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Entrevista: Fernanda Arêas Peixoto e Maria Alice Rezende de Carvalho
Authors: Espósito Fernando
Published: July 2017

O livro Ciudades Sudamericanas como Arenas Culturales, organizado pelo arquiteto Adrián Gorelik e pela antropóloga Fernanda Arêas Peixoto, através de diversos olhares sobre a vida cultural urbana em diferentes cidades da América do Sul, discute acerca da cidade como lugar de germinação de tendências artísticas, projetos intelectuais e disputas político-ideológicas. O livro é apresentado através de uma entrevista com Fernanda Arêas Peixoto, organizadora e uma das autoras, e com a socióloga Maria Alice Rezende de Carvalho, também autora. Trata-se de lançar múltiplas perspectivas sobre a vida urbana no sul do continente através de episódios de diferentes cidades, entre o final do século XIX e início do XXI. São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Recife, Montevidéu, Santiago do Chile, entre outras, são observadas por meio de recortes variados, alguns relacionados a um lugar, como uma rua ou um bairro, e outros relacionados à produção cultural propriamente dita, como obras teatrais e televisivas, por exemplo. As cenas e os laboratórios urbanos oferecidos por cada um dos ensaios funcionam como espécies de dispositivos de observação capazes de aproximar o leitor às muitas camadas que compõem a cidade.

Palavras-chave: arenas culturais; vida urbana; produção cultural.
O AFETO COMO VALOR DE TROCA: AS ESTRATÉGIAS DE ACOPLAGEM ENTRE O REMÉDIO XENICAL E O SITE XENICARE.COM.BR
Authors: Neto Vulmero
Published: July 2017

A partir do conceito de acoplagem de Humberto Maturana, do conceito de afeto usado por Muniz Sodré, o trabalho busca levantar algumas estratégias que se estabelecem na relação entre o remédio para emagrecimento Xenical e o site xenicare.com.br. O conceito de afeto é tomado a partir de um uso socializado, midiatizado. O objetivo é estabelecer as estratégias que levam à acoplagem entre o Xenical e o Xenicare. A acoplagem é vista nas táticas desenvolvidas pelo site ao justapor à identidade primária do medicamento uma outra tomando como leitmotiv o “cuidar-se”. Esta figuração liga-se à produção do emagrecimento rápido e aparentemente sem sacrifício. Então, a função do site seria franquiar ao consumidor um look saudável e sem esforço, com um baixo índice de efeitos colaterais. O afeto funciona como elemento mediador capaz de tornar comum a relação consumidor, xenical e xenicare estabelecida. O site supre tanto o consumidor com amplo cardápio de dicas para o melhor uso do Xenical quanto ao médico como um espaço de discussão e relato de experiências clínicas com o medicamento. O xenicare procura desenhar uma imagem do Xenical fora do círculo clínico na medida em que dá a seu uso uma função cosmética de tratamento. Portanto, o afeto, imagem que emerge do site, funciona como forma de contato, de “incentivo”, na relação que o consumidor estabelece com o Xenical. Neste contexto, o site faz do afeto um valor de troca que procura contaminar a forma como o usuário lida com o remédio.
PROPOSIÇÃO DE SEQUENCIAMENTO DA PRODUÇÃO COM USO DO TEMPO DE PREPARAÇÃO
Authors: Telo Leonardo Rossi Azevedo , Silva Raphael Martins da , Silva Adriano Maniçoba da , Zampini Eugenio De Felice , Paula William Ferreira de
Published: July 2017

A crescente competição por mercados cada vez mais ávidos por qualidade e serviços, ao menor custo possível, traz grandes oportunidades para as empresas através da otimização de seus processos produtivos, com objetivos de redução de custos e de atendimento dos prazos de entrega de seus produtos. Então, nesse artigo, é apresentada uma proposta para melhorar o sequenciamento de lotes de produção, usando para isso os tempos de preparação, a partir de um estudo desenvolvido em uma empresa do setor químico. Tal problema consiste em decidir a sequência de produção dos lotes de maneira a satisfazer a demanda e minimizar os custos de produção e estoques. Por meio da comparação histórica dos sequenciamentos de produção, utilizados em anos anteriores e o dos comportamentos dos tempos de processamento, lead time, dos produtos produzidos em lotes sequenciais, foi possível sugerir-se um sequenciamento melhorado da produção.
PENGARUH DEBT TO EQUITY RATIO, RETURN ON EQUITY, TINGKAT SUKU BUNGA, DAN INFLASI TERHADAP RETURN SAHAM PERUSAHAAN SUBSEKTOR PROPERTY DAN REAL ESTATE YANG TERDAFTAR DI BURSA EFEK INDONESIA PERIODE 2007-2012
Authors: Oktiar Tri
Published: July 2017

Penelitian ini dimaksudkan untuk menguji pengaruh Debt to Equity Ratio (DER), Return On Equity (ROE), tingkat suku bunga, dan inflasi terhadap return saham perusahaan subsektor property dan real estate yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia. Variabel independen yang digunakan adalah Debt to Equity Ratio (DER), Return On Equity (ROE), tingkat suku bunga, inflasi dan variabel dependen return saham. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk memperoleh bukti empiris tentang pengaruh Debt to Equity Ratio (DER), Return On Equity (ROE), tingkat suku bunga, dan inflasi terhadap return saham perusahaan subsektor property dan real estate yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia.

Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah perusahaan subsektor property dan real estate yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI) dengan waktu amatan tahun 2007 sampai dengan tahun 2012. Data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini diperoleh dari Indonesia Capital Market Directory (ICMD) dan Bank Indonesia. Metode analisis data yang digunakan

adalah regresi linier berganda, sementara uji hipotesis menggunakan uji simultan (Uji F) untuk menguji pengaruh variabel secara bersama-sama dan uji t dengan tingkat signifikansi 5% untuk menguji pengaruh variabel secara parsial.

Berdasarkan hasil pengujian, diperoleh hasil secara simultan Debt to Equity Ratio (DER), Return On Equity (ROE), tingkat suku bunga, dan inflasi berpengaruh terhadap return saham perusahaan subsektor property dan real estate yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia, sedangkan secara parsial Debt to Equity Ratio (DER), tingkat suku bunga, dan inflasi berpengaruh negatif dan signifikan, Return On Equity (ROE) berpengaruh positif signifikan terhadap return saham perusahaan subsektor property dan real estate. Kemampuan prediksi dari keempat variabel tersebut terhadap return saham adalah 15,5% sebagaimana ditunjukkan oleh besarnya adjusted R2, sedangkan sisanya dipengaruhi oleh faktor lain yang tidak dimasukkan ke dalam model penelitian.

Kata kunci: Return Saham, Debt to Equity Ratio (DER), Return On Equity (ROE), Tingkat Suku Bunga, Inflasi
Morfobiometria de frutos e sementes de Schizolobium amazonicum Huber ex Ducke
Authors: Dutra Fabricio Vieira , Cardoso Adriana Dias , Da Silva Reginaldo Muniz , Lima Raelly Da Silva , Morais Otoniel Magalhães , Rampazzo Mariana Costa
Published: July 2017

A espécie Shizolobium amazonicum (paricá) vem sendo bastante cultivada nas regiões Norte e Nordeste do Brasil por apresentar rápido crescimento e potencial no setor madeireiro. Diante disto, objetivou-se com o presente estudo avaliar a biometria de sementes e frutos de paricá. Frutos maduros foram coletados na copa de árvores matrizes, escolhidas aleatoriamente e localizadas em áreas urbanas, no mês de dezembro de 2015. A biometria dos frutos e das sementes foi realizada no Laboratório de Tecnologia e Produção de Sementes, da Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia campus de Vitória da Conquista, onde foram avaliadas, a partir de mensurações, o comprimento, largura e espessura, expressa em milímetros. O comprimento foi determinado, com auxílio de régua, a largura e espessura com uso de paquímetro digital, com precisão de 0,05 mm. Os dados foram submetidos à análise estatística descritiva e para cada característica foram calculados a média, o desvio padrão e a variância. As sementes e os frutos de paricá apresentaram maior homogeneidade quanto ao comprimento, largura e espessura indicando maior potencial genético da espécie.
Uso de aditivos na qualidade física do camarão Litopenaeus vannamei
Authors: Rebouças Lucas De Oliveira Soares , Vasconcelo Bárbara Monique de Freitas , Ferreira Camila Miryan de Oliveira , Pereira José Carlos da Silveira , Assis Ana Paula Pinheiro de , Lima Patrícia De Oliveira
Published: July 2017

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a influência de aditivos à base de fosfato e sais, na qualidade física do camarão Litopennaeus vannamei. As amostras de camarão da espécie L. vannamei foram adquiridas em fazenda da região de Mossoró – RN. Após a despesca os camarões foram abatidos e submetidos ao descasque manual. Foram aplicados 4 aditivos utilizados na indústria de processamento de pescado nas concentrações de 5% (NaCl, TPF, BF 30 e BF 512) e o controle pela imersão somente em água, em dois tempos, 60 e 120 minutos de imersão. Logo após o tempo de imersão as amostras foram drenadas durante 1 minuto e submetidas à cocção para análises. Foram realizadas a determinações de pH, textura, capacidade de retenção de água (CRA), perda de massa pós cocção (MPC) e coloração objetiva (L*, a* e b*), todas em três repetições. As médias foram submetidas à análise de variância e ao teste Tukey (p>0,05). O pH não sofreu influência nem dos aditivos nem dos tempos de imersão. Os aditivos à base de fosfato promoveram maior CRA no tempo de 60 minutos de imersão. Neste mesmo tempo, camarões de TPF, BF 30 e BF 512 reduziram a MPC. A textura não foi influenciada pelos tratamentos. Em conjunto, os aditivos a base de sais aumentaram a luminosidade do camarão sendo este efeito proporcional ao tempo de imersão.
Detecting and monitoring endophytic colonization by Pseudomonas putida BP25 in black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) using quantitative real-time PCR
Authors: Agisha V N , Eapen S J , Bhai R S , Kumar A
Published: July 2017

