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McCormack, Bernadette. "Blockbustering Australian style: Evolution of the blockbuster exhibition in Australian museums." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/200164/1/Bernadette_McCormack_Thesis.pdf.
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This research critically evaluates the development of the blockbuster exhibition within an Australian museum context. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, reflective practice, and critical historiography, this research argues that current iterations of the blockbuster genre have given rise to a new ecology of 'attractor' exhibitions that are fundamental to visitor engagement strategies in the 21st century Australian museum. These findings are then operationalised in a practical field guide for the implementation of blockbuster exhibitions, providing new knowledge for the Australian museum practitioner to employ in contemporary industry practice.
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Nguyen, Tuan. "Queering Australian Museums: Management, Collections, Exhibitions, and Connections." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18169.
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Queering Australian Museums addresses the problem of how queer or LGBTIQ communities can be further included in Australian museums on their own terms. It looks at four areas of museums—management, collections, exhibitions, and connections with audiences and communities—to consider barriers and enablers of queer inclusion in these often heteronormative institutions. Case studies of queer-inclusive efforts in public Australian museums are interpreted from institutional and community perspectives drawn from 25 interviews. The interviews are put into critical conversation with archival material and literature from museum studies and the emerging field of queer museology. The study evaluates the visibility of the history, cultures, and identities of queer communities in Australian museums. It establishes that many public representations of queerness have been driven by the efforts of LGBTIQ communities, particularly through community-based heritage organisations. It also gathers and reflects upon examples of critical queer inclusion that have occurred in public museums. Using these exemplars, it argues that queer communities should be empowered to make decisions about their own heritage with the support of museums and their unique attributes; that individual and organisational leadership, involving queer individuals and allies, should be brought to bear on this task; and that effectively navigating the tensions between museums and queer communities requires mutual understanding and accommodation. Through the process of queering the museum, it is suggested, each party might be transformed, leading to LGBTIQ diversity being valued as an integral part of society. The thesis addresses the gap in Australian museum studies literature on queer or LGBTIQ inclusion compared with Euro-American settings. It further contributes original case studies to the international field of queer museology, and to museum studies literature on including and empowering diverse communities. Both recognising the agency of queer communities and also engaging with the language and conventions of museums, it constructs a distinct account of how to navigate the historical tensions between the two. It thereby aims to enrich museum offerings for all audiences on the terms of those erstwhile excluded.
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Clark, Alison. "Conversations in Country : Tiwi and Yirandali Indigenous Australian collections in the British Museum." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2013. http://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/conversations-in-country(a3d31cdd-0b2e-4519-8185-947008032ab7).html.
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This thesis reassesses the Tiwi collections made by Jessie Sinclair Litchfield, and the Yirandali collections compiled by Mary Montgomerie Bennett, which are held at the British Museum, in order to understand their place in the history of indigenous settler relations in Australia. Both collections are entangled in the history of Aboriginal and settler relations, and understanding these relations will enable museums to give voice to the multiple dialogues the collections contain. In this way we can renew the significance of these collections for both museums and indigenous communities. Thus my thesis asks how the Litchfield and Bennett collections can be presented within a museum exhibition in the light of the changing face of Aboriginal and settler relations in Australia particularly with reference to the ‘History Wars’, the Native Title Act, the Northern Territory National Emergency Response and the Apology.
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Thompson, Christian. "Creative responses to Australian material culture in the Pitt Rivers Museum collection : parallels between 'We Bury Our Own' and 'Mining the Museum'." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0a206e9d-c6f1-46c1-9a48-d301fcb50c44.
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This theoretical dissertation is a comparative assessment of two exhibitions responding to a museum archive: the work of African-American artist Fred Wilson (b. 1954), Mining the Museum, at the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, 1993, and my own exhibition We Bury Our Own at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 2012. I explore the emergence of the museum as a context and medium for artists as institutional critique. The following research outlines a range of artistic practices and engages a process of ekphrasis to give detailed comprehensive accounts of both exhibitions, demonstrating how studio-based research is able to reveal hidden or previously unseen histories obscured by the imperial gaze. I discuss the differences between my own and Wilson's approaches in order to expose how the work might shift in significance or meaning when it is placed inside and outside the museum context. This thesis introduces the idea of spiritual repatriation, outlines how museum collections are able to contribute to artistic practice and how artists can contribute to the ongoing exhibition, critique and appreciation of museum collections. This thesis also elaborates on the Pitt Rivers Museum Collection and its subsequent influence on recent work, and redefines the title We Bury Our Own as a metaphor applied to a wider picture.
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Webber, Susan, and n/a. "House museums as sites of memory." University of Canberra. Built & Cultural Environment, 2005. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20080925.100449.
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Houses and the objects within them stand as tangible symbols of human memory. Some
memories are created unconsciously in day-to-day living; others are consciously attached
to objects that are cherished as symbols of other places, relatives and friends. Memories
may seem to be lost until they are rediscovered in moment of involuntary recall, triggered
by an object, a smell or taste.
The purpose of this research project is to investigate the memory experiences of
visitors to a house museum; what they do with those experiences and how important they
are to them.
Forty adult visitors to Calthorpes' House in the ACT were interviewed using the
focused interview technique with a framework of questions that allowed for a
conversational style and additional questions. The interviews were recorded and later
transcribed.
The results showed that all visitors reported experiencing memories during their
visit to Calthorpes' House. Many people found those experiences enjoyable and wanted
to share them with others.
These findings are important because they can inform the set-up, interpretation
and publicity of house museums in ways which will attract new visitors and help to
engage with visitors' interests when they visit house museums.
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Lally, Janice. "The Australian aboriginal collection in the Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin and the making of cultural identity /." Connect to thesis, 2002. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000309.
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Jones, Philip G. "'A box of native things' : ethnographic collectors and the South Australian Museum, 1830's-1930's /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phj778.pdf.
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Styles, Catherine Anne, and castyles@ozemail com au. "An other place: the Australian War Memorial in a Freirean framework." The Australian National University. Centre for Women's Studies, 2001. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20010904.111335.
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My thesis is that museum exhibitions developed according to Freirean praxis would constitute a better learning opportunity for visitors, facilitate the process of evaluation, and enact the favoured museum principles of dialogic communication and community-building.
¶This project constitutes a cross-fertilisation of adult education, cultural studies and museum practice. In the last few decades, museum professional practice has become increasingly well informed by cultural critique. Many museum institutions have been moved to commit to building communities, but the question of how to do so via exhibition spaces is yet to be squarely addressed by the museum field. In this thesis I produce a detailed evaluation of a museum's informal learning program; and demonstrate the potential value of adult education theory and practice for enacting museums' commitment to dialogic communication and community-building.
¶To investigate the value of adult education praxis for museums, I consider the Australian War Memorial's signifying practice - the site and its exhibitions - as a program for informal learning. I conduct my analysis according to Ira Shor's (Freirean) method for engaging students in an extraordinary re-experience of an ordinary object. Shor's program calls for students to investigate the object through three stages of description, diagnosis and reconstruction. Respectively, I testify to my initial experience of the Memorial's program as a visitor, analyse its signification in national, international and historical contexts, and imagine an alternative means of signifying Australia's war memory. The resulting account constitutes a record of my learning process and a critical and constructive evaluation of the Memorial as a site for informal learning. It provides a single vision of what the Memorial is, what it means and how it could be reconstructed. But more importantly, my account demonstrates a program for simultaneously learning from the museum and learning about its signifying practice. This dual educational and evaluative method would mutually advantage a museum and its visiting public. In a museum that hosted a dialogic program, the exhibitions would invite evaluative responses that staff are otherwise at pains to generate. Concurrently, visitors would benefit because they would be engaging in a more critical and constructive learning process. In addition, the museum would be enacting the principle of dialogic communication that underpins the project of community-building.
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Douglas, Craig Cameron, and n/a. "Cultivating the [New] Country: Disclosing Through Curatorship the Cultural and Economic Development Potential of the Australian Regional Art Museum." Griffith University. Queensland College of Art, 2005. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20060901.111309.
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This study utilising a 'theory into practice' methodology, interrogates the phenomena of the Australian Regional Art Museum and establishes that curatorship, as a defined visual art practice can sustain the art museum as a viable cultural institution in contemporary regional Australia. It employs a case study of a new model art museum and the curation of selected collections-based exhibitions.
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Douglas, Craig Cameron. "Cultivating the [New] Country: Disclosing Through Curatorship the Cultural and Economic Development Potential of the Australian Regional Art Museum." Thesis, Griffith University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365856.
