bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Neuromuscular Fatigue and Tibiofemoral Joint Biomechanics When Transitioning From Non–Weight Bearing to Weight Bearing
Authors: Schmitz Randy J. , Kim Hyunsoo , Shultz Sandra J.
Published: November 2014

Context:

Fatigue is suggested to be a risk factor for anterior cruciate ligament injury. Fatiguing exercise can affect neuromuscular control and laxity of the knee joint, which may render the knee less able to resist externally applied loads. Few authors have examined the effects of fatiguing exercise on knee biomechanics during the in vivo transition of the knee from non–weight bearing to weight bearing, the time when anterior cruciate ligament injury likely occurs.

Objective:

To investigate the effect of fatiguing exercise on tibiofemoral joint biomechanics during the transition from non–weight bearing to early weight bearing.

Design:

Cross-sectional study.

Setting:

Research laboratory.

Patients or Other Participants:

Ten participants (5 men and 5 women; age = 25.3 ± 4.0 years) with no previous history of knee-ligament injury to the dominant leg.

Intervention(s):

Participants were tested before (preexercise) and after (postexercise) a protocol consisting of repeated leg presses (15 repetitions from 10°–40° of knee flexion, 10 seconds' rest) against a 60% body-weight load until they were unable to complete a full bout of repetitions.

Main Outcome Measure(s):

Electromagnetic sensors measured anterior tibial translation and knee-flexion excursion during the application of a 40% body-weight axial compressive load to the bottom of the foot, simulating weight acceptance. A force transducer recorded axial compressive force.

Results:

The axial compressive force (351.8 ± 44.3 N versus 374.0 ± 47.9 N; P = .018), knee-flexion excursion (8.0° ± 4.0° versus 10.2° ± 3.7°; P = .046), and anterior tibial translation (6.7 ± 1.7 mm versus 8.2 ± 1.9 mm; P < .001) increased from preexercise to postexercise. No significant correlations were noted.

Conclusions:

Neuromuscular fatigue may impair initial knee-joint stabilization during weight acceptance, leading to greater accessory motion at the knee and the potential for greater anterior cruciate ligament loading.
Effects of Maternal-Child Health Education Program for Nurses in Tigray, Ethiopia on Their Knowledge and Confidence.
Authors: Bang Kyung Sook , Lee Insook , Chae Sun Mi , Yu Juyoun , Park Jisun , Kim Hyungkyung
Published: November 2014

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify effects of a maternal-child health education program for nurses in Tigray, Ethiopia.METHODS: One-group pre-posttest design was used. The maternal-child health (MCH) education program was given to nurses from 5 health centers in Tigray, Ethiopia. Knowledge and confidence levels were measured before and after each education session. Data were analyzed using paired t-test.RESULTS: The topics of the 5 educational sessions were family planning, antenatal care, care during labor, immunization, and integrated management of neonate, and child illness. Knowledge scores (1st: Z=3.931, p=.001; 2nd: Z=6.189, p<.001; 3rd: Z=5.658, .001, 4th: Z=8.734, .001, 5th: Z=14.167, .001) and confidence levels (1st: Z=8.467, .001; 2nd: Z=4.183, .001; 3rd: Z=4.992, .001) improved significantly.CONCLUSION: The findings of this study imply that the MCH education program for nurses was effective in developing the maternal-child health capacity of the nurses in Tigray, Ethiopia.
Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania
Authors: Woolfson Shivaun
Published: November 2014

Once regarded as a vibrant centre of intellectual, cultural and spiritual Jewish life, Lithuania was home to 240,000 Jews prior to the Nazi invasion of 1941. By war's end, less than 20,000 remained. Today, approximately 4,000 Jews reside there, among them 108 survivors from the camps and ghettos and a further 70 from the Partisans and Red Army.

Against a backdrop of ongoing Holocaust dismissal and a recent surge in anti-Semitic sentiment, Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania presents the history and experiences of a group of elderly Holocaust survivors in modern-day Vilnius. Using their stories and memories, their places of significance as well as biographical objects, Shivaun Woolfson considers the complexities surrounding Holocaust memory and legacy in a post-Soviet era Lithuania. The book also incorporates interdisciplinary elements of anthropology, psychology and ethnography, and is informed at its heart by a spiritual approach that marks it out from other more conventional historical treatments of the subject.

Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania includes 20 images, comes with comprehensive online resources and weaves together story, artefact, monument and landscape to provide a multidimensional history of the Lithuanian Jewish experience during and after the Holocaust.
Hypercreature Rhizome: A Performative Work
Authors: Massie Raya
Published: November 2014

This writing is an experiment, created primarily out of a synergy of rhizome, flesh, concept and hypercreature, although there are also infinite others resonating through the work. This writing is not, however, a ‘rhizomic’ or ‘fleshy’ work: it is neither faithful, nor does it seek to represent; it is not a rhizomic performance, but rather the writing is performative of hypercreature, rhizome and flesh. It is not a duplicity, but a multiplicity: this writing is an evolution or perhaps a ‘creative involution’ of these concepts.
A Complex Millenium of Zoos
Authors: Bishop Rebecca
Published: November 2014

A review of Eric Baratay and Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier's Zoo: A History of Zoological Gardens in the West (Reaktion Books, London, 2002).
Reading Radio
Authors: Goodman David
Published: November 2014

A review of Susan Merrill Squier's (Ed.) Communities of the Air - Radio Century, Radio Culture (Duke University Press, Durham, 2003).
The Antinomies of Anti-Capitalism
Authors: Buchanan Ian
Published: November 2014

A review of Liza Featherstone and United Students Against Sweatshops's Students against Sweatshops (Verso, New York, 2002).
The Young and the Restless
Authors: Barrett Lindsay
Published: November 2014

A review of Mark Latham's From the Suburbs: Building a Nation from our Neighbourhoods (Pluto Press, Annandale, 2003).
The 'History Wars' in Comparative Perspective: Australia and Japan
Authors: Yonetani Julia
Published: November 2014

The term ‘revisionism’ has referred historically to views that challenge an orthodoxy or official position. As narrative, history continually presents itself with the possibility of revision. A history that denies the possibility of revision is ideologically dogmatic. In this sense revisionism cannot be considered as necessarily a negative phenomenon. Yet revisionism is the term that has been used recently to describe historians who discount the extent or even occurrence of historical tragedies such as massacre, genocide, or even the Nazi holocaust. The dogmatic evasion and denunciation of any contradictory evidence by such revisionists can lead to what A. Dirk Moses refers to as the second meaning of revisionism, the posture of denial.
Kierkgaard II: The Sequel
Authors: Magee Paul
Published: November 2014

In what follows, I want to discuss three audience responses to ‘Kierkegaard: The Movie’, a paper I delivered at the Cultural Studies Association of Australia’s annual conference in December 2001, and to show where those responses led me. The reason I am doing so is that I am more and more convinced that our theories of ideology suffer a fundamental flaw. They fail to incorporate the richest source of data that we, as humanities academics, have at our disposal: the fact that we are all teachers. What richer source could we have for studying the transmission of ideas and beliefs than our own social practices? I am referring not only to the classroom, but also to our conferences, and even to our collegial visits to the pub. Wherever it is that university people garner new ideas and directions, that is where we will be most likely to learn about the mechanisms of cultural and indeed political transmission.
Popularisation– again!
Authors: Turner Graeme
Published: November 2014

A review of Ellis Cashmore's Beckham (Polity, Cambridge, 2003) and Charles Lemert's Muhammed Ali: Trickster in the Culture of Irony (Polity, Cambridge, 2003).
Challenges to Secularism in the New World Disorder
Authors: Gibson Mark
Published: November 2014

A review of Stanley Hauerwas and Frank Lenticchia's Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after September 11 (Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 101, no. 2, Spring 2002).
Thought, Feeling and Nature
Authors: Gall Adam
Published: November 2014

A review of Brian Massumi's Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Duke University Press, Durham, 2002) and A Shock to Thought: Expression after Deleuze and Guattari (Routledge, London, 2002) and William E. Connolly's Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed (University of Minneapolis Press, Minneapolis, 2002).
US Cultural Studies: Oxymoron?
Authors: Breen Marcus
Published: November 2014

This essay began in 1999 as an attempt to update my perceptions and experiences as a resident alien in the USA. Written expressly for what was then The UTS Review, it was intended to follow up my earlier piece published in 1997, ‘The Cultural Studies Thing You Do: In the USA after Sokal’. Just as the challenges initiated by that ‘affair’ seem to have evaporated, or been absorbed into the apparatus of systemic reinvention in the US academy, I am reinventing my correspondence.
Caviar and Friendship: Sensational Trials and the Reinvention of Public Space
Authors: Evans Nicola
Published: November 2014

Sensational trials are a venue for the performance of social knowledge—the kind of knowledge that does not regularly make an appearance on the front pages of national newspapers. if sensational trials routinely catapult private matters into the public sphere, it is less such exciting revelations that concern me here, than the dross kicked up in their wake. Sensational trials, I contend, are a point of entry into everyday life, that far more elusive zone of ordinary beliefs and practices situated between the institution and the bedroom, in the interstices of the scripted and chronicled domains of private and public life. To address the everyday is to confront those undocumented procedures and forms of knowledge that exist beyond the realm of official discourse, practices that cultural theorists are increasingly eager to explore and increasingly sceptical of finding. As Barry Sandywell recently observed, ‘Like the omnipollent term “community”, “everyday life” is in continuous use within lay and theoretical discourse and yet continuously evades definition. Perhaps ... we should ask “where is everyday life”?’ This paper argues that one answer to this question lies in the study of sensational trials.
Ethics, Morality and the Formation of Cultural Studies Intellectuals
Authors: Wickham Gary
Published: November 2014

