Surveillance ambiguities and the practice of care
Seminar
The implicit ambiguity of surveillance as both control and care has been a key theoretical issue in social science research on surveillance practices and technologies since the foundational work of Michel Foucault. This issue also reflects a prevalent socio-technical perspective in which a central…
The Politics of Field Work in the Middle East: Balancing Ethics and Research Transparency
Seminar
Access to in-country research sites in the Middle East has become increasingly difficult over the past few years, as post-Arab Spring authoritarianism and coercive governance tactics deepen. Foreign researchers must now navigate a space in which their work is viewed through a securitised lens, and…
Schuman Lecture - Europe at the Crossroads: Global Power or Also-Ran?
Lecture
The director of the European Council on Foreign Relations wrote recently that Europe could become either ‘a co-equal power in a tripolar world’ – or ‘roadkill in a Sino-American game of chicken’. How well Europe’s major players address, collectively and individually, their current serious political…
Party Quotas and Gender Differences in Pathways to Run for Office in Australia: 1987-2016
Seminar
The under-representation of women in Australian politics has led both major political parties to adopt different strategies to increase the number of women candidates. The Australian Labor Party (ALP) adopted successive internal party quotas aiming at increasing the percentage of women candidates.…
Patrick Mullins: Reflections on Tiberius with a Telephone
Workshop
Monash University academic James Walter once wrote that it is common for biographers to dive into their work, encounter the typical, everyday issues of biography, and afterward to engage in a sort of ‘anguished methodological essay’ that only manages to repeat, with minor variation, what Lytton…
Higher Education and Youth Migration in the Context of Human Development in Indonesia
Seminar
Presented as part of the School of Demography seminar series As a country that currently focus on accelerating its human capital development, Indonesia faces challenges in regards to imbalanced distribution of its highly-educated population across regions. Since the highly-educated population are…
Dr Quynh Nguyen - Urbanites’ Attitudes towards Environmental Migration: Evidence from Kenya and Vietnam
Seminar
Urbanites’ Attitudes towards Environmental Migration: Evidence from Kenya and Vietnam The displacement of large numbers of people due to the increasing intensity of extreme weather events, sea-level rise and the deterioration of environmental conditions is one of the most salient consequences of…