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Hall, Frederick Leonard. "Australians in a corporate culture the national characteristics, are they intrinsic? : a study of cultural behaviour of Australian employees in a multi national [sic] corporation : a measure of change of national culture over time and it's relevance to corporate culture in Australia /." Master's thesis, Australia : Macquarie Universityc, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/23256.
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Thesis (MA)--Macquarie University, Graduate School of Management, 1989.Introduction -- Values and culture -- The four dimensions -- Australia survey 1984/85 -- Methodological debate -- Literature reviews -- Outcome in terms of our national culture -- Transition to corporate culture -- Results of survey 1984/85 -- Appendix.
Bibliography: final [7] leaves (Appendix 4).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Smaill, Belinda 1972. "Amidst a nation's cultures : documentary and Australia's Special Broadcasting Service Television." Monash University, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8644.
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Slavin, John. "Lost causes : the ideology of national identity in Australian cinema /." [Melbourne : University of Melbourne, 2002. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000297.
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Maher, Simon. "The 'citizens' and 'citizenship' debates 'vernacular citizenship' and contemporary Australian politics and society /." Access electronically, 2006. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20070821.160030/index.html.
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Mann, J. (Jatinder). "The search for a new national identity : a comparative study of the rise of multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, 1890s-1970s." Phd thesis, Department of History, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13717.
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Burns, Kathryn E. "This other Eden exploring a sense of place in twentieth-century reconstructions of Australian childhoods /." Connect to full text, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1691.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2007.Title from title screen (viewed 25 March 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2007; thesis submitted 2006. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
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Ryan, Ernest Leslie, and Not available. "The bunyip and the dragon the psychodynamics of Australian and South Korean business encounters." Swinburne University of Technology, 1997. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20050506.152251.
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This study attempts to identify and explore the psychodynamics of Australian
and Korean business encounters in Seoul, Republic of Korea, by describing and
discussing 'Australian-ness' and 'Korean-ness' as representations of what I will call
'National character in-the-mind'. A guiding hypothesis is that in highly charged
emotional settings, like those associated with foreign business encounters, National
character in-the-mind acts as a psychological and emotional container, and a protective
screen to hide more intricate institutional anxieties and defences. The data supporting
the study is drawn from my interviews with 12 Australian and 6 Korean business people
conducted between 3 and 14 June 1996 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The study also
reflects my experience and role as researcher in the research as a source, creator and
interpreter of data through the exploration of my own introspection. The findings
demonstrate how Australian-ness and Korean-ness appear to represent projections of the
human imagination, willed within the bounds of individual experience and perception.
A model for evaluating Cultural Misunderstanding and Defensive/Adaptive Behaviour
is proposed with the aim of seeking improved understanding of the Australian and
Korean National character. The model applies learning from the research experience
which emphasises the need for Australian and Korean business people to take a more
adaptive approach to the contrary behaviours they encounter. The model also
acknowledges the value of investing time to establish and maintain cross-cultural
business relationships based on access, whereby Australian and Korean business people
see themselves as resources of mutual gain, reducing the potential for
misunderstanding, fear and mistrust and the subsequent invocation of defensive
responses.
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Ungari, Elena. "Australian national identity/ies in transition in the fiction of Patrick White." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683214.
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Garlick, Barbara. "Australian travelling theatre 1890-1935 : a study in popular entertainment and national ideology /." Online version, 1994. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/19943.
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West, Brad. "Backpacking Gallipoli : international civil religious pilgrimage and its challenge to national collective memory /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16458.pdf.
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Leonhardt, Lynne. "The double sunrise : a novel and an accompanying exegesis, Australian national identity and The double sunrise." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2007. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/245.
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This thesis comprises a historical novel entitled 'The Double Sunrise' and an exegesis entitled 'Australian National Identity and "The Double Sunrise'". The novel contains three books. The narrative starts in Book I through the perspective of twelve-year-old, fatherless Virginia. The introductory scene, set in 1957, depicts the girl's consciousness and self-consciousness at the wedding of her mother, Valerie, a former English war-bride and war-widow, to her second husband Noel. When the newly married couple leave for their honeymoon, Virginia is left in the care of her aunt, Attie, (her father's twin sister) who lives on a farm in the south west of Western Australia. From here, the story-line reverts to a time six months earlier when Virginia was previously left in the care of Attie during her mother's return to England with her Australian lover for a holiday. The girl's experiences on the farm and the friendships she forms with Attie, Mr Penworthy, her music teacher and Dieter, a German refugee who works on the farm, enrich her life and provide an awakening of womanhood and a wider family identity. The book closes on Christmas Day as Virginia learns of her mother's marriage plans and imminent return journey to Australia with Noel.
Book II skips back to January 1945 with the war-bride's arrival in Australia with baby Virginia ahead of her husband, Jasper, an Australian bomber pilot based in Lincolnshire. This narrative, describing the isolation and loneliness of women's life on the farm as they await Jasper's return, is told through two perspectives: that of Valerie and her sister-in-law Attie, who is managing the farm while Jasper is at war. Following the announcement of victory at the end of Book II, the story narrative picks up in 1963, with a return to Virginia's perspective in Book III. While the girl is waiting to start a musical career at university, she is involved in a burning accident with her little half-sister, Dorothy. When the child dies, Valerie is grief-stricken and Virginia is so traumatised that she can no longer play the piano. Her later meeting with Theo, a young student of Dutch-Indonesian parentage provides love and consolation, helping her towards recovery. The remainder of the story involves Virginia's reactions to her mother's tragic death, Theo's proposal to her following his national service call-up and the unfolding mystery of Jasper's whereabouts and her imminent journey to solve it.
The exegesis, which provides a cultural, historical and literary context for my novel, is structured around two elements: the first consists of an explanation of the creative process and a detailing of memorabilia which inspired me to write 'The Double Sunrise'; the second undertakes an exploration of constructions of Australian national identity until the 1960s through the discourses of myth, war, place, gender and race, and the journey.
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Vidal, Anne. "Representing Australian identity in the years 2000-2001 : the Sydney Olympic Games and the Centenary of Federation (selling Australia to the world or commemorating a flawless past?)." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27914.
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In his book, Inventing Australia: Images and Identity 1688-1980,
Richard White argues that:
There is no 'real' Australia waiting to be uncovered. A national
identity is an invention [. ..]. When we look at ideas about national
identity, we need to ask, not whether they are true or false, but
what their function is, whose creation they are, and what interests
they serve.
White's argument is a useful starting point when considering the
“obsession” Australian intellectuals have always felt to uncover their
national identity, which goes back to the very birth of Australia as a settler-colony.
