ORCID Profile
0000-0002-9603-7013
Current Organisation
University of Tasmania
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-07-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-10-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-09-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-07-2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.1068/D5608
Abstract: Islands embody a contradictory geography. Although insularity has negative connotations, the related aspects of uniqueness, smallness, secrecy, security, isolation, and remoteness all have strategic roles in situating Australia's production of licit narcotics as an international success with poppy cultivation confined to the island state of Tasmania. Through the boundaries and dualisms inscribed in the discourses of islandness and drug rhetoric, the state's ultramodern manufacture of pharmaceuticals is contrasted with others elsewhere, including opium and illegal drug production. Their representations simplify the more intricate and challenging geopolitical realities that link this industry to transnational corporations, state and federal governments, their agencies, and various UN organisations. In a poststructural reading, the secrets of islands and drugs are suggested to comprise what Derrida terms aporia or impossible situations: Tasmania and its poppy industry are isolated from a global otherness yet entwine different peoples and places in connecting complex material practices both licit and illicit at multiple scales all around the world. However, these aporia also present new political and ethical openings with significance for island studies as well as for narcotics production and its regulation.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-11-2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-07-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-03-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2016
DOI: 10.1016/J.DRUGPO.2016.06.011
Abstract: This paper examines the positive and negative (or intended and unintended) impacts of anti-drug policies such as the aerial spraying of coca crops in Colombia. It provides spatial analysis of coca cultivation and crop eradication at a fine scale of resolution using the latest UNODC data. The findings suggest that anti-drug policy in Colombia between 2001 and 2012 has had some success with a significant decrease in overall levels of coca cultivation, but that it has also led to the displacement of coca cultivation, notably to areas within the Colombian Pacific region. Negative impacts include continued deforestation and damage to ecosystems, and the further marginalization of Afro-Colombian communities whose collective territories have been subject to increased coca cultivation between 2001 and 2012. Alternative development programs have not been well aligned with such areas where other illegal activities such as mining as well as coca cultivation now occur. Hence the importance of designing anti-drug policy that comprehensively integrates the local nuances of those peoples and places affected by coca cultivation and crop eradication according to their particular contexts.
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-2015
DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2015.36
Abstract: Higher education institutions have an unavoidable responsibility to address the looming economic, environmental and social crises imperilling humans and ecosystems by placing ‘education for sustainability’ at the heart of their concerns. Yet, for over three decades, the practice of ‘higher education for sustainability’ (HEfS) has encountered significant barriers to implementation, begging the question as to why. Drawing on a erse, interdisciplinary literature, we identify four structural impediments to implementing HEfS: (1) disciplinary contestation, which creates confusion over what ‘sustainability’ means (2) institutional fragmentation, which prevents the interdisciplinary dialogue that sustainability demands (3) economic globalisation, which transforms higher education into just another market opportunity and (4) ‘fast and frugal’ habits of reasoning, which steer time-pressed academics towards poorly integrated decisions and unsustainable positions. Our analysis highlights that wider structural change within and beyond the academy will be required if higher education institutions are to meet their responsibilities and drive the necessary social transformation.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 12-2008
DOI: 10.1353/SOF.0.0146
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-06-2013
DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12029
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2013
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