Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2012
n this article, we argue that the expectations, experience, and identities of academics may be ju... more n this article, we argue that the expectations, experience, and identities of academics may be just as crucial to improving the participation of students from low socio-economic status (SES) as higher education policies, admissions and marketing activities, but are routinely ignored. In particular, we observe that highly relevant, well-informed, and readily accessible accounts offered by academics from working-class backgrounds are not credited with the attention they deserve. This gap, or silence, signals a complex and poorly-understood relationship between education, knowledge and class. We assert that without addressing and better understanding this relationship, the situation is unlikely to improve, and the enrolment share of low SES students will remain shamefully low.
Abstract Fault does not figure in Australian divorce law. The Family Law Act 1975 regulates divor... more Abstract Fault does not figure in Australian divorce law. The Family Law Act 1975 regulates divorce, allowing a decree nisi to be issued where a marriage has irretrievably broken down. Australian regulations do not inquire into the cause of breakdown, but simply seek ...
... exposure to the sun cause over three times the number of deaths as those from the use of all ... more ... exposure to the sun cause over three times the number of deaths as those from the use of all opiates, but sunbathing is not prohibited' (Cowdery 1999, p ... anonymous reviewers of Cultural Studies, along with Mary Heath, Deb King, Chris Beasley, Rebecca Stringer and Rod Butlin ...
This article presents a critical commentary on the documentary Scarlet Road (2011). Scarlet Road ... more This article presents a critical commentary on the documentary Scarlet Road (2011). Scarlet Road promotes the value of sex work as a special service for disabled people (primarily men), and in the process addresses the stigma and marginalisation faced by both disabled people and sex workers. We argue that through its reiteration of discursive stereotypes of gender, sexuality, and disability, Scarlet Road unwittingly represents disabled people as undesirable and abject. While we oppose neither the legalisation of sex work nor the provision of access to sex services for disabled people, our position is that this does not provide an adequate solution to the exclusion of people with disabilities from sexual life. Thus, while campaigns to promote the value of sex work on the basis of its importance for the sexual rights of people with disabilities functions as a useful way to improve the image of sex workers, they simultaneously reflect and produce harmful stereotypes about disability.
Investigates what marriage is and does, and how the changing shape of institutional marriage has ... more Investigates what marriage is and does, and how the changing shape of institutional marriage has had a range of social effects.
The phrase ‘dark tourism’ was coined by Lennon and Foley (2000) to describe a relatively new kind... more The phrase ‘dark tourism’ was coined by Lennon and Foley (2000) to describe a relatively new kind of sight-seeing; one that attends sites of death, disaster and despair. This essay intertwines personal memoir and scholarly critique to reflect on prisons as places for dark tourism, and imprisonment more generally. Its fundamental contention is that as tourist attractions, former prisons have complex histories that resist easy digestion. More than 20 years ago, the author was
a regular visitor to a now defunct South Australian gaol, and recently revisited the place in its current incarnation as a tourist attraction. This experience informs her argument that stories told
in and by prison museums are both easily trivialised and dangerously partial. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are respectfully advised that this essay includes some discussion of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and mentions the names and circumstances
of several Aboriginal men’s deaths (as they were reported in the RCIACID).
Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2012
n this article, we argue that the expectations, experience, and identities of academics may be ju... more n this article, we argue that the expectations, experience, and identities of academics may be just as crucial to improving the participation of students from low socio-economic status (SES) as higher education policies, admissions and marketing activities, but are routinely ignored. In particular, we observe that highly relevant, well-informed, and readily accessible accounts offered by academics from working-class backgrounds are not credited with the attention they deserve. This gap, or silence, signals a complex and poorly-understood relationship between education, knowledge and class. We assert that without addressing and better understanding this relationship, the situation is unlikely to improve, and the enrolment share of low SES students will remain shamefully low.
Abstract Fault does not figure in Australian divorce law. The Family Law Act 1975 regulates divor... more Abstract Fault does not figure in Australian divorce law. The Family Law Act 1975 regulates divorce, allowing a decree nisi to be issued where a marriage has irretrievably broken down. Australian regulations do not inquire into the cause of breakdown, but simply seek ...
... exposure to the sun cause over three times the number of deaths as those from the use of all ... more ... exposure to the sun cause over three times the number of deaths as those from the use of all opiates, but sunbathing is not prohibited' (Cowdery 1999, p ... anonymous reviewers of Cultural Studies, along with Mary Heath, Deb King, Chris Beasley, Rebecca Stringer and Rod Butlin ...
This article presents a critical commentary on the documentary Scarlet Road (2011). Scarlet Road ... more This article presents a critical commentary on the documentary Scarlet Road (2011). Scarlet Road promotes the value of sex work as a special service for disabled people (primarily men), and in the process addresses the stigma and marginalisation faced by both disabled people and sex workers. We argue that through its reiteration of discursive stereotypes of gender, sexuality, and disability, Scarlet Road unwittingly represents disabled people as undesirable and abject. While we oppose neither the legalisation of sex work nor the provision of access to sex services for disabled people, our position is that this does not provide an adequate solution to the exclusion of people with disabilities from sexual life. Thus, while campaigns to promote the value of sex work on the basis of its importance for the sexual rights of people with disabilities functions as a useful way to improve the image of sex workers, they simultaneously reflect and produce harmful stereotypes about disability.
Investigates what marriage is and does, and how the changing shape of institutional marriage has ... more Investigates what marriage is and does, and how the changing shape of institutional marriage has had a range of social effects.
The phrase ‘dark tourism’ was coined by Lennon and Foley (2000) to describe a relatively new kind... more The phrase ‘dark tourism’ was coined by Lennon and Foley (2000) to describe a relatively new kind of sight-seeing; one that attends sites of death, disaster and despair. This essay intertwines personal memoir and scholarly critique to reflect on prisons as places for dark tourism, and imprisonment more generally. Its fundamental contention is that as tourist attractions, former prisons have complex histories that resist easy digestion. More than 20 years ago, the author was
a regular visitor to a now defunct South Australian gaol, and recently revisited the place in its current incarnation as a tourist attraction. This experience informs her argument that stories told
in and by prison museums are both easily trivialised and dangerously partial. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are respectfully advised that this essay includes some discussion of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and mentions the names and circumstances
of several Aboriginal men’s deaths (as they were reported in the RCIACID).
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a regular visitor to a now defunct South Australian gaol, and recently revisited the place in its current incarnation as a tourist attraction. This experience informs her argument that stories told
in and by prison museums are both easily trivialised and dangerously partial. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are respectfully advised that this essay includes some discussion of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and mentions the names and circumstances
of several Aboriginal men’s deaths (as they were reported in the RCIACID).
a regular visitor to a now defunct South Australian gaol, and recently revisited the place in its current incarnation as a tourist attraction. This experience informs her argument that stories told
in and by prison museums are both easily trivialised and dangerously partial. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are respectfully advised that this essay includes some discussion of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and mentions the names and circumstances
of several Aboriginal men’s deaths (as they were reported in the RCIACID).