Arts and social sciences research publications
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences academic staff research publications, listed below by year.
Research books
Chan, G., Lee, P.K. & Chan, L.2012, China Engages Global Governance: A new world order in the making?, 1, Routledge, New York.
Joseph, S.2012, Speaking Secrets, First, Alto Books, Queensland.
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Speaking Secrets is a non-fiction work which explores voicelessness and the media. It focuses on sexuality secrets and explores what happens when these secrets become public property. Each chapter is written in a literary journalistic style. The genre is used here to intimately explore stories which have - for various reasons - fallen below the radar of mainstream journalism, despite some prior media exposure. This is a book of interviews with people who have disclosed publicly, sexual and sexuality secrets within their lives after sometimes as many as 50 years of never talking about these matters. The interviews in Speaking Secrets, all conducted in Australia, incorporate rape, disability, racism, illness, child sexual abuse, and sexual reassignment. Each interview is framed by the media and secrecy and disclosure. The chapters are first person literary journalism, accompanied by black and white photos. Some of the subjects are well known - others not - but each has reached out publicly via the media to tell and retell their stories, for various and varied reasons.
Tennant, M.C.2012, The Learning Self: Understanding the Potential for Transformation, 1, Jossey-Bass/Wiley, USA.
Book editorship
Forrest, T.2012, Alexander Kluge: Raw Materials for the Imagination, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam.
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Alexander Kluge is best known as a founding member of the New German Cinema. His work, however, spans a diverse range of fields and, over the last fifty years, he has been active as a filmmaker, writer, and television producer. This book - the first of its kind in English - comprises a wide selection of texts, including articles and stories by Kluge, television transcripts, critical essays by renowned international scholars, and interviews with Kluge himself. It will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in the fields of film, television, and literary studies, as well as those interested in exploring the intersections between art, politics, and social change.
Research book chapters
Forrest, T.2012, 'A Negative Utopia: Michael Haneke's Fragmentary Cinema' in Terri Ginsberg and Andrea Mensch (eds), A Companion to German Cinema, Blackwell, Malden, USA, pp. 553-572.
Chan, L.2012, 'China's Engagement with Global Health Democracy: Was SARS a Watershed' in Negotiating and Navigating Globabl Health, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, Singapore, pp. 203-220.
Forrest, T.2012, 'Editor's Introduction' in Tara Forrest (ed), Alexander Kluge: Raw Materials for the Imagination, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, pp. 13-21.
Djonov, E.N. & Van Leeuwen, T.J.2012, 'Normativity and Software: A Multimodal Social Semiotic Approach' in S. Norris (ed), Multimodality in Practice - Investigating Theory-in-practice-through-methodology, Routledge, London, pp. 119-138.
Jeffreys, E.2012, 'Prostitution and Propaganda in the People's Republic of China' in Anne-Marie Brady (ed), China's Thought Management, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 146-163.
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The article explores the development of Chineese propeganda in educating the prositution industry on the prevention of HIV/AIDS. It explores how the government, which has long been against prositution since the 1950's, has been able to justfy working with the industry in preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the country.
Forrest, T.2012, 'Raw Materials for the Imagination: Kluge's Work for Television' in Tara Forrest (ed), Alexander Kluge: Raw Materials for the Imagination, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, pp. 305-317.
Evans, C. & Collier, K.R.2012, 'The Delphi Technique' in Lynne Oates (ed), Taxation: A Fieldwork Research Handbook, Routledge, New York, pp. 228-241.
Ghosh, D. & Goodall, H.2012, 'Unauthorised Voyagers across Two Oceans: Africans, Indians and Aborigines in Australia' in Toledano; Ehud, R. (eds), African Communities in Asia and the Mediterranean: Identities between Integration and Conflict, Africa World Press, Trenton, New Jersey, pp. 147-168.
Book chapters (other)
Forrest, T.2012, 'Germany in Autumn/Deutschland im Herbst' in Michelle Langford (ed), Directory of World Cinema: Germany, Intellect, Bristol and Chicago, pp. 264-265.
Refereed journal articles
Crawford, R.2012, '"Ignoble but Lucrative" : Quacks, Ads, and Regulation', Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 29-47.
Faire, R.J.2012, ''The Presentation': an intensive arts-based rite of passage adapted for the training of Music Therapists', Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, vol. 12, no. 1.
Vanni Accarigi, I.2012, 'Cannibals and Orchids: Cannibalism and the Sensory Imagination of Papua New Guinea', Cultural Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 174-195.
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This article examines Leona Miller's book Cannibal and Orchids (1941) as an example of how place, in this case Papua New Guinea (PNG), is imagined according to a particular sensorium. It follows the a??sensory turn in anthropologya?? and the studies developed in the last two decades that take the senses as their object of enquiry. This body of theory is mobilised to analyse Millera??s biographical narrative recounting how PNG is imagined, represented and produced in terms of a disarray of the (Western) senses, coalescing in the trope of cannibalism. This article argues that the experience of PNG as the place of otherness is narrated both in terms of the authora??s sensory displacement and of the indigenous sensorium as abject.
