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ItemHow do Australia-based migrants help in times of crisis? A case study of diaspora responses to the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption and tsunami(School of Social and Political Science, The University of Melbourne, 2023-08)In 2022, researchers from the University of Melbourne undertook a project exploring how Australia-based migrants (diasporas) help in times of humanitarian crises overseas. The project involved community researchers from eight diaspora communities (Afghanistan, Indonesia, Lebanon, Myanmar, Nepal, Pacific Islands, South Sudan and Syria) to co-design methodology, engage communities and collect data to find out how, why and what was done by communities in Australia in response to specific crises or events. The project aims to better understand the strengths and challenges faced by Australia-based migrants responding to different kinds of crises (disasters, conflicts and complex crises), and to identify potential tools that can support diaspora communities in their responses in the future. More information about this project can be found at https://diasporahumanitarians. com/.
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ItemHow do Australia-based migrants help in times of crisis? A case study of diaspora responses to economic collapse in Syria since 2020(School of Social and Political Science, The University of Melbourne, 2023-12)In 2022, researchers from the University of Melbourne and Australian National University undertook a project exploring how Australia-based migrants (diasporas) help in times of humanitarian crises overseas. The project involved community researchers from eight diaspora communities (Afghanistan, Indonesia, Lebanon, Myanmar, Nepal, Pacific Islands, South Sudan and Syria) to co-design methodology, engage communities and collect data to find out how, why and what was done by communities in Australia in response to specific crises or events. The project aims to better understand the strengths and challenges faced by Australia-based migrants responding to different kinds of crises (disasters, conflicts and complex crises), and to identify potential tools that can support diaspora communities in their responses in the future. More information about this project can be found at https://diasporahumanitarians.com/.
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ItemHow do Australia-based migrants help in times of crisis? A case study of diaspora responses to the 2021 military coup in Myanmar(School of Social and Political Science, The University of Melbourne, 2023-08)In 2022, researchers from the University of Melbourne undertook a project exploring how Australia-based migrants (diasporas) help in times of humanitarian crises overseas. The project involved community researchers from eight diaspora communities (Afghanistan, Indonesia, Lebanon, Myanmar, Nepal, Pacific Islands, South Sudan and Syria) to co-design methodology, engage communities and collect data to find out how, why and what was done by communities in Australia in response to specific crises or events. The project aims to better understand the strengths and challenges faced by Australia-based migrants responding to different kinds of crises (disasters, conflicts and complex crises), and to identify potential tools that can support diaspora communities in their responses in the future. More information about this project can be found at https://diasporahumanitarians. com/.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableSystemic Silencing Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia(University of Wisconsin Pres, 2023-08-29)The system of prostitution imposed and enforced by the Japanese military during its wartime occupation of several countries in East and Southeast Asia is today well-known and uniformly condemned. Transnational activist movements have sought to recognize and redress survivors of this World War II-era system, euphemistically known as “comfort women,” for decades, with a major wave beginning in the 1990s. However, Indonesian survivors, and even the system’s history in Indonesia to begin with, have largely been sidelined, even within the country itself. Here, Katharine E. McGregor not only untangles the history of the system during the war, but also unpacks the context surrounding the slow and faltering efforts to address it. With careful attention to the historical, social, and political conditions surrounding sexual violence in Indonesia, supported by exhaustive research and archival diligence, she uncovers a critical piece of Indonesian history and the ongoing efforts to bring it to the public eye. Critically, she establishes that the transnational part of activism surrounding victims of the system is both necessary and fraught, a complexity of geopolitics and international relationships on one hand and a question of personal networks, linguistic differences, and cultural challenges on the other.
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ItemTowards an interactional grammar of interjections: Expressing compassion in four Australian languages(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2023-01-01)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Penitent State: Exposure, Mourning and the Biopolitics of National Healing(Oxford University Press, 2023-09-21)This book asks a deceptively simple question: what are states actually doing when they do penance for past injustices? Why are these penitential gestures - especially the gesture of apology - becoming so ubiquitous and what implications do they carry for the way power is exercised? Drawing on the work of Schmitt, Foucault and Agamben, the book argues that there is more at stake in sovereign acts of repentance and redress than either the recognition of the victims or the legitimacy of the state. Driven, it suggests, by an interest in 'healing', such acts testify to a new biopolitical raison d'état in which the management of trauma emerges as a critical expression of attempts to regulate the life of the population. The Penitent State seeks to show that the key issue created by the 'age of apology' is not whether sovereign acts of repentance and redress are sincere or insincere, but whether the political measures licensed in the name of healing deserve to be regarded as either restorative or just.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableTreaty as a Pathway to Indigenous Controlled Policy: Making Space, Partnering, and Honouring New Relationships(Springer Nature, 2023)As several Australian jurisdictions embark on Australia’s first treaty processes there is growing recognition of the extent to which treaty will recast Indigenous-state relations. The negotiation of treaties means the recognition of other sovereign authorities—not authorities to be created (as these have existed for millennia) but authorities that will require space to be exercised alongside the state. Bureaucracies that have understood their role as primarily one of service delivery to First Nations will have to reorient themselves to become treaty partners with First Nations seeking to exercise greater control and autonomy. While we cannot yet predict the outcome of these negotiations, nor is it appropriate for us to attempt to articulate First Nations’ priorities, it is likely that, over time, treatied First Nations will seek to rewrite the policy relationship with government, pursuing autonomy and self-governance in the place of state authority and control. This chapter explores the possibilities and challenges of transforming public policy-making through treaty, arguing that it will take time to re-write the partnership manual and enable genuinely Indigenous-controlled policy to become the new political norm.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableWho experiences communication disability? A critical interpretive synthesis using the WHO-ICF(World Health Organization, 2023)This study examined communication disability's universal applicability as per the World Health Organisation (WHO) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)’s biopsychosocial model. A critical interpretive synthesis of peer-reviewed literature found widespread understanding deviates from the ICF’s universal intent. However, some evidence suggests universality could be tied to Body Structure/Body Function impairment/s and/or the existence of Personal Barriers.
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ItemHow Australians are represented in Wikipedia( 2023)Nationality, biography, Australianness: these are topics beset with complexities and politics before we even get to Wikipedia. On Wikipedia, further complexities arise. Even getting to the point of being able to map Wikipedia's representation over time requires understanding which biographies on Wikipedia refer to Australians. This involves further questions: who counts as Australian in Wikipedia and its sister-projects? How are Wikipedia articles or Wikidata items marked as 'Australian' by the system? How does Wikipedia define or represent 'Australianness'? In this report, we address these questions using a dataset of biographical articles culled from English Wikipedia with the aim of revealing the definition of 'Australianness' implicit in Wikipedia's systems and assessing how well Wikipedia represents the diversity of Australians. To address these questions and complexities, we used an innovative methodology which is explored in-depth in the report Appendix for all those data fiends out there.
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ItemNo Preview Availablewikkitidy: Tidy analysis of Wikipedia in R(CRAN, 2023)Access 'Wikipedia' through the several 'MediaWiki' APIs (), as well as through the 'XTools' API (). Ensure your API calls are correct, and receive results in tidy tibbles.