A quantitative real-time PCR assay was developed to quantify Pseudomonas putida BP25, an antagonistic endophyte against a broad range of pathogens in black pepper such as Phytophthora capsici, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, Rhizoctonia solani, Gibberella moniliformis, Athelia rolfsii and a plant parasitic nematode, Radopholus similis. The real-time PCR primers were designed based on the16S rRNA sequences of P. putida strains and specificity of the primers was confirmed. The detection limit of the assay was found to be 1 pg. The assay detected and quantified the bacterial colonization in the roots at weekly intervals after inoculation. The P. putida DNA was quantified to be 0.4 ng in roots corresponding to 5.4 log10 CFU g-1 at 7th and 14th day after inoculation (DAI). A decline in endophyte population was observed during 21st and 28th DAI and the DNA concentration ranged from 3.7-4.6 pg corresponding to 3.4-3.5 log10 CFU g-1 of root. No amplification could be obtained in stem and leaf samples. The newly developed real-time PCR could be useful for detection, quantification and monitoring of endophytic P. putida BP25 in different plant tissues.
No Further North
Authors: Lansdown Richard
Published: July 2017

James Cook's Endeavour, the ship that took him on his first voyage of discovery between 1768 and 1771, has unexpectedly turned up on the sea floor of Newport harbour, Rhode Island. There the Whitby collier ended its days in 1778, having been renamed, having served as a prison ship for the British, and having being sunk to protect the harbour from American attack. (These were the days of the War of Independence.) A legal tussle is now anticipated between the good folk of Newport, for whom possession is nine points of the law, and the British Government, which nominally still owns the wreck.
Spiritual Poetry in the Tropics: A Reading
Authors: Menehira Hazel
Published: July 2017

Spiritual poetry has a strong pulse in the tropics. It is nestled within a current tidal surge of new writing in Far North Queensland. North Queensland Writing is IN –and the soul songs of our poets are coming to light. My main focus today is on the grass root poets and spiritual poetry emerging right here and now. First a few introductory points, then a brief overview to place today’s work within a historical framework of spiritual poetry.
TransOceanik Links: Research Networks and the Space-Place of Colloquia
Authors: Lundberg Anita
Published: July 2017

Thinking through network theories (network science, actor-network theory, rhizomatics) and the phenomenology of space and place, this paper argues for the significance of academic research networks and their meeting spaces-places in the ‘public domain’ of colloquia.In the global neoliberal education landscape of university rankings, institutions wishing to become research rich need to provide the infrastructure, funding, time and recognition for their academics to build critical mass under strategic research themes, to develop international research networks, and to come together in the public domains of academic symposia, colloquia and conferences in order to incubate ideas and produce scholarly inspired, richly specific, and critically analysed publications.Adapting the practice of a multi-sited ethnographic approach with network mapping, this paper takes as its case study the Laboratoire International Associé (LIA) TransOceanik. It outlines the international networks of LIA TransOceanik and the series of symposia, colloquia and conferences that maintain its transoceanic links between researchers and ideas.
Landscape as Experience: An Integration of Senses and Soul
Authors: Cheshire Barbara M
Published: July 2017

The extent to which experiential and spiritual perceptions of the senses - in response to an event or place - can be transformed into visual art as a vehicle of communication, is yet to be understood. This paper, therefore, examines if a cohesive physical representation from a structured, visual art system is capable of developing a Christian experiential visual language that communicates a sensorial and transcendental experience of place; in this case North Queensland. Commentary on the physical representation subsequently tests if a holistic integration of one human’s sensorial response to place and an internal experience of Christian spirituality in that place can be communicated to the viewer through an art exhibition. The analysis found evidence to suggest that a spiritual essence of place - seeing place from inside and out - could be communicated and experienced by viewers of the exhibition.
Migration, Continuity and Creativity in the Tropics
Authors: Babacan Hurriyet , Babacan Alperhan
Published: July 2017

Tropical Australia is a multicultural mosaic fashioned by various waves of migration and ancient Indigenous cultures. Migration, cultural diversity and multiculturalism have been at the heart of nation building in Australia. Tropical Australia represents a unique blend of cultures, landscapes and traditions. Stories of migration, by the host society and by the immigrants, themselves are embedded with celebratory and fearful narratives. Immigrants to Tropical Australia have used their culture, arts, food and handcrafts as the initial point of building bridges with the society they found themselves transposed into. The early policies of multiculturalism were founded on recognition of cultural practice. This paper explores the role of creativity and multicultural arts in contemporary Tropical Australia from an enriching or a critical perspective. It is argued that the role of multicultural arts has been under-estimated in Australia generally. The building of a pluralistic and inclusive society requires genuine representation (and voice) of all groups, shared experiences and a narrative that supports a deeper understanding of diversity. Using examples from tropical Australia, the paper posits that multicultural arts and creativity are important elements of identity development across generations of immigrant families and communities, legacy transmission and cultural preservation, social cohesion, social inclusion and citizenship and civic participation.
The Use of Cinematic Devices to Portray Mental Illness
Authors: Middleton Craig
Published: July 2017

