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Regional Integration In Asia And The Contribution Of Smes: A Review Of The Key Issues And Policy Imperatives, Charles Harvie Jan 2008

Regional Integration In Asia And The Contribution Of Smes: A Review Of The Key Issues And Policy Imperatives, Charles Harvie

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Over the past decade the economies of East Asia and APEC more generally have beenincreasingly opening up their markets, and in the process have achieved significantgains in exports and economic growth. In conjunction with this increased economicintegration, there has been increased recognition by regional governments of thepotential for a substantial increase in the participation by small businesses in thegeneration of regional income, employment, exports, investment and expandedeconomic growth. Advances in information and communications technology addcredence to this potential. In addition, developing economies are especially seeingsmall businesses as potential instruments for the alleviation of poverty and regionaldevelopment. While in developed economies …

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The Case Study Methodology In Place Management Research And Practice, Gregory M. Kerr, Gary I. Noble, John Glynn Jan 2008

The Case Study Methodology In Place Management Research And Practice, Gregory M. Kerr, Gary I. Noble, John Glynn

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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assist those in the relatively new field of place management to undertake sound and appropriate research for which there is a current need. Approach: This paper identifies and provides an interpretation of key terms associated with research in the social and behavioural sciences and then recommends the case study methodology as being appropriate for research in place management. Findings: Based on a review of the literature this paper offers a viewpoint about the meaning and application of the terms ‘methodology’, ‘methods,’ ‘ways’, ‘strategies’ and ‘approaches’ when they are applied to research. Research …

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Government And Family Guanxi In Chinese Private Enterprises, Guibin Zhang, Zhong Qin Jan 2008

Government And Family Guanxi In Chinese Private Enterprises, Guibin Zhang, Zhong Qin

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Domestic private enterprises have dramatically re-emerged in China's unique transition from a planned to a market-oriented economy, where the private sector plays an increasingly important role. Over the last quarter of a century, there has been a decline in 'red-hat' enterprises and an increased dominance of family businesses among private enterprises.This paper employs the concept of trust, which stems from traditional culture and comprises two important components (government and family), to investigate the changing patterns of corporate governance. The core argument of this paper is that family trust is replacing government trust within Chinese private enterprises. The study of the …

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Wineries' Involvement In Promoting Tourism Online: The Case Of Texas, Leslie Rasch, Ulrike Gretzel Jan 2008

Wineries' Involvement In Promoting Tourism Online: The Case Of Texas, Leslie Rasch, Ulrike Gretzel

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Wine tourism has become an important driver of business for wineries in many regionsaround the world, while Texas wine regions are only starting to emerge as important tourism destinations.A study was conducted to investigate how effectively Texas wineries market tourism to their ownestablishments as well as in a regional context. A specific focus was placed on indications of collaborativewine tourism marketing practices on winery websites. The results indicate that wineries providebasic visitor information but are missing out on strategic opportunities to market wine tourism to theirareas.

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Identifying The Pattern Of International Stock Return Co-Movements, Abbas Valadkhani, Surachai Chancharat, Charles Harvie Jan 2008

Identifying The Pattern Of International Stock Return Co-Movements, Abbas Valadkhani, Surachai Chancharat, Charles Harvie

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This paper investigates the relationships between stock market returns of 13 countries based upon monthly data spanning December 1987 to April 2007. SpecifIcally, the principal component (PC) and maximum likelihood (ML) methods are used to examine any discernable patterns of stock market co-movements. Factor analysis provides evidence that stock returns in a number of Asian countries are highly correlated and, based on the resulting robust frictor loadings, they fbrm the first well-defined common factor. We also find consistent results (bused on both the PC and ML methods,) suggesting that the stock returns of all global developed economy stock markets are …

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Deconstruction And The Medieval Indefinite Article: The Undecidable Medievalism Of Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale, Louise D'Arcens Jan 2008

Deconstruction And The Medieval Indefinite Article: The Undecidable Medievalism Of Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale, Louise D'Arcens

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Studies in medievalism have made inroads into questioning the forensic impulse to restore, know, and possess the medieval past. And yet many of these studies continue to exhibit anxiety about anachronism within medievalist texts, and persist in privileging the medieval' original' as the 'transcendental signified' that determines what is pennissible in medievalist adaptations. By examining Brian Helgeland's provocatively anachronistic film A Knight's Tale,.we gain insight into the residual Platonism within studies ofmedievalist film, which continue to evaluate these films' fidelity to a medieval zeitgeist. A deconstmctive approach to Helgeland's film, however, allows us to challenge the devaluation of the medievalist …

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Representations Of Women In Six Japanese Folk Tales, Elizabeth Thomson Jan 2008

Representations Of Women In Six Japanese Folk Tales, Elizabeth Thomson

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Folk tales are a valuable means of socializing children into the accepted cultural practices and beliefs in any given society. They are designed to entertain but also "to reflect and disclose our cultural presuppositions and values" (Toolan 1998:164). However, just what these values are depends on the nature and priorites of the culture in which they occur.

