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ItemDead Europe and the Coming of Age in Australian Literature: Globalisation, Cosmopolitanism and Perversity(Australian National University, 2013)This essay uses Christos Tsiolkas’ 2005 novel, Dead Europe, to re-examine the traditional binary established between old Europe and new Australia. The definition of cosmopolitanism put forward by Tsiolkas takes into account charges of Eurocentricity laid against the concept itself, as well as reflecting on the ways in which cosmopolitanism changes given the accelerated processes of twenty-first century globalisation. In Dead Europe, Tsiolkas links Australia to a pan-European history, bringing national borders into question and broadening notions of Australian identity. I argue that Tsiolkas’ novel is a key example of a recent coming of age in Australian literature - the shift away from Australian national identity as inward-facing, naïve and rural-based, towards a more mature, urban, outward-facing understanding of Australians as culpable participants in global culture.
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ItemPlagued: TB and Me(Digital Global Mail, 2013-06-12)The greatest infectious killer in human history is making a comeback, morphing into new drug-resistant forms. While it is largely forgotten in wealthy nations, millions of people a year get sick from tuberculosis. Jo Chandler, to her surprise, is one of them.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableSolid and Liquid Modernities in Regional Australia(PALGRAVE, 2013-01-01)This chapter focuses on mobile and fluid identities in performance in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory and in the Kimberley region of Western Australia: territories and regions with unique geographical and cultural features; that are closer to Asia than the large population centres of the nation; are both ancient and modern; and connected to local and global flows of culture, trade, technology and finance. Solid and liquid modernity cohabit in these regions in the form of iron ore, copper and gold and in the stocks and shares that circulate ‘free of fences, barriers, fortified borders and checkpoints’ in the global marketplace (Bauman, 2000: 14).
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ItemNo Preview AvailableIntroduction: Regional Modernities in the Global Era(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableFESPACO: de crème van de Afrikaanse film?( 2013)Van 23 februari tot 2 maart presenteerde FESPACO, het grootste filmfestival van Afrika, maar liefst 101 geselecteerde films uit 755 inzendingen voor officiële competitie. Kwantiteit vormt hier in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, dus duidelijk geen probleem. Maar hoe zit het met de kwaliteit van deze best-of van de afgelopen twee jaar? Wat is het internationale potentieel van de hedendaagse Afrikaanse film? En welk verschil maakt hij voor Afrika zelf?
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ItemTrespass, Animals and Democratic Engagement(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2013-08-01)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableSearching Guangzhou: Regionalising Weibo( 2013)This post reflects on regionalising Chinese Internet: how the geo-identity of a city/province shapes and is also being shaped by developing communication technologies in China. A city is not merely the administrative unit that is part of the nation, but a city’s transformation and experience over time offer the realm to manage one’s sense of self and belonging. Weibo taps into this process and mediates the tension and conflicts between regions and nation.
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ItemNo Preview Available10 Fingers and 9 Toes: Embodied Representations of Pregnancy in Avant-Garde Cinema(LaTrobe University, 2012)
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ItemQuasi-Markets and Service Delivery Flexibility Following a Decade of Employment Assistance Reform in Australia(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2011-10-01)In 1998, we were witnessing major changes in frontline social service delivery across the OECD and this was theorised as the emergence of a post-Fordist welfare state. Changes in public management thinking, known as New Public Management (NPM), informed this shift, as did public choice theory. A 1998 study of Australia’s then partially privatised employment assistance sector provided an ideal place to test the impact of such changes upon actual service delivery. The study concluded that frontline staff behaviour did not meet all the expectations of a post-Fordist welfare state and NPM, although some signs of specialisation, flexibility and networking were certainly evident (Considine, 1999). Ten years on, in 2008, frontline staff working in Australia’s now fully privatised employment sector participated in a repeat study. These survey data showed convergent behaviour on the part of the different types of employment agencies and evidence that flexibility had decreased. In fact, in the ten years between the two studies there was a marked increase in the level of routinisation and standardisation on the frontline. This suggests that the sector did not achieve the enhanced levels of flexibility so often identified as a desirable outcome of reform. Rather, agencies adopted more conservative practices over time in response to more detailed external regulation and more exacting internal business methods.
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ItemAfter Broadband Infrastructure Saturation: The Impact of Public Investment on Rural Social Capital(USC ANNENBERG PRESS, 2013-01-01)Having attained 98% coverage in rural areas in South Korea, the Information Network Village (INVIL) project began to focus not only on constructing broadband infrastructure but also on building online social networks. The current study examined the impact of public investment in information communication technology on online interaction and social capital in rural areas after broadband infrastructure was saturated. The findings indicate that public investment can play a key role in the sustainable development of rural areas by increasing community attachment and reducing migration intention.