http://hdl.handle.net/10453/120 2013-05-20T13:38:45Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/16723 Pauline McLeod: The Magpie who became a Swan - finding salvation in culture Luckhurst Simon Read, Peter; Peters-Little, Frances; Haebich, Anna Pauline McLeod was an Aboriginal performer, writer and storyteller who, at the time of her death at the age of 43 in 2003, left an archive of 34 boxes of writing: poems, diaries, notes, playscripts, film ideas and letters. Amongst the completed scripts and story drafts were also many examples of jotted notes and ideas, phrases and paragraphs, mostly undated. Also amidst the ephemera of her life were bus tickets, electricity bills and birthday cards, as well as a few letters, reports and reviews pertaining to Pauline but authored by other people. After she died her brothers cleared her flat, packing her things into the boxes. They were hoping that someone would use this material to tell Pauline¿s life story, and after being contacted by a mutual friend I have now spent some time working on the project. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/2303 Historicising Whiteness: Captain Cook Possesses Australia Schlunke Katrina Boucher, Leigh; Carey, Jane; Ellinghaus, Katherine The papers presented in this collection emerged from a conference on 'Historicising Whiteness' held at the University of Melbourne in November 2006. This gathering was inspired by a realisation that, while studies of whiteness have proliferated across numerous disciplines, there had not to date been a major scholarly meeting specifically devoted to a broad examination of the intersections between whiteness and history. The conference drew together a broad range of scholars interested in teasing out the promise, or otherwise, of this field for historians. Traversing a wide variety of theoretical concepts, countries, periods and methodologies, it explicitly set out to move beyond the North American focus which has been a feature of scholarship in this area. Thus this collection brings together historians from Australia, New Zealand, North America, South Africa, Europe and Asia to focus on the development of the concept of whiteness through time, tracing the emergence and disappearance of this figuration of identity and power through both the modern and non-modern periods, and its growth into the powerful, international concept that now has currency across the world. 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/1583 Towards an auto-ethnography of an occupational therapist's published body of work Denshire Sally-Anne My inquiry into writing concerns the place of arts-based inquiry in the occupational therapy profession and ways in which auto-ethnography can potentially contribute to a critical reading of an occupational therapist’s published body of work. I am using writing as a method of inquiry, re-reading my publications written over two decades as occupational therapist at a metropolitan children’s hospital and, more recently, a regional university. My new writing intends to be fictive and poetic, problematising those institutional ways of knowing (and writing) that I have taken for granted. The autobiographical story boards are entitled “Always a writer”, “Being a therapist” and “Becoming academic”. The new corpus will be a collection of untold stories from an autoethnographic inquiry into my published body of work. My hope is that these untold stories may recover a counter-historical imagination for occupational therapy, opening space for more reflexive, ethical practice. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/1452 Gender and Political Interests: Taking Institutions Seriously Watson Virginia One of the most taken for-granted and yet widely disputed concepts in the analysis of political action is that of 'interests'. This paper argues, first, that in the traditional opposition between liberal and structural theories of politics, and the normative assessment of 'interests' each contains, there continues to be a characteristic tendency to treat 'interests' as though they are 'pre-given' phenomenon. The feminist political analysis which draws on these traditions remains prey to this tendency. Second, although more recent post-structuralist approaches to the study of gender, politics and policy analysis taken up by a number of feminist scholars are sensitive to the 'constructedness' of 'interests', accounts such as these require further development if we are to see 'interests' as more than simply discursive phenomenon. Third, I argue for an account of policy and political analysis in which the subject of gendered 'interests' is understood in terms of it being a particular 'problem of government' or 'governmentality'. This approach to the study of 'interests' seeks to examine both the institutional and the discursive processes through which the policies, institutions and practices of government problematise gendered 'interests'. 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z