Creative practices that deal with the representation of mental illness potentially have significant social value and relevance; one of these practices is filmmaking and narrative cinema. A film that has recently increased awareness of mental health issues is Silver Linings Playbook (2012). It deals with a family coping with the return of their son, who is being treated for bipolar disorder. “The film gave a fresh face and voice to this issue,” said Patrick Kennedy, cofounder of the brain-research organization One Mind for Research (Levin). It garnered multiple awards with the lead actress, Jennifer Lawrence receiving an Oscar for her performance. She used this opportunity to speak out on issues around mental health, “It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it's such a stigma behind it" (Paine). As a media form, ‘conventional’ cinema bears the weight of narrative and genre conventions, both inherent in audience expectations and the filmmakers’ desire to ‘entertain,’ whilst breaking even at the box office. Media critics of the anti-stigma discourse are increasingly bringing our attention to stigmatizing portrayals. However, there are few resources available for filmmakers regarding ‘how’ to approach faithfully portraying mental illness in the dramatic format of narrative cinema. This research therefore sets out to explore the representation of symptoms associated with mental illness in film, by citing research and commentary relevant to a body of existing films and including specific filmic devices. The findings reveal the fact that there is a significant need for further research into how filmmakers might more faithfully portray symptoms of mental illness in conventional cinema.
Editors’ Preface
Authors: Watkin Lui Felecia , Wallace Valda
Published: July 2017

In July 2013, JCU hosted an international conference, “Sustainable International Leadership in Indigenous Research Conference: Pathways, Potential and Practice”. The conference brought together scholars, academics, higher degree research students, research organisations, service providers and Indigenous community members to explore and critique current and emergent trends in research involving Indigenous people. The conference focused on leadership across four main themes of global importance for Indigenous peoples. These themes included:Pathways: Leadership for the FuturePotential: Research without BordersPractice: Reclaiming the Research AgendaSustainability: Building Sustainable Communities.
Indigenous People and Research Collaboration: A Journey Across Cultural and Disciplinary Bounds
Authors: Loban Heron , Ciccotosto Susan , Pryce Josephine , Chaiechi Taha
Published: July 2017

This paper builds on an earlier paper by the authors that looked at the experiences of the authors as researchers in an interdisciplinary team. Expanding on this previous reflection, the researchers consider the concepts of an intercultural team and the role of Indigeniety in their research efforts. This paper looks at the experiences of the Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers in a social capital framework. In the earlier paper the authors explored research at the disciplinary boundaries. With backgrounds in law, accounting, economics and human resources the ability to make connections and to have fruitful interactions at the borders to produce research outputs was, at the beginning, unknown by the team. Here, the authors explore research at the boundaries of Indigenous and non-Indigenous interactions and how the team members experienced the publication-writing process as a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers on an Indigenous research topic and finding that social capital may be the key for success.
A ‘PNG’ Study into Racial Difference In Contemporary Service Delivery Practices
Authors: Neuendorf Nalisa
Published: July 2017

The people of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Australia have established linkages through a history of colonisation, Christianity, corporate capitalism and development. This creates an intricate and complex environment within PNG which social relations and interactions occur, between, expatriates, especially Australians, and PNG people. A nuanced understanding of these interactions as they relate to perceived differences in service delivery is likely to generate insights into contemporary understandings of racial differences, colonial legacies and how PNG can ‘develop’ in to a modern society. At issue for PNG people delivering and receiving service, is how differences in service delivery can sometimes translate into debilitating or inequitable interactions.As part of my honours thesis, I am undertaking a study based on the narrative accounts of PNG people in Cairns (Australia), Port Moresby and Lae (PNG) about their experience of PNG-expatriate interactions within the context of contemporary urban service delivery and business operations. Through the study, specific accounts will highlight the perceptions of the narrators and their remembered actions. At issue will be perceptions that Australian and other expatriates receive better or different service then the PNG narrator.Undertaking this research as a Papua New Guinean, working specifically with PNG participants will have specific implications on the research process, and on my role as dually, a PNG person and researcher. This research will involve understanding perceptions of PNG people as told to a PNG researcher. I want to explore (i) how being an identified Papua New Guinean impacts research process; (ii) how being an identified researcher documenting the accounts of a known cohort, impacts participant narrative and story-telling; and (iii) the ways being an identified PNG researcher can contribute to the discussion/debate surrounding indigenous research methodologies and the implications of this for PNG specific research. Academics and institutions recognise indigenous methods in undertaking indigenous specific research. PNG people have an identity that is not easily defined as an indigenous identity, given PNG’s unique colonial and post colonial recognition of land ownership and associated forms of local power. Through this paper, I wish to discuss the implications of this in understanding what it means to be PNG, in undertaking PNG specific research.
Inscribing Trans and Intersex People in the Dominant Binary Categories of Gender
Authors: Fortier Corinne
Published: July 2017

