Theorising the Nonhuman
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Rhiannon Galla, PhD Candidate, School of Sociology, The Australian National University Larry Saha Seminar Room 2175, Level 2, Haydon-Allen Building, The Australian National University The field of animal studies in the social sciences and humanities places a focus on our relations with the…
Australian Political Rhetoric: Everyday Political Theory
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Dr Ryan Walter, School of Politics & International Relations, ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences Larry Saha Seminar Room 2175, Level 2, Haydon-Allen Building, The Australian National University This paper investigates two rhetorical strategies deployed in debates over the budget…
A theatre of individuation: theorising bioart encounters after Gilbert
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Systematically Stupid but Resilient: How Organisations Assemble Risk and Resist Contestations in the Nuclear Power Sector in India
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Catherine Wong, Doctoral Candidate, School of Sociology, The Australian National University. Larry Saha Seminar Room 2175, Level 2, Haydon-Allen Building, The Australian National University Research on social organisation and risk have shown that the bounded nature of organisational…
Agents for whom? Causative agency and the notion of principal in social psychological theories
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Kari Mikko Vesala, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Larry Saha Seminar Room 2175, Level 2, Haydon-Allen Building, The Australian National University, According to sociologists Meyer and Jepperson (2000), the cultural system constructs the modern actor as an authorized…
The Political Power of Big Business: The Big Miners and the Mining Tax
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Chris Lewis, David Marsh and Jenny Chester, University of Canberra Larry Saha Seminar Room 2175, Level 2, Haydon-Allen Building, The Australian National University According to Treasurer Wayne Swan, the super-wealthy, notably mining magnates Clive Palmer, Andrew Forrest and Gina Rinehart, are…
Classifying People, Classifying Diseases: Boundary Work in Discourses of Social and Health Policies
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Karel Čada, ANU Centre for European Studies Larry Saha Seminar Room 2175, Level 2, Haydon-Allen Building, The Australian National University. Justification in public discourse is an inevitable part of the process whereby states enforce reductions in the amount of benefits…