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…
How Stigma3 prevents people with gambling problems from being and offered help by family, friends and acquaintances
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Dr Annie Carroll, ANU Centre for Gambling Research, Larry Saha Seminar Room 2175, Level 2, Haydon-Allen Building, The Australian National University The Beliefs and knowledge about problem gambling amongst high intensity players of gaming machines report (Carroll et al., 2012) found that people…
The Deployment of Informal Knowledge in Bangladeshi Flood Management
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Dr Brian R. Cook, Department of Resource Management and Geography, School of Land and Environment, University of Melbourne, Larry Saha Seminar Room 2175, Level 2, Haydon-Allen Building, The Australian National University, Amongst debates over the management of environmental risk, an important theme…
Against Obedience/For a Politics of Truth
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Associate Professor Henrik P. Bang, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen and Visiting Fellow, School of Sociology, The Australian National University. Larry Saha Seminar Room 2175, Level 2, Haydon-Allen Building, The Australian National University. There are…
Hatred, written small: disgust as the ordering principle of racialized spaces
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Dr Rachel Bloul, School of Sociology, The Australian National University Larry Saha Seminar Room 2175, Level 2, Haydon-Allen Building, The Australian National University In this paper, I am concerned with the role of disgust in racialized relations. Of particular importance is the role of…
‘A ticking time bomb unless we do our jobs properly’ – risk management in design of hazardous facilities
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Dr Jan Hayes, Senior Research Fellow, School of Sociology, The Australian National University. Larry Saha Seminar Room 2175, Level 2 Haydon-Allen Building. Investigations into the causes of man-made disasters have repeatedly shown that ongoing public safety depends on decisions made, often…
Cultural heritage and the mediation of identity, memory and historical narratives
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Dr Laurajane Smith, ARC Future Fellow, School of Archaeology & Anthropology, The Australian National University, Larry Saha Room 2175 Haydon-Allen Building The aim of this work is to document the way museum exhibitions and heritage sites are used to construct and negotiate social and cultural…