Australia’s beginning as a colony not only implied a complete
dependence in terms of economy, defence and culture towards Great
Britain but also the dispossession of the indigenous population under the
legal doctrine of Terra Nullius. All settler-colonies in search for a national
identity follow the same initiatory path. The settlers at first feel isolated and
in exile, far away from any familiar landmark and find it difficult to
measure up with the mother country. After having, not without difficulty,
defined itself through the invention and the appropriation of myths
originating from the dominant Anglo Celtic society, Australia now seems to
suffer from a national identity crisis. The last three decades saw the
challenging and eroding of the mainstream white Australia identity by
minority groups such as women, non Anglo-Celtic migrants and indigenous
Australians. While those groups have made their voices heard throughout
the last thirty years, we can easily identify a dominant decade for each
group. Women saw most of their claims settled in the 1970s,
multiculturalism became a reality in the 1980s while indigenous
Australians stamped on the 1990s with native title laws, the reconciliation
movement and the growing acceptance and adoption of Aboriginality as a
desirable component of the Australian national identity.
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Torney, Kim Lynette. "From 'babes in the wood' to 'bush-lost babies' : the development of an Australian image /." Connect to thesis, 2002. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/1543.
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In this thesis I argue that the image of a child lost in the bush became a central strand in the Australian colonial experience, creating a cultural legacy that remains to this day. I also argue that the way in which the image developed in Australia was unique among British-colonised societies. I explore the dominant themes of my thesis - the nature of childhood, the effect of environment upon colonisers, and the power of memory - primarily through stories. The bush-lost child is an image that developed mainly in the realms of ‘low’ culture, in popular journals, newspapers, stories and images including films, although it has been represented in such ‘high’ cultural forms as novels, art and opera. I have concentrated on the main forms of its representations because it is through these that the image achieves its longevity. (For complete abstract open document)
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Burns, Kathryn E. "This Other Eden: Exploring a Sense of Place in Twentieth-Century Reconstructions of Australian Childhoods." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1691.
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This thesis explores the sense of place formed during childhood, as remembered by adult Australians who reconstruct their youth through various forms of life writing. While Australian writers do utilize traditional tropes of Western autobiography, such as the mythology of Eden and the Wordsworthian image of the child communing with Nature, these themes are frequently transformed to meet a uniquely Australian context. Isolation and distance from Europe, and the apparent indifference of our landscape towards white settlement, have received much critical attention in Australian studies generally and, indeed, broadly influence the formation of children’s sense of place across the continent. However, writers are also concerned with the role of place on a more local level. Through a comparison of writing from Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria, this thesis explores regional landscape preoccupations that create an awareness of local identity, variously contributing to or frustrating the child’s sense of belonging. Western Australian writing is dominated by images of isolation, the fragility of white settlement in a dry land lacking fresh water, and a pervasive beach culture. A strong sense of the littoral pervades writing from this region. Queensland’s frontier mythology is of a different flavour: warm and tropical, nature here is exuberant, constantly threatening to overwhelm culture, already perceived as transient due to the flimsy aspect of the “Queenslander” house. Writing from Victoria, to some extent, tends to more closely follow English models, juxtaposing country and city environments, although there is a distinctly local flavour to many representations of urban Melbourne and its flat, grid-like organization. As Australian society becomes more concentrated on the coastal fringe, the beach is an increasingly significant environment. Though more prominent in writing from some regions than others, coastal imagery broadly reflects the modern Australian’s sense of inhabiting a liminal zone with negotiable boundaries.
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Dorian, Jennifer. "Constructions of Australianness in contemporary Australian drama : Blue heelers & Heartbreak High." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999.
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This thesis will examine how Australianness is constructed in two contemporary Australian television dramas - Heartbreak High and Blue Heelers. Founded on the critical tradition of "Cultural Studies", this work will employ text analysis to deconstruct these dramas and examine the ways in
which they manifest Australian cultural identity. However, this thesis recognises that Australianness is not a constant, tangible phenomenon, but rather a series of constructions, each purporting to be "real". Hence I will be
acknowledging that there is not one, singular national identity from which to draw representations, but many different, conflicting cultural identities. Each program constructs a very different view of Australian life and culture. Heartbreak High follows the lives of a group of high school students amidst a multicultural, urban environment and is aimed primarily at a teen audience.
On the other hand, Blue Heelers appeals to an older, more conservative audience with its focus on a small police station in rural Victoria. Some of the issues to be addressed in the main body of the text include the programs
constructions of "Australian" characteristics such as mateship and egalitarianism, and whether these dramas perpetuate the cultural division between rural and urban Australia. Overall this thesis aims to provide a thorough examination of the images of Australia these two programs
construct and to question their origin, meaning and relevance tocontemporary Australian society.
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Steele, Judith A. "Researching the lived experience : an expatriate English speaker in Japan : an Australian in outback Western Australia : Gaijin and Balanda." Thesis, View thesis, 2007. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/43335.
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This project deals with the Anglo-Celtic diaspora in Japan. The globalisation of the workforce is an ongoing reality. The Senate Report tabled March 8th 2005, estimates at least three quarters of a million Australians currently live overseas. With one in five jobs within Australia dependent on export, (Austrade 2006) and Japan being our biggest single trading partner, it is expedient to examine the circumstances of the overseas assignment in that country. The welfare of the assignee and his/her family is critical for the individual and as a flow on, configures the success of the trade relationships. The image presented by well adjusted expatriates enjoying and participating in the society of the host country enhances the overall profile of their nation, facilitating long term benefits in trade, foreign affairs and general good neighbourliness. On repatriation, the assignee, having acquired additional ways of knowing, intercultural competence and a global perspective, has the potential to act as a change agent within the particular base organisation, and holistically, their home society. The thesis is constructed from a bicultural viewpoint whereby members of the Anglo-Celtic tribe are the outsider in Japan, with its old and powerful culture. The methodology uses an applied sociology perspective, with social practice drawn from sociological heritage to configure depth and dimension to both cultures. The research position is one of post-modern ethnography expressed in the form of iconic visual anthropology in a metaphoric, evocative process in order to bypass the culture gap and convey meaning by informing the unconscious as well as the conscious. Input into the thesis came from participants, colleagues and repatriates; my own heuristic of living in Japan for six years; cultural studies in the Centre for Japanese Language, Waseda University, Tokyo; a broad literature review; my profession as interculturalist; and work in both adult immigrant education programs and Aboriginal education in Australia. Findings indicate that the optimum position for a company is to adopt strategic planning as a way to maximise return on investment (ROI) placing emphasis on intercultural awareness and competence as core competencies for all employees. As a result of these findings a model of strategic planning for the global learning organisation has been configured, which maximises support for the assignee and can be extrapolated to have universal applications.
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Brown, Terence J. "Visitor Characteristics Influencing Climbing Uluru: An Investigation of Culturally Sensitive Tourist Behaviour." Thesis, Griffith University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366399.
