"Something's happening here! Something's awry!": A creative and critical exploration of 'awryness' in contemporary Australian attachment trauma fiction

Abstract The author of the paper investigates Martha C. Nussbaum’s philosophical concept of education in which education is considered key to all human development. In the first part, the author focuses on some of the more interesting ideas in Nussbaum’s philosophy of education regarding the growth, development and improvement of the individual, community, society, nation, country and humankind. The second part is a critical exploration of the individual in education, looking specifically at the general development of humankind and the shaping of abstract cosmopolitan world citizens, which are the main political goals of Nussbaum’s philosophy of education.

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“The Lucky country”? A critical exploration of community gardens and city–community relations in Australian cities

Local Environment ◽

10.1080/13549839.2017.1317726 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 22 (8) ◽

pp. 969-985 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Alec Thornton

Keyword(s):

Community Gardens ◽

Community Relations ◽

City Community ◽

Critical Exploration

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“Boil them Hearts”

Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses ◽

10.1177/0008429816660883 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 50-74

Author(s):

Jason Redden

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

British Columbia ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Scholarly Literature ◽

Material Resources ◽

Theoretical Inquiry ◽

Critical Exploration ◽

Coastal British Columbia ◽

Academic Study

This paper addresses the academic conversation on Protestant missions to the Indigenous peoples of coastal British Columbia during the second half of the nineteenth century through a consideration of the role of revivalist piety in the conversion of some of the better known Indigenous Methodist evangelists identified in the scholarly literature. The paper introduces the work of existing scholars critically illuminating the reasons (religious convergence and/or the want of symbolic and material resources) typically given for Indigenous, namely, Ts’msyen, conversion. It also introduces Methodist revivalist piety and its instantiation in British Columbia. And, finally, it offers a critical exploration of revivalist piety and its role in conversion as set within a broader theoretical inquiry into the academic study of ritual and religion.

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