This article is not so much concerned with the history of cultural studies as with the way in which aspects of its history are used in forming a particular type of cultural studies intellectual, one for whom ethics is subsumed into a morality directed to the necessity of engaging in a politics of empowerment. The article’s concern, this is to say, is to problematise the taken-for-grantedness of this type of intellectual, something it seeks to do through a genealogy (in something like the Foucaultian sense of that term), or at least the outline of a genealogy.
The Witness in Contempt: Reflections on Overfamiliarity, Pain and Desecration
Authors: Tumarkin Maria
Published: November 2014

There are many opportunities for lying and cheating in engaging with, what Susan Sontag called, ‘the pain of others’. One of them is the gradual emergence of the feeling that you know what happened, what it was like to go through it. Yet overfamiliarity can, at times, injure more than contempt or blatant disregard. With so many recent tragedies, the experts who know how it feels and what it’s like, send tropical medications to war-torn continental countries, offer free art therapy classes in place of bread and water, write reports about the ‘atmosphere of fear and uncertainty’ that can neither produce the most negligible of changes nor console even the most naive of souls. It’s possible to counter contempt and indifference with knowledge, laughter and moral courage, but what is the defence against the thick web of assumptions?
And the Dead Remain Behind
Authors: Read Peter
Published: November 2014

In most cultures the dead and their living relatives are held in a dialogic relationship. The dead have made it clear, while living, what they expect from their descendants. The living, for their part, wish to honour the tombs of their ancestors; at the least, to keep the graves of the recent dead from disrepair. Despite the strictures, the living can fail their responsibilities, for example, by migration to foreign countries. The peripatetic Chinese are one of the few cultures able to overcome the dilemma of the wanderer or the exile. With the help of a priest, an Australian Chinese migrant may summon the soul of an ancestor from an Asian grave to a Melbourne temple, where the spirit, though removed from its earthly vessel, will rest and remain at peace. Amongst cultures in which such practices are not culturally appropriate, to fail to honour the family dead can be exquisitely painful. Violence is the cause of most failure.
The Rain Keeps Falling
Authors: Rose Deborah
Published: November 2014

The force of disaster hit me in the heart when, as a young woman, I heard Bob Dylan sing ‘Hard Rain’. In a voice stunned by violence, the young man reports on a multitude of forces that drag the world into catastrophe. In the 1960s I heard the social justice in the song. In 2004 the environmental issues ambush me. The song starts and ends in the dying world of trees and rivers. The poet’s words in both domains of justice are eerily prophetic. They call across the music, and across the years, saying that a hard rain is coming. The words bear no story at all; they give us a series of compelling images, an account of impending calamity. The artistry of the poet—Bob (Billy Boy) Dylan—offers sequences of reports that, like Walter Benjamin’s storm from paradise, pile wreckage upon wreckage.
The Maternal Heroine
Authors: Messer Jane
Published: November 2014

There is a Chinese curse quoted in glib desk calendars that have a phrase for each day: ‘May you live in interesting times’. In fiction, maternity has not often been seen as terribly interesting, and in the real world having babies often stops a mother from writing, off and on and even for years. The story of mothers and babies seems elusive, not fit for the imagination, for where’s the story? The ‘maternal heroine’, a protagonist and main character whose actions and identity are closely bound up with her work and experience of herself as a mother of young and dependent children, is rare. How could she not be? She’s busy giving off strong whiffs of routine. Where’s the drama in that? And what are babies? They’re not thinking, arguing agents for change—hardly protagonists—even if antagonistic at the cocktail hour. At least, that is one way of opening up the question of the maternal heroine.
Elephant
Authors: Beesley Luke
Published: November 2014

Poetry.
Fear of Fantasy
Authors: Giles Fiona
Published: November 2014

A review of Thomas W Laqueur's Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation (Zone Books, New York, 2003).
The Image Dispositif
Authors: Berardi Franco
Published: November 2014

What is interesting is not the image as a representation of reality, but its dynamic power, its ability to stir up and build projections, interactions and narrative frames structuring reality. What is interesting in the image is its ability to select among infinite possible perceptual experiences, so that imagination becomes imagin/action.
The Negation of a Negation Fixed in a Form: Luigi Nono and the Italian Counter-culture 1964–1979
Authors: Murphy Timothy S.
Published: November 2014

My goal in what follows is to trace the role of avant-garde music in the rise and development of the Italian counter-culture from the early 1960s until its destruction at the end of the 1970s. Instead of approaching this issue along quantitative, sociological lines, I will focus on one figure whose simultaneous engagement with musical innovation and sociopolitical revolution was exemplary in its intent (though exceptional in its extent): the avant-garde composer Luigi Nono, whose career parallels the rise of the Italian counter-culture during the 1960s and early 1970s. I will also briefly examine how the forcible destruction of the Italian counter-culture in 1979 is reflected in the last phase of Nono’s musical career.
Virtuosity, Processual Democracy and Organised Networks
Authors: Rossiter Ned
Published: November 2014

I start with the premise that the decoupling of the state from civil society and the reassertion of the multitudes over the unitary figure of ‘the people’ coincides with a vacuum in political institutions of the state. Against Chantal Mouffe’s promotion of an ‘agonistic democracy’, I argue that the emergent idiom of democracy within networked, informational settings is a non- or post-representative one that can be understood in terms of processuality. I maintain that a non-representative, processual democracy corresponds with new institutional formations peculiar to organised networks that subsist within informationality.
Presenting an Image of Thought in Flux
Authors: Morgan Hamish
Published: November 2014