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This study utilising a 'theory into practice' methodology, interrogates the phenomena of the Australian Regional Art Museum and establishes that curatorship, as a defined visual art practice can sustain the art museum as a viable cultural institution in contemporary regional Australia. It employs a case study of a new model art museum and the curation of selected collections-based exhibitions.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Queensland College of Art
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Cirino, Gina. "American Misconceptions about Australian Aboriginal Art." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1435275397.
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Gore, James Michael. "Representations of history and nation in museums in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand : the National Museum of Australia and the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa /." [Australia] : J. Gore, 2002. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000320.
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Smith, Charlotte H. F. "The house enshrined : great man and social history house museums in the United States and Australia /." Online version, 2002. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/24545.
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Adams, Eleanor. "Towards sustainability indicators for museums in Australia." [Adelaide] : Collections Council of Australia, 2009. http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au/Portals/0/Sustainability_indicators_report_by_Eleanor_Adams_11January2010.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Adelaide, 2009.Title from PDF t.p., viewed 20 Jan., 2010. "Published online by the Collections Council of Australia Ltd." Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Curatorial and Museum Studies to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Adelaide. Includes bibliographical references.
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Tredan, Stephanie Alexandra Westwood. "Stuck in limbo : the repatriation of unprovenanced Australian indigenous ancestral remains from UK and Australian museums." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2018. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/30259/.
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Samani, Shamim Ekbal. "Muslim women responding to globalization: Australian and Kenyan narratives." Thesis, Curtin University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2567.
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The cultural determinism summoned in the discourse on the ‘war on terror’ embraces gender frames that invigorate the Islam and the West divide. In a vacuum of historical, geo-political and economic contexts, such frames conjure a Muslim woman archetype in opposition to Western conceptualizations of modernity. Ignoring the social milieu, as well as the current global transformations affecting people’s lives globally, conjectures in singular co-optations that isolate traits from religious dispositions have implications in how Muslim gender issues are perceived and addressed.This thesis intends to reconceptualize the Muslim woman image in an attempt to move beyond the gender polemics of cultural determinism and divide. Using narrative enquiry, the study makes a comparative analysis to discover how Muslim women in two disparate societies – Australia and Kenya are responding to the dynamics of change accelerated by globalization. Through primary research, it captures the narratives of 40 women along the axis of the two major influences on their lives - modernization and Islamization enhanced by globalization. In tracing the way global paradigms and policy changes at the macro-level have affected Muslim women and the responses produced, it provides an unconventional frame to view the lives of contemporary Muslim women.The study contends that in general, the issues facing Muslim women in the rapidly changing environment can be understood as challenges internal and external to faith orientation. On the one hand, the forces of a modern global culture offer opportunities and channels to redefine aspects of daily living and lifestyles. On the other, a resurgence of Islam manifests itself in an assertion of religious observance, cultural identity, values and morality that increasingly question these settings. The challenges are not confined to minorities in the West, but also borne by many in non-Western societies. Through its research findings, the study proposes that culture in itself is not immutable or a constant, but cultural expression is a vital part of utilizing opportunities availed by development and central to the process of development itself. As the means of comprehension without which life, lifestyles, objectives, aspirations and much more cannot be expressed, given meaning or be implemented, cultural expression is a vital aspect of human development. Accommodating these in the multicultural settings of contemporary environments is evermore salient in the globalized world.As the world becomes more interdependent, the challenges for a global society manifest in how societies organize themselves; how citizens participate and how decisions on collective issues can be more congruent to facilitate a more socially sustainable development. Through its schedule, the study attempts to provide an insight into the issues and challenges facing Muslim women in contemporary times and in the course of its findings makes a case for the value of diversity, cultural expression and a sustained representation of Muslim women within development issues.
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Hersi, Abdi Mohamud. "Australian Muslims’ Conceptions of Integration." Thesis, Griffith University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367708.
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Currently, the scholarly literature does not address the possibility of the existence of a counter narrative of what integration might mean to the immigrant communities who are the subjects of the integration debate. In the case of Muslim immigrants in Australia, their perspectives on what integration means is absent from this debate. This study therefore attempts to examine the meanings of integration from the perspective of the Muslim people themselves. Over the course of 2010 and 2011, four focus group discussions were conducted with Muslims in the South East Queensland region of Australia. Concerning the issues of their integration into Australian society, Muslim participants were asked to define what integration means and also to state what activities and behaviours they would attach to the meaning of integration. Qualitative data analysis employing NVIVO software was used to categorise particular interpretations of integration into themes.
The study found that the meanings Muslims give to the term “integration” are by and large similar to those prevalent in the scholarly literature on integration. In general, Muslims ascribe to the term meanings relating to participation, belonging and contributing to the wider society. Noticeably, they conceptualise integration in socio- economic terms rather than in cultural terms. However, the study concludes that the meanings that integration has for Muslims are generally influenced by their faith. For example, Muslims expressly reject activities and behaviours they perceive to compromise their faith, and evidently make a distinction between integration and assimilation. Overall, this thesis argues that an understanding of how Muslims define integration may help policy makers, academics and settlement service providers appreciate how culture and faith influence the meanings that religiously and culturally diverse groups give to certain generally accepted terms, such as integration.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science
Arts, Education and Law
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Green, Tayla. "Evaluating the research impact of Australia’s state natural history museums." Thesis, Green, Tayla (2021) Evaluating the research impact of Australia’s state natural history museums. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2021. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/65264/.
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This study is a bibliometric assessment of the research output of Australia’s mainland State Natural History Museums (ASNHMs), covering all literature published by these museums within the Scopus database from 1981 – 2020. ASNHMs include the Australian Museum (Sydney), Western Australian Museum (Perth), South Australian Museum (Adelaide), Queensland Museum (Brisbane), and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (Darwin). The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery was excluded because of its modest size and research output. The National Museum of Australia is also excluded because it is concerned primarily with social history.
ASNHMs are a vital repository of the range of Australia's unique biodiversity.
They hold invaluable collections of natural history specimens that are major contributors to the taxonomic and systematic research of national and global biodiversity. Conserving biodiversity is a great challenge, and ASNHMs play a vital role in contributing to research and the implementation of plans to conserve Australia’s flora and fauna, known often for its high level of endemism and vulnerability in the face of climate change, habitat destruction, and threats from introduced pests and diseases.
This research reveals that ASNHM research is prolific, covers many topics, and is amongst some of the most influential literature in the world. The ASNHM’s published 9,770 papers over the study period, rising from 38 in 1981 to 529 in 2020. Four areas predominated, comprising in total almost 80% of the entries in all year blocks: Agricultural and Biological Sciences – 1981-1985 (n = 171, 44.42%) through to 2016- 2020 (n = 1960, 47.85%).
Earth and Planetary Sciences - 1981-1985 (n = 83, 21.56%) through to 2016-2020 (n = 439, 10.72%).
Environmental Science – 1981-1985 (n = 56, 14.55%) through to 2016-2020 (n = 553, 13.50%).
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology – (1981-1985 n = 15, 3.90%) through to 2016-2020 n = 358, 8.74%).
The rise in publications in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology reflects the growing significance of this discipline in museum work.
Analysis of the 50 most highly cited papers over this period revealed that the number of citations ranged from 299 – 1,793, with most papers coming from the subject areas Agricultural and Biological Sciences (39%) and Multidisciplinary (27%). A Field- Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) was available for 46 of the top 50 papers, with a range of 1.35 to 80.95 (mean 13.45). A FWCI of 1 indicates a paper performing at the average for its discipline, so these papers clearly outperformed others in their field.
All preceding analyses assume that all museum work is being captured through conventional searches of Scopus. By searching for the records of two long-standing museum researchers in Scopus secondary documents (documents not listed in Scopus but cited by documents are in Scopus), the comprehensiveness of a conventional search could be checked. The secondary document searches revealed a large body of scholarship that was not detected by conventional database searches. One author had nearly 300 entries in secondary documents and the other over 200. These large bodies of scholarship generated h-indices of 23 and 17 respectively. Thus, conventional searches underestimate the extent of research publications from ASNHM researchers.
ASNHM researchers have achieved their strong record through high collaboration with universities, government agencies, conservation organisations and other leading authorities in protecting ecosystems and wildlife, hitting high notes in topics of great social, environmental and economic importance.