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Selective Marketing For Environmentally Sustainable Tourism, Sara Dolnicar, Friedrich Leisch Jan 2008

Selective Marketing For Environmentally Sustainable Tourism, Sara Dolnicar, Friedrich Leisch

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The natural environment represents the main resource for many tourism destinations and tourists are increasingly interested in spending their vacation in unspoilt natural areas. Consequently, destination managers are under increased pressure to implement ecologically sustainable practices. Selective targeting of tourists has been proposed as one approach to sustainable destination management, but the feasibility of this approach remains untested. Therein lies the contribution of this study. Results from a survey of 1000 Australians indicated that market segments based on past environmentally friendly behaviour at the destination represent distinct groups with respect to psychographic, behavioural and socio-demographic personal characteristics. These explanatory variables …

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Keeping Up Appearances: The Quest For Governance Legitimacy, Graham Bowrey Jan 2008

Keeping Up Appearances: The Quest For Governance Legitimacy, Graham Bowrey

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An effective corporate governance structure is as crucial to a public sector organisation as it is to a private sector organisation. This paper reviews the profile of directors on governance boards of government controlled organisations and finds that, while the governance structures are similar with those in the private sector, the real power to set the strategic, financial and operational directions of these organisations is not in the hands of the directors, as it is in the private sector, but in the hands of the responsible ministers. This de-coupling, it is argued, is due to the perception that private sector …

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Biotechnology Integration As A Sociology Of Innovation, L. J. Daniel, Patrick Dawson Jan 2008

Biotechnology Integration As A Sociology Of Innovation, L. J. Daniel, Patrick Dawson

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Understanding the sociological process by which innovations are developed and adopted provides an interesting challenge for managers and marketers. In practical terms, recognizing the various intangible social influences that modulate innovation development and uptake requires a flexible framework which enables the variable stakeholder contributions to be taken into account. Research into the Australian biotechnology industry has provided valuable insight into the social processes in the development and integration of these innovations. Evidence from the industry reveals integration was a dynamic social process directed by the multiple agendas of participating stakeholders. The social foundation of integration activities was strongly reliant on …

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Lost And Found: Social Innovation And Occupational Health And Safety In Organizations, M. Zanko, Patrick Dawson Jan 2008

Lost And Found: Social Innovation And Occupational Health And Safety In Organizations, M. Zanko, Patrick Dawson

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Despite the wealth of material on occupational health and safety (OHS) there remains an ongoing tragic toll on workers. Governments of the more industrialised economies have sought to address this problem through launching a raft of legislative changes. However, implementation of these mandates generally rests with management and whilst procedural regulations are broadly adhered to, more innovative solutions to OHS issues at work have been absent. In this paper we provide a brief overview of developments, debates and studies in OHS and through drawing on the concept of social innovation toward a more holistic organizational model of OHS management.

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‘Primary Care' Presentations At Emergency Departments - Rates And Reasons By Age And Sex, Peter M. Siminski, Andrew J. Bezzina, L. P. Lago, Kathy Eagar Jan 2008

‘Primary Care' Presentations At Emergency Departments - Rates And Reasons By Age And Sex, Peter M. Siminski, Andrew J. Bezzina, L. P. Lago, Kathy Eagar

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'Primary care' presentations at Emergency Departments (EDs) have been the subject of much attention in recent years. This paper is a demographic analysis of such presentations in New South Wales EDs and of self-reported reasons for presentation.

