Perpetual Crisis: The Politics of Saving the ABC

2000 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Craig
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Public Issue ◽  
Public Broadcaster ◽  
A Site ◽  
Funding Cuts

In recent years there has been a rally to ‘save’ the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). This paper explores the assumptions about the national broadcaster which often inform such rescue attempts. The ABC seems to have entered a state of ‘perpetual crisis ‘following government funding cuts, political accusations of bias, issues of structural change and the Mansfield inquiry. Even more than usual, the identity, functions and future of the national broadcaster have become a public issue. While fully supporting a strong national public broadcaster as a space for public contestation, I argue that saving the ABC should not render it ‘safe’, returning it to some prior privileged state and established identity. Rather, drawing on an ‘agonistic model of democratic politics’. I argue that the ABC needs to be conceptualised as a site which produces ‘dilemmatic space’ and that the crises of the ABC are those which necessarily constitute the institution as a public broadcaster.

A new vision for adult education

Soundings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (72) ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
Sharon Clancy
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Government Report ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Funding Cuts

Adult education is profoundly political: historically, it has enabled access to education for those who would otherwise have been excluded, and it has played an important role in the development of a democratic politics. The austerity years have led to the erosion of access to education for working-class people, as higher education has become increasingly selective, mono-cultural and elitist, and Further Education has been seriously affected by funding cuts. The author argues, instead, for a revived vision for this sector, and a return to a broader conception of adult education - of the kind that was envisioned by the 1919 government Report on Adult Education, which is currently being revisited by the Adult Education 100 initiative. Civic education, in particular, is under threat today, but it is the kind of education that is most urgently needed.

scholarly journals Social Entrepreneurship: an Alternative Means of Funding in the Settlement Sector?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaskiran Sahota
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Funding Cuts

Canada’s settlement sector underwent substantial changes in December 2010. Settlement agencies experienced significant cutbacks from the federal government, which has created a climate of uncertainty as to how these agencies will sustain themselves if cuts continue to occur. This paper aims to analyze a model of funding that has gained popularity in recent years. I analyze the concept of social entrepreneurship, which brings together the private, voluntary, and public spheres and allows agencies to become less reliant on government funding. After a deep investigation I explore whether this concept is a possible solution to deal with the consequences of funding cuts.

scholarly journals Social Entrepreneurship: an Alternative Means of Funding in the Settlement Sector?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaskiran Sahota
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Funding Cuts

Canada’s settlement sector underwent substantial changes in December 2010. Settlement agencies experienced significant cutbacks from the federal government, which has created a climate of uncertainty as to how these agencies will sustain themselves if cuts continue to occur. This paper aims to analyze a model of funding that has gained popularity in recent years. I analyze the concept of social entrepreneurship, which brings together the private, voluntary, and public spheres and allows agencies to become less reliant on government funding. After a deep investigation I explore whether this concept is a possible solution to deal with the consequences of funding cuts.

scholarly journals The impact of government funding cuts on ethno-specific settlement services in Ontario: The case of the Afghan Association of Ontario and the Afghan Women’s Organization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Mohsini
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Immigrant Settlement ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Settlement Services ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Funding Cuts

This study focuses on the importance of ethno-specific immigrant settlement service agencies (ISSAs) for Afghan newcomers, in particular, refugees, and investigates the impact of Canadian government funding cuts on their services in Ontario. Based on secondary data, organizations’ archival documents and multi-lingual literature, this research presents the impact of funding cuts on services and service users through a case study of the Afghan Women’s Organization (AWO) and the Afghan Association of Ontario (AAO). This research demonstrates that the 2010 sweeping funding cuts terminated AAO’s programs, and consistent funding cuts have limited the AWO’s programs. Service users, too, confirm the lack of linguistic and culturally competent services, impacting their settlement and integration. This research is guided by the politics of recognition theoretical framework and strives to inform governmental policy, leading to access and provision of essential settlement services for newcomers.

scholarly journals Greek Tragedy, Agonistic Space, and Contemporary Performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephe Harrop
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Contested Spaces ◽  
Greek Drama ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Spatial Practice ◽  
Recent Case Study ◽  
And Performance ◽  
A Site