I remember lots of things about living in an Aboriginal community; hundreds of images, voices and feelings make a pastiche of such experience. If I focus on a single image I am always enchanted by the images that follow, these images released and thrown into movement by one moment of stationary thought. Memories slowing down, speeding away, through their difference and repetition. Most especially I remember first meeting the Ululla mob, but, oddly enough other memories must be described to get you there, and to convey a certain context, feeling, a certain freedom to what I am trying to say.
The Heart and Guts of Cultures
Authors: Secomb Linnell
Published: November 2014

A review of Jean-Luc Nancy's A Finite Thinking (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2003).
Just a suburban boy
Authors: Barrett Lindsay
Published: November 2014

A review of Craig McGregor's Australian Son: Inside Mark Latham (Pluto Press, North Melbourne, 2004), Margaret Simons's Quarterly Essay: Latham’s World: The New Politics of the Outsiders (Black Inc., Melbourne, 2004) and Michael Duffy's Latham and Abbott (Random House Australia, Milson’s Point, 2004).
'Old Lady Mob': Interview
Authors: Nicholls Christine
Published: November 2014

Christine Nicholls spoke with Kathleen Petyarre in September 2004, when she met Kathleen with her sisters Myrtle and Violet, to talk about new work that was exhibited as part of the ‘Body Painting Series’, at the Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney, opening on 11 November 2004, in an exhibition entitled ‘Arnkerrth: Kathleen Petyarre, Abie Loy’. Christine spoke again with Kathleen in December 2004 (with Penny Hoile of Gallerie Australis, which represents Kathleen) specifically for this special collection of articles. Kathleen was asked about aspects of her work discussed at the symposium ‘Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming’ held at the Uni- versity of Tasmania in March 2003, to which she had been invited but which she had been unable to attend.
Breasts, Bodies, Art: Central Desert Women’s Paintings and the ﻿Politics of the Aesthetic Encounter
Authors: Biddle Jennifer L
Published: November 2014

This paper is concerned with a culturally distinctive relationship between breasts and contemporary art from Central Desert Aboriginal women. Contra to the dominant interpretation of these paintings as representations of ‘country’—cartographic ‘maps’ of the landscape, narratives of Dreaming Ancestors, flora, fauna, species—my argument is that these works bespeak a particular breasted experience and expression, a cultural way of doing and being in the world; what I want to call a breasted ontology.
The Art of Dreaming: Merleau-Ponty and Petyarre on Flesh Expressing a World
Authors: Diprose Rosalyn
Published: November 2014

I do not understand painting very well, and especially not Australian Indigenous painting, the dot painting of Western and Central Desert artists such as Kathleen Petyarre. I grew up without art on the wall, among gum trees, red dirt, dying wattle, and ‘two thirds (blue) sky’. While this might suggest that I inhabit the same landscape as Petyarre, I also grew up without ‘the Dreaming’, the meaning that this dot painting is said to be about. How and why then can this painting have the impact on me that it does? And, given the history of colonisation in Australia, including the colonisation of Indigenous meanings, what is the politics of the impact of that painting?
Face to Face: Place and Poetry
Authors: Harrison Martin
Published: November 2014

This paper focuses specifically on three poems: ‘The Driver’, ‘The Slope’ and ‘Incident at Galore Hill’ and the relationship between poetry and place. In trying to prepare the ground for a philosophy which can deal with what he terms the ‘phenomenal field’, Merleau- Ponty spends a number of pages early in The Phenomenology of Perception clarifying what he sees as the limits and traps of several narrowly psychological approaches to perception. Such psychologies set up the observed world as a transcendent domain which maps consciousness as if it were somehow separated out from the world, as if, to employ his phrase, there are two different ‘modes’ of being. In this paper I explore the relations between inside and outside and the perceiver and the perceived as well sensory experience in relation to poetry, in conjuction with discussions of Merleau-Ponty's philosophies.
Shut Up, Nobody Wants to Hear Your Poems!: Painter Versus Poet
Authors: Glastonbury Keri
Published: November 2014

This piece stages a friendly title bout between two male artists of my generation, painter Adam Cullen and poet Ted Nielsen. While my chosen exemplars share a ‘turn of the century’ cultural moment, there is also a large disparity in their respective levels of success (hence one possible reading of the ‘shut up, nobody wants to hear your poems!’ title). Though roughly the same age, Cullen is currently one of Australia’s most collectable artists and Nielsen is considered in poetry circles to be an ‘emerging’ poet (in a potentially ‘submerging’ art form). While I mayfall sway to the ‘glamour’ of a famous painter, one of the central investigations remains a questioning of how poetry sits within the montage effect of placing both artists’ work side by side, rather than, as the title suggests, simply squaring them off against each other.
Mapping the Minor
Authors: Martin Fran
Published: November 2014