This research highlights the importance of research conducted by ASNHMs, their scientists and their affiliates, their collaboration within Australia and internationally. In documenting the range of research conducted by ASNHMs, this study heroes the significance of this collective research in the face of ever-increasing budget constraints that threaten the existence of museum research.
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Edries, Ahdielah. "Student and teacher-identified attitudes and needs at the Australian Islamic College." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2009. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1903.
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The Australian Islamic College is a co-educational Islamic Independent school with three campuses in Metropolitan Perth which cater for migrant students from war-torn countries and others with culturally and linguistically, diverse backgrounds. The purpose of this study was to identify the strengths and interests of Islamic students, across eight of Gardner’s intelligence domains, as perceived by the students, and to explore student and teacher attitudes and perceptions of current school practices, so that the College could better meet the needs of these students. This study is important for the Islamic Colleges because it is hoped that the study will lead to the provision of opportunities for students to increase their confidence, self-esteem and motivation, and to achieve better in academic and non-academic areas.
Data relating to the research questions were collected from three sources: (1) a survey on Student Self-Views (eight scales) (N=321); (2) Teacher Guttman Scaling questionnaires (three scales) and open-ended responses (N=32); and (3) student Focus Group Interviews (N=4X=32). The student survey data were analysed using the Rasch Unidimensional Measurement Model computer program (RUMM 2020) to create eight linear, unidimensional scales measuring Student Self-Views for the Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, English, Mathematics, Art, Music, Sport and Drama domains. The Teacher Guttman scales measured perceptions of: (1) Priority Activities Providing Links to the Western Culture; (2) General Types of Resources Needed; and (3) School Needs for Professional Areas.
The following valid inferences were drawn from the linear scales: (i) female students do not have statistically significantly higher mean measures for Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Self-Views than male students, (ii) males have statistically significantly higher Mathematical and Sports Self-Views than females; and (iii) females have significantly higher English, Art, Music, and Drama Self- Concept than males. Findings from the student interviews and teacher surveys have direct implications for staff; that is, teachers need to adapt their pedagogy to suit the multiple student needs in their classrooms, and take on a more active role in their students’ emotional well-being by enhancing the current pastoral care to include positive relations with the students’ parents. Staff should have consistent positive reinforcement and behaviour management strategies in their classrooms, collaborative learning needs to be introduced in subjects that are content-laden, and practical, ‘hands-on’ activities need to be increased in their classrooms.
The findings from the interviews and open-ended responses suggest that there is a need for the Principal to foster inclusion of shared philosophies across the entire school community (parents, teachers, students and Islamic leaders), and to review
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El, Sayed Sara. "We can't all be the good Muslim hero: Intersubjective obstructions in writing Arab-Australian Muslim experience." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/210972/1/Sara_El%20Sayed_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis investigates how postcolonial pressures on the Arab-Australian Muslim identity have led to the presentation of a too-unified front in Arab-Australian storytelling. By interviewing Egyptian Muslim women living in Brisbane, and as one myself, I identify what I call intersubjective obstructions, which provide opportunities for autoethnographic interrogation. I examine how Yassmin Abdel-Magied, through her memoir Yassmin’s Story, renders a Brisbane-based Arab-Australian Muslim hybrid identity. I find that post-colonial pressures can force the creation of the Good Muslim Hero narrative. Through my creative practice, I discover how I may resist or respond to those pressures in my memoir, Muddy People.
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Delahunty, Susan. "Portraits of Middle Eastern Gulf female students in Australian universities." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2013. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/585.
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This research explores the experiences and insights of ten Middle Eastern Gulf women as they cross international borders to study in Australian universities. The literature indicates that international students in Australia establish their identity within the context of their overseas existence. This is particularly important as Muslims may feel they are being placed in a precarious situation due to, more often than not, terrorism being linked to Islam. Also, when Muslim women wear Islamic or traditional attire, the general public tends to look upon them with curiosity. With this in mind, the complex and changed contexts faced by ten Middle Eastern Gulf female post-graduate students are investigated using qualitative research methods. Utilising a grounded theory approach to interpret data and identify themes from two online questionnaires and personal interviews, individual portraits are created to illuminate their experiences. The research findings reveal new knowledge indicating that education is a structured mechanism for the participants, resulting in the creation of a new hybrid self as a key instrument for survival. This enables them to better understand cultural contexts and barriers arising from class, tradition, religion and learning. The participants indicate that a two-way agreement between educators and learners is paramount to a smooth transition into the Australian education system and a positive return to their home communities.
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Farazi, Mehzabin. "Experiences of the Australian Bangladeshi Muslim Community in Family Dispute Resolution." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23768.
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The Bangladeshi Muslim community has a very short history of migration and settlement in Australia, and hence tends to blend into the woodwork, as a silent portion of larger migrant groups, such as the Muslim community and the ‘culturally and linguistically diverse’ (CALD) community. These more vocal voices tend to speak on behalf of Bengali Muslims, and the unique Bengali Muslim identity becomes lost in the chorus. This is certainly the case in family dispute resolution. It is undeniable that crucial research on both the barriers that the CALD community faces in accessing mainstream family dispute resolution services, and on the family law and dispute resolution practices of the Australian Muslim community, relate to Bengali Muslims to some degree. However, it cannot provide a complete picture of Bengali Muslim needs, values and practices. Do they follow the same Islamic family law principles in resolving disputes as all other Muslims? Do they face the exact same barriers as all the other ethnic minorities? Or, is it reasonable to assume that their unique identity tells a different story? In an effort to tell this story, this study will take a twofold approach. Firstly, it is proposed that the CALD community is not a homogenous entity, but is composed of numerous cultural and religious groups, of which the Bangladeshi Muslim community is only one. Hence, the barriers faced by the Bangladeshi Muslim community in accessing mainstream family dispute resolution are distinct to their identity. Secondly, it is proposed that the Australian Muslim community, although religiously connected, is composed of many different cultural groups, of which the Bangladeshi Muslim community is just one. Therefore, the way this community adopts and engages with Islamic family dispute resolution processes is also distinct to its identity.
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Franklin, Donna. "Meaningful Encounters: Creating a multi-method site for interacting with nonhuman life through bioarts praxis." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2014. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1574.
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This research advocates a multi-method approach to bioarts praxis, reflexively and critically questioning the contemporary contexts that frame our engagement with nonhuman life. In doing so, the research aims to generate further community engagement with nonhuman life and the environment, and engender critical discourse on the implications of developing biotechnologies.
Hegemonic institutions influence the way culture is produced and how information is constructed and understood. Habermas (1987) suggests that these institutions will inevitably influence the individual’s lifeworld as they shape lived experience through the process of systemic colonisation. I assert that this process also shapes how individuals engage with or understand nonhuman life. Through the implementation of three major projects the research aims to develop the capacity of bioarts in challenging such institutions by providing the opportunity for hands-on life science activities and real-time interactions with nonhuman life. The research by employing such methods aims to counter-act the impact of urbanised living and indifference to environmental conservation.
Each aspect of the creative praxis provides a reflexive case study to establish the research aims and answer the research agenda. This includes my creative bioartworks, an art-science secondary educational course and a curated group exhibition, symposium and workshop. This research provides an alternative communicative approach to hegemonic institutions such as the mass media, scientific biotechnological industries and traditional gallery spaces (Shanken, 2011).
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Amath, Nora. "The Phenomenology of Community Activism: Muslim Civil Society Organisations in Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367694.
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Muslim communities are among the least well understood in Australia. This thesis examines the emerging phenomenon of Muslim civil society organisations (MCSOs). In contrast to much publicised jihadist and radical groups, MCSOs are far more representative of Muslim communities and integral to the long-term position of Islam in Australia. Using descriptive phenomenology, this study presents the experiences of Australian Muslim civil society actors and the organisations they represent. Through 30 unstructured, in-depth interviews with 15 Australian MCSOs actors, their stories are told for the first time based on their lived experience and in their own words. In particular, this thesis explores how MCSOs have responded to the challenges of the Australian socio-political context, the perceived impact of these experiences, and how Islam is manifested within the contexts of these experiences.
The key themes which emerged from these interviews include: community building, social inclusion, the impact of 9/11 and the negotiation of identity. Importantly, based on these four major themes, the phenomenological analysis delineated that the universal essence of Australian MCSOs clearly revealed that Islam does not exist in Australia in isolation from the wider socio-political context. There is a constant, albeit under-recognised, process of negotiated exchange with Australian cultural norms, values, systems and institutions. Moreover, the findings also demonstrated that external events have brought Australian MCSOs full circle in their community building.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Humanities
Arts, Education and Law
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Behrouzinia, Tahmoores. "The socio-demographic characteristics of Muslim communities in Australia, 1981-96." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phb421.pdf.
