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0000-0003-4593-8951
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Queensland University of Technology
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Social Change | Australian Government and Politics | Political Science
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Civics and Citizenship | Public Services Policy Advice and Analysis |
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1525/NCLR.2014.17.1.23
Abstract: This article explores the contradictory ways in which adolescents just under the age of consent are represented in illegal sexual relations with both men and women who are over the age of consent. We are specifically interested in exploring the ways in which the gender of the adolescent and the adult affect public discourse, legal responses, and social perceptions of the harm of sexual relations. We argue that the development of an indiscriminate legal and policy narrative of child sexual abuse that increasingly includes all aspects of adolescent sexuality “erases” an adolescent subjectivity. By exploring the nuanced ways in which the historical construction of childhood as sexually innocent intersects with current cultural scripts of femininity and masculinity, this article hopes to add to the small but growing literature on the issue of sexual consent, sexual ethics, and sexual citizenship for young people.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-01-2016
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2013
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 03-06-2022
DOI: 10.5204/IJCJSD.2356
Abstract: The consumer is an important political subject in addressing global social issues, especially in the fashion industry. Due to the complex, multi-jurisdictional nature of the problems created through global capitalism, a significant overhaul of the fashion industry is not easy to achieve nor is it easy for consumers to choose to withdraw from these markets. Further, framing in idual consumer responsibility is difficult, especially when considering how questions of obligation intersect with geographical hierarchies as well as questions of privilege. In this paper, we critique how responsibility is framed in contemporary fashion activism in relation to questions of gender. Using the organisation Fashion Revolution as a site of normative consumer activism, we highlight how two hashtag c aigns, #WhoMadeMyClothes and #LovedClothesLast, instrumentalise gender to engage consumers to act against injustice. Through our analysis, we question how calls to take up responsibility for fashion injustice intersect with profound questions about what women owe other women.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-07-2018
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 31-07-2023
DOI: 10.1017/BAP.2023.17
Abstract: In 2019, the prime ministers of the United Kingdom and Australia both declared their intent to ban indirect, or secondary, boycotts. In the United Kingdom, the ban was directed against public bodies engaging in the “boycott, est, and sanction” (BDS) c aign against Israel. In Australia, the proposed ban was directed against environmental action groups. Research on market-based activism to date has focused primarily on conceptualizing the use of the market by nonstate actors to achieve social change, with less attention paid to the role of the state in these dynamics. State efforts to curtail social movements’ repertoires of contention require careful scrutiny to understand the state's role in legitimizing or delegitimizing political activism and to reveal the complex power dynamics between corporations, social movements, and the state. This article analyzes two key instances of the state declaring an intent to prevent activists from protesting through the market. By investigating how indirect boycotts were problematized by state actors, we aim to reveal the rationale behind the state's intervention in marketplace politics. Our findings indicate that opposition to the political cause behind the boycott, rather than a problematization of the strategy itself, drives state intervention.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2013
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-11-2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 17-01-2021
DOI: 10.1093/PA/GSAA070
Abstract: Policy problems are typically framed through a representation of those who have been harmed, and those who are to blame, with parliamentary inquiries playing a key role in setting the agenda by mediating between competing problematisations. In order to reveal the politics behind policy-making through inquiries, it is necessary to examine both the aspects of the issue that are problematised and those aspects that remain unproblematised. Adopting modern slavery policy in Australia as a case study, this article utilises Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be?’ framework for analysing discourse in parliamentary inquiries on modern slavery between 2003 and 2018. I argue that across three clear phases of policy-making, problematisation has shifted and evolved, though blame has consistently been deflected away from the role of the state in contributing to the conditions that cause modern slavery.