In this article Stephe Harrop combines theatre history and performance analysis with contemporary agonistic theory to re-conceptualize Greek tragedy's contested spaces as key to the political potentials of the form. She focuses on Athenian tragedy's competitive and conflictual negotiation of performance space, understood in relation to the cultural trope of the agon. Drawing on David Wiles's structuralist analysis of Greek drama, which envisages tragedy's spatial confrontations as a theatrical correlative of democratic politics, performed tragedy is here re-framed as a site of embodied contest and struggle – as agonistic spatial practice. This historical model is then applied to a recent case study, Aeschylus’ The Suppliant Women as co-produced by Actors Touring Company and the Lyceum, Edinburgh, in 2016–17, proposing that the frictious effects, encounters, and confrontations generated by this production (re-staged and re-articulated across multiple venues and contexts) exemplify some of the potentials of agonistic spatial practice in contemporary re-performance of Greek tragedy. It is contended that re-imagining tragic theatre, both ancient and modern, as (in Chantal Mouffe's terms) ‘agonistic public space’ represents an important new approach to interpreting and creatively re-imagining, interactions between Athenian tragedy and democratic politics. Stephe Harrop is a Lecturer in Drama at Liverpool Hope University, where her research focuses primarily on performances and texts adapted from, or responding to, ancient tragedy and epic. She is co-author of Greek Tragedy and the Contemporary Actor (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

Saturday Night’s Alright for Tweeting: Cultural Citizenship, Collective Discussion, and the New Media Consumption/Production of Hockey Day in Canada

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Norman
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Citizenship ◽  
Television Program ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Corporate Sponsorship ◽  
Public Broadcaster ◽  
A Site ◽  
Sociopolitical Issues

Drawing upon data collected during the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s 2011 Hockey Day in Canada broadcast, this paper examines how users of Twitter variously reproduced or contested this mediated television program. Three emergent themes from these data are discussed: the sociocultural importance of hockey to Canadians; the corporate sponsorship of Hockey Day in Canada; and the role of controversial commentator Don Cherry on the Canadian public broadcaster. These data suggest that new media can be a site for collective discussion on important sociopolitical issues, a conclusion that is discussed with reference to Scherer and Whitson’s (2009) argument that access to hockey broadcasts is a component of Canadian cultural citizenship; and Jenkins’ (2006a; 2006b) research on access to and participation in new media cultures.

scholarly journals The practices of modern criminal defence lawyers: Alienation and its implications for access to justice

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 64-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Newman ◽  
Lucy Welsh
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Sense Of Purpose ◽  
Funding Cuts ◽  
The Way

This article marries two sets of independently gathered empirical data (observation and interviews) to argue that English criminal defence lawyers currently present as alienated workers. We seek to revive and revisit theories of alienation that are grounded in Marxism and use them as a lens through which lawyers’ behaviour can be viewed and understood. Building on a Marxist application of alienation, we offer a refined analysis premised upon a contemporary understanding of how alienation plays out in criminal defence work during the neoliberal era. We highlight that the way lawyers talk about their roles suggests that they have lost a sense of purpose, and feel powerless and undervalued. We argue that those feelings appear to have developed as a result of structural change—most notably funding cuts and demands for efficiency—which seem to be grounded in what can broadly be understood as neoliberal political ideology and austerity measures. We further suggest that such structural change and resultant feelings of alienation have implications for the quality of service that defendants receive.

scholarly journals Origin of Structural Change Driven by A-Site Lanthanide Doping in ABO3-Type Perovskite Ferroelectrics

Crystals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 434
Author(s):  
Lan Xu ◽  
Zujian Wang ◽  
Bin Su ◽  
Chenxi Wang ◽  
Xiaoming Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Curie Temperature ◽  
Ferroelectric Materials ◽  
Ferroelectric Crystal ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Covalent Bonds ◽  
Lanthanide Doping ◽  
Dramatic Decline ◽  
Change Temperature ◽  
A Site

Lanthanide doping is widely employed to tune structural change temperature and electrical properties in ABO3-type perovskite ferroelectric materials. However, the reason that A-site lanthanide doping leads to the decrease of the Curie temperature is still not clear. Based on the reported Curie temperature of lanthanides (Ln) doped in two classic ferroelectrics PbTiO3 and BaTiO3 with A2+B4+O3-type perovskite structure, we discussed the relationship between the decrease rate of Curie temperature (ΔTC) and the bond strength variance of A-site cation (σ). For Nd ion doped Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 (Nd-PMNT) ferroelectric crystal as an example, the internal factors of the dramatic decline of the Curie temperature induced by A-site Nd doping were investigated under a systematic study. The strong covalent bonds of Ln-O play an important role in A-site Ln composition-induced structural change from ferroelectric to paraelectric phase, and it is responsible for the significant decrease in the Curie temperature. It is proposed that the cells become cubic around the Ln ions due to the strong covalent energy of Ln-O bonding in A-site Ln doped A2+B4+O3 perovskite ferroelectrics.

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