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Stark roving mad : the repatriation of Nigerian mental patients and the global construction of mental illness, 1906-1960 [PDF]

, 2008
textThis dissertation examines the repatriation of Nigerian mental patients during Nigeria’s colonial period. In so doing, it explores how racist and paternalistic definitions of the “African mind” developed in the colonial context implicitly influenced ...
Heaton, Matthew M.
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Terendak Military Cemetery: Bodies, Burials, and ‘Operation Bring Them Home'

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Terendak Military Cemetery occupies an unusual position in the history of Australian war cemeteries. Initially established to service the needs of the community at Terendak Garrison—the operational base for Commonwealth forces in Malaya during the early years of the Cold War—it became the official overseas burial site of Australian dead during the ...
Hannah Swaine, Kate Ariotti
wiley   +1 more source

Endogenous and Exogenous Drivers of Refugee Policy of the Transit State: The Case of Indonesia

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most studies on transit states emphasise exogenous influences on domestic refugee policymaking, with little consideration of endogenous factors to the state itself. Exploring literature from migration studies, refugee studies and international law studies, we identify and classify nearly identical endogenous and exogenous drivers of refugee ...
Anita Herlina, Kynan Gentry, Kirsten Martinus   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Policies on FDI Inflows Into Australia

Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To what extent FDI policy settings and changes influence FDI inflows is an empirical question for which global answers are scarce. Australia is a pertinent locale to test this question, having a long history of attracting FDI and a policy approach distinct from most developed countries.
Stewart Nixon
wiley   +1 more source

Seeking humanity’s origins, plundering the Indigenous dead: Hermann Klaatsch’s evolutionary science and its colonial legacies

Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Prace Kulturoznawcze
This essay examines the evolving intellectual trajectory of Hermann Klaatsch (1863– 1916), whose anthropological fieldwork in Australia (1904–1907) involved the ruthless theft of Aboriginal ancestral bodily remains.
Paul Turnbull
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Partnering for Health Workforce Development: A Case Study of Australian Volunteers International and the Solomon Islands Medical Internship Training Programme

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the Solomon Islands Graduate Intern Supervision and Support Project (SIGISSP) and its successor, the Solomon Islands Medical Partnership for Learning, Education and Research (SIMPLER), a decade‐long partnership between the Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services, the National Referral Hospital and Australian
Sharon McLennan
wiley   +1 more source

Returning to Yarluwar-Ruwe: Repatriation as a Sovereign Act of Healing

, 2021
This volume brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous repatriation practitioners and researchers to provide the reader with an international overview of the removal and return of Ancestral ...
Sumner, M, Hemming, S, Rigney, D, Trevorrow, L, Rankine Jnr, L, Wilson, C   +5 more
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The Limits of Convergence in the Enlarged Europe: Change in Labour Conditions in a Shipbuilder's Sites in Norway and Romania

British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the 2000s, questions were open on whether the EU eastern enlargement would contribute to upwards or downwards convergence in labour standards, or even to divergence. Over two decades later, it is possible not only to attempt an answer, but also to identify the industrial relations processes that mediate economic integration between widely ...
Jon Erik Dølvik, Aurora Trif, Guglielmo Meardi, Ines Wagner   +3 more
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Dignified Relationships: Repatriation, healing, and reconciliation

, 2020
Repatriation has been identified as important for healing and reconciliation, but there has been little exploration of how this occurs. Drawing on extensive interviews in the Torres Strait, Kimberley and Ngarrindjeri country, this chapter explores and ...
Knapman, Gareth, Walsh, Corinne, Fforde, Cressida   +2 more
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