The predicament of trans and intersex people raises the question of the domination of social values inherent in gender binaries. The belief in a fixed gender identity is pervasive among most psychiatrists, medical doctors, judges, and psychologists.
Value, Transvaluation and Globalization
Authors: Dalsgaard Steffen , Otto Ton
Published: July 2017

Value has been a central concept in anthropology and sociology since the birth of these disciplines (e.g. Marx, Simmel, Weber). In recent decades the concept has seen a revival (e.g. Graeber 2001; Eiss and Pedersen 2002; Pedersen 2008; Otto and Willerslev 2013), but while it has been debated and discussed, assessed and evaluated extensively, there are nonetheless still many things to be said about it. This volume addresses a particular perspective on value through the lens of ‘transvaluation’, and how transvaluation may denote a process that occurs in our current world system as an intrinsic effect of contemporary globalization.
Queensland Teachers’ Understandings of Education for Climate Change
Authors: Nicholls Jennifer , Stevenson Robert B
Published: July 2017

Teachers approach curriculum with complex experiences, ideas, beliefs, and values that shape the way they interpret and respond to curriculum documents. In the context of national and state curriculum frameworks and policies supporting education for sustainability (EfS), it is important to examine the role and influence of teachers’ beliefs about climate change and pedagogy on climate change education practices within their school classrooms. This paper examines teachers’ personal and professional beliefs about climate change and climate change education. Survey data from over 300 Queensland primary and secondary teachers were first analysed to identify teachers’ understandings and beliefs relating to the realities, causes, and consequences of climate change. Next, the data were analysed to illuminate how teachers conceptualise climate change education in terms of content and processes. This research is part of a larger PhD research project investigating teacher beliefs and climate change education.
Sharing Lived Experiences and Indigenous Epistemologies in the Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Teacher Education Program
Authors: Nichols Lyn
Published: July 2017

The research described in this paper explores the experiences of both students and teachers in the Aboriginal and Islander Teacher Education Program (AITEP) that operated during the late 1970s to early 1990s in Townsville, Australia. Using a phenomenological research this study explores the perceptions of the program and its influence based upon the experiences of those who participated in it, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous and to identify what they believe were elements that supported them to success. Preliminary findings from the study are presented. Implications of these experiences to current considerations in pre-service Indigenous teacher education are also presented.
Transition from Remote Indigenous Community to Boarding School: The Lockhart River Experience
Authors: Stewart Richard , Lewthwaite Brian
Published: July 2017

The transition to boarding school for students from the remote Indigenous community of Lockhart River on Cape York is a fact of life when they complete Year 7. With the transition to boarding school, Lockhart River mirrors remote Indigenous communities throughout Cape York and the Torres Strait, and remote regions in South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Access for remote Indigenous students to quality education provision in major urban centres is a key element of government policy in addressing disadvantage in education outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. Despite this, there is little in the way of recent research into the transition process in terms of its effectiveness in ensuring the delivery of a quality secondary education. The proposed study will use qualitative methods to examine the transition from a remote Indigenous community from the perspective of the students and their parents and care-givers.
Indigeneity behind the Scenes: Invasion and Kriolisation
Authors: Préaud Martin
Published: July 2017

This paper seeks to explore the relations between Indigenous and Creole modes of existence and political situations. It combines a theoretical and ethnographic approach to explore the Aboriginal concept of “law and culture” as it emerged in the Kimberley region of Australia. In retracing the historical conjuncture that gave rise to the emergence of this concept into an Aboriginal regional organisation, it highlights important similarities between the developing politics of indigeneity in Australia and the processes of creolisation. Different translations of “law and culture”, a concept expressed in Kriol, allow for a processual understanding of cultural and political change within Aboriginal societies and in their relation to the broader Australian society. Although Kriol is considered a linguistic phenomenon rather than a cultural or political one in the Australian context, it points to specific historical and social processes that are crucial to understanding the conditions in which Indigenous subjects are able to enunciate and articulate their position. By situating creolisation in the broader context of settler colonialism, I argue that it is a necessary counterpart of indigeneity, but one that needs be silenced and made invisible
Interethnic Discourse and Cosmology in Indigenous Association Practices in the Amazon: Hutukara Yanomami Association
Authors: Nascimento Araujo Felipe
Published: July 2017

I propose in this article to journey from the cosmological elements present in indigenous interethnic political discourse to indigenous association practices. The paper will seek to understand the bases of the indigenous association praxis, and to give an overview of the historical trajectory of indigenous political ‘protagonism’ in Brazil. To discuss the development of a political discourse of so many different peoples as comprise indigenes of Brazil may seem like a reckless generalisation. However, there is one thing they share in common: the history of contact with western civilization. This history is not singular, but plural. So many facts, widespread all over the continent, form a shared experience, and from this emerge a discourse which I seek to understand.
A Tropical Lens
Authors: Lundberg Anita
Published: July 2017

