological project as an opportunity for difference and dialogue in the repatriation process to support heterogeneous research agendas.
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ItemNo Preview AvailablePreliminary Report on the 2018-2019 Survey(Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2022-01-19)This volume, in two parts, is the fifth and last preliminary report on the excavations conducted at the Bronze Age site of Kephali tou Agiou Antoniou at Sissi in the nomos of Lasithi, Crete.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableAn Ecosystem Governance Lens for Public Sector Digital Transformation(IGI Global, 2022)The world's public sectors continue to introduce and struggle with digital transformation programs, responding to new demands and requirements to provide and interact with stakeholders. Far from merely digitizing services for efficiency, these changes respond to the sociotechnical reconfiguration of interdependent technology, people, relationships, culture, and organizational structures. This chapter presents a case study of digital transformation in the New Zealand public sector, examining the role of governance mechanisms in enabling this complex sociotechnical reconfiguration. The chapter draws from the increasingly prevalent lens of ecosystems in the strategy, information technology, and marketing literature to frame and investigate ecosystem governance mechanisms as central to the process of digital transformation.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableEsteban Villanueva’sThe Basi Revolt paintings of Ilocos: Unlocking their material evidence(National Museum of the Philippines, 2020-11-01)The series of fourteen works that comprise Esteban Villanueva’s The Basi Revolt is examined historically and physically to have a clear idea of the paintings’ material authenticity, particularly necessary for conservation treatment. Among the questions dealt with involved the production and authorship, the extent of variation of the surface and paint layers, as well as the pigment types across all fourteen works. As The Basi Revolt is a series that depicts an important historical event in the Philippines, the course of conservation needs to be assessed as a whole, to reinstate a unified visual narrative. Methods used to attempt to answer these involved the examination of available historical records and the use of reflected raking and ultra-violet lights, microscopic magnification, and elemental analysis. To have a much stronger evidence-based understanding of The Basi Revolt, as well as of other early 19th century paintings by Filipino artists, setting up a database of the range of materials available and used during that time is essential for their conservation.
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ItemYouth Transitions(Oxford University Press, 2022)The transitions young people make from school to work or further study have become increasingly complex, fragmented and non-linear over the past two decades. In part this is because economic and political forces have enabled the boundaries between school and work to become blurred: many high-school students are now engaged in the labour force part-time and many who have left high school can only find casual work rather than full-time employment. Young people undertaking further study at university are also often balancing this with a part-time job. In addition, an increasingly precarious labour market demands from young people and young adults a lifelong learning approach to be successful in the employment spere of their lives. As a result, the pathway from school to work is not a simple one-way street or linear process. Many young people may decide at a later stage to re-enter education or training, and many may change direction completely after making their initial career and /or study decisions. All of the decisions that young people make during this transitional process tend to have long-term consequences: for themselves, for their families and communities, and, in a broader sense, for the economy and society.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableFamily Violence and Abuse against Non-Parental Caregivers: An Australian Perspective(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2021)There has been significant discourse around the use of language in the context of domestic and family violence and inconsistencies in language present in policy, legislation, practice, and research. This has resulted in the lack of agreement on a definitive and overarching description of domestic and family violence (Tinning, 2010; Boxall et al., 2015). The Australian Government has adopted the United Nations (1993: 3) definition which states that violence against women is gender-based and results in or is likely to result in physical or psychological harm.
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ItemLas paradojas del progresismo ecuatoriano: Una mirada crítica a su legado en lo social, económico y ecológico(Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, CLACSO, 2020)
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ItemWhat is in the 'People's Interest'?" Discourses of Egalitarianism and 'Development as Compensation' in Contemporary Ecuador(Berghahn Books, 2020)The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state. Through an ethnographically grounded and localized anthropological perspective, this book argues that at a time when the regular structures of political participation have been ruptured, the Latin American context reveals multiple expressions of egalitarian movements that strive (and sometimes momentarily manage) to break through the state’s apparatus.
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Item'Peopling the Country by Unpeopling It': Jeremy Bentham's silences on Indigenous Australia(UCL Press, 2022-04-28)Distinguished scholars contextualize and critically assess Jeremy Bentham's writings on Australia. This volume considers Jeremy Bentham's Australian writings.