The concept of the 'knowledge economy' is increasingly used to underpin education policy in developed countries. In Australia, it has been applied to post-compulsory education policy, with efforts to increase retention in ...

Political and social movements are both empowering and power-seeking: they seek both to mobilize civil society and overwhelm state institutions. As organisations they mobilize collective power, generating solidarities and ...

Management Theory and Organization Studies have promoted a series of representations, that have pervaded management thought and shaped managers actions. These have changed radically during the past century, and any ...

A group of HSC students in Sydney, Australia, average age 18 years participated in a 10 week pilot program of community-based exercise classes. The data revealed that for the students, the main reasons for attending included ...

This paper provides an overview of discourses of the movement for national reconciliation prevailing within the Australian socio-political context since the inception of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation in 1991, ...

The web of post-modern power appears nomadic, elusive and always elsewhere. Like our online presences, it has no obvious boundaries and appears as spirit-like, a magic life haunting the net and the world. Government becomes ...

Much recent scholarship on sexuality and urban spaces has focused on forms of urban governance. Within this literature an emerging body of work has begun to highlight how formal urban planning processes and regulations are ...

In Australia and elsewhere, much funding is invested in population health surveys and the epidemiological monitoring of populations. Yet there is little research about the impact of such surveys on health policy. This ...