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Segmenting Tourists Based On Satisfaction And Satisfaction Patterns, Sara Dolnicar, H. Le Jan 2008

Segmenting Tourists Based On Satisfaction And Satisfaction Patterns, Sara Dolnicar, H. Le

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Market segmentation has a long history in empirical tourism research. So does satisfaction research. Yet, little work has been done at the cross-roads of these two areas. This chapter makes a step towards filling this gap by (1) reviewing prior work in data-driven market segmentation with a specific focus on satisfaction, (2) analysing managerial recommendations resulting from these studies, and (3) providing empirical examples of how commonsense and data-driven segmentation studies could be conducted using satisfaction as discriminating criterion between tourists.

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Cross-Cultural Comparisons Of Tourist Satisfaction: Assessing Analytical Robustness, Sara Dolnicar, Bettina Grun, Huong Le Jan 2008

Cross-Cultural Comparisons Of Tourist Satisfaction: Assessing Analytical Robustness, Sara Dolnicar, Bettina Grun, Huong Le

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Response styles can distort survey findings. Culture-specific response styles (CSRS) are particularly problematic to cross-cultural and empirical tourism researchers using multi-cultural samples because the resulting data contamination can lead to inaccurate conclusions about the research question under study. This is particularly the case when constructs such as satisfaction are measured, which are difficult to operationalise. Nevertheless, possible culture-specific response style effects are typically ignored, thus jeopardizing the validity of reported findings. This chapter raises awareness of the problem, illustrates the problem empirically and presents a method that enables researchers to assess the robustness of empirical findings on cross-cultural differences in …

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Social Capital Renewal And The Academic Performance Of International Students In Australia, Frank V. Neri, Simon Ville Jan 2008

Social Capital Renewal And The Academic Performance Of International Students In Australia, Frank V. Neri, Simon Ville

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Many believe that social capital fosters the accumulation of human capital. Yet international university students arrive in their host country generally denuded of social capital and confronted by unfamiliar cultural and educational institutions. This study investigates how, and to what extent, international students renew their social networks, and whether such investments are positively associated with academic performance. We adopt a social capital framework and conduct a survey of international students at a typical Australian university in order to categorise and measure investments in social capital renewal, and test a multivariate model of academic performance that includes social capital variables, amongst …

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Real Interest Rate Interdependence Among The G7 Nations: Does Real Interest Parity Hold?, Bruce Felmingham, Arusha V. Cooray Jan 2008

Real Interest Rate Interdependence Among The G7 Nations: Does Real Interest Parity Hold?, Bruce Felmingham, Arusha V. Cooray

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We evaluate the extent of real interest rate interdependence among three month treasury bill rates of the G7. Monthly data over the period 1970(1) to 2003(12) is subjected to recursive estimation of a cointegrating equation. The evidence suggests a high degree of interdependence between the G7 interest rates with the degree of integration increasing over the sample period. Tests for parameter constancy highlight the disruptive effects of the first oil price shock although the impacts on financial markets of the September 11 and the attack occurrence of the Asian crisis have limited impacts. The evidence for the presence of a …

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Aboriginal Ageing And Disability Issues In South West And Inner West Sydney, Terri Farrelly, Bronwyn Lumby Jan 2008

Aboriginal Ageing And Disability Issues In South West And Inner West Sydney, Terri Farrelly, Bronwyn Lumby

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The Department of Ageing, Disability & Home Care (DADHC) recently sought to conduct a needs analysis and develop resources that would provide the Sydney Metro South region with tools to assist in planning for service development activities, Home and Community Care (HACC) planning processes, and project development around access issues in Aboriginal communities. The Echidna Group Indigenous Research & Development Consultancy was externally contracted by Campbelltown City Council, and by Inner West Aboriginal Community Company, to complete the project objectives for the DADHC South West and Inner West Sydney Local Planning Areas. This article reports the results of community consultation …

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Becoming Postcolonial: Getting Lost With Stephen Muecke's No Road And Retelling Australia, Lisa Slater Jan 2008

Becoming Postcolonial: Getting Lost With Stephen Muecke's No Road And Retelling Australia, Lisa Slater

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Stephen Muecke's No Road (1997) is a travel book that generates profoundly new ways of fuinking about Australia. Muecke proposes that if Australia is to become postcolonial d1an we must change the stories we tell and the way d1at we tell them. To take up the challenge he transforms the archetypal journey into a road that leads nowhere and explores instead an Australia overflowing with stories and potentiality. No Road is a hybrid text that weaves together Muecke's real and imagined travels throughout Australia, travels in which he pursues a dialogue between Indigenous and non-Indigenous histories. It is an experimental …

