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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Rural Sociology | Counselling, Welfare and Community Services | Community Planning | Social and Cultural Geography | Urban and Regional Planning | Social Work | Environmental Management
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Ability and Disability | Carers' Development and Welfare | Ageing and Older People | Land and water management | Community services not elsewhere classified |
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Publications
Australian-Chinese families caring for elderly relatives
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 30-07-2012
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X12000657
Abstract: Caring for elderly relatives has predominately been explored from the standpoint of the needs and experiences of the hegemonic culture in multicultural countries like Australia, Canada and the United States of America. Australia, in particular, has paid scant attention to cultural and linguistically erse groups in relation to caring for the aged. In this paper we focus on Chinese-Australian families caring for elderly relatives. We explore the traditional value of filial piety which is said to underpin social norms and beliefs about caring for aged parents in Chinese cultures. Specifically we draw on four in-depth interviews with Chinese-Australian care-givers of elderly relatives to identify meanings of filial piety and practices of filial piety. Findings indicate that while filial piety is still an important value in caring for the aged, meanings about how to practise filial piety are changing and vary across families.
Experiencing and writing Indigeneity, rurality and gender: Australian reflections
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2009
Feminine sexualities in chick lit
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2012
Location and unlocation: Examining gender and telephony through autoethnographic textual and visual methods
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-0001
DOI: 10.1177/160940691301200120
Abstract: Studies on gender and telephony tend to be quantitative and depict the purposes for which women and men use mobile telephones and landlines. Qualitative studies on the topic predominantly rely on face-to-face interviews to examine how telephone use genders space. We suggest these traditional methods of data collection leave unexamined the emotional and social relationships that emerge and are enabled by telephone use, which at times reconfigure and gender social spaces. In this article we present a collaborative autoethnographic inquiry based on our own telephone lives. We introduce a reflexive visual and textual methodological design, specifically diary notes, memory work, and photography, developed from our lives as researcher and researched. We examine an important theme in our findings, the physical placement of the telephone and the phone holder's awareness of the physicality of the telephone, which illustrates the importance of our methodological choices. We show how the placement of the phone by the users both genders space and creates emotional spaces.
Social Capital and the Gendering of Differential IT Use
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-857-4.CH032
Abstract: Public information technology, as a term, implicitly suggests universal access by citizens to information through the use of technology. The concepts of social capital and the digital ide intersect in access to public information technology. Social inclusion or exclusion occurs as a consequence of the ways in which societies are stratified according to race, gender, (dis)ability, ethnicity and class. This chapter focuses on one aspect of stratification, gender and theorizes the gendering of differential access and use of information technologies. An understanding of gendered participation relevant to access to public information technology within the policy contexts for electronic government and social inclusion is important to inform public information technology policy, and service planning and delivery that are premised on the notion of universal access.
Tele-social work and mental health in rural and remote communities in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-11-2018
Abstract: Rural and remote communities often have complex and erse mental health needs and inadequate mental health services and infrastructure. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide an array of potentially innovative and cost-effective means for connecting rural and remote communities to specialist mental health practitioners, services, and supports, irrespective of physical location. However, despite this potential, a review of Australian and international literature reveals that ICT has not attained widespread uptake into social work practice or implementation in rural communities. This article reviews the social work literature on ICT, draws on research on tele-psychology and tele-education, and provides suggestions on how to enhance engagement with ICT by social workers to implement and provide mental health services and supports tailored to community values, needs, and preferences that are commensurate with the values of the social work profession.