The landscape of the tropics is being viewed from a fresh tropical lens. This year, the United Nations declared 29June the ‘International Day of the Tropics’ – a day dedicated to celebrating and raising awareness of the tropical regions of the world. The ‘International Day of the Tropics’ testifies to the growing awareness of the significance of the tropics for the entire globe.This global dynamic calls for new engagements with and within the tropics. In the past, the tropics has been largely defined by the views of outsiders as the region captured the imagination of ancient philosophers and colonial explorers, of artists and scientists. During the inauguration for the ‘International Day of the Tropics’, a ‘tropics lens’ for assessing how knowledge and ideas benefitting the tropical region was proposed. This new lens requires the views of creative and innovative scholars: of critical and indigenous thinkers, explorers of the imagination, new media artists, of social scientists and colleagues in cognate disciplines.
The Australian Sugar Industry Museum
Authors: Lahney Jan
Published: July 2017

Steam, fire and hard yakka created the successful sugar cane industry!There is more to the sweet tropical grass than the addictive sweet taste, however, and there is more to the Australian Sugar Museum, on the corner of the Bruce Highway and Peregrine Street, Mourilyan, south of Innisfail in far north Queensland, than a collection of old farming equipment.Within its celebration of the sugar industry and the workers whose sweat watered the cane fields, there is an ongoing celebration of learning and art that is affecting not only Queensland but Australia as a whole.
The Effects of a Skin Cancer Educational Intervention on Beliefs, Knowledge and Behaviours of Outdoor Workers in the Tropics
Authors: Paine Lesley E , Caltabiano Marie L
Published: July 2017

Recent research has linked some forms of skin cancer with ultraviolet radiation from constant sun exposure. Outdoor workers represent an ‘at risk’ group as daily exposure to the sun’s harmful rays is a necessary part of their occupations. This study assessed changes in beliefs, knowledge and behaviours of outdoor workers in North Queensland towards skin cancer. A total of 40 outdoor workers participated in the study. A quasi-experimental repeated measures design with a treatment and control group was used. Subjects in the treatment group were exposed to an educational intervention explaining the danger of skin cancer and ways that the disease could be prevented. Results indicated that in comparison to the control group, subjects who received the educational intervention reported greater levels of sun protection behaviour, had increased knowledge about the disease and reported changes in their beliefs concerning skin cancer. Changes were assessed by using a sun safety questionnaire. Results of this research are of value to the Queensland Cancer Fund, Government Health Promotion Departments and numerous companies that employ outdoor workers in the tropics.
Geeks and Battlers: Intersections of Generic Specificity and National Narrative in Writing Australian Science Fiction
Authors: Kelso Sylvia
Published: July 2017

Three or four years ago I gave a paper at ICFA on the theoretical problems on race, in particular, that I foresaw in writing a work of Australian SF (Kelso, “Aliens”). Two years ago I used another paper to consider how you actually define SF. This is a field report, so to speak, on what writing the novel showed me about the SF genre, especially as its specificities intersected those of Australian narrative in “Australian science fiction.”
War in the Tropics
Authors: Jericho Greg
Published: July 2017

In the Home Box Office mini-series Band of Brothers (2001), one of the soldiers on a troop ship bound for England remarks: "Right now some lucky bastard's headed for the Pacific, get put on some tropical island, surrounded by six naked native girls, helping him cut up coconuts so he can hand feed them to flamingos". This paradisiacal view of the Pacific and tropical areas has existed for centuries, and despite European settlers' developing familiarity with the area, it is a misconception which has continued to be propagated in war films set in the tropics. These war films depict the tropics as antipodean utopias which become corrupted by the ravages of war. Thus, while many of these films attempt to display war realistically, they still hold to the historical view of the tropics as unspoiled and pure—until, of course, war intrudes onto the scene. These films rarely examine the effect of the war on the local inhabitants, but rather deal with soldiers coping with the disjunction between their preconceived notions of the area and the reality before them. Crucially as well, war is depicted as a greater crime against nature (both human and environmental) when fought in the tropics rather than in Europe. This view is promulgated in the representation of battles fought in these films. In films set in the Pacific theatre during World War Two, and more recent ones set during the Vietnam War, the battle for American and Australian soldiers is as much about coping with their surroundings as with fighting the enemy, who are often rarely seen, or only viewed in long shot. War films set in the tropics depict 'war as hell' because of the environment, which is by turns remote, mystifying, and generally rural, rather than urban, 'civilised' and familiar, as it is in the case of the majority of war films set in Europe.
'Reality' Fiction and the Great Barrier Reef
Authors: Torre Stephen
Published: July 2017

Di Morrrissey is one of Australia's most widely-read writers of popular fiction. Her special twist on the mode is to choose a particular setting and research it deeply, often living in the area for a time. Her thirteenth novel, The Reef (Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2004) is set on Branch Island "named because it was an island sprouting right from a limb of the Great Barrier reef (135), somewhere east of "Headland Bay" which, when described (133-34) suggests a hybrid Cairns/Cardwell/Port Douglas, actual towns spread along Australia's North Queensland coast, which is paralleled by the Great Barrier Reef.
Thea Astley Lecture 2007, Byron Bay Writers Festival
Authors: Rothwell Nicholas
Published: July 2017

