Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector
Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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This article explores the meaning, manifestations, and ramifications of medical neutrality in conflict zones. We analyse how Israeli healthcare institutions and leaders responded to the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in May 2021 and how ...
Zvika Orr, Mark D. Fleming
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State-Space Cointegration Modeling for the Analysis of Exogenous Shocks to Prices in Israeli-Palestinian Food Trade [PDF]
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict constitutes a prominent example of a long-lasting political conflict which has major consequences for the livelihoods of the people on both sides.
Götz, Linde, Ihle, Rico, Rubin, Ofir D.
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PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS 2025 IN GERMANY: APPROACHES OF POLITICAL PARTIES TO THE ISRAELI–PALESTINIAN CONFLICT [PDF]
The escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has a direct impact on political process- es in Germany, initiating internal socio-political debates about national interests, national identity, German policy of double standards.
Albina V. Mikhaleva
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Australia and the Middle East conflict: the Rudd and Gillard Governments (2007–13) [PDF]
This Research Paper outlines the public positions taken by the Rudd and Gillard Governments towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Executive summary This Research Paper focuses on the public position of the Labor Governments, in power between 2007
Marty Harris
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The Unexplored Option: Jewish Settlements in a Palestinian State [PDF]
The withdrawal of Israeli settlers and soldiers from the Gaza Strip, the recent Hamas victory in the Palestinian Authority elections, and the results of the Israeli elections in which the newly-formed Kadima Party received a plurality of the votes have ...
Phillips, David M
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Attack When the World is Not Watching? International Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict [PDF]
Governments often take unpopular measures. To minimize the political cost of such measures policy makers may strategically time them to coincide with other newsworthy events, which distract the media and the public.
Durante, Ruben, Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina
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