Reading clay: The temporal and transformative potential of clay in contemporary scientific practice
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-01-2023
DOI: 10.1177/13591835221074159
Abstract: Clay has a long history in the global south and has been extensively studied by ‘Western’ social scientists particularly anthropologists and archeologists in relation to histories of earlier civilisations and cultural practices. Clay in relation to contemporary ‘science’ has received less attention in social science despite the emergence of the sub-discipline of ‘clay science’ and its increasing focus on clay to transform wide ranging aspects of social life. In this paper we work towards an exploration of clay in science. We begin with the question of ‘what is clay?’ from the perspective of a multidisciplinary group of scientists, whilst being alert to culturally located and past knowledges of clay that shape current scientific knowledges and practices. Drawing on interviews with six clay scientists we explore the ontological and epistemological process for scientists in ‘reading’ clay to reveal how clay is ‘classified’, ‘worked upon’ and ‘partnered’. Our findings suggest that clay comes into being for scientists by being read as an informational and temporal medium and agentic matter with transformative promise to remedy specific threats to human and environmental health.
Farming women, distress and drought: Intra‐actions and entanglements with matter
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2022
DOI: 10.1111/SORU.12388
Abstract: Farming women have rarely been the focus of scholarly work on drought and/or distress. This article focuses on farming women's lived experience of drought and distress, drawing on a participatory filmmaking project created by a small group of farming women from Southern Australia. Feminist materialism and Barad's (2003) concept of ‘intra‐action’ provides a useful lens to examine both the film as an artefact as well as the discussions among the women during its creation. Intra‐action enables an exploration of how farming women's bodies come into being as distressed in moments of time through and with drought as a complex constellation of multiple ‘matter’. The film and narratives show distressed bodies emerging with dust, wind, objects and the suffering of non‐human animals. For these women, distress emerges from hearing, sensing, seeing and feeling the irritation of dirt splattered against window panes, the emotional pain and economic consequences of topsoil blowing across paddocks and as feed becomes hard to source, the recognition of the suffering of sheep. The power of these animate and inanimate ‘things’—windmills, windows, troughs, work boots, animals and soil—were sensorily entangled with women's bodies. For farming women, distress materialises within their bodies through processes of intra‐action in their more‐than‐human worlds.
Problematising the suicides of older male farmers: Subjective, social and cultural considerations
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-11-2014
DOI: 10.1111/SORU.12029
Gender, class and rurality: Australian case studies
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2009
Social Work in a Glocalised World
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-04-2017
Gendered Bodies, Gendered Knowledges: Information Technology in Everyday Farming
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2003
Abstract: This article explores the body and its relation to occupational rofessional knowledge to understand the gendering of work practices associated with use of personal computers (PCs) in Australian family farms. The central aim of the article is to expose the gendered interactions, understandings, and communications inherent in everyday work practices and consider how these shape relations of technology and gender. In-depth semistructured personal interviews held separately with farming women and men are used to explore relations between use of information technologies, gendered work practice, and sense of self as workers. The data demonstrate that the performative aspects of masculinity result in the appropriation of knowledge by men that genders PC use and reproduces gender hierarchies in farming.
Social work and tele-mental health services for rural and remote communities
Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology
Date: 27-04-2020
DOI: 10.1049/PBHE023E_CH7
Technology-enhanced social work practice and education
Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology
Date: 27-04-2020
DOI: 10.1049/PBHE023E_CH8
Minding the gaps: Examining skill shortages in Australian rural non-agricultural workplaces
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 09-2012
DOI: 10.5172/JMO.2012.18.4.499
Abstract: This article examines skills shortage in rural Australian mining and food and beverage processing industries by analyzing the concept of skill and differentiating between gaps in skills and skill shortages. Drawing on Acker's sociological concept of inequality regimes, we analyze workforce profiles informed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics data, and qualitative interview data with human resource personnel. Emphasis is given to gender and Indigeneity, and the recruitment and retention practices by place and organization. We argue that the term ‘skill shortage’ is contentious as current workforce profiles are narrow and thereby exclude segments of the rural labor market. We also argue that underlying assumptions about gender and race in organizations need to be addressed for rural-based organizations to more fully utilize the available workforce.