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Bibliography: leaves 483-532. This study contributes to the limited body of knowledge regarding Muslim settlement in Australia by elucidating the processes of contemporary settlement and adjustment of Muslim groups in Australia and assessing the role and significance of religion (Islam) in those processes. It focuses on the cultural, economic, social and demographic adjustments of these groups to Australian society and explores the role of Islam in the adjustment.
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Othman, Zulkeplee. "Privacy, modesty, hospitality and the design of Muslim homes in Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/92619/1/Zulkeplee_Othman_Thesis.pdf.
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This cross-disciplinary, exploratory case study architectural research adopts a social science methodological approach to investigate the influence of cultural traditions and religious teachings on domestic behaviours and utilisation of interior spaces of six Muslim families' homes in Brisbane. Based on the tripartite principles of privacy, modesty and hospitality (PMH), this study acknowledges the contributions of Australian homes in providing a safe and private domain for these families to undertake daily activities while continuing their cultural and religious traditions. This research further acknowledges the significance of Australian homes to these families in the promotion of social inclusion to the wider society.
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Aydemir, Cigdem. "Image and Voice: Muslim women in Contemporary Art." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15723.
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This paper investigates the Western image of the Muslim woman in the context of contemporary art. Through my art practice I use the veiled woman cipher to reflect on personal experiences whilst broadening definitions and displacing hegemonic representations of veiling and Muslim women in an Australian cultural context. These are exemplified through autobiographical elements, parody in the Extremist Activity series, performative interventions illustrating the concept of the body as an occupied site and architectural devices that (re)create notions of inclusion, exclusion and otherness in space. From loquacious and overbearing noblewomen to helpless harem slaves awaiting rescue by her Orientalist saviours, an analysis of the development of the Muslim woman’s image throughout history reveals the shifting and contingent nature of her role in the Western imagination. Finally, an examination of current representations of Muslim women in Australian contemporary art demonstrates how these images often repeat and reinforce, rather than depart from, Orientalist and neo-Orientalist constructs.
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Eid, Mahmoud M. "Public schools or Islamic colleges? : factors impacting on parental choice of schooling for Muslim children." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/192.
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This portfolio focuses on issues associated with the education of Muslim children in Western Australia, within the broader national context. Based on ABS 1996 Census, Clyne (2001) states "there is a considerable potential demand for education within the Muslim community with at least 60 000 children within the compulsory years of schooling (5-15 years)" (pp. 118-119). However, according to the Islamic schools' principals, "approximately 10 percent of these children are enrolled in Islamic schools" (p 119). This means 90% of Muslim school children are enrolled in non-Islamic schools despite the fact that the community has 30 full time Islamic schools nation wide. At the moment, most Islamic schools are relatively small. In this respect, Buckley (1997) states: If we accept a total figure of 300,000 Muslims in Australia, and we estimate that 70% of them are school-age students, then these Muslim schools are catering for less than 2.5% of the total Muslim student population (p. 6)
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Haveric, Dzavid. "History of the Bosnian Muslim Community in Australia: Settlement Experience in Victoria." Thesis, full-text, 2009. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/2006/.
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This thesis examines the settlement experience of the Bosnian Muslims in Victoria. Overall this research exploration takes places against background of the history of the immigration to Australia. The study covers migration patterns of Bosnian Muslims from post World War 2 periods to more recent settlement. The thesis provides contemporary insights on Bosnian Muslims living in a Western society such as Australia. The thesis excavates key issues about Islam and the Muslim communities in Western nations and argues that successful settlement is possible, as demonstrated by the Bosnian Muslim community. By adopting a socio-historical framework about settlement, the thesis reveals the significant, interconnected and complex aspects of the settlement process.
Settlement of immigrants takes place within global, historical, economic, political, social and cultural elements of both the sending and receiving countries. Thus any study of settlement must examine theories and concepts on migration, settlement, religion, culture, integration and identity. The purpose for migration, the conditions under which migration takes place, the conditions of immigrant reception are fundamental in the context of Australia. Furthermore, Australia since the 1970s has adopted a policy of multiculturalism which has changed settlement experiences of immigrants. These elements are strongly analysed in the thesis both through a critical conceptual appraisal of the relevant issues such as migration, multiculturalism and immigration and through an empirical application to the Bosnian Muslim community.
The theoretical element of the study is strongly supported by the empirical research related to settlement issues, integration and multiculturalism in Victoria. Through a socio-historical framework and using a ‘grounded theory’ methodological approach, field research was undertaken with Bosnian Muslim communities, Bosnian organizations and multicultural service providers. In addition, historical data was analysed by chronology. The data provided rich evidence of the Bosnian Muslims’ settlement process under the various governmental policies since World War 2.
The study concluded that the Bosnian community has successfully integrated and adapted to the way of life in Australia. Different cohorts of Bosnian Muslims had different settlement patterns, problems and issues which many were able to overcome. The findings revealed the contributions that the Bosnian Muslim community has made to broader social life in Australia such as contribution to the establishment of multi-ethnic Muslim communities, the Bosnian Muslim community development and building social infrastructure. The study also concluded that coming from multicultural backgrounds, the Bosnian Muslims understood the value of cultural diversity and contributed to the development of Australian multiculturalism and social harmony.
Overall conclusion of this research is that the different generations of Bosnian Muslims are well-integrated and operate well within Australian multiculturalism.
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Ibrahim, Nada. "Intimate Partner Violence in the Australian-Muslim Community: Exploring Attitudes/Beliefs, Perpetration, and Victimisation." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365331.
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant social problem that is found in all societies and cultures, including Muslims in Australia. However, Muslims in Australia are currently under-researched on IPV related issues. Some ways of addressing this issue is by examining Australian-Muslims’ understandings of IPV, documenting prevalence rates, and applying theories that explain IPV. This thesis explores how Australian-Muslims understand the complexity of IPV, and the challenges they encounter in identifying and classifying IPV. It is the first study to explore the attitudes/beliefs of Australian-Muslims towards IPV and examine significant risk factors. It is the first study to document prevalence rates for the perpetration and victimisation of four types of IPV. It is also the first study to explore the significant risk factors of three different forms of IPV-perpetration among Australian-Muslims. The study applies a range of criminological theories to the issue of IPV among Australian-Muslims. The study employs a multi-method approach using focus groups with community-leaders, and a cross-sectional survey with a stratified random sample of respondents drawn from South-East-Queensland.
Findings from the qualitative phase of the study illustrates that there are a number of challenges encountered by Australian-Muslims in identifying IPV. Challenges include the difficulty in identifying the parameters of IPV, the restriction of IPV to physical-violence while not recognising verbal-abuse and psychological-abuse as IPV by some cultures, and the taboo of discussing marital sexual-abuse. Results also reveal some unique characteristics of IPV relevant to Australian-Muslims such as the misuse of religion to perpetuate IPV, the dominating influence of culture on IPV-beliefs and IPV-behaviours, and men’s financial responsibility vs. women’s work choices among others. Results also illustrate the diversity in definitions within the Muslim community despite their shared faith and worldviews.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance
Arts, Education and Law
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Nazir, Ridwaan. "Exploratory Study of High Risk Behaviours Amongst Muslim Adults Living in Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9023.