A review of Francoise Lionnet and Shu-Mei Shih's (Eds) Minor Transnationalism (Duke University Press, Durham, 2005).
From Cultural Studies to Cultural Research: Engaged Scholarship in the Twenty-first Century
Authors: Ang Ien
Published: November 2014

Is, or should cultural studies be, a discipline or not? What exactly is its object? Should cultural studies be focused on influencing policy or be an agent of critique? What is the role of theory? What kind of theory? Should textual analysis or ethnography predominate? The regular reiteration of such questions reveals an ongoing sense of crisis, a general apprehensiveness over the question whether cultural studies is able to live up to its own self-declared aspirations, both intellectually and politically.
'Don't Use the A-word': Arts By Stealth at the ABC—A Latourian Analysis
Authors: Jacka Liz
Published: November 2014

The future of public service broadcasting (PSB) in the digital age receives an enormous amount of both media and academic attention. However, much of the analysis and debate is locked into some fairly stale and repetitious discourses polarised around oppositions such as state/market and popular/elite. In this article the author describes a very minor episode in the long saga of public service broadcasting, namely recent changes to its coverage of the arts, using some insights drawn from the repertoire of ANT, and argue that it provides better resources for illuminating this episode that the more usual frameworks used to analyse such issues.
Can't Help Lovin' That Man
Authors: McInnes David
Published: November 2014

A review of Steven Cohan, Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical (Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2005).
John Howard's Body
Authors: Magee Paul
Published: November 2014

This article explores the reasons for the electoral successes of the Howard governement, with particular reference to Judith Brett's Quarterly Essay analysing John Howard's personal contribution to this success.
Culture and Pedagogy: On the Popular Art of Reviewing Popular Art
Authors: Briggs Robert
Published: November 2014

This article explores the influence of contemporary cultural studies on the transformation of the prevailing concepts and practices of culture - including notions of 'mass' and 'high' culture. The author draws on the different views of a variety of authors, such as John Hartley, Q. D. Leavis, Ken Gelder and Catherine Lumby.
The Presence of Palestinian Absence in Narrating the Zionist Nation into Being
Authors: Pfingst Annie
Published: November 2014

In 2005, the 38th year of the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem and the year that saw the construction of an eight metre high concrete Wall of Separation through the Occupied West Bank, an exhibition, 'The New Hebrews: A Century of Israeli Art', was held at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.  The exhibition can be read as the narration of the Zionist nation coming into being – a narration in which the Palestinian people do not figure, though the reconfiguration of the land does. Only in the room on Conflict are Palestinian refugees, the Occupation and the Wall represented by Israeli photographers and media artists, making a slight dent into a historiography and landscape devoid of Palestinian agency and presence. From a Jewish feminist engagement with the discourses on Palestinian Right of Return, the essay addresses a set of questions about the field of vision posed by Ariella Azoulay in Death’s Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy (2001) when she asks: Who sees? Who is capable of seeing, what, and from where? Who is authorised to look? How is this authorization given or acquired? In whose name does one look? What can be seen outside the narrative of redemption and the frame set by the Temple Scroll and the Jug of Tears? Are the photographs of the Intifada and the portraits from the refugee camps in effect inserting the presence of the spectral other, as described by Judith Butler? This essay will consider the ways in which we might read these Israeli photographic insertions in the circumstance where representation and representational space is such a contested feature of the conflict.
Participating in the Past: Recording Lives in Digital Environments
Authors: Arthur Paul Longley
Published: November 2014

The article focuses on the impact of digital media on the recording and presentation of oral history. It discusses some issues such as the finance for oral history research, the problems associated with maintaining and updating digital histories and the demands of interdisciplinary collaboration in Australia. It also looks into some oral history projects to describe the essence and impact of digitalization on oral history. Moreover, it explores the constraints of the digital environment.
Cultures of Fame and Fandom
Authors: Bonner Frances
Published: November 2014

A review of Su Holmes and Sean Redmond (eds), Framing Celebrity (Routledge, London, 2006).
Cultural Studies in the Age of Disciplinary Democracy
Authors: McPhedran Charles
Published: November 2014

A review of Gary Hall and Clare Birchell (eds), New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2007).
‘Skylarking’: Homosexual Panic and the Death of Private Kovco
Authors: Payne Robert
Published: November 2014

This essay analyses key examples of language used during the recent case of Private Jake Kovco, the first Australian solider to die during Australia’s military involvement in Iraq. Kovco died not in combat but in his barracks room, shot in the head by his own pistol. In particular, the essay considers the implications of the military inquiry being told that Kovco may have accidentally shot himself while joking with his roommates ‘in a female/homosexual way’, the gun held to his head ‘almost to say this is so gay I would rather be dead’. Payne revisits Sedgwick’s concept of ‘homosexual panic’ to argue that the erasure of homophobia from the record of the incident (euphemised as ‘skylarking’) contributes to the normalisation of homophobia as an unworthy source of social and political panic, precisely because of the ‘systemic function’ Sedgwick attributes to homosexual panic in reinforcing heterosexual masculine entitlement.
Biotypologies of Terrorism
Authors: Pugliese Joseph
Published: November 2014

