On the Politics and Poetics of Data Capture: Encodement, Transposure, Translation and Cyborgness
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Dr Gavin Smith, Senior Lecturer, Sociology ANU, Larry Saha Room, Haydon-Allen #2175 The everyday production of surveillance generates what has been termed ‘surveillance space’, an intermediary, technologically-facilitated, multi-dimensional zone of simulation where institutions and…
The coupling of rural communities with their economic base: agriculture, localism, and the discourse of self sufficiency
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Dr Anthony Hogan and Professor Stewart Lockie Monday 21st May, 2012, 1pm-2pm Larry Saha Room, Haydon-Allen #2175. In the context of the changing socioeconomic position of agriculture, this paper is concerned with the governmental relations associated with managing the decoupling of society from…
The Ethnic Penalty in the Labour Market: Potential Causes and Policy Options
Seminar
Dr Reza Hasmath Monday 14th May, 1pm - 2pm Larry Saha Room, Haydon-Allen #2175 This seminar looks at contemporary ethnic minority experiences in the labour market by focusing on describing the ‘ethnic penalty’ that emerges when analyzing the relationship between the educational and…
‘The Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux: monument, practice, meaning’
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Dr Shanti Sumartojo Monday 7th May, 2012 1pm- 2pm Larry Saha Room, Haydon-Allen #2175 National monuments are a particular form of public art rich with layered meanings. They bear the strong imprint of their creators and the symbolic language of the time in which they were built, whilst also seeking…
Bioethics and the Aesthetic Paradigm
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Dr Maria Hynes Monday 23rd April, 2012, 1pm-2pm Larry Saha Room, Haydon-Allen #2175 Much sociological discourse on biopolitics berates biological science for its authoritative and often sociologically naive accounts of life. Not only is the dominant, reductionist version…
Social science as evidence for policy:some personal reflections
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Prof Daniela Stehlik Monday 2nd April, 2012 1pm-2pm Larry Saha Room, Haydon-Allen #2175 ‘Evidence-based policy’ is a commonly recognised term which, like the tip of an iceberg, appears to suggest that there is a well constructed and rigorous scientific foundation which supports it. The term…
International standards for socially and environmentally responsible production: the case of the Philippine export banana industry
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Prof Stewart Lockie Monday 26th March, 1pm - 2pm Larry Saha Room, Haydon-Allen #2175 One of the more prominent shifts in the international regulatory terrain for food over recent years has been the rapid expansion of retailer-led production standards. Internationally, the most…