With Gov 2.0 focusing on accessibility as an issue, the politics of the term become increasingly apparent. What Gov 2.0 does not mean is accessibility as it is understood by the disability or the ethnic movement. What ...

Lisa Harvey has worked with and for not-for-profit organisations for over 20 years. In 2000, she started Energetica, a purpose driven business working with not-for- profits and community sector organisations to help them ...

Based on surveys of all states except WA between 2001 and 2008, I examine (i) attitudes to racism and (ii) the reported experience of racism by statistical subdivisions and statistical divisions in Australia; and (iii) ...

Brief Biography: Columbia University Professor, Michael Taussig is one of the most innovative, distinguished, and socially engaged voices in cultural anthropology. An interdisciplinary thinker and engaging writer, Taussig's ...

Each of the papers in this session revolves around a central case study that explores a group of people’s relationships with their local environment: conservationists’ efforts to protect the endangered colony of little ...

Each of the papers in this session revolves around a central case study that explores a group of people’s relationships with their local environment: conservationists’ efforts to protect the endangered colony of little ...

The rapid growth of urban centres around the world is intimately bound up with global migration, which increases the multicultural diversity of these centres. The urban landscape changes to reflect the cultural interests ...

This book is about travelling, writing and taking photos. Max Pam the photographer travelled with Stephen Muecke, writer and student of cultures, in Madagascar in 2003. As they worked together, the idea of contingency took ...

Following the Cronulla riots, Muslim women have again found themselves targets of violence and abuse in public spaces. Meanwhile public figures claiming to defend women's rights have added to conflict by damning Islam as ...

This seminar is Part 2 of Seminar 2 of the 2007 Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Lecture Series. Linking the notion of culture with notions of citizenship to attempt to answer the question posed by Chris Ho in previous seminar, ...