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ItemCinderella of the south seas? Virtuous victims, empowerment and other fables of development feminism(Elsevier, 2020-05-01)The developmental logic underpinning ‘Cinderella projects,’ in which women of the Global South are targeted for interventions intended to tap and expand their unrecognized economic and entrepreneurial potential. This version of ‘development feminism,’ constructs its female objects as both impoverished victim-subjects and as nascent market-oriented actors. Moreover, development feminist discourse, grounded as it is in seemingly universal ideas of women’s oppression, equality and economic participation, generates paradoxical effects in different social contexts. Drawing on ethnographic examples from Polynesia, the paper illustrates how a homogeneous concept of ‘woman’ makes little sense because local gender categories are complexly intersected by age, socio-economic status as well as by hereditary rank. As a result, development feminisms’ gender interventions transform local individual subjectivities in novel and often unexpected ways, producing new forms of inequality while obscuring others.
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ItemRenaissance Translators, Transnational Literature and Intertraffique(Liverpool University Press, 2020-06-30)The text argues that Italian culture needs to be considered in a transnational/transcultural perspective and that an understanding of linguistic and cultural translation underlies all approaches to the study of Italian culture in a global ...
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ItemVegetarian vampires of the Anthropocene: Re-reading the animal blood diet in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga(Monash University, 2020-12-04)This article discusses Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga (2005- 8) against the backdrop of the Anthropocene and takes as its focus the depiction of vampires who choose to consume animal blood, instead of human blood. This article argues that we can read Meyer’s formulation of a so-called vampiric vegetarian diet as inflecting the concerns of a modern vegetarian diet, which stem from our ecological era. In the saga's portrayal of a vampiric vegetarian diet, this article finds a model for engaging with nonhuman species and the environment, that is necessary if we are to survive the Anthropocene.
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ItemWhy Arts graduates are needed now more than ever(Australian College of Educators, 2020)An Arts degree prepares students to think, critique and persuade, especially within the grey areas where there is no single right answer. Through the Arts degree, students learn to assess views and concepts from all sides, before formulating their own conclusion. An Arts education does not simply impart knowledge for future regurgitation, rather it helps students in learning to learn.
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ItemMotivation and demotivation of French beginner university learners in Australia(AV Aktuell Verlag, 2020)This study focuses on the motivation and demotivation of students of French at Australian universities. Quantitative and qualitative data analysis was performed to identify which factors motivate and demotivate 199 students who learn French at beginner level. Classical theories of motivation in second language (L2) learning are integrated with more recent theories on the ‘L2 motivational self system’ (Dörnyei, 2005; 2009a; 2020a) and positive emotions (Dewaele, 2010; 2011). Factors and categories of motivators and demotivators are structured in three levels of analysis – micro, meso and macro, drawing upon Gruba and colleagues’ (2016) model. It is argued here that motivators and demotivators belonging to different levels of analysis are closely interrelated. These concurrently influence students’ motivation as well as demotivation, but in different ways and stages. Pedagogical implications are listed to shed light on French learners’ goals and expectations at tertiary level within the Australian sociocultural environment.
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ItemUniversity Students’ Demotivation in Learning Second Languages: The Case of Australian Universities(IUScholarWorks, 2020)Prior studies report a tendency of university students in Australia to quit their beginner level second language (L2) courses at an early stage (Martín et al., 2016; Nettelbeck et al., 2007). Demotivational patterns are meta-analyzed to understand what hampers the interest in learning French, German, Italian and Spanish of continuing students, discontinuing students, and quitters over one year of studies at Australian universities. Such a distinction across categories of students is offered in line with Martín et al.’s (2016) research. Demotivators are structured on three levels of analysis drawing on Gruba et al.’s (2016) and The Douglas Fir Group’s (2016) frameworks, which encapsulate three levels of analysis, specifically micro, meso and macro. Findings suggest that beginner L2 students in Australia are demotivated by all three levels of analysis in very dynamic and interchangeable ways. Students were found to concurrently experience very different degrees of demotivation over time.
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ItemInfluences of willingness to communicate and foreign language enjoyment on second language learners' motivation(State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland, 2020-12-17)Willingness to Communicate (WTC) and Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) motivate university students who learn a second language (L2). Previous research suggests that WTC drives students to use an L2 with a specific group of people (MacIntyre, Clément, Dörnyei, & Noels, 1998) while FLE motivates students to carry on their L2 learning process (Dewaele & MacIntyre, 2014). This study focuses on the influence of WTC and FLE on university beginner students of French, German, Italian, and Spanish in Australia. Responses to five five-point Likert scale items and four open-ended questions of a questionnaire and interview narratives are analyzed to understand if and to what extent WTC and FLE shape students’ decisions to: (a) start to learn an L2 (b) continue learning an L2, and (c) discontinue learning an L2 drawing on Dörnyei and Ottó’s (1998) process-oriented approach. Results show that not only psychological reactions to the learning process are involved in students’ motivation, but also contextual elements shape L2 learning dynamics and WTC (Yashima, 2002). The Australian multicultural but, at the same time, monolingual environment shared by English-speaking countries (Ushioda, 2017) plays an important role in increasing and/or hampering students’ desire to communicate in the studied L2. Lack of communicative opportunities may be detrimental to students’ enjoyment within and outside of the formal learning environment at Australian universities.
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ItemIndigenous family life in Australia: A history of difference and deficit(Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)Indigenous family life has been a key target of family and child policies in Australia since colonisation. In this paper, we identify four main policy eras that have shaped the national and state policy frameworks that have impacted Indigenous families: the protectionism, assimilation, self‐determination and neoliberalism eras. Our analysis of these national and state policy frameworks reveals an enduring and negative conceptualisation of Indigenous family life. This conceptualisation continues to position Indigenous families as deficient and dysfunctional compared with a white, Anglo‐Australian family ideal. This contributes to the reproduction of paternalistic policy settings and the racialised hierarchies within them that entrench Indigenous disempowerment and reproduce Indigenous disadvantage. Further, it maintains a deficit paradigm that continues to obfuscate the positive aspects of Indigenous family life that are protective of Indigenous well‐being.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableRGB Dreams(Blindside Gallery, 2020-11-14)The work examines screen culture and notions of truth in the time of automation and climate crisis at the turn of the decade. :: Truth, lies and screen time in the city :: A glimpse of the ambiguous and the synthetic - post-truth image making on the network :: Improbable cyborgs meet CGI models and cheeky chat bots :: Tweets, clowns and avatars burning red, green and blue :: Meanwhile, the city shimmers and the pixels blink as the robot in the garden downloads an update and ... waits.
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ItemPre-empting academic misconduct and improving learning outcomes with a teaching and learning approach: A preliminary report(ETH Zurich, 2020-12-09)This article reports on a preliminary analysis of Integrated Academic Success (IAS), an academic development program embedded in subject teaching for a humanities postgraduate degree involving a large number of international students at a major university in Australia. It was found that integrating academic skill development in subject teaching improved academic integrity and learning outcomes significantly in a course with a large number of students without relevant prior disciplinary or educational experience. The findings might inform curriculum development in postgraduate courses where students have no prior educational experience in the relevant discipline or academic context.