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There are many examples worldwide of cultural conflict between visitors and hosts at popular tourist destinations (Robinson & Boniface, 1999). This study investigated the culturally inappropriate behaviour of climbing Uluru (Ayers Rock) in Central Australia. In an effort to better understand the effects of culture and personal schemata on visitor behaviour, the study examined the potential for a number of antecedent variables to predict climbing behaviour. Variables representing the measurable elements of subjective culture (Betancourt & Lopez, 1997) were assessed to have the most relevance in the context of the study, and became the focus of investigations. They included visitor attitudes, beliefs, values and social norms. The Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975) was adopted as a methodological framework to guide analysis. The study sample was selected systematically and comprised visitors to Uluiy - Kata Tjuta National Park. Data was collected in two stages. Initially, an elicitation survey was conducted to establish the behavioural outcome and social influence beliefs that visitors associated with the action of climbing Uluru. The resulting belief scales were incorporated into a main study survey. This second stage included self-administered pre-visit and post-visit questionnaires that were completed by 433 respondents. The research instruments measured climbing behaviour, climbing intention and a range of variables assumed to be determinants of climbing behaviour. These included visitor attitude towards the climb, perception of social pressure to climb (subjective norm), climbing outcome beliefs, beliefs about the influence of salient social referents, values visitors' associated with their trip, prior behaviour and prior knowledge. Sociodemographic characteristics of the sample were also measured. The compiled data was screened and statistically analysed using a number of procedures within the SPSS data analysis program including factor, regression, cluster and discriminant analyses.
All of the hypothesised relationships proposed in the TRA framework were found to be significant. Visitors' climbing intention predicted actual climbing behaviour and both attitude and subjective norm contributed to the prediction of intention. Composite climbing and social influence beliefs also respectively predicted attitude and subjective norm, thereby confirming the salience of these particular beliefs in relation to climbing Ulupi. All of the visitor beliefs were summarised intO meaningfhl categories using factor analysis. Three climbing belief dimensions ('benefit beliefs,' 'fear beliefs,' 'impact beliefs') and two social influence belief dimensions ('external referents,' 'credible referents') emerged from the analysis and these factors were found to vary for different visitor segments. The greatest contrasts were evident between groups that climbed Uluru and those that did not climb. Relative to non-climbers, tourists who made the climb approached it with a positive attitude and believed that the activity would produce beneficial outcomes, would not be culturally or physically detrimental, and that people they associated with the climb, and in particular representatives of the tourism industry, were supportive of the behaviour. When composite belief dimensions were incorporated into a modified Theory of Reasoned Action model, the predictive capacity of the model was enhanced. Also, the climbing fear component was found to make no contribution to the prediction of overall climbing attitude. When visitor trip values were also added to the extended TRA model as a fourth level of predictor variables, they were found to collectively predict visitor attitudes about the benefits of climbing Uluru and social influence to climb. The value of challenge in a visitor's trip was the dominant predictor in all instances. The study concluded that visitors to Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park were heterogeneous with regard to the beliefs they held about climbing Uluru and that when all beliefs were considered together, visitor sub-groups could be meaningfblly differentiated according to their comprehensive belief profiles about the climb. Tourists were categorised into a three-level typology representing a continuum from 'consonant' through 'self-determined' to 'dissonant' visitors. The 'consonant' segment was the largest group and members were in a state of belief affirmation about climbing Uluru. They mostly climbed Ulupi and comprised younger males seeking challenge experiences. A number of implications for theory and practice were discussed. These focused on better understanding visitors at cultural tourism sites and more appropriately managing their behaviours to achieve compatible outcomes for hosts and guests. Recommendations for further research were also suggested.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Leisure Studies
Griffith Business School
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Steele, Judith A. "Researching the lived experience an expatriate English speaker in Japan : an Australian in outback Western Australia : Gaijin and Balanda /." View thesis, 2007. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/43335.
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Thesis (M.Sc. (Hons.))-University of Western Sydney, 2007.A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, School of Education, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science (Honours). Includes bibliographical references.
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George, Christina Anne Maree. "Anthem for the year 2000 and beyond : Australian rock music and cultural identity." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002.
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This thesis develops and theorises the presence of an identifiable cultural and national identity through Australian rock music, concentrating on the 1990s and into the year 2000 and beyond. It draws upon the traditions of Australian culture, being the beach, sport and suburbia as well as those 'new' cultural values and indicators such as multiculturalism. Music analysis comes from a hybrid background involving the disciplines of sociology, musicology, cultural studies and popular culture. The works are diverse and include that of Simon Frith, Thomas Swiss, Graeme Turner, Marcus Breen and Toby Cresswell. These theorists provide a diverse analysis of contemporary rock music and how it influences cultural identity. More specifically, Breen, Turner, Cunningham and Mitchell all theorise the influence rock music has had on Australia and how it has shaped cultural identity, policy and infrastructure. A textual analysis of lyrics, images and the idea of an Australian sound will provide a focus on how the music itself constructs a path to the idea of an Australian identity. Industry and policy as seen though Triple J and Channel [V], parallel importation and radio quotas respectively, play an integral part in how these areas contribute to the cultural value that Australian
music provides. By analysing these aspects through the concepts of antipodality and hybridity, it will be asserted that Australian music contributes to the recontextualisation of Australian cultural identity.
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Sun, Wanning. "Reading the other : narrative constructions of Japan in the Australian and Chinese press /." View thesis, 1996. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030814.112829/index.html.
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Huf, Elizabeth L. H. "On the western line : the impact of Central Queensland's heritage industry on regional identity /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20061121.145704.
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Emerson, John. "The representation of the colonial past in French and Australian cinema, from 1970 to 2000 /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phe536.pdf.
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Pavils, J. G. "ANZAC culture : a South Australian case study of Australian identity and commemoration of war dead /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09php3382.pdf.
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au, a. meerwald@yahoo com, and Agnes May Lin Meerwald. "Chineseness at the crossroads : negotiations of Chineseness and the politics of liminality in diasporic Chinese women's lives in Australia." Murdoch University, 2002. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20080116.113947.
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Chineseness at the crossroads examines how Chineseness is negotiated by diasporic Chinese women in Australia. I question the essentialist notions of Chineseness by deploying Homi Bhabha's theory of liminality. This concept of being neither here nor there helped me examine the women's ambiguous experiences of acceptance and rejection, within and across marginal and dominant Australian circles. My position disrupts the binaric frames that divide the old from the new, and the eastern from the western practices for cultural appropriation. It recognises instead the past and the present in the creation of new but familiar versions of Chineseness.
I argue that essentialist norms are commuilicated through cultural semantics to inform how Chineseness is rehearsed. I assert that liminality exposes the power structures that inform these cultural semantics by disrupting the naturalised norms. I posit that the diasporic women's awareness of these interdependent processes enables them to question their practices and ideologies.
I used an autoethnographic technique to collapse the divide between the researcher and the researched. It created a liminal space between the researcher and the researched. This subverted norms of the researcher as the archaeologist of knowledge by enabling the other women's narratives to tell their stories alongside mine. This methodological frame also serves as a prism to examine the intersections of gender, sexuality, family, relationships, language, education, class, age, and religion with Chineseness in the lives of the 39 Malaysian and Singaporean women interviewed.