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The aim of this study was to explore a broad range of high risk behaviours amongst the Muslim community in Australia. Social supports, decision making and lifestyle factors were also investigated. Previous studies have found religiosity to be a protective factor for risk behaviours. However few studies have examined a broad variety of risk behaviours, particularly in the Muslim community. Respondents for this study included 149 adults who identified as Muslims and participated in an online survey adapted from that used by (Abbott-Chapman & Denholm, 2001; Abbott-Chapman, Denholm, & Wyld, 2008a, 2008b). The Risk Activity by Personal Risk Assessment (RAPRA) index was used to combine risk perception and risk involvement scores of 24 risk behaviours to determine risk propensity from the perspective of the participants. Weighted averages of the 24 risk behaviours were correlated with demographic data using Pearson’s correlations and one way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tests to determine factors associated with each risk behaviour. The religiosity index which combined religious beliefs, place of worship attendance and religious importance was also correlated with weighted averages to determine if religiosity was a protective factor. Relationships between risk activities were also explored. Data on social support networks, decision making and lifestyle values were also collected. On average, behaviours involving manufactured illegal drug use were of least concern and sex without self/partner being on the pill, watching R or X rated movies, sex without a condom and speeding in a car were of highest concern. However risk propensity ranged from low to moderate across all 24 behaviours. Characteristics related to the most risks were being a male, being a parent and low religiosity which were all related to alcohol, smoking marijuana/hash and smoking cigarettes. All risk activities had significant relationships with other risk activities in the study. High religiosity was found to be protective for binge drinking, alcohol use, cigarettes, gambling, smoking marijuana/hash, snorting cocaine and taking speed/ecstasy. Muslims would seek support from their close family members and same gender friends for personal and career issues and parents were most trusted. Doctors were most relied on for health problems and teachers/educators were most relied on for study problems. When making decisions about risk, Muslims concern for safety, morality, legality and family were found to be important. Lifestyle values considered important by Muslims included self-respect, being responsible for one’s own actions, perceptions of right and wrong and respecting others. Muslims considered following rules set by religion, sharing experience with someone more experienced, seeking advice from parents and seeking advice from members of their religious community all as important when making decisions about their lifestyle. These findings provide significant data for future research in specific areas of concern in the Muslim community particularly with men and parents. This study also supports research that implies that high religiosity is effective in preventing involvement in risk activities. Religion, family and community were found to important values in the lives of Muslims and in their decision making processes.
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Haveric, Dzavid. "History of the Bosnian Muslim Community in Australia: Settlement Experience in Victoria." full-text, 2009. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/2006/1/Dzavid_Haveric.pdf.
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This thesis examines the settlement experience of the Bosnian Muslims in Victoria. Overall this research exploration takes places against background of the history of the immigration to Australia. The study covers migration patterns of Bosnian Muslims from post World War 2 periods to more recent settlement. The thesis provides contemporary insights on Bosnian Muslims living in a Western society such as Australia. The thesis excavates key issues about Islam and the Muslim communities in Western nations and argues that successful settlement is possible, as demonstrated by the Bosnian Muslim community. By adopting a socio-historical framework about settlement, the thesis reveals the significant, interconnected and complex aspects of the settlement process. Settlement of immigrants takes place within global, historical, economic, political, social and cultural elements of both the sending and receiving countries. Thus any study of settlement must examine theories and concepts on migration, settlement, religion, culture, integration and identity. The purpose for migration, the conditions under which migration takes place, the conditions of immigrant reception are fundamental in the context of Australia. Furthermore, Australia since the 1970s has adopted a policy of multiculturalism which has changed settlement experiences of immigrants. These elements are strongly analysed in the thesis both through a critical conceptual appraisal of the relevant issues such as migration, multiculturalism and immigration and through an empirical application to the Bosnian Muslim community. The theoretical element of the study is strongly supported by the empirical research related to settlement issues, integration and multiculturalism in Victoria. Through a socio-historical framework and using a ‘grounded theory’ methodological approach, field research was undertaken with Bosnian Muslim communities, Bosnian organizations and multicultural service providers. In addition, historical data was analysed by chronology. The data provided rich evidence of the Bosnian Muslims’ settlement process under the various governmental policies since World War 2. The study concluded that the Bosnian community has successfully integrated and adapted to the way of life in Australia. Different cohorts of Bosnian Muslims had different settlement patterns, problems and issues which many were able to overcome. The findings revealed the contributions that the Bosnian Muslim community has made to broader social life in Australia such as contribution to the establishment of multi-ethnic Muslim communities, the Bosnian Muslim community development and building social infrastructure. The study also concluded that coming from multicultural backgrounds, the Bosnian Muslims understood the value of cultural diversity and contributed to the development of Australian multiculturalism and social harmony. Overall conclusion of this research is that the different generations of Bosnian Muslims are well-integrated and operate well within Australian multiculturalism.
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Kirkwood, Sandra Jane. "Frameworks of Culturally Engaged Community Music Practice for Rural Ipswich, Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367823.
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This study is a critical reflection on two music projects that I conducted in my home area of Ipswich, Australia, prior to undertaking this research. The music projects involved participatory action research to investigate the music heritage and culture of the rural Ipswich region. The purpose of this study is to review and analyse the creative processes that I used in the rural Ipswich music projects in order to develop suitable practice frameworks for similar projects in future.
The first music project was a collaborative investigation of the music history of Purga in rural Ipswich (2003-2005). Local people and those who used to live in the area were invited to come back to share memories of the music from the area with one another. People collaborated creatively: This allowed me to write The Purga Music Story and Harold Blair (2005), an inter-generational community education package. In 2003, we established the Purga Music Museum as a meeting place where the music heritage and culture of our neighbourhood is performed and displayed. The second music project (2006) was a study of contemporary music in rural Ipswich that resulted in community consultation and the development of a Music Action Plan for the area. I continued facilitating community music in rural Ipswich, as the curator of the Purga Music Museum, until 2008.
Both music projects presented different challenges in the establishment of processes that would be effective for the needs and interests of people from various cultural groups. The work was fraught with complex decisions and ethical dilemmas about representation and music cultural heritage management because our neighbourhood previously contained the Purga Aboriginal Mission (1915-1948). The findings therefore relate to the struggles of the ‘Stolen Generation’-- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were taken away from their families and forced to live in government-controlled residential situations. New, respectful approaches had to be found, conducive to the health and well-being of all concerned. For this reason, participatory action research methods were developed and a ‘Community of Discovery’ approach was used.
Throughout this study, I investigate issues that arose as people told their music stories, and passed on music heritage and culture from one generation to the next. The key question is “What are appropriate frameworks of culturally engaged community music practice for rural Ipswich?” This study also draws on findings from the music projects to address the sub-questions, “How did community music practice function in the past in rural Ipswich?” “What is the current situation regarding contemporary community music practice in rural Ipswich?” and “What can be done to enhance future community music practice for rural Ipswich?”
Aspects of music and health practice complement each other in this study. As a dual qualified music and health professional, I draw on expertise from both of these areas. Ethnographic methods were used to record and review the findings from each music project. The analysis is grounded in review of literature and other sources, creative display and performance, analysis of music history, community consultation, and critical reflection on my own community music practice. Finally, this evidence-based process of professional reasoning leads to the development of appropriate practice frameworks that transform the way that I intend to deliver services in future, and will hopefully inspire others.
The thesis has five parts. The context and rationale for the research are outlined in Part 1. This is followed by description of the two music projects in Part 2. Part 3 is an exploration of how my music practice is situated in relation to scholarly literature (and other sources) and outlines the chosen theoretical constructs or models. This prepares for critical analysis and discussion of specific issues that arose from reflection on practice in Part 4. The conclusions of the research, presented in chapter 9, outline the creative processes, underlying principles, and the philosophy of my practice. The study concludes with an epilogue, which is a consideration of the present situation and suggested future directions for service provision and research.Thesis (Masters)
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
Queensland Conservatorium
Queensland Conservatorium of Music
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Sav, Adem. "Broadening the Scope of Work-Life Balance: Experiences of Australian Muslim Men as an Ethno-Religious Minority." Thesis, Griffith University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366212.
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Work-life balance is a pressing issue for the global workforce and features in much current media and academic debate. While the wealth of research in this area offers great depth and understanding, most research has been conducted in Western societies on white, English-speaking Anglo-Saxon populations. Emerging research demonstrates that cultural beliefs, values and norms can considerably influence work and non-work experiences. This thesis examines how Australian Muslim men interpret, experience and achieve work-life balance (WLB). As such, this research offers a different context to existing work-family theoretical models by demonstrating how religiosity influences balance, conflict and enhancement between work and non-work roles for Muslim men, a culturally diverse ethno-religious minority in Australia.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Public Health
Griffith Health
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Lemoine, April J. Williams Stephen L. "Repatriation of cultural property in museums a balance of values and national agendas /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5073.
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Abbas, Mae. "Acculturation, Mental Health, and Help-Seeking Behaviours of Muslim Adults Living in Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17332.
