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Playing with Fire: Understanding the Sunni-Shi'a Sectarian Lifecycle
No full textThis article discusses the ingrained impediments which are likely to stifle India's rise and growth - a phenomenon which has figured prominently in scholarly and official assessments, in India and outside, for over a decade now. Intriguingly India's rise as a global power has already been adjudged a certainty in these assessments, but the author contends that there exists an apparent disjuncture between how the world sees India and the prevailing internal impediments. Therefore, any assessment of India as a global power without incorporating these impediments would be incomplete, misplaced and hyperbolic. Of late, in the light of India's growing internal and external socio-economic and political difficulties, more and more writings and proclamations by Indian and international experts indicate emerging scepticism over India's potential as a global power. This paper takes a rollcall of India's internal impediments including, human development, institutional and security challenges which according to the author have already begun restraining India's global ascent.Griffith Business School, Griffith Asia InstituteFull Tex
Gendering the Financialisation of Everyday Life: Geographies of Australian Women's Financial Self-help Cultures
No full textWhile geographies of financialisation are increasingly central to our social lives insufficient attention has been paid to the bodies of everyday people who constitute the economy. This thesis addresses this gap by taking a feminist lens to explore how women's everyday experiences of credit and debt are embodied.
Through analysing a sample of Australian women's financial self-help texts, including five books and two seasons of a popular podcast, I show how the demands of financialisation are enfolded into contemporary expectations of white middle-class hegemonic femininity. In detailing how expectations of contemporary femininity now include economic competencies, findings of this research include how the ideal feminised financial subject is defined in the cultural imaginary; as a speculative investor, risk-calculator, debt manager and asset-accumulator. She is corporeally self-disciplined, particularly as it relates to maintaining a 'healthy' (slim) body, and carefully manages the heterosexual life course markers of marriage and maternity. The requirements of successful financial femininity are communicated pedagogically via a gendered, racialised and classed girlfriendly affective-discursive mode of governance.
Following the analysis of women's financial self-help media, I share seven oral and written vignettes which contain economic knowledges from a First Nations woman, a trans woman, a gender queer person, a migrant woman, two women with disabilities, and a woman who has experienced domestic violence and financial abuse. In narrating their financial biographies and communicating their expertise, these vignettes trouble the moralised celebration and economic disciplining of the supposedly relatable everyday Australian woman venerated in the analysed financial advice media. By illuminating the unevenness of the emotional geographies of money and finance, the knowledges in this chapter reveal how different bodies make affective negotiations in understanding their economic (un)belonging. [...]Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)School of Hum, Lang & Soc ScArts, Education and LawFull Tex
Measuring quality of midwifery clinical learning: Enhancing preceptor capabilities
No full textBackground: Clinical practice influences students’ development of clinical competence and professional identity. Quality clinical education is critical to the success of pre-registration midwifery student learning. Measuring the quality of clinical learning environments and the impact of the professionals who work within them on student learning has been neglected.
Aim: To optimise midwifery clinical education through the development, testing, and evaluation of new tools that measure the different perceptions of clinical learning experiences, with an emphasis on measurement of impact and the role of preceptors.
Methods: This thesis uses a sequential multi-method approach and is comprised of published and unpublished works encompassing five sequential studies, each with their own question, design, and specific outputs. The studies are interconnected but also stand alone on their own merits. Final inferences are drawn from all five studies.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)School of Nursing & MidwiferyGriffith HealthFull Tex
Enhancing postpartum emotional care: Evaluation of an education program for midwives
No full textGriffith Health, School of Nursing and MidwiferyFull Tex
Canyons and Ice: The Wilderness Travel of Dick Griffith
No full textDick Griffith journeyed across Alaska, Canada, Mexico, and the American West. According to Jon Krakauer, "Griffith is simply afflicted with an irresistible inclination to attempt what others say can't be done. When asked what possesses a man to repeatedly strike out alone across hundreds of miles of rugged, lonely country, he replies, 'Every so often, it's just time to walk.'" Kaylene Johnson is author of five books about Alaska including her memoir A Tender Distance: Adventures Raising My Son in Alaska
Prediction of Wave-Induced Seabed Maximum Liquefaction Depth Using Artificial Neural Network Model
No full textIn the last few decades, considerable effort has been devoted to the phenomenon of wave-induced liquefaction. In deed, it is one of the most important factors used in analysing
the seabed stability and in designing marine structures. As waves propagate and fluctuate
over the ocean surface, energy is carried within the medium of the water particles. When
this energy is transmitted into the seabed, the results are a rather complex mechanism of
soil behaviours that significantly affect the stability of the seabed.