The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) document, ‘Training Keys #581: Suicide (Homicide) Bombers: Part 1,’ is designed to assist law enforcement authorities in the pre-emptive capture of prospective suicide bombers. In this essay, Pugliese focuses on the training key to examine the manner in which essentialised biotypologies are mobilised and reproduced within the context of the so-called ‘war on terror.’ The use of biotypologies by both the military and law enforcement agencies reproduces a disciplinary biopolitical regime premised on normative conceptualisations of race, gender and bodily behaviour. Pugliese discusses these regimes in the context of the US Department of Defense and its advocacy of ‘identity dominance’ through the development of new technologies such as gait signature biometrics. Situated in this context, he shows how biotypologies of targeted subjects are instrumental in fomenting cultural panics concerning the Arab and/or Muslim and/or figure ‘of Middle Eastern appearance’.
Proliferating Panic: Regulating Representations of Sex and Gender during the Culture Wars
Authors: Davies Cristyn
Published: November 2014

During the culture wars in the United States surveillance of representations of the American citizen reached a particular frenzy. This article explores the moral panic that has accompanied attempts by the New Right to shape and define the American citizen as heterosexual, monogamous, white, and a believer in middle-class family values. Davies focuses on the work of performance artists Karen Finley and Holly Hughes whose work challenges hegemonic discourses of gender and sexuality. They were two of those artists branded by the media as the ‘NEA Four’, practitioners whose work was considered indecent and consequently de-funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. The article imagines performance art as a queer time and space; that is, not only does performance art contest normative structures of traditional theatrical performance, so too does it challenge understandings of normative subjects, and the relation of the arts to structures of power.
In the Name of ‘Childhood Innocence’: A Discursive Exploration of the Moral Panic Associated with Childhood and Sexuality
Authors: Robinson Kerry
Published: November 2014

This article critically examines moral panic as a political strategy in maintaining the hegemony of the nuclear family, the sanctity of hetereosexual relationships and the heteronormative social order. It focuses on the moral panic associated with children and sexuality, particularly that which is manifested around non-heterosexual subjectivities. The discussion is based on media representations of the moral panic associated with the Play School saga, The Tillman Child Care Centre / Learn to Include booklets and the We’re Here resource. It explores the hegemonic discourses around childhood innocence, sexuality and the construction of the homosexual as ‘folk devil’ and shows how these discourses are mobilised by conservative politicians and moral entrepreneurs to strategically instigate a moral panic at critical points in time.
Baroque Inclinations
Authors: McDonald Lisa
Published: November 2014

A review of Tara Forrest. The Politics of Imagination: Benjamin, Kracauer, Kluge (Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2007).
Going Down the Hole: Beaconsfield, Celebrities and the Changing News Culture in Australia
Authors: Bainbridge Jason
Published: November 2014

For fourteen days, all of Australia and much of the world was focused on the rescue of two miners trapped underground in Beaconsfield, Tasmania. This article looks at the period from Todd Russell and Brant Webb’s rescue up to and including Channel Nine’s screening of an exclusive interview with the men on 21 May 2006. It analyses the ways in which Beaconsfield was reported—and the exclusive interview with the miners pursued—as a way of exploring notions of celebrity, infotainment, chequebook journalism and the changing shape of news culture in Australia. For these reasons, the events at Beaconsfield should not be dismissed as just another news story, but rather, should be regarded as indicative of the ways in which news is increasingly being reported, packaged and folded back into larger entertainment structures.
The Postmodern Left
Authors: Lucy Niall , Mickler Steve
Published: November 2014

A certain version of the political left is at one with conservatives in misrepresenting ‘postmodernism’ in order to denounce it. For this ‘left’, which recoils from the left’s historically indivisible association with Marx, the purpose of politics is simply to win government for itself. Our argument here is that, ironically, such a purpose mirrors the very lack of purpose that conservatives define ‘postmodernism’ to represent. Hence the recent call by Clive Hamilton for the left to turn to the churches for moral guidance, in the absence of any meaningful political convictions.
Sad Old Queers
Authors: McGregor Viv
Published: November 2014

A review of Heather Love, Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard University Press, Harvard and London, 2007).
In the Northern Territory Intervention, What is Saved or Rescued and at What Cost?
Authors: Watson Irene
Published: November 2014

The foundation of the Australian colonial project lies within an ‘originary violence’, in which the state retains a vested interest in maintaining the founding order of things. Inequalities and iniquities are maintained for the purpose of sustaining the life and continuity of the state. The Australian state, founder of a violent (dis)order is called upon by the international community to conform and uphold ‘human rights’, but what does this call to conformity require, particularly when the call comes from states which are also founded upon colonial violence? This article argumes that very little is required beyond the masquerade that ‘equality’ for Aboriginal peoples is an on-going project of the state. So for what purpose does the masquerade continue?
Ruptured Reconciliation
Authors: Marcus Julie
Published: November 2014

