ORCID Profile
0000-0002-6642-2826
Current Organisation
University of Newcastle Australia
Does something not look right? The information on this page has been harvested from data sources that may not be up to date. We continue to work with information providers to improve coverage and quality. To report an issue, use the Feedback Form.
In Research Link Australia (RLA), "Research Topics" refer to ANZSRC FOR and SEO codes. These topics are either sourced from ANZSRC FOR and SEO codes listed in researchers' related grants or generated by a large language model (LLM) based on their publications.
Environmental Sociology | Business and Management | Organisation and Management Theory
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-02-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-11-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-01-2022
DOI: 10.1177/00221856211070632
Abstract: Despite the worsening climate crisis and market shifts towards decarbonization, Australia remains heavily invested in carbon-intensive activities. As one of the world's largest exporters of coal and gas, Australian political economy has been dominated over the last several decades by fossil fuel expansionism. In this article, we explore how Australian corporate and political elites have defended the continuation of fossil fuel extraction and use in the face of calls for a transition to a low-carbon energy future. Through an analysis of public statements by industry associations, corporate leaders, politicians and trade union officials, we identify how these actors have constructed a hegemonic temporal narrative stressing the historical importance of fossil fuels and that a transition to renewable energy represents a threat to Australia's future. Our analysis contributes to the growing literature within the field of industrial relations attending to the complex industrial dynamics underlying the maintenance of fossil fuel hegemony. We also contribute to recent discussions on hegemony by demonstrating the importance of temporality in linking erse actors together in defending hegemony. Finally, we highlight the critical importance of corporate power in fundamentally shaping climate and energy politics.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-05-2016
Abstract: Social science scholarship on cancer has been almost exclusively focused on Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, despite a significant epidemiological transition taking place in many non-OECD contexts, with cancer emerging as a prominent, and strongly feared, illness experience. With cancer gaining an increasingly high profile in India, there is an urgent need to explore how experiences of cancer may be socially and culturally embedded, and in turn, how localized practices may shape the therapeutic encounter. Here, drawing on interviews with 40 people living with cancer in Hyderabad, India, we focus on some specific components of their therapeutic journeys, including diagnostic and prognostic disclosure, collective versus in idual decision making, the dynamics of medical authority, and the reception of cancer within their social milieu. These participants’ accounts provide insight into a range of cultural sensibilities around illness and care, and reinforce the importance of understanding the cultural inflections of communication, decisions, and illness experiences.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-11-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-07-2016
DOI: 10.1111/AJCO.12563
Abstract: Medical consultations focused on managing the transition to palliative care are interpersonally challenging and require high levels of communicative competence. In the context of non-English speaking patients, communication challenges are further complicated due to the requirement of interpreting a process with the potential to add intense layers of complexity in the clinical encounter, such as misunderstanding, misrepresentation and power imbalances. The aim of the study was to explore the experiences and perspectives of professional interpreters in supporting the transition of culturally and linguistically erse patients to specialist palliative care. Qualitative, semistructured interviews with 20 professional interpreters working in oncology and palliative care settings in two metropolitan hospitals in Queensland, Australia. Four key themes emerged from the thematic analysis: the challenges of translating the meaning of "palliative care" managing interpreting in the presence of family care-givers communicating and expressing sensitivity while remaining professional and interpreters' own emotional burden of difficult clinic encounters between doctor and patient negotiations. The results suggest that interpreters face a range of often concealed interpersonal and interprofessional challenges and recognition of such dynamics will help provide necessary support for these key stakeholders in the transition to palliative care. Enriched understanding of interpreters' experiences has clinical implications on improving how health professionals interact and work with interpreters in this sensitive setting.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-10-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-02-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-02-2014
Abstract: The views of business leaders are of particular interest where climate change policies are concerned. This is a study based on interviews with business leaders in the Hunter region. The sociological literature suggests either that the business community will be split according to industry, or that the business community as a whole will resist regulation. Our study finds differences of opinion in the business community somewhat marginal. Interviewee responses also suggest the importance of considering the class location of those who are the messengers of climate science – scientists and environmentalists. Business reactions come out of the habitus of business people and their animosity towards those with high cultural capital. This becomes a barrier to full acknowledgement of the implications of climate science.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-04-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-10-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-02-2021
Abstract: Responding to the existential threat of climate change is often seen as requiring greater reflexivity. Imbued with notions of resilience and reflection, reflexivity is assumed to contribute to pro-environmental change. However, as the need to manage climate impacts becomes more immediate, political struggles over climate adaptation have become increasingly apparent. These impacts occur most often within local communities, in the context of competing economic interests and differing interpretations of climate science. Thus while it is increasingly difficult to deny climate change, conflicting priorities can lead to ignorance. In these circumstances, how communities build and share knowledge, and negotiate responses is central. Based on a study of a vulnerable region in Australia, we identify three processes through which the local community mobilized to disrupt local climate change adaptation. These included emphasizing uncertainty about the science of climate change, encouraging fear about property prices, and repositioning property owners as victims of climate adaptation policy. We argue that this response to climate adaptation constitutes the production of reflexive ignorance, which reinforces skepticism around scientific authority and defends particular economic interests.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-06-2021
DOI: 10.1177/01708406211024558
Abstract: Action on climate change continues to be h ered by vested interests seeding doubt about science and the need to reduce carbon emissions. Using a qualitative case study of local climate adaptation to sea level rise, we show how climate change science is translated into a self-referential theory focused on property prices. Our analysis develops two mechanisms – enablement and theorization – to explain the relationship between theory performativity and power within a process of translation. This contributes to (1) the performativity debate by showing how the constitution of power relations shapes theory performativity (2) theories of power, by tracing the ways in which certain actors are able to enrol others and impact the authority of particular theories, and (3) processes of translation by developing mechanisms for following the ways in which power and theory performativity interact. We conclude by arguing that a performative understanding of how power shapes beliefs is central to combating the failure to address climate change.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2016
DOI: 10.1016/J.CTIM.2016.04.003
Abstract: Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are popular amongst cancer patients in the Brazilian context, however little is known about oncology health professionals' attitudes toward the role of CAM and their perspectives on the potential for integration into oncological care. In this study, drawing on a series of interviews with oncology professionals (i.e. doctors, nurses, nutritionists, pharmacologists and psychologists), we provide insight into their views on the rise, validity, and role of CAM in cancer care. The results reveal two key dynamics in relation to CAM in cancer care in Brazil. First, that doctors, nurses and other allied professionals hold considerably different views on the value and place of CAM, and in turn ascribe it varying levels of legitimacy potentially limiting integration. Second, that while some health professionals may articulate a degree of support for CAM, this is limited by perceptions of CAM as lacking efficacy and intruding on their respective jurisdictional claims. Further research is needed in the Brazilian context to explore patient and professional perspectives on experiences on CAM in cancer care, including how oncology professionals' varying positions on CAM may influence what patients are prepared to use, or discuss, in the context of cancer care.
Start Date: 2022
End Date: 12-2024
Amount: $364,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded Activity