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Formal And Informal Gender Quotas In State-Building: The Case Of The Sahara Arab Democratic Republic, S. Rossetti Jan 2008

Formal And Informal Gender Quotas In State-Building: The Case Of The Sahara Arab Democratic Republic, S. Rossetti

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In the last fifteen years peacebuilding and gender sensitive approaches have been promoted in order to restore some form of stability in places emerging from conflicts. Recent literature on armed conflicts, women and peacebuilding claims that the international community has still not given sufficient attention to the means by which women’s participation could be enhanced, but the recent introduction of gender quotas system in many post-conflict countries, seems to succeed in elevating political representation of women. Saharawi refugee women, during the latest parliamentarian election in February 2008, increased their representation to over 30%. The introduction of women quotas at province …

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Rescue Public Schools Not Corporate Profiteers, Anthony Ashbolt Jan 2008

Rescue Public Schools Not Corporate Profiteers, Anthony Ashbolt

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Kevin Rudd's vigorous attack upon “extreme capitalism” revealed he does not understand the nature of the current crisis. This is not a meltdown caused purely and simply by rogue traders, bizarre mortgage lending, gross corporate salaries and payouts and, in general, the politics of greed. All those are symptoms of a much more systemic disease. That disease is the ideology of privatisation and deregulation, an ideology Rudd has shown no inclination to buck. This Government's persistent embrace of neoliberal ideology and practice is highlighted by its school funding policy and also its market-driven approach to schooling policy in general.

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Making It Accessible: Mary Alice Evatt And Australian Modernist Art, Melissa Boyde Jan 2008

Making It Accessible: Mary Alice Evatt And Australian Modernist Art, Melissa Boyde

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In his autobiography art historian Bernard Smith recounts how, as a young art teacher posted to a school at Murraguldrie in country New South Wales (NSW) in the mid 1930s, he tried unsuccessfully to borrow books on modern art from the country lending service of the State Public Library. On a visit to Sydney he made an appointment to see the NSW Chief Librarian W. H. Ifould, “a man of considerable power and influence in New South Wales” who was also a trustee of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW). Smith took to the meeting the small …

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Mapping Literature Infrastructure In Australia, Wenche Ommundsen, Michael Jacklin Jan 2008

Mapping Literature Infrastructure In Australia, Wenche Ommundsen, Michael Jacklin

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This report, a partnership project co-funded by the University of Wollongong and the Australia Council for the Arts, presents findings from research into the literature infrastructure of Australia. ‘Literature infrastructure’ refers to the organisations within the literature sector that actively support writers and their work: state writers’ centres, Varuna – The Writers’ Centre, the Australian Society of Authors, literary journals, genrebased organisations, and writers’ festivals. The study aims to determine where each organisation sits in the ‘supply chain’ of support and what contribution it makes to the literature sector as a whole: what services and opportunities are offered to writers, …

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Save Public Schools, Not Corporate Fat Cats, Anthony Ashbolt Jan 2008

Save Public Schools, Not Corporate Fat Cats, Anthony Ashbolt

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Kevin Rudd's vigorous attack upon "extreme capitalism" revealed he does not understand the nature of the current crisis. This is not a meltdown caused purely and simply by rogue traders, bizarre mortgage lending, gross corporate salaries and payouts and, in general, the politics of greed. All those are symptoms of a much more systemic disease. That disease is the ideology of privatisation and deregulation, an ideology Mr Rudd has shown no inclination to challenge. This Government's persistent embrace of neo-liberal ideology and practice is highlighted by its school funding policy and also its market-driven approach to schooling policy in general.

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Planet Hallyuwood's Political Vulnerabilities: Censuring The Expression Of Satire In The President's Last Bang (2005), Brian M. Yecies Jan 2008

Planet Hallyuwood's Political Vulnerabilities: Censuring The Expression Of Satire In The President's Last Bang (2005), Brian M. Yecies

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South Korea's cinema has recently enjoyed a Golden Age that has opened up new spaces for creative and cultural expression in Korea and probably in the larger Asia-Pacific region. Domestic market share of local films, lucrative pre-sales, a robust screen quota and fresh genre-bending narratives and styles have attracted admiration in Korea and abroad. However, since its peak of success in late 2005 and early 2006, extreme competition between domestic films, piracy and illegal downloading, halving of the screen quota and the erosion of ancillary markets have impacted on the industry's ability to sustain vitality and profitability. Among the challenges …