A review of Jon Altman and Melinda Hinkson (eds), Coercive Reconciliation: Stabilise, Normalise, Exit Aboriginal Australia (Arena Publications Association, Melbourne, 2007).
Presence of the Gift
Authors: Game Ann , Metcalfe Andrew
Published: November 2014

Philosophers, social theorists and cultural theorists have generally followed Mauss in assuming that gifts entail obligatory exchanges between distinct parties who give, receive and reciprocate, and, that the social emerges through this sequence of obligations. It is the obligation to reciprocate, for example, that led Derrida to claim that the gift is impossible. We consider the alternative ideas that non-exchange gifts are not only possible but the basis of social life: that the social arises from the nonsequential giving-and-receiving of a gift relation. To develop this claim, we draw on a research project on the phenomenology of teaching. While many interviewees, teachers and students, spoke of the gift in exchange terms, many also spoke of classroom experiences in which there is a giving and receiving that is neither sequential nor locatable. Through the resonances of the concept of presence, we draw out the time, space and ontology of the gift.
‘Calling our Spirits Home’: Indigenous Cultural Festivals and the Making of a Good Life
Authors: Slater Lisa
Published: November 2014

In a discussion about the problems affecting young people of Cape York, a local community health worker told me: ‘their spirits have wandered too far. We need to call them back to them’.  In the last five years mainstream notions of wellbeing have changed dramatically, but still there is little room for spirits and ancestors. It is now considered that the critical goods of health and wellbeing are leading a life with purpose, having quality connections with others, possessing self-regard and experiencing feelings of efficacy and control. For decades now Australia has demonstrated difficulty, if not failure, to construct appropriate responses to entrenched social problems within Indigenous communities. In this article I examine two Cape York festivals aimed at improving the wellbeing of Indigenous youth – Croc Fest and Laura Dance Festival. The former is driven by government agendas of enhancing education and health outcomes for Indigenous youth, while the latter’s purpose is to maintain and develop strong culture for the Cape and surrounding communities and respect the country’s spirits and ancestors.Why do mainstream and Indigenous responses to social problems continue to diverge so greatly, and what does each achieve and have to offer the other? In examining these festivals what can be seen is mainstream Australia’s failure to understand culture as a material expression of a vital life force, thus integral to wellbeing. I argue that a fundamental failure in mainstream responses to the ‘crisis’ in Indigenous Australia is to enable a life force derived from another sovereignty. In examining these festivals, mainstream and Indigenous, the disjuncture becomes clear. I propose that it is not only Indigenous youth whose spirits have wandered too far from them, but secular, neo-liberal Australia is lost in a world void of spirits, the ephemeral, and the power of country, forsaken for progress, individuality and the drive for statistical equality. How can we call our spirits home whilst respecting different sovereignties? What might Indigenous cultural festivals have to teach us about the making of a ‘good life’?
The Invention of Creativity: The Emergence of a Discourse
Authors: Nelson Camilla
Published: November 2014

Creativity is increasingly cited as the key to social and economic change in the twenty-first century. It is also a very modern concept—making its first appearance as an English noun in 1875. This essay investigates the cultural construction of creativity in the context of the history of ideas. It understands creativity not as an innate human instinct or ability, but as an idea that emerges out of specific historical moments, shaped by the discourses of politics, science, commerce, and nation. It shifts the ground of analysis away from the naturalised models that have traditionally dominated the field of creative practice research, in order to highlight the historicity of a concept that is more commonly deemed to be without history.
Echo-Coherence: Moving on from Dwelling
Authors: Cooke Stuart
Published: November 2014

Many ecopoetical formulations of belonging to, or caring for, the environment involve the notion of ‘dwelling’, which, in Martin Heidegger’s work, necessitated a kind of peaceful stasis, or a mode of being attuned to one particular locale, rather than to many. This essay will argue that in fragile, colonised environments like Australia’s such thinking is irrelevant and negligent because it insists on the importance of an individual’s on-going relationship with a single place, rather than with many. This relationship is manifest in particular kinds of poetry. The speaker’s intimacy with a place is affirmed with layers of detail, and assertions that it is this place to which the speaker belongs. The place is in turn constructed, and caged, within this representation. A poem that seeks to describe complex, dynamic ecologies in static representations, however, ignores both the nature of these ecologies and the poem’s own connection to them. This essay will propose a process-based poetics based on nomadic thought. Rather than describing static representations of the ‘real’ world, a nomadic ecopoetics understands its own role within the real world. Like nomadic agricultural practice, it moves in relation to the demands of its environment without an over-arching need to become entrenched in any particular locale. The essay will argue that nomadic thinking is as important for urban as rural regions as global climate change becomes increasingly influential
Reflections on the Death Scene
Authors: Buchan Bruce , Gibson Margaret , Ellison David
Published: November 2014

An introduction to the Death Scene issue of Cultural Studies Review, with reflections on the nature of the death scene in general and on the specific issues covered by contributors.
Whose Business is Dying? Death, the Home and Palliative Care
Authors: Rosenberg John
Published: November 2014

