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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The politics of memory and the memory of politics: Australian Aboriginal interpretations of Queen Victoria, 1881–2011

open access: yes, 2016
My aim is to examine how Aboriginal people in Australia's south-east implicated the figure of Queen Victoria in their lives and predicaments, and as each new generation recycled and reworked inherited stories about her according to their own times and situations.
openaire   +2 more sources

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Whose story wins? LLM-powered chatbots as sites and agents of memory-political contestation and corporate greenwashing

open access: yesNordic Journal of Media Studies
In this article, we explore the memory-political dimensions of LLM-powered chatbots. We are initially interested in how LLMs (large language models) can be utilised to manipulate political discourse and historical interpretations.
Pelevina Nuppu, Mervaala Erkki
doaj   +1 more source

Nothing to See Here: Researching Non‐Recent Child Abuse in Schools and the Politics of Silence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While institutions, including schools, have responsibilities to protect children from harm, responses to instances of child sexual abuse have often exhibited avoidance and denial. Recent public inquiries in Australia revealed that some institutions, particularly in the Catholic sector, employed a deliberate strategy of silence which was used ...
John Crowley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

BarnebyLives: An R package to create herbarium specimen labels and clean spreadsheets

open access: yesApplications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Accessioning herbarium specimens is labor intensive, yet remains vital for research in ecology, evolution, and conservation. As institutional support for herbaria declines, efficient tools are needed to streamline this process. The R package BarnebyLives was developed to assist collectors by supplementing collection notes, verifying ...
Reed Clark Benkendorf, Jeremie B. Fant
wiley   +1 more source

Written with seed: the political ecology of memory in Madagascar

open access: yesJournal of Political Ecology, 2016
In this article, I bring together work in political ecology and environmental anthropology to examine how smallholder farmers in Madagascar articulate and embody political and economic histories through the everyday interactions with the commodities ...
Sarah Osterhoudt
doaj   +1 more source

Revertant Mosaicism Obscures Long‐Awaited Molecular Confirmation of Diamond‐Blackfan Anemia

open access: yes
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
Nicholas A. Borja, Mustafa Tekin
wiley   +1 more source

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