The prediction of wave-induced seabed liquefaction has been recognised by coastal
geotechnical engineers as an important factor when considering the design of marine
structures. All existing prediction of wave-induced seabed liquefaction models have been
based on conventional approaches of engineering mechanics, with limited laboratory work.
Previous studies have involved complicated procedures and complex mathematical methods.
The present meticulous study has been based on the existing poro-elastic wave-induced
seabed liquefaction solution, and has adopted Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to
predict maximum wave-induced seabed liquefaction. The author has proposed an alternative
approach for prediction of the maximum liquefaction depth, based on the Artificial
Neural Network (ANN). Unlike previous engineering mechanical approaches, the various
proposed ANN models are based on data learning knowledge, rather than on the knowledge
of the mechanisms. The author has concluded that ANN models can be applicable
to such engineering exercise at least this study.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Griffith School of EngineeringScience, Environment, Engineering and TechnologyFull Tex
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No full textInterview with Dotty Griffith, journalist and author from Dallas, Texas. The interview includes discussion of her youth, education, and career in journalism and as an author
Will the Emerging India Ever Arrive?
No full textThis article discusses the ingrained impediments which are likely to stifle India's rise and growth - a phenomenon which has figured prominently in scholarly and official assessments, in India and outside, for over a decade now. Intriguingly India's rise as a global power has already been adjudged a certainty in these assessments, but the author contends that there exists an apparent disjuncture between how the world sees India and the prevailing internal impediments. Therefore, any assessment of India as a global power without incorporating these impediments would be incomplete, misplaced and hyperbolic. Of late, in the light of India's growing internal and external socio-economic and political difficulties, more and more writings and proclamations by Indian and international experts indicate emerging scepticism over India's potential as a global power. This paper takes a rollcall of India's internal impediments including, human development, institutional and security challenges which according to the author have already begun restraining India's global ascent.Full Tex
The Need for Australian Constitutional Theory
No full textThis article was published to help launch the Australian Constitutional Theory project, whose purpose was to examine fundamental aspects of the Australian polity and constitution. The author poses a series of questions for Australian constitutional theory in the 1990s: questions for whom traditional responses are no longer adequate. These include: democracy, rights, federalism, judging, and the rule of law. Whilst advocating the development of an Australian constitutional theory, the author discusses the mistakes theory laden work can fall into, in particular the problem of importing theory. Key distinctions about the Australian context are discussed, especially the primacy of federalism, limited government and the diffusion of power, and the problems and undesirability of searching for an original intent in Australian constitutionalism (which forms a response to Professor Greg Craven).Full Tex
Transnational Organized Crime: Police Cooperation in China and the EU
No full textThis article outlines police cooperation strategies that have developed to fight organized crime in both the EU and Greater China. It explores the broadly similar organized crime problems faced within both systems while highlighting some of the major challenges to each. Using a socio-legal approach it compares the informal and formal cooperation mechanisms that have been established to address cross-border organized crime issues. The article uses the extensive literature analyzing the EU context as a framework for assessing the cooperation methods used within Greater China. Finally it uses this analysis to assess the police cooperation measures in place and explains what we can learn about the politics, law and culture of each region from this cooperation. The author contends that while police cooperation in Greater China is less formalized than that of the EU, significant informal cooperation exists which appears similar to how police cooperation started to develop within Europe half a century ago.Full Tex
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