Annual measures of democracy are one of the most important tools used by scholars in understanding democratic quality in a cross-national manner. This thesis argues that there are limitations with existing measures of ...

This study is concerned with the question of how youth policy and programs can better support and care for young people who face disadvantage. It poses the question of whether there is a disjunction between disadvantaged ...

In this thesis, I position Chinese health and medicine within the ongoing conceptualisation and practices of Chinese capitalism and socialism. Health care and medicine are important components of social welfare and, ...

Romantic love touches and guides the intimate worlds of people every day. My thesis seeks to examine a popular experiential substrate of many Western romantic relationships – specifically, the feeling of ‘being in love’. ...

Global interdependence has stimulated the necessity of establishing the conversation between the Western traditions and non-Western traditions. Political concepts developed in one society, for example in the West, may have ...

This thesis examines issues of social change, relationality and ontological compatibilities of practice, through analysis of how Febi people of Papua New Guinea seek to draw into their world resources understood to be ...

Kurdish people are the largest stateless nation in the world. For over a century, Kurds have experienced systematic ethnic repression at the hands of various nation-states. While the international community is generally ...

This study examines the role of disability NGOs in Botswana in facilitating human development (HD) for people with disabilities (PWD). Combining the social model of disability and the capabilities approach to construct a ...

This thesis is a systematic theoretical defence of the role of public interest advocates (PIAs) in representing interests that are under-served by electoral systems. It also engages with the increasing role of non-state ...

Youth, diversity and disadvantage are rendered a dangerous mix in contemporary Australia, with concern focused in particular on youth living in Australia’s most multicultural and disadvantaged neighbourhoods. In this milieu, ...