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This exploratory study seeks a deeper understanding of Australian Muslims by examining their acculturation preferences, mental health status, coping strategies, and attitudes towards help-seeking. A cross-sectional convenience sample of 324 Australian Muslim adults, recruited via non-probability snowball sampling and social media advertisements, completed either online or paper questionnaires in either English or Arabic. Acculturation, ethnic identity (MEIM), psychological distress (K10), coping (active and passive), help-seeking (ATSPPHS-SF), and demographic variables were measured. Participants were relatively young and female, with high religiosity, education, and psychological distress. Over 78% were Australian-born, and almost 85% had lived in Australia for over 15 years. Although integration was the preferred acculturation strategy across all generations, results indicated acculturation and self-identity was influenced particularly by age, ethnic identity, religiosity, and generation. For instance, first-generation Australian Muslims were older, had stronger ethnic identity and religiosity, and more commonly self-identified as non-Australian (i.e. felt separated from the mainstream Australian population). By contrast second- and third-generation were younger, less attached to their ethnic culture and more likely to self-identify as bicultural or Australian. Psychological distress was highest among those born overseas, less attached to religion, and younger in age. The most utilised coping strategies were passive in nature. Help-seeking was often a last resort involving informal methods like seeking guidance from religious advisors. The findings suggest that mental health support should focus on overseas-born Australian Muslims and younger persons (18-25 years), and that religious instruction may assist in the management of distress. Future qualitative research would provide an in-depth understanding into these matters.
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Schluessel, Eric T. "The Muslim Emperor of China: Everyday Politics in Colonial Xinjiang, 1877-1933." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493602.
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This dissertation concerns the ways in which a Chinese civilizing project intervened powerfully in cultural and social change in the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang from the 1870s through the 1930s. I demonstrate that the efforts of officials following an ideology of domination and transformation rooted in the Chinese Classics changed the ways that people associated with each other and defined themselves and how Muslims understood their place in history and in global space. Chinese power is central to the history of modern Xinjiang and to the Uyghur people, not only because the Chinese center has dominated the area as a periphery, but because of the ways in which that power intervened in society and culture on the local level.
The processes and ramifications of the Chinese government in late-Qing and early Republican Xinjiang demonstrates strong parallels with colonialism in the context of European empire. This dissertation does not focus on the question of typology, however, but instead draws on methods from colonial history to explore the dynamics of a linguistically and religiously heterogeneous society. In order to do so, I draw on local archival documents in Chinese and Turkic and place them into dialogue with the broader Turkic-language textual record. This dissertation thus proceeds from the inception of the ideology that drove the civilizing project, through its social ramifications, to the innovations that emerged in Islamicate literature and history in Xinjiang in this period.East Asian Languages and Civilizations
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Smith, Charlotte H. F., and n/a. "The house enshrined: the great man and social history house museums in the United States and Australia." University of Canberra. Resource, Environment & Heritage Sciences, 2002. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050701.140057.
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This thesis is a study of the origins and rationale of two categories of house
museum - here named "Great Man" and "Social History" - in the United States
and Australia. An examination of cultural, social and historical change provides
the context for the genres' evolution.
The Great Man genre was born in mid nineteenth-century America when two
houses associated with George Washington - Hasbrouck House and Mount
Vernon - were preserved and translated to museum status. Mount Vernon quickly
became the exemplar for house museums.
Civil religion, a secular nationalism that adopted the forms and rituals of church
religion, focusing on hero worship, pilgrimage and contemplation of transcendent
collective purpose, provided the ideology that sustained the new museum type.
Great Man house museums became the shrines at which such rituals could be
practiced.
In the early twentieth-century the specialization of heritage organizations
encouraged a new breed of heritage professional. Largely fabric focused, these
"new museum men" influenced philosophy, management and conservation
practice at house museums throughout the century.
Social history made its impact upon house museums in the latter decades of the
twentieth century. The paradigm encouraged the creation of a new category of
house museum. Existing Great Man house museums adopted some of its
characteristics though never lost their hero worship foundations. In fact, I posit
that the idea of hero worship was transferred to the new genre.
The birth and evolution of the two categories of house museum is demonstrated
through four biographical studies: Vaucluse House in Sydney; Monticello in
Charlottesville VA; the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City;
and Susannah Place Museum in Sydney. I believe the findings demonstrate an
argument that applies at hundreds of house museums in the United States and
Australia.
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Coward, Ann Art History & Theory UNSW. "Museums and Australia???s Greek textile heritage: the desirability and ability of State museums to be inclusive of diverse cultures through the reconciliation of public cultural policies with private and community concerns." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Art History and Theory, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/31957.
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This thesis explores the desirability of Australia???s State museums to be inclusive of diverse cultures. In keeping with a cultural studies approach, and a commitment to social action, emphasis is placed upon enhancing the ability of State museums to fulfil obligations and expectations imposed upon them as modern collecting institutions in a culturally diverse nation. By relating the desirability and ability of State museums to attaining social justice in a multicultural Australia through broadening the concept of Australia???s heritage, the thesis is firmly situated within post-colonial discourse. The thesis analyses State multicultural, heritage, and museum legislation, in New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland, with regard to State museums as agents of cultural policy. Results from a survey, Greeks and Museums, conducted amongst Australia???s Greeks in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, reveal an anomaly between their museum-going habits and the perception of those habits as expressed by government policies promoting the inclusion of Australians of a non-English speaking background in the nation???s cultural programmes. In exploring the issue of inclusiveness, the thesis highlights the need for cultural institutions to shift the emphasis away from audience development, towards greater audience participation. The thesis outlines an initiative-derived Queensland Model for establishing an inclusive relationship between museums and communities, resulting in permanent, affordable, and authoritative collections, while simultaneously improving the museums??? international reputation and networking capabilities. By using the example of one of the nation???s non-indigenous communities, and drawing upon material obtained through the survey, and a catalogue containing photographs and lists of Greek textile collections found in the Powerhouse Museum (MAAS), Sydney, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Immigration Museum, Melbourne, the Queensland Art Gallery and the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, as well as collections owned by private individuals, the thesis focuses on the role played by museums in constructing social cohesion and inclusiveness.
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Krayem, Ghena. "To recognise or not to recognise, that is NOT the question : family law and the Muslim community in Australia." Thesis, Faculty of Law, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14973.
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Howard, Katherine. "Educating cultural heritage information professionals for Australia's galleries, libraries, archives and museums: A grounded Delphi study." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/85088/1/Katherine_Howard_Thesis.pdf.
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This research explored the knowledge, skills, qualities, and professional education needs, of information professionals in galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) in Australia. The findings revealed that although full convergence of these sectors is unlikely, many of the skills, knowledge and qualities would be required across all four sectors. The research used the Grounded Delphi Method, a relatively new methodological extension of the Delphi method that incorporates aspects of Grounded Theory. The findings provide the first empirically based guidelines around what needs to be included in an educational framework for information professionals who will work in the emerging GLAM environment. As the first study of GLAM education requirements in Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region to take a holistic approach by engaging information professionals across all four sectors, this thesis makes a contribution to the GLAM research field and to information education generally.
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van, den Heuvel Fleur H. C. M. "Muslim women in Australia and the Netherlands: A multimodal enquiry into television documentary representations." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2018. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2156.
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Almost two decades after the terrorist attacks of 11 September, the Western media continues to portray Islam and its people negatively and within the dominant knowledge and ideology of the superior West. These media representations remain largely unquestioned. Hereby the appearances of veiled Muslim women continue to be used by the media as a visual symbol confirming Islam’s difference in norms and values with the West.
Framed within the understanding that television documentaries provide audiences with ‘unscripted’ realities of both Islam and Muslim women, this research looks at representations and perceptions of how Muslim women are portrayed within two television documentaries – Halal Mate (2006) from Australia and Meiden van Halal (2005/2006) from the Netherlands. The research draws upon questions of objectivity and subjectivity which are interwoven into discussions of documentaries and their ability to portray this ‘unscripted’ reality. This includes an exploration of how such documentaries may affect viewers’ ideologies of Islam and Muslim people, in particular those of Muslim women as the ‘other’ in Western societies.
The Western media uses stereotypes of Muslim women to assist audiences in the understanding of the portrayed images. Stereotypes are used by audiences to decode both media messages and real-life experiences within a preferred reading. Positive readings of Muslim women are often overshadowed by – existing – negative readings. As evident in this research through questionnaires and focused interviews, stereotypical representations of Muslim women in the media therefore affect the understanding and perception of audiences in Australia and the Netherlands.
This research used multimodality as an overarching research methodology, supported by a mixed method approach. Firstly, a social semiotic multimodal analysis of the two television documentary series was undertaken. This provided important insights and understandings on how television documentaries are inclined to put familiar layers of Western ideologies over the depiction of Muslim women, yet how these layers do not change the communication of Western ideological and stereotypical concepts of Islam and Muslim women to audiences.