My results indicate that Chineseness is precarious and indeterminate, and specific to the particular moments of articulation at the crossroads of geopolitical and socioeconomic factors. The versions of Chineseness rehearsed are complexly influenced by the various cultural semantics that impact on the women's negotiations of who they are as diasporic Chinese women in Australia. I conclude with a discussion of how these results challenge current curriculum and pedagogical practices in English classrooms. I argue that a re-examination of these practices will contribute to a more inclusive Australia.
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Davis, Samantha Leigh. "Finding common ground: a field experiment examining social dominance theory and social identity theory." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19229.pdf.
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Burke, Rachel Jean. "Casualties, contributors, competitors or commodities? : images of the Asian international student population in Australia : reflecting notions of 'national identity' /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18916.pdf.
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Driehuis, Raymond. "Man makes man : a study of uplifting and upbuilding in the novels of Joseph Furphy." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1999. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1226.
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In a letter to Kate Baker, circa November 1910, Furphy wrote, '[b]ut ain't it anomalous that the erratic G.H [Grant Hervey], the saintly Dr. Strong, and the perverse T.C. [Tom Collins] should be working strenuously toward the same goal, namely, the uplifting and upbuildlng of Australia' (In Barnes and Hoffmann, eds, 1995:259. My Italics). This thesis is an Investigation of the ideas of uplifting and upbuildlng, and their relevance to Tom Collins and his concerns. The reason for Furphy waiting so long to lay bare his designs can only be speculated. Rather than accepting the general critical stance that Collins is unreliable, and that Furphy meticulously sets out to expose his flaws, this thesis argues that this is not the case. Since he distanced himself publicly from his own novels, refusing to have authorship credited to his name, Furphy wanted his readers to respond to Collins not as his literary creation, but as a fully developed and self-reliant identity capable of setting an example of what it means to uplift and upbuild a national community. The ideas of uplifting and upbuilding are simple enough to comprehend. Yet a proper appreciation of their scope in the novels requires a careful consideration of the historical context which links Collins to many issues of the 1880s. The chief issue is the textual construction of an Australian identity vis-á-vis an Anglo-Australian identity, and the Influence literature has on the common mind. Because of his Involvement with uplifting, upbuilding and self-reliance, there is a complexity to Tom Collins that is the result of his being the implied author, controlling the selection of characters and their narratives, as well as his own self-image, in the novels. The thesis argues that Collins' representation of "Collins", and other characters in the Riverina, is designed to represent the "right" qualities for an Australian character or type, which is consistent with uplifting and upbuilding. For these reasons, the novels are considered as Collins' strategic response to the contemporary representations of life in terms of their value to the search for meaning, and to ways of seeing and responding to the good of an Australian life. Indeed, the character of Tom Collins is very much concerned with personal and communal well-being in an environment of colonial loyalties, rivalry and division, and a landscape often categorized as exotically cruel or dangerous. Because this is so, Collins is concerned with the value of education, with the value of notable Western thinkers and artists, and with the shifting of ignorance for better judgment. He is also concerned with the benefits of democracy and the democratic temper over aristocracy and its emphasis on class and station. Collins is quite a modern thinker, deeply concerned with actions and consequences in art and life. He is a modern thinker because he believes, as Paine, Emerson and Whitman do, that the idea of natural rights is the cornerstone of moral progress for civilization, but only if men and women accept and practise the civil rights that necessarily come with the pursuit of liberty, fraternity, equality and happiness.
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Ismail, Jumiati. "Challenges in international business communication : a study of language, culture and inter-cultural issues in Malaysian-Australian business discourse." University of Western Australia. Graduate School of Education, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0107.
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This study aims to explore communication deviances and strategies in the negotiation discourse of Malaysian-Australian business encounters, from both a linguistic and nonlinguistic perspective. Specifically, it sees miscommunications/deviances as factors that may hinder the business communication process and prevent the negotiators from achieving their objectives. The study also focuses on strategies, or those discourse skills which promote successful business negotiation. The research method is based on the analysis of discourse generated from initial 'perception' interviews, business meetings, and post-meeting 'follow-up' interviews. The research involved a cross-section of Malaysian and Australian business people from various industries; such as tourism, information technology, hospitality and financial services. The initial 'perception' interviews were intended to gather data on the prior experiences of Malaysian and Australian businesspeople, both in terms of the reported difficulties and strengths in their business interactions and dealings in Western Australia. In the second stage of the analysis, the deviances which signalled miscommunication in the negotiation were identified in the recorded meeting data. Also identified were the strategies which were used by the negotiators to increase the likelihood that their goals will be achieved. The objective of the research was then to interpret why these strategies were being used, and their influence on the negotiation process. From the data a pattern emerged in the way that deviance occurred, and the way that strategies were being performed. This has made it possible to group deviance and strategies and present the findings thematically. Altogether, five themes identified, these were: Management of topics, Building rapport; Ethical business conduct; Building recognition; Styles in business practice. The study has shown that business communication discourse reflects the embedded culture of its speakers. Topic management was also found to play an important role in the business meetings as it enabled the participants to more effectively lead their discussion towards its intended goal. Both the deviance and strategies have been managed by the business negotiators in the way they select the appropriate topic categories in order to effectively maintain the discussion throughout the meeting.
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Sun, Wanning. "Reading the other: narrative constructions of Japan in the Australian and Chinese press." Thesis, View thesis, 1996. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/115.
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This study is concerned with the way in which discourses of the Other are deployed in the media's narrative constructions of national imaginary. Operating on the assumption that news provides techniques and devices which enable the nation and its Other to be narrated and imagined, the analysis focuses on the structures and processes by which Japan is constructed in the news stories in some Australian and Chinese printed media. The analysis finds that othering is a dynamic and complex process engaged in by both the East and the West, for purposes of both cultural domination and cultural negotiation, and to serve both external and domestic political ends. The study shows that what seems to be an essential distinction between the Orient, or the East, and the Occident, or the West, in the discourses of the Other is constantly shifting, fluid and context-specific. The investigation points to the need of forsaking a framework of understanding media and identity which is based on a truth vs propaganda, or information vs entertainment dichotomy, and adopting an approach that takes into account the particularities of the cultural practices of each media system
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Orr, Kirsten School of Architecture UNSW. "A force for Federation: international exhibitions and the formation of Australian ethos (1851-1901)." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Architecture, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/23987.