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'The Last Thing One Might Expect': The Mediaeval Court At The 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition, Louise D'Arcens Jan 2008

'The Last Thing One Might Expect': The Mediaeval Court At The 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition, Louise D'Arcens

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In his preface to the Guide to the Intercolonial Exhibition of 1866, the exhibition's commissioner John George Knight concludes by underlining the event's principal significance as a showcase for colonial commercial and industrial achievement: The great aim of an Exhibition is to give the fullest possible notoriety to new manufactures and processes, and bring the manufacturer and inventor more closely into contact with the merchant, speculator, and capitalist; and, by this most practical method of advertising, to enlarge the basis of trade.1 Given this avowedly mercantile and progressivist vision—a vision borne out by the numerous displays of colonial manufacture—it might …

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Consultation And Critique: Implementing Cultural Protocols In The Reading Of Collaborative Indigenous Life Writing, Michael Jacklin Jan 2008

Consultation And Critique: Implementing Cultural Protocols In The Reading Of Collaborative Indigenous Life Writing, Michael Jacklin

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Anyone working towards the publication of indigenous life narratives is aware of the significance of cultural protocols to both the narrative exchange and the writing and editing process. In the telling and the writing of an indigenous life story, protocols determining what gets told – where, when, to whom, or for whom – influence and sometimes complicate decisions regarding the final published narrative. This is the case whether the subject of the life narrative is the writer or whether the narrative is mediated by others. Indigenous protocols – including authority and moral rights over indigenous narratives and culture, kinship rights …

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Governing Global Slums: The Biopolitics Of Target 11, Timothy Dimuzio Jan 2008

Governing Global Slums: The Biopolitics Of Target 11, Timothy Dimuzio

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Recent literature has focused on the ways in which civil society organizations are contributing to practices of global governance in an era of neoliberalism. As UN Habitat has pointed out, what has also coincided with the shift to neoliberalism is the proliferation and growth of global slums. As slums have become an increasingly widespread form of human settlement, a global campaign to improve the life of slum dwellers has emerged under the Millennium Development Goals. In this article, I argue that this project can be conceived of as a biopolitical campaign where nongovernmental and community-based organizations are viewed as a …

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Reporting Armistice: Grammatical Evidence And Semantic Implications Of Diachronic Context Shifts, Claire Scott Jan 2008

Reporting Armistice: Grammatical Evidence And Semantic Implications Of Diachronic Context Shifts, Claire Scott

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Journalists reporting war have increasingly been embedded with military units, especially in the recent Iraq War (e.g. Cottle, 2006: 76; Tumber, 2004). Being ‘on the ground’ amongst the action might suggest that the news produced is more strongly ‘grounded in reality’ than reports constructed in the newsroom from news ‘off the wire’. However, this investigation of seven armistice reports from the Sydney Morning Herald spanning a century (1902-2003) suggests that there has been a gradual shift away from strongly grounded, accountable reporting towards engaging, crafted prose. Across the archive of these texts, the patterning of circumstantial elements reflects shifts in …

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Paper(Less) Selves : The Refugee In Contemporary Textual Culture, Tony Simoes Da Silva Jan 2008

Paper(Less) Selves : The Refugee In Contemporary Textual Culture, Tony Simoes Da Silva

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Refugees, the human waste of the global frontier-land, are the 'outsiders incarnate', the absolute outsiders, outsiders everywhere and out of place everywhere except in places that are themselves out of place - the 'nowhere places' that appear on the maps used by ordinary humans on their travels. (Zygmunt Bauman 2004 80)

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The Utilization Of Discourses Of Femininity By Japanese Politicians: Tanaka Makiko Case Study, Emma Dalton Jan 2008

The Utilization Of Discourses Of Femininity By Japanese Politicians: Tanaka Makiko Case Study, Emma Dalton

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This paper investigates the gendering of politicians’ identities and considers the dominant Japanese discourses of femininity and their relationship to female politicians. Taking the former foreign minister, Tanaka Makiko (April 2001—February 2002), as an example, this paper discusses how female politicians in Japan strategically use gendered discourses to further their political aims, and how the public and other politicians apply their preconceived notions of femininity to women in public positions of power. Tanaka both adopted and subverted discourses of femininity in her political ambitions by utilising the housewife identity while simultaneously resisting certain stereotypical behaviours associated with femininity. This paper …

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