Let me thank the festival’s organisers for inviting me to give this lecture in recollection of Thea Astley, a writer strongly linked to the country of far north Queensland and the tropical Australia that I study and frequent and love.My title already gives away not just the assumptions behind my choice of subject, but also my starting point – and since this is the briefest of talks, no more than a late afternoon amusement, a half-hour of verbal travel, let me plunge strait in to the landscape: what it is, how we see it, and invent it, and move through it with our eyes and words. I would like to make a few forays, to advance tentatively, on a set of related fronts, to explore a realm that seems at once smooth and continuous. I hope to spread before you a different form of country, and to peer into the cracks and fissures in our version of pastoral: though looking too deep into cracks and caverns can be hazardous, as readers of fairy-tales and travellers in the deep Outback know.
Tropical Gothic: Radiance Revisited
Authors: Craven Allison
Published: July 2017

Directed by Rachel Perkins in 1998, Radiance is a film that deserves a sequel. The fates of Mae, Cressy and Nona after they head off up the road in Mae's old car is a cinematic mystery that intrigues me more the longer I live in North Queensland, the place in which both Radiance the film and its antecedent, Radiance the play (Nowra 1993), are set. This essay does not attempt to investigate, much less solve this mystery, but instead deepens it by considering aspects of location, setting and narration in the film, which was co-scripted by Perkins and Nowra, as well as the process of transposition from play to film (Nowra 2003). Setting, used to realise the gothic aspects of the drama, marks the transposition between these otherwise similar versions of Radiance. Even local audiences fall for the film's mesmerising re-creation of the sub-region of North Queensland selected as a setting and in spite of minimal allusions even to Queensland in the dialogue. The house, the canefields, the beach and the island are 'regional sign systems' (Whitlock 1994) that present a convincing depiction of the place in which we dwell; some even say these features look familiar. Perkins (2003) tells how she set the film in Queensland to honour the setting of the original play, and she speaks of travelling to Queensland to gain the "atmosphere" of the place, and to choose locations. In fact, the locations chosen were far from North Queensland: Agnes Water, Rosedale, Childers, Bundaberg and Hervey Bay, as well as Max Film Studies in Sydney, while Nora Island "is a fabrication although some people swear they recognize it," says Nowra (2000, xiii). Radiance therefore comes to stand for the remarkable power of film to suggest a reality, and for the importance of location in telling a story on film.
Heritage Lost or Fortune Found: Issues and Dilemmas concerning Tourist Development within Local Communities
Authors: Ross Glenn
Published: July 2017

The past, for individuals and for communities, has a potent presence; it has, in no small measure, the power to shape perceptions of current well-being as well as optimism for the future. Major discontinuities as between the past and the present can occasion widespread and negative consequences in the life of many members of a community; this is particularly so if such changes are perceived as having been imposed without prior consultation and agreement. The severity of this situation is even further compounded if changes lead to a diminution or degradation of heritage and cultural environments within a community. For many community embers, a profusion of shopping centres, of roads and highways and of leisure facilities can be no adequate replacements for the loss of their historical and cultural heritage; these typically constitute vital elements of their community and indeed individual identity. Nor can an increase in various types of employment adequately replace an abiding sense of personal well-being that frequently accompanies sensitive and competently-managed change, the hallmark of which would see the interests and rights of community members, both the powerful and the powerless, taken into account and not subordinated in the maximization of profit. Whilst tourism development is often widely regarded as heralding unalloyed riches to those communities in which it appears, this paper examines some of the more baleful effects upon heritage that have now been associated with unrestrained and insensitive tourism development in tropical North Queensland. The paper presents issues found most problematic to many local residents; it then examines the historic precinct of Cannery Row in Monterey, noting some of the less desirable changes to heritage that have been occasioned by tourism development in recent years. Finally, suggestions are offered in regard to how local community members might be more empowered in their responses to future unrestrained negative developments affecting their local heritage.
Far North Queensland
Authors: Flick Brigitta , Caltabiano Nerina , Bentrupperbaumer Joan
Published: July 2017

Landowners (100 males and 21 females) within the catchment of the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon located between the Barron and the South Johnstone Rivers responded to a postal survey assessing attitudes towards their streamside forests. 121 useable questionnaires were used to identify the underlying components within landowner's attitudes. Factor analysis revealed two components, namely, awareness of human impact on local streamside forest, and appreciation of environmental benefits and functions of streamside forest. Only factor 2, appreciation of environment benefits and functions of streamside forest, was found to significantly predict good streamside forest management practices as self-reported by landowners. There is a need to understand the human impact on streamside zones.
Public Art in the Tropics Education Conduit ~ Community Catalyst
Authors: Ashton Linda
Published: July 2017