Publisher: Alliance Against Traffic in Women Foundation
Date: 26-09-2019
Abstract: In recent years, digital games have emerged as a new tool in human trafficking awareness-raising. These games reflect a trend towards ‘virtual humanitarianism’, utilising digital technologies to convey narratives of suffering with the aim of raising awareness about humanitarian issues. The creation of these games raises questions about whether new technologies will depict humanitarian problems in new ways, or simply perpetuate problematic stereotypes. This article examines three online games released in the last five years for the purpose of raising awareness about human trafficking. In analysing these games, we argue that the persistent tropes of ideal victims lacking in agency continue to dominate the narrative, with a focus on in idualised problems rather than structural causes of human trafficking. However, the differing approaches taken by the games demonstrate the potential for complexity and nuance in storytelling through digital games.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-02-2021
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date: 2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-06-2023
DOI: 10.1177/01925121221098863
Abstract: This article establishes a new basis for examining the participation, mobilisation and impact of investors at a time when market-based activism for social change is rising in prominence. Existing terminology describing the expression of political values through investment decisions lacks conceptual clarity. Political participation by shareholders and other investors is variously described as shareholder activism or socially responsible investment, and currently conceptualised under the banner of political consumerism. However, this term fails to capture the unique political role and erse actions of investors. We put forward ‘political investorism’ as a cohering term for investment-based political participation to remedy existing conceptual confusion, to distinguish between investors and consumers as political actors and to set an agenda for the future study of market-based activism. This article defines and develops the concept of political investorism, drawing upon illustrative cases from Australia to identify hallmarks, actors and tactics of this form of political participation.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-06-2015
Abstract: In 2009 a couple in Cairns were charged, and later found not guilty, of illegally obtaining a medical abortion through the use of medication imported from overseas. The court case reignited the discussions surrounding the illegality and social acceptance of abortion in Queensland, Australia. Based on a discourse analysis of 150 online news media articles covering the Cairns trial, this article critically examines the language and key words relied upon by media when covering the Cairns trial. It argues that, despite popular support for the decriminalisation of abortion, emotive language that aligns with a pro-life ideology is still being employed which has the power to shape perceptions of deviance and stigma surrounding abortion. This is useful to demonstrate how media discourse surrounding abortion needs to further align with a pro-choice ideology for women to be empowered for their choices.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-02-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-07-2015
Abstract: Since the declaration by the United Nations that awareness raising should be a key part of efforts to combat human trafficking, government and non-government organizations have produced numerous public awareness c aigns designed to capture the public’s attention and sympathy. These c aigns represent the ‘problem’ of trafficking in specific ways, creating heroes and villains by placing the blame for trafficking on some, whilst obscuring the responsibility of others. This article adopts Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be?’ framework for examining the politicization of problem representation in 18 anti-trafficking awareness c aigns. It is argued that these c aigns construct a narrow understanding of the problem through the depiction of ‘ideal offenders’. In particular, a strong focus on the demand for commercial sex as causative of human trafficking serves to obscure the problematic role of consumerism in a wide range of industries, and perpetuates an understanding of trafficking that fails to draw a necessary distinction between the demand for labour, and the demand for ‘exploitable’ labour. This problem representation also obscures the role governments in destination countries may play in causing trafficking through imposing restrictive migration regimes that render migrants vulnerable to traffickers.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2015
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 12-2018
Abstract: Consumers are the new activists in the fight against modern slavery, with awareness c aigns urging citizens to use their consumer power to demand an end to labour exploitation. The contribution of political, or ethical, consumerism c aigns to the trafficking narrative is examined in this article through an analysis of the characterisation of consumers and corporations in c aigns from SlaveryFootprint.org, Stop the Traffik UK, and World Vision Australia. This article argues that c aigns urging political consumerism depict consumers as the heroic rescuers of enslaved victims, and embed solutions to modern slavery within a culture of unquestioned capitalism. This approach may have the unintended consequence of sidelining victims from the trafficking story as the focus of the narrative becomes the product, rather than the victim, of labour exploitation.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-04-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2022
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2021
End Date: 2024
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2019
End Date: 2022
Funder: Cotton Research and Development Corporation
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 04-2021
End Date: 03-2025
Amount: $406,061.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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