Chan, L.2012, 'China in Darfur: humanitarian rule-maker or rule-taker?', Review of International Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 423-444.
Marshall, J.2012, 'Cosmopolitan Sophistry: Grounding politics in Disorder and Uncertainty', Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 197-223.
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http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/mcs/article/viewArticle/2314 Conceptions of the State, Nation and politics, which are actually in play in 'the West', usually descend from totalitarian models which are primarily Platonic and monotheistic in origin. They aim for unity, harmony, wholeness, legitimate authority and the rejection of conflict, however much they claim to represent multiplicity. By expressing a vision of order, such models drive an idea of planning by prophecy as opposed to divination, as if the future was certain within limits and the trajectory was smooth. Chaos theory and evolutionary ecology shows us that this conception of both society and the future is inaccurate. I will argue that it is useful to look at the pre-socratic philosophers, in particular the so-called sophists Gorgias and Protagoras and Heraclitus with their sense of ongoing flux, the truth of the moment, and the necessary power of rhetoric in the leading forth of temporary functional consensus within the flux. This ongoing oscillation of conflict provides social movement and life rather than social death.
Morgan, L.2012, 'Generation Y, Learner Autonomy And The Potential Of Web 2.0 Tools For Language Learning And Teaching', Campus-Wide Information Systems, vol. 29, no. 3.
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Purpose of this paper - The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the development of learner autonomy and the application of web 2.0 tools in the language classroom. Design/methodology/approach - The approach taken is that of qualitative action research within an explicit theoretical framework and the data was collected via surveys and through the analysis of learner diaries. Findings - Although the students were found to have high-level skills in relation to the use of web 2.0 tools, it was also found that explicit teaching is needed to maximize the potential of these tools. Research limitations/implications - Future research in this area is needed to develop a stronger research base around the student use of web 2.0 to enhance their learning of second languages. Practical implications - The paper highlights a need for teachers to engage in discussions with students around the use of web 2.0 tools beyond the classroom and to model effective use of these within the classroom. Social implications - The paper seeks to explore the implications of the development of web 2.0 skills by students and seeks to contribute to the current thinking around the use of social media by Gen-y students.
Johnsson, M.C., Boud, D.J. & Solomon, N.V.2012, 'Learning in-between, across and beyond workplace boundaries', International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, vol. 12, no. 1-2, pp. 61-76.
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Challenges conventional theories underpinning HRD that typically focus on the objects of learning - individuals, jobs, training. Discusses two case studies (public utility and winery) of learning across boundaries through, for example, the organisational practice of 'acting up' and identifies implications for HRD practice and practitioners.
Martin, G.2012, 'Mature age 'white collar workers' training and employability', International Journal of Lifelong Education, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 171-186.
Voyer, M., Gladstone, W. & Goodall, H.2012, 'Methods of social assessment in Marine Protected Area planning: Is public participation enough?', Marine Policy, vol. 36, pp. 432-439.
Maher, D., Phelps, R., Urane, N. & Lee, M.2012, 'Primary school teachers' use of digital resources with interactive whiteboards: The Australian context', Australian Journal of Educational Technology, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 138-158.
Maher, D.2012, 'Teaching literacy in primary schools using an interactive whole-class technology: facilitating student-to- student whole-class dialogic interactions', Technology, Pedagogy and Education, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 137-152.
Plant, R.A., Walker, J.R., Rayburg, S., Gothe, J. & Leung, T.2012, 'The wild life of pesticides: Urban agriculture, institutional responsibility, and the future of biodiversity in Sydney's Hawkesbury-Nepean River', Australian Geographer, vol. 43, pp. 75-91.
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Kearney, M.D., Schuck, S.R., Burden, K. & Aubusson, P.J.2012, 'Viewing mobile learning from a pedagogical perspective', ALT-J, Research in learning technology, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 1-17.
Conference papers
Hurley, A.W. 2012, 'Habermas, communicative comity, and the intercultural musical meeting', UTS Transforming Cultures seminar, Sydney, March 2012.
Govt reports
Goodall, H.2012, 'Waters of belonging : Al-miyahu Tajma'unah: Arabic Australians and the Georges River Parklands' , UTSePress, Sydney, pp. 1-55.
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This series arises from Parklands, Culture and Communities, a project which looks at how cultural diversity shapes people's understandings and use of the Georges River and green spaces in Sydney's south west. We focus on the experiences of four local communities (Aboriginal, Vietnamese, Arabic and Anglo Australians) and their relationships with the river, parks and each other. Culturally diverse uses and views have not often been recognised in Australia in park and green space management models, which tend to be based on Anglo-Celtic 'norms' about nature and recreation. UTS and the Office of Environment and Heritage supported this research because they have been interested in how the more diverse cultural knowledges held by Australians today might offer support for managing green spaces more effectively.