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In 1879 the British Colony of New South Wales hosted the first international exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere. This was immediately followed by the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880 in the colony of Victoria and the success of these exhibitions inspired the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, which was held in 1888 to celebrate the centenary of white settlement in Australia. My thesis is that these international exhibitions had a profound impact on the development of our cities, the evolution of an Australian ethos and the gaining of nationhood. The immense popularity and comprehensive nature of the exhibitions made them the only major events in late nineteenth-century Australia that brought the people together in an almost universally shared experience. The exhibitions conveyed official ideologies from the organising elites to ordinary people and encouraged the dissemination of new cultural sentiments, political aspirations, and moral and educational ideals. Many exhibition commissioners, official observers and ideologues were also predominantly involved in the Federation movement and the wider cultural sphere. The international exhibitions assisted the development of an Australian urban ethos, which to a large extent replaced the older pastoral / frontier image. Many of the more enduring ideas emanating from the exhibitions were physically expressed in the consequent development of our cities ??? particularly Sydney and Melbourne, both of which had achieved metropolitan status and global significance by the end of the nineteenth century. The new urban ethos, dramatically triggered by Sydney 1879, combined with and strengthened the national aspirations and sentiments of the Federation movement. Thus the exhibitions created an immediate connection between colonial pride in urban development and European and American ideals of nation building. They also created an increasing cultural sophistication and a growing involvement in social movements and political associations at the national level. The international exhibitions, more than any other single event, convinced the colonials that they were all Australians together and that their destiny was to be united as one nation. At that time, Australians began to think about national objectives. The exhibitions not only promulgated national sentiment and a new ethos, but also provided opportunities for independent colonial initiatives, inter-colonial cooperation and a more equal position in the imperial alliance. Thus they became a powerful impetus, hitherto unrecognised, for the complex of social, political and economic developments that made Federation possible.
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Harper, James. "The role of folk culture in Australia's quest for national identity : a case study." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1997. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36391/1/36391_Harper_1997.pdf.
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In recent years, especially since the release of the cultural policy statement Creative Nation in 1994, the role of Australia's cultural sector in developing the national identity has been a source of public debate. Some commentators have used the metaphor of the quest for self-knowledge to the country's search for identity, and emphasised the importance of the work of artists in
expressing this quest. Policy makers have attempted to link this quest more closely with their own
arts and other polices. This thesis presents exploratory research into the role played by one particular sector of the cultural industry, the folk movement. It does so through a case study of one of the movement's
principal organisations, the Queensland Folk Federation (QFF). It asks the question: What is the role of the QFF in the quest for Australian national identity?
After a general introduction to the :field of inquiry, the thesis draws on folklore, cultural policy
and cultural tourism to provide historical and theoretical context and introduces the case study
organisation. It lists research questions and derives eight research themes from the folkloric, arts
policy and cultural tourism background. Research methodology, in particular the in-depth
interviewing approach, is discussed. Data gathered from the application of this approach, along with documentary research and participant observation are described and six emergent themes are used to summarise characteristics of the case study organisation's quest.
It is concluded that the Queensland Folk Federation is an organisation pursuing its own agenda which it perceives as strongly related to developing national identity, regardless of whether or not it matches current cultural policy. Strong parallels are suggested between the management style and membership involvement of the Federation and organisations with a religious or spiritual mission.
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Goodwin, Miriam Winifred. "Technology absorptive characteristics of a national innovation system : IT in Australia, 1981-1991." Thesis, University of Sydney, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3769.
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Beaton, Leigh S. L. "Westralian Scots: Scottish settlement and identity in Western Australia, arrivals 1829-1850." Thesis, Beaton, Leigh S. L. (2004) Westralian Scots: Scottish settlement and identity in Western Australia, arrivals 1829-1850. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2004. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/247/.
Abstract:
Before the end of 1850, Scottish settlers in Western Australia represented a small minority group of what was, in terms of the European population, a predominantly English colony. By comparison to the eastern Australian colonies, Western Australia attracted the least number of Scottish migrants. This thesis aims to broaden the historiography of Scottish settlement in Australia in the nineteenth century by providing insights into the lives of Westralian Scots.
While this thesis broadly documents Scottish settlement, its main focus is Scottish identity. Utilising techniques of nominal record linkage and close socio-biographical scrutiny, this study looks beyond institutional manifestations of Scottish identity to consider the ways in which Scottishness was maintained in everyday lives through work, social and religious practices. This thesis also demonstrates the multi-layered expressions of national identity by recognising Scottish identity in the Australian colonies as both Scottish and British. The duality of a Scottish and British identity made Scots more willing to identify eventually as Westralian Scots.
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Beaton, Leigh S. L. "Westralian Scots : Scottish settlement and identity in Western Australia, arrivals 1829-1850 /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2004. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20050602.121220.
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Hajdu, Joseph George, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Japanese investment on the Gold Coast: The interface of globalization and locality." Deakin University. School of Australian and International Studies, 2000. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050915.161432.
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This study explored the interface between the forces of globalization and a given place, at a given time, the Gold Coast during the 1980s. The global economic boom of the 1980s was one in which the role of Japan was particularly important. In less than half a decade capital flows from Japan surged to make it the world's largest investor. Locations in the Pacific Basin were favoured destinations for Japanese investment, one of the most significant was the Gold Coast. Japanese capital and tourism helped transform its urban area from a national resort to an international tourist destination and resort centre, The surge of capital arriving to the Gold Coast was a function of economic conditions in Japan, as was its steep reduction after November 1989, Thus the Gold Coast became integrated into global capital flows and so dependent on decisions made in Tokyo, one of the main financial centres of the world. However this study has also sought to explore a more complex reality; namely, that this place also became the interface of complex cultural forces and perceptions. The wealth of the Japanese investors on the Gold Coast enabled them to realize their dream of developing projects in the most fashionable global styles. These styles were essentially Western, and it was onto these that their Japanese owners ascribed their own meanings; meanings that reflected the cultural baggage that they had brought from Japan, and through which were filtered the economic and environmental realities of the Gold Coast. The Gold Coast as locality also included residents. Hence it became an interface between two different groups of people, the Japanese and the strongly Anglo-Celtic local community. Some in the local community perceived the Japanese presence as a threat to their perception of the Gold Coast, in fact, a threat to their perception of Australia's national identity. A campaign based on the politics of memory of the Japanese developed on the Gold Coast. Within weeks it became a national debate in which isolationalist, if not xenophobic traditionalists, concentrated on the Gold Coast challenged the economic rationalism and multicultural tolerance of the self-interested and ideologically convinced advocates of globalization. Governments at all levels sought to arbitrate, to legitimize standpoints, but more often than not were seen to move into positions of ineffectual flexibility. The forces of globalization on the Gold Coast were catalysts for change that in turn provoked local opposition which rapidly became a debate about national identity and direction. It is in the exploration of the complex and contradictory economic, cultural and political forces engendered by globalization that this study has sought to make a distinctive contribution.
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Athique, Adrian Mabbott. "Non-resident cinema transnational audiences for Indian films /." Access electronically, 2005. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060511.140513/index.html.
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Hogan, JL. "Gendered and ethnicised national identities in Australia and Japan." Thesis, 2002. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/20508/7/whole_HoganJacquelineLee2002.pdf.
