A Feminist Perspective on the Development of the Social Work Profession in New South Wales

1985 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Marchant
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Social

Victims, Perpetrators and Fatal Scenarios: A Research Note on Anti-homosexual Male Homicides

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Tomsen
Keyword(s):  
Illicit Drugs ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Male Victims ◽  
Criminal Trials ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Police Interviews ◽  
The Social

Anti-homosexual harassment and violence are often described as ‘hate’ crimes perpetrated by homophobic people who act on an extreme and irrational contempt for the sexual identity of victims, and killings are regarded as the most typical form of these incidents. But there is little detailed international research evidence about the victims, perpetrators and the social aspects of such fatal violent incidents. The author's ongoing study in New South Wales, Australia, has filled some of these gaps. It has drawn evidence from 74 homicides with male victims that occurred in New South Wales between 1980–2000. Information sources were press records, police interviews with suspects, Coroner's court files and documents from the criminal trials of accused perpetrators. Analysis of the social characteristics of victims and perpetrators and the fatal scenarios reflect the significance of situational factors (such as alcohol, illicit drugs and anonymous sexual cruising) as well as the ‘hate’ motive in this fatal violence. Some perpetrators have serious drug use or psychological problems, whereas most killers are young men and boys from socially disadvantaged backgrounds. The major scenarios of killing indicate that these crimes are linked to commonplace issues of male honour and masculine identity that are sharpened in the perpetrators’ situations by their marginal social status.

Lively cities made in sound: A study of the sonic sensibilities of listening and hearing in Wollongong, New South Wales

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (10) ◽  
pp. 2131-2146
Author(s):  
Gordon Waitt ◽  
Ian Buchanan ◽  
Michelle Duffy
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Recent Analysis ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

This paper seeks to better understand the lively city with reference to recent analysis of sonic affects, bodily sensations and emotions. The notion of ‘hearing contacts’, as it is usually deployed in discussion of the lively city, emphasises the social interactions with other people in a rather narrow anthropocentric way. Yet, it overlooks the diversity of felt and affective dimensions of city sounds. This paper takes up this challenge by bringing Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of territory into conversation with Greimas’s semiotic square. In doing so, this paper offers a compelling theoretical framework to better understand the sonic sensibilities of listening and hearing to provide a clearer sense of how people decide to attach specific meanings to sound, and which ones they do not. The paper first reviews various theoretical approaches to sound and the city. Next, the paper turns to an ethnographic account of sound and city-centre urban life recently conducted in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. This research seeks to better understand the ways bodily dispositions to sonic affects, materials and cultural norms helped participants territorialise the city centre, distinguishing ‘energetic buzz’, ‘dead noise’, ‘dead quiet’ and ‘quiet calm’.

To Free the Spirit? Motivation and Engagement of Indigenous Students

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Munns ◽  
Andrew Martin ◽  
Rhonda Craven
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Aboriginal Education ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Social ◽  
Motivation And Engagement ◽  
And Training ◽  
Consultative Group

AbstractThis article directly responds to issues impacting on the social and academic outcomes of Indigenous students that were identified in the recent review of Aboriginal Education conducted by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training (NSW DET) in partnership with New South Wales Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (NSW AECG). Not surprisingly, a common theme emerging from the review was the importance of student motivation and engagement for Indigenous students of all ages. The article reports on current research into the motivation, engagement and classroom pedagogies for a sample of senior primary Indigenous students. What is of particular interest is the cultural interplay of the lived experiences of these Indigenous students with schools, teachers and classroom pedagogies. Important questions arise from an analysis of this interplay about what might “free the spirit” for these and other Indigenous students.

“In the interests of the children”: accounting in the control of Aboriginal family endowment payments

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 166-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Greer
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Single Case ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Aboriginal Women ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Australian State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historical Practices

This article contributes to an expanding literature concerned with the instrumentality of accounting and the consequences of its use within government—Indigenous relations. It examines a single case of how accounting was employed within the Australian state of New South Wales to manipulate the income and spending of Aboriginal women. The article explores how ccounting was integral to the control and administration of the New South Wales Family Endowment Payments; a policy intended to reconstitute Aboriginal women according to particular norms of citizenship. The article not only allows us to better understand the roles of accounting in such historical practices of social engineering, but also illustrates that the objectives for such programmes are not simple and that often they attempt to satisfy the competing interests of the social and the economic.

Use of infrared digital cameras to investigate aspects of the social behaviour of cryptic species

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew W. Claridge ◽  
Greg Mifsud ◽  
James Dawson ◽  
Michael J. Saxon
Keyword(s):  
Cryptic Species ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
National Park ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Digital Cameras ◽  
Target Species ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technical Details

In this paper we report on the application of infrared digital cameras to investigate aspects of the breeding biology of the spotted-tailed quoll, an endangered marsupial carnivore. Technical details are provided about the cameras, which were deployed remotely at two ‘latrine’ sites used by the target species within Kosciuszko National Park in southern New South Wales, Australia. Examples of images captured by the cameras are presented, with notes on possible application of the same technology to better understand the social behaviour of rare and cryptic species.

A Matter of Skill: The Revival of Apprenticeship in Early Twentieth-Century NSW

1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Shields
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Bilateral Negotiation ◽  
Labour Exploitation ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Social ◽  
Craft Unions

The survival of apprenticeship in modern Australian industry represents a marked contrast to the institution's virtual disappearance in many other industrial capi talist countries. This article considers one specific historical conjuncture that appears to have figured decisively in the institution's survival in New South Wales, namely, the formative period of state industrial regulation and award making between 1902 and 1914. At the close of the nineteenth century, the custom of formal or indentured apprenticeship had virtually ceased to exist in New South Wales, yet by 1914 it had become compulsory for male juniors in virtually every recognized trade in the state. Drawing on evidence from three key male-dominated trades (carpentry andjoinery, type-composing and engineering), this article pro vides a multifaceted explanation for this dramatic revival. It argues the explana tory inadequacy of each of three main hypotheses on the survival of apprenticeship posited in the existing literature, namely the technicist/onskilling, the deskilling and the social constructionist/reskilling theses. In particular, it challenges the feminist-social constructionist contention that apprenticeship survived as a form of ritual servitude, as an exclusionary device imposed unilaterally on unwilling employers by craft unions and 'captive' industrial tribunals. The case study evidence indicates that the revival owed far less to arbitral imposition than to bilateral negotiation and agreement between unions and organized employers. In this sense, the institution's survival is attributable, in large part, to employers' ongoing need for genuine skill. The main focus of employer resistance was not to the compulsory apprenticeship, but to union attempts to limit apprentice employ ment in those areas of craft production where deskilling had occurred or was occurring. It is only there that compulsory apprenticeship can be said to have amounted to either a union-imposed form of ritual servitude or an employer device for junior labour exploitation.

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