Protection and Promotion of Indigenous languages in Australia and Latin America
Webinar/Online
In both Australia and Latin America languages play an essential role in the daily lives of indigenous communities, not only as a tool for communication, education, social integration and development, but also as a repository for their unique identity, cultural history, traditions and memory.…
Seminar: Unpacking Australian social housing policy: Reified scarcity & the problem space of ‘need’
Seminar
ABSTRACT: This paper analyses how social housing provision is governed in Australia. Social housing is today a highly residualised sector due to a combination of declining public investment and the intensified targeting of available stock to households with the greatest need. I argue that…
Guiding principles for a new livelihood and work program in remote Indigenous Australia
Seminar
Link to Zoom Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jD8jhriOqA ‘Life must be understood backwards… but… it must be lived forwards.’ Søren Kierkegaard, Journals 164 (1843) The Abbott government’s Community Development Program (CDP) was announced as a replacement for the Gillard…
[POSTPONED] Which ways are we going? Notes on the sociology of class in Australia
Seminar
Pleaese note this event has now been postponed until 2022. Join Beck Pearse and Mike Beggs for 'Which ways are we going? Notes on the sociology of class in Australia' In 1983 Raewyn Connell published a book called Which Way is Up? The awkwardly titled collection of essays canvassed major…
Promoting (reflexive) methodological pluralism: An autoethnographic account of mapping the political science research on judicialization (Leila Kawar)
Seminar
Promoting methodological pluralism has been a major theme of discussion across multiple political science subfields. But, notably, qualitative methodologists have set forth meaningfully different visions of how this disciplinary norm should be implemented in practice, differing on whether emphasis…
October Majlis: Hostile Borders - Afghan Refugees and Uncertain Hospitality
Webinar/Online
Devastating scenes emerging from Kabul's international airport in mid-August provide a sharp reminder of the four-decade long crisis of displacement that has so profoundly impacted Afghanistan and given rise to a global Afghan diaspora. As the world once again contemplates the prospect of mass…
The public health impact of COVID-19 in Latin America – One year later
Webinar/Online
Join us for a webinar to follow-up the five-part series co-hosted last November by the ANU Centre for Mental Health Research (CMHR) and the Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS) on the diversity of responses to COVID-19 in a cross section of Latin American countries. The…