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…
Fossil habits, virtual habits: practice theory and social transformation
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Dr David Bissell, ARC DECRA Research Fellow, School of Sociology, The Australian National University. Larry Saha Seminar Room 2175, Level 2, Haydon-Allen Building, The Australian National University. In his brilliant exposition of the torsion of voluntary and involuntary action…
The Caliph, the Imam and the mates: Cyber Islam and the formation of second generation migrant's national identity in Australia
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Ghada Wadeisa, PhD Candidate, School of Sociology, ANU, Larry Saha Room, Haydon Allen Building #2175 "Googling God" is the term used by a second generation participants to describe his online activity with Cyber Islam. Cyber Islam represent a new pathways of interactivity and interconnection among…
The five faces of social inclusion: Theory and methods underpinning approaches to the measurement of social inclusion for children with disabilities
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Rebecca Taylor, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Sociology, ANU, Larry Saha Room, Haydon Allen Building #2175 ‘Social inclusion’ is increasingly identified within key policy documents as a desired outcome for people with disabilities. Consequently, service providers are looking for methods which can…
Resilience and Societal Security: Change, (Dis)order and Disaster Management
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Dr Peter Rogers 'Climate Futures' Co-Director, Department of Sociology, Macquarie University, Larry Saha Room, Haydon Allen Building #2175 Resilience is now a central policy metaphor in dealing with danger. Resilient ways of thinking, doing and acting are increasingly at the heart of attempts to…
Implications of flat ontologies: rethinking responsibility and sustainability within ‘new materialism’
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Catherine Ayres, Phd Candidate School of Sociology, ANU, Larry Saha Room, Haydon-Allen Building # 2175 Materialism is being reinvigorated. Again. Through the works of theorists such as Jane Bennett and Diana Coole, ‘new materialism’ attempts to foreground and examine the material…
Smiling for Control in Theory
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Kaima Negishi PhD Candidate, Sociology ANU, Larry Saha Room, Haydon-Allen #2175 This paper will look at how the ‘affective’ gesture of smiling has been deployed to modulate passengers’ feelings, emotions and affects in Japanese railway stations today. In late-capitalist economies, a growing number…