An exploratory online questionnaire was then carried out with respondents from both Australia and the Netherlands. In addition, focused interviews – and a corresponding pre-interview questionnaire – were conducted with Australian and Dutch participants to elicit comments after having watched one of the documentary episodes. Together with the results from the questionnaire and multimodal analysis, the data from the interviews were analysed and organised into three themes – the stereotypical representations of Muslim women, perceived social distance towards Muslim people and the hijab as a symbol of ‘otherness’. Data from these themes form the three findings chapters.
This research illustrates the imperfect relationship between media expressions and meaning. That is, norms and values associated with media images of Muslim women and Islam are deeply embedded in the Australian and Dutch society. However, it is noted that, if stereotypes are a matter of perception, the attributes allocated to Islam and Muslim women in Western media representations can be changed, although this will be challenging. This research project will contribute to a better understanding of and insights into the role of the media as a provider of universal and particular values related to Islam and its women for Western societies.
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Pires, Charline Barbosa. "Critérios de reconhecimento, mensuração e evidenciação de heritage assets : um estudo comparativo em museus australianos, ingleses e neozelandeses utilizando abordagem da Teoria Institucional." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2018. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/32418.
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Este estudo teve como objetivo identificar que diferentes tensões institucionais influenciam o reconhecimento, a mensuração e a evidenciação dos heritage assets em museus australianos, neozelandeses e ingleses. Para tanto, as demonstrações contábeis referentes ao período de 2015/2016 de 42 museus australianos, 25 neozelandeses e 171 ingleses, totalizando uma amostra de 238 entidades, foram analisadas. Os resultados da análise documental revelaram a adoção de diferentes práticas tanto quando os museus de um mesmo país são observados, como quando os países são comparados entre si. Enquanto na Austrália predominam museus que capitalizam seus heritage assets de forma plena, no Reino Unido os museus que adotam a abordagem mista ou não reconhecem esses ativos são maioria. A Nova Zelândia, por sua vez, apresentou um cenário intermediário, com as entidades divididas entre as duas possibilidades. Buscando a compreensão dessas diferenças, a pesquisa apoiou-se nos fundamentos da Nova Sociologia Institucional (NSI), uma vertente da Teoria Institucional, para identificar características dos museus que permitissem a verificação da extensão com que estavam sujeitos a pressões coercitivas, normativas e miméticas capazes de influenciar as práticas observadas. A Análise Qualitativa Comparativa (QCA) e, mais especificamente, a csQCA foi utilizada, sendo que os resultados indicaram que principalmente pressões normativas e miméticas podem exercer influência no tratamento contábil dispensado aos heritage assets nos três países estudados.
This study aimed to identify different institutional tensions that influence the recognition, measurement and disclosure of heritage assets in Australian, New Zealand and English museums. Therefore, the financial statements for the period of 2015/2016 of 42 Australian, 25 New Zealand and 171 English museums, totaling a sample of 238 entities, were analyzed. The results of the documentary analysis revealed the adoption of different practices both when museums of the same country are observed, and when the countries are compared to each other. While in Australia predominate museums that fully capitalize their heritage assets, in the United Kingdom museums that take the mixed approach or do not recognize these assets are the majority. New Zealand, in turn, presented an intermediate scenario, with entities divided between the two possibilities. In order to understand these differences, the research was based on the foundations of the New Institutional Sociology (NSI), an approach of the Institutional Theory, to identify characteristics of the museums that allowed the verification of the extent to which they were subject to coercive, normative and mimetic pressures capable of influencing the observed practices. Comparative Qualitative Analysis (QCA) and, more specifically, csQCA was used, and the results indicated that mainly normative and mimetic pressures may influence the accounting treatment of heritage assets in the three countries studied.
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Keshwani, Jyoti. "Islamophobia, nomadic subjectivity and public pedagogy: A critical ethnography of veiled Muslim women in Australia." Thesis, Keshwani, Jyoti (2021) Islamophobia, nomadic subjectivity and public pedagogy: A critical ethnography of veiled Muslim women in Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2021. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/62945/.
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This critical ethnographic research investigates the experiences of veiled Muslim women (VMW) as they negotiate their identities against the backdrop of Islamophobia in Australia. It draws on the experiences of fourteen Muslim women from six countries to better understand the processes of cultural racism and its implications for subjectivity and identity formation. Drawing on their experiences of Islamophobia, the thesis aims to interrupt and demystify misunderstood and misrepresented identities related to wearing the veil/hijab.
The participants spoke about the impact of racism, stereotypes, discrimination and violence, and how social media (mis)represents their culture. Against this backdrop of ‘crisis’, the thesis seeks not only to challenge the way things are but to open up alternative public pedagogies based on the values of justice, compassion and respect.
Theoretically, the research draws on critical inquiry by employing Braidotti’s notion of ‘nomadic subjectivity’ to illuminate the lived experiences of the participants. A nomadic philosophical approach seeks to explain how identities are fragmented yet functional and evolving as they are integral and deep rooted in an individual.
Methodologically, the thesis draws on the tradition of critical ethnography to explore the experiences of VMW and their ongoing identity formation. Critical ethnography undertakes ethical responsibility of representation of the ‘other’ by addressing unfairness and injustice. This approach involved getting up close to the participants’ lives and experiences through focus groups, semi-structured interviews, participant observation and fieldnotes.
Drawing on this data, a number of emergent themes are identified, grouped under two key anchor points – crisis and hope. The notion of crisis offers a way to explain experiences of violence and intimidation, isolation and exclusion, racial profiling and stereotyping. On the other hand, experiences of hope originate from adversity, leadership actions and confidence in a better tomorrow. Hope endeavours to reclaim a sense of optimism, agency and action.
The thesis concludes by advocating a public pedagogy grounded in the principles and values of critically compassionate intellectualism. Using these ideas, the thesis advances a set of community, pedagogical and cultural practices needed to create a more inclusive society based on the values of cultural diversity, equality, democracy and social justice.
Keywords: Islamophobia, subjectivity, identity, public pedagogy, critical ethnography
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Hsieh, Yi-Jung. "Male Muslim Refugee Experiences of English Language Training Programmes and Links to Employment in Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365256.
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Since the modern Refugee and Humanitarian Programme began in 1977, around 14,000 refugees have been granted residency in Australia every year, with Muslim communities now representing more than 50 per cent of the intake. Most of these refugees entering Australia speak little, if any, English, have little or no education in their first language, and most do not possess employment skills or qualifications valued in the Australian workplace. The Federal Government thus offers them English language training within the Adult Migrant English Programme (AMEP) and the Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) programme. These programmes aim to provide refugee migrants with enough English proficiency to gain employment in Australia, and to successfully participate socially and economically in Australian society. However, there has been only limited research specifically centred on these Federal English training programmes. In particular, there have been no in-depth studies centred on the opinions of the actual refugee clients attending these programmes. The research in this thesis thus investigates the perspectives of a group of eight male Muslim refugees on the effectiveness of the Federal English Language Training Programmes in facilitating their settlement and employment in Australia. Male Muslim refugees were chosen as participants as they represent a particularly disadvantaged, but under-researched, minority social group in Australian society.
A qualitative research design and methodology was adopted for this research, framed within a socio-critical (transformative) research paradigm. Data was collected using in-depth, semi- structured interviews, and then analysed and described using the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu’s conceptual tools of field, capital and habitus. The findings from this research suggest that there may be a number of key problems with the language training programmes. Most of the refugees in the study failed to find consistent employment, and many entered a repetitive cycle of intermittent attendance at the English training programmes. Additionally, many of the participants reached only a basic proficiency in oral English communication, making little or no progress in their literacy acquisition, and thus they were generally unable to complete any vocational qualifications.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Education and Professional Studies
Arts, Education and Law
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(9252701), Andrea Witcomb. "Floating the museum: A cultural study of the Australian National Maritime Museum." Thesis, 1996. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Floating_the_museum_A_cultural_study_of_the_Australian_National_Maritime_Museum/26308819.
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This dissertation seeks to bring together museums, popular culture and cultural studies. It does so by focusing on one particular museum - the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney's Darling Harbour. In many ways it works around discourses of change - not only in museums but also in museological practices, intellectual cultures and the economic, technological and policy contexts which surround and inform them. I argue that these new contexts are best understood by seeing the Australian National Maritime Museum as a point of convergence between new articulations of nationhood and global flows, new relations between corporate and popular, and new understandings of commerce and culture.
The dissertation is motivated by a desire to bring together the knowledges and perspectives of museum workers and cultural critics. Historically, this relationship has been a fraught one. Museum curators have tended to assume that cultural critics do not know what they are talking about while critics tend to assume that museums are static institutions which are resistant to change. In building bridges between these two very different worlds I hope to show that the intellectual resources of both can illuminate the work of each. This means that methodologically this dissertation does not privilege theory above practice or `text'. It accords the same status to both.
