ORCID Profile
0000-0002-0014-3189
Current Organisation
Deakin University
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Race and Ethnic Relations | Sociology | Studies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Society | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Anthropology
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Civics and Citizenship | International Aid and Development | Employment Patterns and Change |
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2013
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 16-08-2019
DOI: 10.22459/LLCP.2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-02-2017
Abstract: The emergence of ‘social cohesion’ as a policy concept in various Western states has been widely understood as part of a backlash against multiculturalism. This article applies an anthropological lens to the implementation of an Australian project to engage young people in order to ‘strengthen social cohesion’ in outer metropolitan Melbourne. Ethnographic analysis of the project lends empirical support to key critiques of the social cohesion paradigm, including the deployment of ‘community’ as a technology of cultural governance, the obscuring of socio-economic conditions and issues of social justice, and the foreclosing of any understanding of conflict as a potential social good. Some of the tensions evident in the project, however, are reflective not of recent shifts but rather of long-running dynamics in the governance of cultural difference. Thus, the article argues, narratives of a ‘multiculturalism backlash’ capture significant changes but also risk obscuring critical continuities in the exercise of governmentality.
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 22-03-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2023
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 16-08-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2022
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 16-08-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-08-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-08-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-11-2022
DOI: 10.1111/JOAC.12524
Abstract: Drawing on long‐term ethnographic fieldwork with Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP) workers in south‐east Australia, I reflect in this paper on the experience of interminable temporariness and on its implications for the structural conditions underpinning contemporary horticultural labour in Australia. Although in many ways reflective of the specificities of a unique historical moment, the interminable temporariness experienced through the COVID‐19 pandemic also speaks to broader, enduring conditions produced within contemporary Australian agriculture. Here, the restructuring of the agri‐industry produces for many what Lauren Berlant describes as the “impasse” or “crisis ordinariness” of life under neoliberalism. At the same time, logics of development—including racialized imaginaries and border regimes—articulate with agricultural guest worker schemes in ways that seek to fix whole populations and regions in relations of suspended hope. In this context, I argue, the pandemic exposed and intensified structural vulnerabilities and unequal distributions of risk, which are encoded in the political economy of farm work in Australia, while also cleaving open new, if tentative, possibilities for agency and solidarity.
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-3155-0_4
Abstract: As international borders closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian horticultural industry experienced a dramatic reduction of key groups of workers upon which it has come to depend, particularly at harvest. These labour shortages focused public attention on the importance of seasonal labour for horticultural production and the availability of fresh fruit and produce, resulting in a paradoxical revaluation of that work. On the one hand, seasonal farm work was revalued as essential labour, and migrant workers were acknowledged as critical to Australia’s food security. On the other hand, the increased visibility of seasonal farm work highlighted its systematic de valuing as so-called unskilled work that is done for low wages, under often poor conditions, and that is widely figured through racialized narratives. Faced with the prospect of critical labour shortages, both industry and government sought—and largely failed—to reinscribe the terms by which seasonal labour was imagined in attempts to make it attractive to “local” workers. What resulted was an entrenching of uneven distributions of precarity, risk and vulnerability along the fault lines of race and migration status.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-03-2021
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-3155-0_1
Abstract: Global food supply chains, we have been told often in recent years, are in crisis. How much, though, does this language of crisis—as particular, contextual, temporally bound—suffice to describe the conditions of the present? This chapter, and the book it introduces, take the COVID-19 pandemic as a springboard to interrogate a larger set of structural, environmental and political fault lines running through the global food system. In a context in which disruptions to the production, distribution and consumption of food are figured as exceptions to the smooth, just-in-time efficiencies of global supply chains, we examine the pandemic not simply as a particular and acute moment of disruption but rather as a lens on a deeper, longer set of structural processes within which disruption is endemic. At a time when it is more likely to be grasped in terms of speculative investment than as a common good, food offers a vital prism for grappling with the logics by which power circulates in the world. Attending to this constellation of forces calls for attention to supply chains as key mechanisms in the organization of the capitalist food system but also demands that we extend our thinking beyond the bounded linearities of supply chain models.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-11-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-10-2015
DOI: 10.1111/TAJA.12174
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Date: 16-10-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2015
Start Date: 2018
End Date: 2021
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2015
End Date: 2021
Funder: Toyota Foundation
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2018
End Date: 2020
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 05-2018
End Date: 05-2024
Amount: $351,996.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2018
End Date: 12-2022
Amount: $497,807.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded Activity