As part of art education studies, pre-service teachers at JCU have been active in public and community art projects 1999-2009. These works for and with diverse regional communities have been varied, challenging and on a number of levels, highly successful. A consistent theme in the works is the wet and dry tropical imagery of North Queensland. A visual overview will be presented of major projects to illustrate highlights, lowlights and issues. The presentation will celebrate imagination, diversity and how the process of making large scale artworks can be a catalyst for collaboration, education, research, lateral thinking, commitment to active citizenship and facilitation of strong, inclusive community partnerships.
The Girl with the Bush Knife: Women, Adventure and the Tropics in Age of Consent and Nim’s Island
Authors: Craven Allison , Mann Chris
Published: July 2017

Our paper broadly concerns the distinction of our cinematic heroines, Cora in Age of Consent (dir. Michael Powell 1969) and Nim of Nim’s Island (d. Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett, 2008), from the more typical ‘bush women’ of Australian cinema and literature. The figure of our title, the ‘girl with the bush knife’, is a kind of marine creature, vividly captured in Age of Consent beneath tropical waters, mermaid-like but arguably a modified mermaid, while Nim of Nim’s Island is an androgynous child adventurer descended from a swag of male mariners, whose several accessories include a bush knife. Their appearances in films 40 years apart are as much the object of inquiry in this paper as the femininities they perform, in that these films also represent minor milestones in Australian cinema at points at which the film industry has undergone change. The contexts of these changes are somehow signified, we suggest, by the use of tropical locations and settings, and we are therefore drawing attention to the way these female characters are accompanied by the spectacle of the tropical place in its difference from the more mythologised bush and desert landscapes of Australian mise-en-scene. Indeed, both Age of Consent and Nim’s Island use locations in Queensland to fictionalize settings that are either in or towards Queensland, and both adapt the well established symbology of Eden, paradise and epic journey, that are defined in studies of Queensland in film and television by Bruce Molloy (1990) and Albert Moran (2001). But whereas Molloy and Moran largely concentrate on films produced by Australian interests within the ambit of a local film industry, our films are both instances of films made by international interests, with a degree of local involvement and capital, on visitations to ‘locations less used’, namely North and Far North Queensland.
“The Cretaceous Border: Writing Non-Realist Fiction in North Queensland”
Authors: Kelso Sylvia
Published: July 2017

This article combines the voice of an academic with that of a writer/author who is also a native of North Queensland, and one who, less commonly, publishes non-realist, or speculative fiction. This area, now often called specific in Australia, covers the genres of science fiction, or SF, fantasy, and horror. Here I will examine the way in which the three forms’ generic protocols and markets can intersect with the establishment of a North Queensland writer’s regional and/or gendered voice.
The Graduate Grind: A Critical Look at Graduate Education
Authors: L. Grundy Annabelle , K. McGinn Michelle
Published: July 2017

Abandonment, abuse, anxiety, betrayal, bitterness, breaking point, burnout, collapse, danger, death, desperation, discouragement, divorce, exhaustion, frustration, grind, hardships, hazing, hurdles, ignorance, impossible dream, isolation, killing the spirit, leaving, loneliness, murder, neglect, peril, ridicule, ritual, self-protection, sexual harassment, shock, snobbery, strain, strangulation, stress, suffering, suicide, survival of the fittest, trauma, and violence.
The Thesis Journey: Travelling with Charley
Authors: L. Cole Ardra
Published: July 2017

I chose the title of my talk for two reasons. The first part connects with the book, The Doctoral Thesis Journey, which I co-edited with David Hunt in 1994. The journey metaphor still works for me as a way to talk about the thesis process. The sub-title, Travelling with Charley, is borrowed from an account of a particular kind of journey John Steinbecks’s road trip across the United States with his standard poodle, Charley, chronicled in his classic novel, Travels with Charley. The sub-title connects with a new book that I am working on now, with the working title, Of Dogs and Dissertations: Notes on Thesis Writing and Life.
Language Awareness in Nova Scotia Schools: An Exploratory Study
Authors: Piper David
Published: July 2017

The author conducted a questionnaire survey of language awareness in 358 students studying in Grades 8, 10, and 12 English classes in three rural and three urban schools in Nova Scotia. The main objectives of the study were to learn just how sensitive these students were to key aspects of language prior to any deliberate instruction in language awareness, to obtain new information about levels of natural language awareness as the basis for curriculum development, to uncover significant subject variables in relation to developing language awareness, and to clarify the theoretical distinction between “ordinary” and “critical” language awareness.
Peer Victimization in Middle Childhood: Characteristics, Causes, and Consequences of School Bullying
Authors: Marini Zopito
Published: July 2017

This paper focuses on a particular type of peer victimization commonly identified as school bullying. In the past. myths and inaccurate assumptions coupled with the lack of empirical data on the long term effects and stability of peer victimization have presented serious obstacles toward a greater understanding of bullying. Recent research, however, suggests that the number of students affected is much higher than previously believed, the range of behaviours involved more severe, and the consequences long-lasting; in many cases, the maladjustment for both victims and bullies can extend well into adulthood. Clearly, peer victimization is a complex and multidimensional aspect of school life that needs to be understood in greater depth and taken much more seriously because of the associated consequences. This paper will provide an overview of four central aspects of bullying, namely, the myths, characteristics, callses, and consequences.