Place and space in social work
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2020
How can the intersections between gender, class, and sexuality be translated to an empirical agenda?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2006
DOI: 10.1177/160940690600500106
Abstract: The social categories of gender, sexuality, class, and ethnicity, and their relation to subjectivities have received theoretical attention, but their empirical interrelationships remain underexplored. In this article, the authors consider how class, gender, and sexuality interrelate in practice by drawing and reflecting on (a) an empirical study of women in the wine industry that they have undertaken and (b) a selection of contemporary works that links multiple social categories. In conclusion, they argue that to investigate power and tension within and across multiple social categories meaningfully, a useful approach is to combine life histories with theories of embodiment.
Examining uncertainty and trust among irrigators and regulatory bodies in the Murray-Darling Basin
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-04-2016
Towards an understanding of gender and capital in constituting biotechnologies in agriculture
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2006
Gender and the telephone: voice and emotions shaping and gendering space
Publisher: Centre of Sociological Research, NGO
Date: 22-12-2013
Policy, plans and pathways: the ‘crisis’ transition to post-parental care for people ageing with intellectual disabilities in rural Australian carescapes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 04-12-2017
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X17001258
Abstract: The concurrent ageing of parental care-givers and people with intellectual disabilities is driving academic and social welfare concern for a post-parental care ‘crisis’. The ‘crisis’ typically pertains to a transition from primary care in the family home precipitated by the death or incapacity of older parents without a pre-planned pathway to post-parental care. This crisis is lified in rural communities given low service engagement with families and a deficit of disability-supported accommodation and services. Academics, service providers and policy makers have responded through a problematisation of post-parental care planning. This focus continues to normalise informal care, burdens families with responsibility for planning, and erts attention from structural deficits in the socio-political carescape. This paper attends to the Australian policy landscape in which long-term care-giving for families living with intellectual disability is enmeshed. It contends that the dyadic and didactic model of informal long-term care has profound implications for social service support and post-parental care planning. Problematisation of carers’ ‘need’ to relinquish primary care and for people with intellectual disabilities to transition to independent and supported living is necessary to unsettle the dominant policy and service discourse around the provision of services to sustain informal care-giving. Innovation is then needed to forge pathways of support for families in rural communities planning on continuing, transitioning and transforming care arrangements across the lifespan.
The Embodiment of women in wine: Gender inequality and gendered inscriptions of the working body in a corporate wine organization
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-01-2014
DOI: 10.1111/GWAO.12045
Economies, ethics and emotions: Farmer distress within the moral economy of agribusiness
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2014
Beyond discourses of drought: The micro-politics of the wine industry and farmer distress
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2013
Bounded choices: The problematisation of longterm care for people ageing with an intellectual disability in rural communities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2017
Minding the gaps: Examining skill shortages in Australian rural non-agricultural workplaces
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2012
DOI: 10.1017/S1833367200000729
Abstract: This article examines skills shortage in rural Australian mining and food and beverage processing industries by analyzing the concept of skill and differentiating between gaps in skills and skill shortages. Drawing on Acker's sociological concept of inequality regimes, we analyze workforce profiles informed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics data, and qualitative interview data with human resource personnel. Emphasis is given to gender and Indigeneity, and the recruitment and retention practices by place and organization. We argue that the term ‘skill shortage’ is contentious as current workforce profiles are narrow and thereby exclude segments of the rural labor market. We also argue that underlying assumptions about gender and race in organizations need to be addressed for rural-based organizations to more fully utilize the available workforce.
Marking the occupational body: Young women and men seeking careers in agriculture
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2006
Farming exit and ascriptions of blame: the ordinary ethics of farming communities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2018
The fallen hero: masculinity, shame and farmer suicide in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-02-2015
Gender, embodiment and place: The gendering of skills shortages in the australian mining and food and beverage processing industries
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-09-2011
Abstract: This article examines skills shortages in the context of the Australian mining and food and beverage processing industries. Drawing on Acker’s concept of inequality regimes, we examine gendered and classed bodies in relation to place. We argue that organizations are situated in place, and here, Australian rural places. We also argue that while specific industries are important to the rural economies, these economies are influenced by the gendered politics of place that occur at the site where the enterprise is located. Guided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ quantitative analyses of workforce profiles, and predominantly drawing on qualitative interviews with Human Resource (HR) personnel, we analyse the gendering of work, place and organizations across three themes: a) women, work and reproducing bodies b) male embodiment, organization and place and c) absent bodies: women and apprenticeships. The purpose is to show that assumptions about gender, embodiment and place influence how organizations understand and respond to skills shortages in the given industries.