The process of dying at home brings the nexus between the paternalism of conventional palliative care and a social understanding of end of life care into sharp focus. Away from institutional places of care, issues of ownership, compliance and communal responsibility are heightened. At this interface, palliative care services are confronted with the irony of relinquishing their 'ownership' of dying whilst leading communities to reclaim their principal role in the business of dying. This benign – but enduring – paternalism remains a barrier to a paradigmatic shift towards a more complete understanding of the business of dying. Whilst nascent attempts to promote community engagement in end of life issues are evident in the interface between palliative care and public health, dying remains, for the most part, the remit of health care services. In this article, I contend that the business of dying is incompletely attended. This lack of attention will be partially redressed here by considering the home as a fitting death scene.
Death is Swallowed Up in Victory: Scenes of Death in Early Christian Art and the Emergence of Crucifixion Iconography
Authors: Harley McGowan Felicity
Published: November 2014

Christianity, and the instrument of Jesus’ death, the cross, remains the pivotal, and universally recognised, symbol of the Christian Church. Yet pictorial representations of the death of Jesus are conspicuously rare in the earliest Christian art. Moreover, the earliest surviving images  of Jesus’ Crucifixion do not depict  him dead on the cross, but defiantly alive – a visual interpretation of the event that incorporates both the means of his execution and his subsequent victory over death in the Resurrection. This article examines the iconography of a small ivory plaque, carved in Rome in the early fifth century, whereon the Crucifixion is juxtaposed with the suicide of Jesus’ betrayer, Judas Iscariot (Matthew 27 3:5) to effect a powerful visual interpretation of Jesus’ death. As the earliest surviving visual narration of Jesus’ Crucifixion and Resurrection, the ivory will be shown to preserve critical information regarding the interpretation of Christ’s death in the early Christian church - incorporating symbols and visual motifs from pagan funerary sculpture, while illustrating the development of a specifically Christian visual language for the representation of Jesus’ death.
The Dread of Sameness
Authors: Bishop Rebecca
Published: November 2014

A review of Jackie Stacey, The Cinematic Life of the Gene.
Festive Emplacements: Burning Man and Goa Trance
Authors: Luckman Susan
Published: November 2014

A review of Rachel Bowditch, On The Edge of Utopia: Performance and Ritual at Burning Man and Graham St John (ed.), The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance.
Still Waiting for the Barbarians
Authors: McNaughton Howard
Published: November 2014

A review of Tzvetan Todorov, The Fear of Barbarians: Beyond the Clash of Civilisations.
Not Quite White
Authors: Oldham Paul
Published: November 2014

A review of Jon Stratton, Jews, Race And Popular Music.
The Common Destiny of Un/common Cultures
Authors: Romania Vincenzo
Published: November 2014

A review of Kamala Viswewaran, Un/Common Cultures. Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference.
Income Outcome: Life in the Corporate University
Authors: Ferrell Robyn
Published: November 2014

Higher education on the corporate model imagines students as consumers, choosing between knowledge products and brands. It imagines itself liberating the university from the dictates of the State/tradition/aristocratic self-replication, and putting it in the hands of its democratic stakeholders. It therefore naturally subscribes to the general management principles and practices of global corporate culture. These principles – transparency, accountability, efficiency – are hard to argue with in principle. But an abstract argument in political economy comes down to earth in the challenges facing the arts and humanities, after the ‘Education Revolution’, to justify their modes of life.
Transition or Translation?: Thinking Through Media and Cultural Studies Students’ Experiences after Graduation
Authors: Matthews Nicole
Published: November 2014

This article uses Kevin Robins and Frank Webster’s notion of ‘instrumental progressivism’ as a way of understanding the tensions between discipline-based academic staff and educational policy makers and developers within universities.  Robins and Webster argue that contemporary educational orthodoxies bring together two disparate philosophies: progressive understandings of education as student-centred and lifelong and the view that higher education should serve the economy.  While these writers see instrumental progressivism as a symptom of an ailing university system, this article argues that cultural studies as an interdiscipline with historical ties to progressivism cannot entirely step aside from the logic of these reforms.  The article interrogates Robins and Webster’s argument drawing on two small-scale qualitative research projects which traced the experiences of graduates from media and cultural studies programs, one in the UK and one in Australia.  While there are formidable political problems with progressivism and real challenges in smoothing educational transitions, the article argues that cultural studies programs can help students translate the categories, research questions, and disciplinary concentrations of their field into the languages and taxonomies of the work place.
Common Pursuits
Authors: Clarke Ben
Published: November 2014

A review of Ben Highmore, Ordinary Lives: Studies in the Everyday (Routledge, 2011).
Chip Power
Authors: Hawkins Gay
Published: November 2014

A review of Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Duke, 2010).
Convergence or Diffusion?: The Spread of Media History
Authors: Jacobs Jason
Published: November 2014

A review of Janet Staiger and Sabine Hake (eds), Convergence Media History (Routledge, 2009).
Disciplining Innovations
Authors: Mansfield Nick , Matthews Nicole
Published: November 2014

The editors of the 'Disciplining Innovations' issue introduce the theme.