Abstract:
In this thesis, I examine the construction of gendered and ethnicised national identities
in Australia and Japan. I conceptualise national identities as discourses of national
belonging, discourses which are actively negotiated and ever-shifting. Specifically, I
examine authorised, mass mediated and folk discourses of national identity in these
two national settings. I draw my data from the following: Australian and Japanese
state and academic publications; a sample of television advertisements in Australia
and Japan; and focus groups and in-depth interviews with participants in two
communities, 'Plainsview,' Tasmania and `Hirogawa,' Hokkaido.
I pursue three main objectives in the thesis: I examine the ways national
identities are constituted in authorised discourses, the mass media and face-to-face
interactions in Australia and Japan; I examine the way discourses of national identity
reflect, reinforce and challenge current power relations in Australia and Japan; and I
examine the place of globalisation in Australian and Japanese constructions of
national identity.
I argue that authorised, mass mediated and folk discourses of national identity
in Australia and Japan are imbricated in complex ways. Widely circulating discourses
of national identity are not imposed on the masses in a top-down fashion, but are the
product of active negotiations of meaning. Neither do such discourses go
uncontested. I demonstrate that individuals in a variety of social locations challenge
dominant discourses of national identity and construct counter-narratives of nation.
Furthermore, I argue that discourses of national identity which marginalise
women and ethnic Others in Australia and Japan, both mirror and help sustain the
continued subordination of these social groups. At the same time, counter-narratives
of nation constructed by Australians and Japanese both reflect and contribute to the
changing status of marginalised groups in these two settings. Finally, I critique the notion that globalising political, economic and other
social changes are destabilising national identities and rendering them less salient.
Evidence presented in the thesis suggests that globalised social conditions are
conducive to the generation of gendered and ethnicised discourses of national identity
in Australia and Japan.
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Briggs, Justin. "Australian Citizenship: a genealogy tracing the descent of discourse 1946 - 2007." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2100/882.
Abstract:
This thesis is a genealogy which traces changes to the discourse of Australian citizenship. These changes were traced in the Australia Day (i.e., January 26) and January 27 editions of The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) and The Sun Herald (SH) from 1946 – 2007. The dissertation used Foucault’s (1980; 1991a; 1991d; 1991e; 1998; 2002a; 2006b) genealogy supplemented with his archaeological method to provide an analysis of the discourse of Australian citizenship. The analysis was conducted by creating an archive of newspaper texts that related to Australian citizenship discourse. This archive represents the body of knowledge about citizenship as published in the specified print media and reflects the systems of thought that circulated the discourse at particular points in time. The archived newspaper texts related to Australian citizenship discourse contain traces of the social, political, cultural and economic beliefs and values of Australian citizens. The analysed texts were found in headlines, reports, editorials, opinion pieces, annotated photographs and letters to the editor that made-up the day-to-day history of the Australia Day editions. The texts that were produced in this narration in the SMH have provided data in the form of specific language use that defines the discourse of citizenship over the 62 year period. The language of these texts as reported in the print media represents the understandings of citizenship at particular times and also the discursive responses to contingent factors conditioning citizenship discourse including globalisation, localisation and neo-liberalism. The research links with Foucault’s (1980; 1991a; 1991d; 1991e; 1998; 2002a; 2006b) findings that the analysis of discourse is fundamental for understanding the nature of reality. This reality reported in this dissertation indicates a discourse that has changed and transformed over the analysed period of time. The discourse of citizenship has developed through the flow of rules and regulations that prohibit and permit what can and cannot be said, thought or spoken about citizenship at particular points in time. This form of normative thought, action and speech is culturally constructed and has been traced in the discourse through a mapping of specific language use related to understandings of citizenship. These types of knowledge constructions are artefacts of culture and reinforce existing power relations. This study has attempted to unmask these relations of power to question the rationality of the practices and experiences of Australian citizenship. The genealogical method allows for the distillation of citizenship discourse as a history of social and political truths as seen in the print media from 1946 – 2007. The genealogy of Australian citizenship presented in this dissertation lays bare the characteristic forms of power/knowledge manifested in the discourse over the post-World War Two period of Australian history to show systems of thought pertaining to citizenship. By doing so it shows that current citizenship practices are not the result of historical inevitabilities but rather the result of the interplay of contingencies. By emphasising citizenship in this way the thesis offers insights into how it can be refashioned to offer greater individual freedom through an understanding of the games of truth that are played throughout all levels of society. The manifestation of power/knowledge in the discourse is further evidence that citizens exist in relations of power. These manifestations produced five distinct thematic discursivities. I labelled them as, ‘The silencing of Aboriginal concerns 1946 – 1969, Authorised voices question the acceptance of poverty and racism 1969 – 1980, Relations of power between Aboriginal Australians and whites 1981 – 1988, Relations of power between Asian immigrants and whites 1989 – 1996, The struggle of cultural dominations 1997 – 2007’. In particular, a discontinuity was identified during the period Relations of power between Aboriginal Australians and whites 1981 – 1988. From this time in the discourse Indigenous Australians were permitted to criticise their treatment by whites. Subsequently this permission has become embedded in systems of thought. This thesis gives details of the products of the genealogical method related to the discourse of citizenship. It pinpoints the moments when individuals and social, cultural, economic and political groups played roles in the production, reproduction and transmission of truth from 1946 - 2007. Based on the products of the research it creates recommendations for minimising the potential dominations of social and political truths. It also suggests ways to re-think Australian citizenship to afford greater freedoms for individual thought, speech and action.
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DuRinck, Lachlan. "The inevitable Australian republic and the unlearning of traditional national identity." Thesis, 1997. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/32973/.
Abstract:
After numerous proposals, the final decision was to write a piece which demonstrated that Australian national identity and the most recent push for an Australian
republic are intertwined, and that one issue, at present cannot be discussed without the other.
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McChesney, Sarah Jane. "Coming home : death and identity in contemporary Australian society." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/147276.
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McPaul, Christine. "Corroboree, performativity and the constructions of identity in Australia c1788-2008." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150584.
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McCubben, Ngaire L., University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, and School of Social Sciences. "Living cultural diversity in regional Australia : an account of the town of Griffith." 2007. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/17820.
