Paying Tribute : Migrant Memorial Walls and the 'Nation of Immigrants'

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The Perfect Crime? FIFA and the Absence of Accountability in Switzerland

Article published in the Md. J. International Law

The Chora of Chersonesos on the Black Sea and Metaponto in Southern Italy, 1997.

Institute of Classical Archaeolog

Naming trouble in online internationalized education

This paper offers an analysis of cultural politics that emerged around naming practices in an ethnographic study of the interactions within an online MBA unit, offered by an Australian university to both ‘local’ Australian students and international students enrolled through a Malaysian partner institution. It became evident that names were doing important identity, textual and pedagogical work in these interactions and considerable interactive trouble arose over the social practices surrounding names. The analysis uses sociolinguistic concepts to analyse selected slices of the online texts and participants' interview accounts. The analysis shows how ethnocentric default settings in the courseware served to heighten and exacerbate cultural difference as a pedagogical problem. These events are related to the larger problematic of theorising the context of culture in times of globalisation and increasingly entangled educational routes, with implications for the enterprise of online internationalised education