The ambivalent presence of economics in the work of Stuart Cunningham

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2110439
Author(s):  
Terry Flew
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Moral Good ◽  
Neoliberal Economics ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
A Site

In this short paper, I want to consider the ways in which Stuart Cunningham's focus on work that was policy-relevant and could speak to industry led him to an ambivalent relationship with the discipline of economics. Rejecting the binary opposition between alleged ‘neoliberal’ economics and the cultural sphere as a site of unbridled moral good, Cunningham sought to both engage with and critique the dominant paradigms of economics, and their influence in Australian public policy. In doing so, his work is strongly influenced by Ian Hunter's argument that scholarly work motivated by civically minded engagements with matters of public concern needed to go beyond moral grandstanding and engage critically with the institutional complexities of social and cultural governance.

Promising: school diversity and competition

2018 ◽  
pp. 91-112
Author(s):  
Helen M. Gunter
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
School Reform ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
School Failure ◽  
The State ◽  
School Diversity ◽  
Risk Of Failure ◽  
A Site

This chapter discusses the deployment of the Education Policy Knowledgeable Polity, which shows how the state has adopted a form of depoliticisation by contract as a form of risk-management-promising, where the trend is towards proactive private as distinct from public contractualism based on the binary risk of failure–success designed to secure and extend segregation. Underpinned by globally networked corporate ideas regarding education as a site for investment, the identification of success and the eradication of failure has become policy in school reform. Importantly, the pursuit of child and school failure as public policy is integral to this process, where schools and children do and, indeed, have to fail in order for segregation to be effective.

scholarly journals Cultural Development and the Open Economy: A Democratic Issue and a Challenge to Public Policy

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Raboy ◽  
Ivan Bernier ◽  
Florian Sauvageau ◽  
Dave Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Open Economy ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
Politiques Publiques ◽  
Cultural Sphere

Abstract: The context of economic globalization poses an unprecedented challenge to public policy in the area of culture, as the fragile balance between economics and culture, formerly ensured by the state, is called into question. Far from indicating that the state no longer has a role to play, the imperatives of cultural development demand a dynamic approach to public policy. The democratic stake of cultural development is to re-establish the citizen's right to contribute to public life and, in this respect, to promote access to and participation in the cultural sphere which, the authors maintain, is increasingly centred in the mass media. Résumé: Le contexte de la mondialisation économique pose un défi inouï aux politiques publiques dans le domaine de la culture, dans la mesure où l'équilibre fragile entre économie et culture, jadis assurée par l'État, est remise en question. Loin d'indiquer que l'État n'a plus un rôle à jouer dans ce contexte, les impératifs du développement culturel exigent une approche dynamique aux politiques publiques. L'enjeu démocratique du développement culturel est de rétablir le droit des citoyens à contribuer à la vie publique et, dans ce sens, de promouvoir l'accès et la participation à la sphère culturelle qui, selon les auteurs, est de plus en plus centrée dans les médias.

Leadership, credibility and persuasion

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-181
Author(s):  
Iga Lehman ◽  
Łukasz Sułkowski ◽  
Piotr Cap
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Preliminary Conclusion ◽  
Communication Management ◽  
Cheater Detection ◽  
Business Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Level ◽  
Academic Communication

Abstract This short paper makes a tentative attempt to capture the most salient of persuasion strategies engaged in the construction of leadership in three different yet apparently interrelated domains of public life and public policy, political communication, management/business discourse, and academic communication. It explores the cognitive underpinnings, as well as linguistic realizations, of such concepts/phenomena/mechanisms as consistency-building, source-tagging, forced conceptualizations by metaphor, and discursive neutralization of the cheater detection module in the discourse addressee. A preliminary conclusion from the analysis of these mechanisms is that the three discourses under investigation reveal striking conceptual similarities with regard to the main strategies of credibility-building and enactment of leadership. At the same time, they reveal differences at the linguistic level, i.e. regarding the types of lexical choices applied to realize a given strategy.

Suicide in a central Indian steel town

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 145-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Parry
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Industrial Area ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Policy Problem ◽  
The Past ◽  
Farmer Suicides ◽  
Class Status

Over the past 15 years ‘farmer suicides’ have occasioned grave public concern; and it has recently been claimed that Chhattisgarh has the highest incidence in the country. This article suggests that the representation of such cases as the major public policy problem to do with self-inflicted death is politically inflected and that there are good grounds for supposing that—at least in certain pockets—the urban suicide rate is as high, if not higher. In the industrial area around steel town of Bhilai, this has risen dramatically over the last 20 years and it is the aristocracy of public sector labour that is significantly most susceptible. This is ultimately attributable to the liberalisation of the economy and the consequent downsizing of this workforce, which has led to a crisis in the reproduction of class status. Such workers are privileged; think of themselves as different from the informal sector ‘labour class’ and fear sinking into it. Suicides are significantly under-reported and the official statistics are systematically inflected by fear of the police and the law, which encourage both concealment and the deliberate obfuscation of likely motives, and almost certainly increase the ‘lethal probabilities’ of suicide attempts.

Canada and Immigration: Public Policy and Public Concern.

1975 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Warren E. Kalbach ◽  
Freda Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Concern

Canada and Immigration. Public Policy and Public Concern

Population ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Y. C. ◽  
Freda Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Concern
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