Abstract:
Since at least the 1970s Australia has, as a nation, officially declared itself to be ‘multicultural’ and has adopted ‘multiculturalism’ as the approach to its increasingly culturally diverse population. Since then, multiculturalism in Australia, as elsewhere in the western world, has come under sustained critique by both those who think it has ‘gone too far’, and those who think it has ‘not gone far enough’. These critiques have left many wondering whether multiculturalism is still an appropriate and valuable response to cultural diversity for both governments/the state and the populations who contend with cultural diversity as part of their everyday lives. This study attempts to move beyond these critiques and proposes a local place-bound study as one way in which we might further our understandings of multiculturalism in the Australian context and capture some of the complexities elided by these nonetheless useful critiques. The study draws on both textual and ethnographic research material, and employs discursive and deconstructive techniques of analysis to achieve this. The population of the regional centre of Griffith in the Riverina region of New South Wales is culturally diverse. Griffith is located within Wiradjuri country and became home to large numbers of non-Indigenous people after the establishment of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Scheme in the 1910s. It continues to be a destination of choice for immigrants, largely because of the availability of work, particularly in agricultural and related industries. The study reveals that in Griffith multiculturalism is generated, negotiated and performed at the local level, in and through the everyday lives of local people, as much as it is through government intervention. It is part of the lived experience of people in culturally diverse Griffith. The kind of multiculturalism they live can be seen to be positive, pervasive and dynamic and it is something that is deemed to be of great value. They have embraced the idea of multiculturalism and of their community as multicultural to the extent that it is an important part of how they see themselves. While Australian Federal Government conceptions of multiculturalism clearly inform local discourses, with all the limitations this can bring, the conservative understandings articulated federally are made redundant by local manifestations of multiculturalism in Griffith, where there is a desire to both foster and further multiculturalism. The case of Griffith suggests that there is hope for multiculturalism and that multiculturalism can still inform an ethical mode of engagement for people from diverse cultural and ethnic traditions. Australia, however, also has an Indigenous past and present and this continues to pose the ultimate challenge to and for multiculturalism, including in Griffith.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Connery, David. "The characteristics of Australian policymaking in national security crises (with special reference to East Timor, 1999)." Phd thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109599.
Abstract:
This dissertation identifies the consistent and variable characteristics of crisis
policymaking in Australia, and identifies the reasons why characteristics may change.
Importantly, this dissertation is about policymaking processes, not judgments about the
success, morality or effectiveness of Australian policies.
The analysis is conducted through three main stages. The first involves identifying
characteristics for national security policymaking through an examination of the literature
of foreign and defence policy. The second stage refines these into characteristics of crisis
policymaking through an examination of three crises for Australian policymakers and a
study of the emergence of the modern crisis policymaking system. These tentative
characteristics of crisis policymaking, which are organised using the Australian Policy
Cycle, are tested through a case study of the East Tim or Crisis of 1999.
The final stage involves reducing a list of twenty-two characteristics into an essential
group of five. These five include recognising the centrality of the national security
executive; the collegial nature of crisis policymaking; the relative importance of external
over domestic actors; the closed and secretive nature of the process; and the complicated
and complex nature of implementation. The dissertation also identifies political preference
and the contingent nature of crises as the main factors driving change in this system.
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Manning, Nathan Paul. "Young people and politics : apathetic and disengaged? : a qualitative inquiry /." 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au/local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070903.180304/index.html.
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McCubben, Ngaire L. "Living cultural diversity in regional Australia : an account of the town of Griffith." Thesis, 2007. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/17820.
Abstract:
Since at least the 1970s Australia has, as a nation, officially declared itself to be ‘multicultural’ and has adopted ‘multiculturalism’ as the approach to its increasingly culturally diverse population. Since then, multiculturalism in Australia, as elsewhere in the western world, has come under sustained critique by both those who think it has ‘gone too far’, and those who think it has ‘not gone far enough’. These critiques have left many wondering whether multiculturalism is still an appropriate and valuable response to cultural diversity for both governments/the state and the populations who contend with cultural diversity as part of their everyday lives. This study attempts to move beyond these critiques and proposes a local place-bound study as one way in which we might further our understandings of multiculturalism in the Australian context and capture some of the complexities elided by these nonetheless useful critiques. The study draws on both textual and ethnographic research material, and employs discursive and deconstructive techniques of analysis to achieve this. The population of the regional centre of Griffith in the Riverina region of New South Wales is culturally diverse. Griffith is located within Wiradjuri country and became home to large numbers of non-Indigenous people after the establishment of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Scheme in the 1910s. It continues to be a destination of choice for immigrants, largely because of the availability of work, particularly in agricultural and related industries. The study reveals that in Griffith multiculturalism is generated, negotiated and performed at the local level, in and through the everyday lives of local people, as much as it is through government intervention. It is part of the lived experience of people in culturally diverse Griffith. The kind of multiculturalism they live can be seen to be positive, pervasive and dynamic and it is something that is deemed to be of great value. They have embraced the idea of multiculturalism and of their community as multicultural to the extent that it is an important part of how they see themselves. While Australian Federal Government conceptions of multiculturalism clearly inform local discourses, with all the limitations this can bring, the conservative understandings articulated federally are made redundant by local manifestations of multiculturalism in Griffith, where there is a desire to both foster and further multiculturalism. The case of Griffith suggests that there is hope for multiculturalism and that multiculturalism can still inform an ethical mode of engagement for people from diverse cultural and ethnic traditions. Australia, however, also has an Indigenous past and present and this continues to pose the ultimate challenge to and for multiculturalism, including in Griffith.
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Emerson, John James. "The representation of the colonial past in French and Australian cinema, from 1970 to 2000 / by John James Emerson." 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phe536.pdf.
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Includes filmography: leaves 252-256. Bibliography: leaves 241-251. This thesis compares the representation of colonial history in the cinema of France and Australia since 1970. Films examined all had historical colonial settings, a narrative focus principally on aspects of the colonisation process and a director who was descended from former colonisers. It concludes that there are few sustained attempts to confront and resolve the problematic aspects of colonialism's legacy. The tendency to contain the representation of the colonial past within a fictional framework has the inevitable consequence of masking history and avoiding the necessity for dealing with it.
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Pavils, Janice Gwenllian. "ANZAC culture : a South Australian case study of Australian identity and commemoration of war dead / Janice Gwenllian Pavils." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/22186.
Abstract:
"December 2004"Bibliography: leaves 390-420.
vii, 420 leaves : ill., maps, photos. (col.) ; 30 cm.
Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of History and Politics, Discipline of History, 2005
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Pavils, Janice Gwenllian. "ANZAC culture : a South Australian case study of Australian identity and commemoration of war dead / Janice Gwenllian Pavils." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/22186.
Abstract:
"December 2004"Bibliography: leaves 390-420.
vii, 420 leaves : ill., maps, photos. (col.) ; 30 cm.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of History and Politics, Discipline of History, 2005
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Blair, Dale James. "'An army of warriors, these Anzacs' : legend and illusion in the first AIF." Thesis, 1998. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15568/.
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This dissertation is principally concerned with two myths about the experience and character of Australia's Great War soldiers central to the Anzac legend. The first is the
myth of egalitarianism; the second is the myth of the resourcefulness and initiative of Australian soldiers. It argues that neither of these is as pervasive as the legend suggests and uses the experiences of a single Australian combat unit, the 1st Battalion, to support the thesis. The relevance of each of these myths to previous and current debates about national identity is outlined in the introduction. The prevalence of these two myths in the
historiography of Australia's Great War experience through the establishment of a 'digger' stereotype is discussed in chapter one. This chapter provides the general context for the gap that exists in our understanding of these assumptions. It argues that despite increased academic attention to the study of Australia and the Great War, writers continue to invoke stereotypical (and misplaced) notions about Australian soldiers and, as a consequence,
perpetuate a distorted, albeit generally positive,
historical view of Australian soldiers.