The dissertation is organised in three parts. The first sets out to situate the National Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour and within professional attitudes to museums. The second part moves inside the museum, analysing changes in curatorial and display practices while always being careful to articulate these changes to the outside contexts which inform them. The third part moves away from the museum and reconsiders the way in which museums are usually thought about by revisiting the historiography of nineteenth century museums. The aim is to suggest that many of the changes which museums are currently going through do not represent a radical break but take up on tendencies which were present at the birth of the modem museum.
The dissertation is thus a reassessment of the way cultural critics have usually thought about museums. It does so through an engagement with the transdisciplinary approach of cultural studies while at the same time questioning the way museums have figured in many of its analyses.
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Walton, Alexandra. "Bold Impressions: A Comparative Analysis of Artist Prints and Print Collecting at the Imperial War Museum and Australian War Memorial." Phd thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/154283.
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This thesis examines the historical development of the artist
print collections of the Imperial War Museum and Australian War
Memorial, and analyses the relationship of these collections to
their institutions. Printmaking is an artistic medium that has
historically been used by artists for social critique, and many
high quality works of this type are present in the two
collections. I argue that in both museums, when developing the
print collections, curators were able to acquire beyond the
strict interpretation of the museums’ collecting guidelines. As
a result of this, the prints have challenged some of the more
conservative underlying messages of the museums.
National war museums are ideal for a study of contested
histories, particularly those within their own collections, and
the IWM and AWM are prominent institutions in this specialist
category of museums. My hypothesis is that prints can destabilize
the histories that war museums wish to present due to their
historical use by artists for a variety of purposes that are
somewhat unique to the medium. This is driven by the materiality
of the print. This study also analyses how museum structures and
internal cultures affected the development of the print
collections. In particular, I have tried to answer the questions:
What factors influenced the development of the print collections?
And how did the professional agendas of curators inform that
development? Print collecting flourished at key points in the
histories of the institutions, particularly when fine art
specialists were in charge of acquisitions. While print
collecting broadly reflected the aims of the institutions at
different times, on occasion it introduced divergent narratives
into the war museums.
This thesis is interdisciplinary in the way it uses a history
methodology and museum studies framework. The historical research
methods employed include archival research and semi-structured
interviews with selected former and current museum staff. My
research will add to academic and curatorial knowledge about how
collections are formed in large national museums, and analyse the
role and significance of two collections that have not previously
been thoroughly examined. The thesis places the curator as the
creator of the collection, not merely as someone who carries out
instructions from management, but who negotiates between the
institutional forces, social forces and the nature of the
objects, to ultimately shape the collection.
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Deeth, Jane Alexandra. "Extracting meaning from strangeness : strategies to enhance viewer engagement with contemporary art in the public art museum." Thesis, 2009. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/19876/1/whole_DeethJaneAlexandra2009_thesis.pdf.
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This research questions the notion that contemporary art is difficult to engage with, and
considers what the public art museum can do to enhance viewers' experience of
contemporary art. Contemporary art in this context is understood as the discursive, ideas-based
art that has come to the fore since the 1960s. It is argued that because the formalist
aesthetic remains the dominant mode of responding to art, this has limited the capacity
for viewers to make sense of more conceptually based contemporary art and, therefore,
more discursive approaches need to be enacted for meaningful engagement to occur.
While the contributions that artists and curators make in this regard are acknowledged,
the focus of the analysis is the constructivist museum as described by George Hein,
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill and Elaine Heumann Gurian, especially the emphasis placed on
direct experience and participation. It is argued that while constructivism presents some
possibilities for increasing engagement, it also has limitations. In particular, in
emphasising individual learning over the specifics of artwork, advocates of
constructivism run the risk of maintaining the formalist aesthetic as the dominant mode
of response to contemporary art.
In critiquing the constructivist approach, Helen Illeris's concept of the performative
museum and recognition of the existence of a range of interpretive roles for art provides a
valuable construct. However, Illeris does not address the issue of how to guide viewers to
enact the role most appropriate for the type of art they are encountering. This is particularly problematic when it comes to the reception of discursive based art which
requires engagement with ideas rather than aesthetic form.
In seeking to understand the rules of engagement appropriate for discursive art practice,
aspects of reception theory, in particular ideas about the role of the reader/viewer
postulated by philosophers Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jacques Derrida and art
historians/theorists Keith Moxey, Mieke Bal, Ian McLean and Justin Paton, are
examined. Rather than using their interpretations of particular artworks to explain
contemporary art, however, the study examines their behaviours in the act of
interpretation. The parallels between these behaviours and the psychoanalytic
conversation of Jacques Lacan are discussed and, in doing so, practical strategies for
engaging viewers with the discursivity of contemporary art are devised and enacted in a
public art museum setting. From the results of this analysis, a reorientation of the role of
the public art museum in relation to contemporary discursive art practice is advocated in
which the expert speaker becomes the expert listener.
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Styles, Catherine Anne. "An other place: the Australian War Memorial in a Freirean framework." Phd thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/48203.
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My thesis is that museum exhibitions developed according to Freirean praxis would constitute a better learning opportunity for visitors, facilitate the process of evaluation, and enact the favoured museum principles of dialogic communication and community-building. ¶ This project constitutes a cross-fertilisation of adult education, cultural studies and museum practice. In the last few decades, museum professional practice has become increasingly well informed by cultural critique. Many museum institutions have been moved to commit to building communities, but the question of how to do so via exhibition spaces is yet to be squarely addressed by the museum field. In this thesis I produce a detailed evaluation of a museum's informal learning program; and demonstrate the potential value of adult education theory and practice for enacting museums' commitment to dialogic communication and community-building. ¶ To investigate the value of adult education praxis for museums, I consider the Australian War Memorial's signifying practice - the site and its exhibitions - as a program for informal learning. ...
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Swift, John Paul. "Reframing the dynamics: a case study of the interaction between architectural computing and relationship-based procurement at the National Museum of Australia." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/47785.
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The National Museum of Australia (NMA) (1997- 2001) by architects Ashton Raggatt McDougall (ARM) in association with Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan was commissioned by the Australian Commonwealth Government for the Centenary of Federation in 2001. It was conceived as a gift to the people of Australia and now stands on Acton Peninsula in Canberra, the nation's Capital. It is a visually complex manifestation of the design architects' (ARM) dialogue with the ambiguities of Australian history and national identity. The architectural realisation of these complexities was facilitated through advances in computer technologies and a complementary non-traditional procurement method, both at the leading edge of Australian architectural practice of the time. Completed three years earlier was probably the most debated work of architecture of the 1990s, the Guggenheim Museum (GMB) (1991-98) in Bilbao, Spain, by Frank O. Gehry and Associates (FOG&A). This satellite museum of the Guggenheim Foundation of New York was heralded as the quintessential example of a kind of architecture only possible because of advances in computer technologies. Both visually complex museums were conceived as flagship projects and consequently share many political, functional, and cultural expectations. Both were procured outside the usual adversarial designer/builder paradigm of western architecture and featured the innovative use of three-dimensional (CAD) software for design, documentation and analysis. The NMA project used a government instigated procurement method which was embraced by a group of design and construction companies who formed a joint venture known as the Acton Peninsula Alliance. This non-traditional or relationship-based procurement method required ARM to reassess their approach to generate and disseminate design data and their traditional relationship with other design and construction professionals. As part of this process, ARM were required to devolve some of their design authority to a project delivery team via a Design Integrity Panel and an Independent Quality Panel; both innovations integral to the Acton Peninsula Alliance. The NMA project reframed many of the enduring professional relationships of Australian architecture and in so doing extended the skill set and expectations of the architects and others to include a more substantial engagement with 3D CAD and a procurement system which was less subject to many of the common impediments inherent in the more traditional processes. Through a series of interviews with the architects and other stakeholders, a qualitative methodology was used to investigate the NMA as a case study which uses the GMB as an internationally recognised comparison. This thesis examines how these two projects have been successfully completed within time and budgetary constraints in an environment where flagship projects have had a history of highly publicised difficulties. It reveals that the successful realisation of the NMA was due to the relationships built or reframed as a result of this cooperative approach in conjunction with high levels of engagement with computer technologies. This is in contrast to the seamless flow of data and high levels of prefabrication integral to the success of the GMB.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, 2006.