Inequality regimes in food processing industries
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 26-06-2015
Young men, public space and the production of fear in downtown Adelaide
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2011
Epistemological erasure: The subject of abuse in the problematization of 'elder abuse'
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2017
DOI: 10.1016/J.JAGING.2017.04.001
Abstract: The academic field of literature pertaining to elder abuse emerges largely from gerontology with contributions from a variety of disciplines including geriatric medicine, nursing, public health, law, psychology, sociology and social work. This paper presents a critical review of articles drawn from this literature to identify current directions leading the development of empirical research in this field. The objective measurement of prevalence, the identification and correlation of psycho-social risk factors and practice-based research oriented to intervention and prevention are identified as privileged sites for scientific investigation. These sites are critically analysed in terms of their underpinning rationalities to reveal the operation of a hegemonic post-positivist epistemological framework. This framework enables an expert professional discourse to structure knowledge and the field of inquiry through constructions of the 'subject of abuse' as a statistical figure, a factorial subject of risk and universally vulnerable. These modes of representation preclude subjective lived experience and, in doing so, inaugurate an 'epistemological erasure' of the embodied subject of abuse. The review attends to the limited body of qualitative research in the field, some of which claims a politicized empiricism of 'voice'. However, whilst the findings produced by this research suggest theoretically and conceptually fertile lines of inquiry, these have not disrupted or extended the dominant discourses in the field. This paper argues that an epistemological gulf, riven through a politics of evidence, ensures the reproduction of dominant discourses and their attendant limitations in ways that forestall the conceptual and theoretical advancement of the field.
Masking the self: Understanding the link between eating disorders and child sexual abuse
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-06-2017
Abstract: The discourses of child sexual abuse and eating disorders are inextricably shaped by gender politics. Medical discourses conceptualise abuse as resulting in permanent damage to the personality and continue to draw on the notion of hysteria when explaining anorexia. Yet the circulation of such pathologising discourses masks aspects of female subjectivity and leave other explanations unexplored. We argue that women make decisions and experience eating disorders beyond these privileged understandings. Indepth interviews, artwork and poetry are obtained from seven women and a feminist application of Bakhtin’s sociological linguistics is used to gain deeper insights into meanings and emotions. Our argument will unfold in three sections: Masking Emotions The Mask Representing Powerlessness and Revising the Self. Collectively the data reveals how gendered discourses dominate the women’s narratives when making claims about the self. Although these women’s voices are largely marginalised in society they nevertheless disrupt authoritative discourses on child sexual abuse and eating disorders.
'Nappy bags instead of handbags': Young motherhood and self-identity
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-07-2016
Abstract: This article presents the findings of an Australian study that aimed to explore how young women construct their self-identity while negotiating motherhood and the associated transition to adulthood. Teenage motherhood, within contemporary discourse, often attracts negative assumptions about young women’s worth and ability to parent. This study used a combination of semi-structured interviews and memory work to draw out women’s stories and give voice to their experiences of becoming mothers. Three key themes were induced from the findings: pride and self, autonomy and change, and resilience. This article explores these themes that are, in many ways, a resistance and challenge to dominant public discourse, and relates them to how young women ascribe positive meaning to their experiences of becoming mothers. The findings demonstrate women’s autonomy in shaping their lives in the way they forge relationships and raise their children. The article concludes by examining the implications of meaning-making in relation to self-identity for young mothers to inform service provision.
Farming, gender, and mental health
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 28-10-2020
The juncture and disjuncture of service delivery systems in post-parental care planning for rural people with intellectual disabilities
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-10-2023
Water and rural communities: local politics, meaning and place
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 15-11-2016
Memory Work
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2018
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