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Saunders, Jane E. "Between surfaces: a psychodynamic approach to cultural identity, cultural difference and reconciliation in Australia." Thesis, 2007. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/1452/.
Abstract:
The impetus for this enquiry came from two experiences with an Aboriginal Other, which prompted the initial research questions: “Why does the existence of an Aboriginal Other threaten a white sense of belonging?” and; “What are the mechanisms and purposes of aggression towards, or exclusion of, that which represents otherness in the Australian context?” In the introductory chapters, the author’s experiences at Lake Mungo and Legend Rock are presented as case studies to illustrate Wittgenstein’s (1953/1968) concept of the ways that subject positions are constructed through language games and hegemonic discourses. Psychodynamic theories of identity formation have been applied to the analysis of these cases to argue that the unconscious construction of Australia as a good, white and Christian nation has acted to overwrite Aboriginal perspectives and to position Aboriginal people at the margins of society. In Chapter One the case of Lake Mungo was presented to illustrate the ways that language games function as cultural frames, through which all experience is filtered. As well, Buhler’s (1934/1990) conception of the deictic and symbolic fields, and the role of the proper noun in allowing or disallowing individuals to occupy a position in the symbolic order as subjective agents was discussed. Here, a relationship between cultural framing and the construction of hegemonic discourses which act to position all that is Other outside positions of enunciation was posited. This was followed by a brief exploration of the concept that the lives of Aboriginal people are organized according to an ontological position that differs in fundamental ways from the world view of the white mainstream. Specifically, it was argued that the social realities of Aboriginal people are embedded within their relation to land and the kinship obligations associated with belonging to a particular community in a particular place. A series of hypothetical indices of difference, based on Margaret Bain’s (1992) research into a semi-remote Aboriginal community at Finke, in Central Australia, was presented. The centrality of whiteness as an organizing principle in Australia was illustrated by Barton’s (1901) “A White Australia” speech, made at the time of Federation. In the ensuing investigation of the way that the dominant culture has constructed an ideal image of the typical Australian, it was suggested that white Australians identify with a mythical Good Australia though white discourses of enlightened nation building and Empire, in which Aboriginal culture has been “mapped and managed” into a museum context and Aboriginal people have been rendered as “metonymically frozen into an extinct past” (Hemming, 2003, pp. 1-3). In Chapter Two, a case study approach, based on Freud’s model of analysis as an archaeology of the present, was used to explore the mechanisms behind the occlusion of Aboriginality as a presence in the case of Legend Rock. The Freudian (1919) concept of the uncanny was critical to the investigation of the particular anxieties around belonging that are evoked for white Australians when confronted with the unfamiliar Aboriginal presence in familiar spaces. In this section of the thesis, Gelder and Jacob’s (1999) characterization of the overturning of the legal fiction of terra nullius after Mabo as the return of the repressed was discussed. In Chapter Three, the rationale for using a case study approach to address the guiding hypothesis and the propositions to be investigated in the current study are outlined. Chapter Four introduces Lacan’s (1949/2002) conceptualization of the mirror stage, during which identifications are formed and the ego, or “I” is first recognized, as well as Klein’s (1937/1964) theory of primitive defence mechanisms. The ideas of these clinicians were used to explore the function of the Other in both normal development and in pathological states. This literature was then applied to an investigation of the process of othering as it has manifested in the Australian context in more general terms. Rutherford’s (2000) thesis: that an Australian ego-ideal has been based on the identification with a mythical being-without-lack, provided a starting point for analysis of the ways that white Australia has constructed a veil around cultural difference in order to defend against acknowledging the fact that Aboriginal peoples have been profoundly damaged by the practices and processes of colonization, and that these practices and processes continue to damage current generations of Aboriginal people. In Chapter Five, it was argued that, after Mabo, white Australians have had no choice but to adopt one of two defensive positions with respect to Aboriginal Australia. Following Money-Kyrle’s (1951) reading of Klein, these positions were nominated as being characterized by either persecutory or depressive guilt. The rejection of the Aboriginal story of Legend Rock was posited as representing the persecutory position, which was discussed in terms of the phenomenon of the rise of Pauline Hanson and One Nation. It was argued that the denial of Aboriginal rights, and attacks on Aboriginal people as the recipients of special treatment, could be explained as representing the manic defence of a large minority of the white mainstream in response to perceived threats to identifications with the Good Australia evoked by the recognition of Native Title. As Klein has explained, the manic defence is driven by anxiety and functions through the primitive psychological process of splitting, whereby internalized good (ego syntonic) objects are retained and internalized bad (ego dystonic) objects are projected onto the scapegoated Other. In the case of One Nation, Aboriginal people were represented as “greedy” people who wanted to take away “our backyards”. By contrast, it was argued that many white Australians had adopted the more difficult depressive position, which was best exemplified by Paul Keating’s (1993) Redfern Park Speech. The processes of splitting and projection that characterize the persecutory position enable us to repress the knowledge that we have inflicted harm, and thereby escape feelings of guilt. Depressive guilt, on the other hand, is associated with the painful awareness that harm has been done and a desire to make reparation to the damaged psychic object. This desire was manifest in the emergence of grass roots movements, such as Australians for Reconciliation, comprised mainly of white Australians, who organized their own responses to the stance taken by Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party. Australians who wished to amend past wrongs were frustrated by the inertia of the Wik debate, the failed referendum for a republic, the Treaty debate, and the dismantling of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra. Ordinary citizens walked over bridges and contributed to the Sea of Hands in their tens of thousands to show their solidarity with Aboriginal people. The “Sorry” books were in answer to the Howard administration’s steadfast refusal to make an apology and offer compensation to the Stolen Generations, as had been recommended by Wilson and Dodson’s (1997) Bringing them Home Report. Chapter Six outlined the epistemological and methodological framework within which the research was conducted. In this section, the ethics of conducting research with indigenous communities has been presented, and the reasons for adopting a critical approach to psychological research are explained. The primary data from the interviews was presented in Chapters Seven, Eight and Nine. Data was organized into sections according to the main themes that were raised by the indigenous participants, accompanied by relevant commentary from the non-indigenous contributors. The analysis of the emergent themes has been presented alongside the data within each section. In Chapter Seven, the guiding hypothesis that Bain’s (1992) indices of difference would be salient for a cohort of Aboriginal people living in urban and regional environments was partially supported. The Aboriginal participants’ subjective experience of their Aboriginal identity was explored In Chapter Eight. In Chapter Nine, Lacan’s concept that the unconscious is structured like a language, together with his emphasis on the role of metaphor in creating the illusion of fixed meanings, was used to investigate how Aboriginal narratives of identity have been influenced by representations of Aboriginality in both mainstream and indigenous communities. In Chapter Ten, a summary of findings, conclusions and recommendations has been presented.