Whose place? Sustaining cultural conversations

Abstract: The notion of place is integral to any understanding of cultural sustainability. Present and future places are the product of the political negotiations of past places. How we recreate and represent the history and the stories of a place impacts the individual and collective cultural identities associated with it. Moreover, these representations help to determine who does, or does not, belong. When planning for the sustainment of cultures, we need to draw on our ethical responsibility to ensure that everybody and every culture enjoys the right to a sense of belonging. To do this, we must turn to questions such as, whose story is primarily being represented through the identity of a particular place? Or, whose place is being replaced and reimagined without acknowledgement or permission? And how will these communities and individuals, whose stories are not amplified, become sustainable? To respond to some of these questions, this article presents an analysis of placemaking on the Gold Coast. It sketches insights from cultural practitioners, industry leaders, cultural workers and the community- at-large, to expose heterogeneous Gold Coasts wrestling with the one identity. Most notably, it documents the emergence of a cultural voice that is developing via artist-run spaces involving joint collaborations between the academy and the community. By adopting transdisciplinarity alongside an historical approach to conversation, this article also suggests some alternative ways to develop policies that fosters and sustains multiple cultures, rather than just reproducing more of the same. This paper was presented at People and the Planet 2013 at RMIT in July 201

Roads policing: Current context and imminent dangers

© The Authors 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of CSF Associates: Publius, Inc. All rights reserved. For permissions please e-mail: [email protected]. The final version of this paper can be accessed at the link below.This paper will argue that roads policing is the public face of the police for many citizens and thus enjoys an elevated profile. Yet the delivery of roads policing services requires urgent care and attention. As was the situation a century ago, potential and actual conflict with the driving public could be close at hand as more reliance is placed on enforcement technology and more drivers become criminalised and their vehicle movements logged. Indeed, it will be contended that unless great care is taken, such could be the public disaffection with traffic law enforcement and monitoring policies that the legitimacy of the police itself could be challenged. After a brief update of recent developments concerning roads policing nationally and internationally, the second section will underline the ways in which roads policing provides a crucial service. Details follow of dangers lying in wait for the service if the pressing enforcement issues around roads policing are allowed to drift. Finally, some suggestions are outlined to help inform discussion of these matters that could simultaneously facilitate achievement of other key roads policing objectives

Characteristics of Billfish Anglers in the U.S. Atlantic Ocean

A mail survey of 1,984 U.S. billfish tournament anglers was completed to examine their fishing activity, attitudes, trip expenditures, consumer's surplus, catch levels, and management preferences. A sample of 1,984 anglers was drawn from billfish tournaments in the western Atlantic Ocean (from Maine to Texas, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) during 1989. A response rate of 61% was obtained (excluding nondeliverables). Anglers averaged 13 billfish trips per year, catching a billfish 40% of the time while 89% of billfish caught were released with <1 billfish per year per angler retained. Catch and retention rates varied by region. Expenditures averaged $1,600 per trip, but varied by region. The annual consumer's surplus was$262 per angler, but increased to $448 per angler if billfish populations were to increase. An estimated 7,915 tournament anglers in the U.S. western Atlantic spent$179,425,000 in pursuit of billfish in 1989. Anglers opposed management options that would diminish their ability to catch a billfish, but supported options limiting the number of billfish landed

The relationship between likelihood and fear of criminal victimisation: evaluating risk sensitivity as a mediating concept

Crime surveys typically ask respondents how ‘likely’ they think it is that they will become a crime victim in the future. The responses are interpreted here as ‘risk’ statements. An investigation of the risk literature shows the concept to be considerably more complex than at first imagined, but shows that individual risk predictions are largely based on interpretations far removed from rational considerations of likelihood based on recorded crime rates. Responses from three waves of a longitudinal crime survey conducted in Trinidad are examined in this light. It is concluded that fear of criminal victimization might best be considered as differential sensitivity to predicted risk.</p

Der Beitrag Urie Bronfenbrenners für die Erziehungswissenschaft

Urie Bronfenbrenners Programm einer Ökologie der menschlichen Entwicklung ist für die Erziehungswissenschaft von tiefgreifender und nachhaltiger Bedeutung. In Grundzügen wird auf die Bedeutung bezüglich einiger Grundlagen des Faches sowie des Forschungsprogramms eingegangen. Es lässt sich zeigen, dass die Erforschung von Entwicklung im Kontext zu einem nicht mehr wegzudenkenden Bestandteil des Systems der modernen Erziehungswissenschaft geworden ist. (DIPF/Orig.)Urie Bronfenbrenners ecology of human development is of considerable and lasting importance for educational science. The importance of his work concerning foundations of the discipline as well as research in education are briefly outlined. It can be shown, that his program of research on development in context has become an indispensable component in the system of today\u27s educational science. (DIPF/Orig.

Quality of Instruction - Conceptions, Methodical Considerations and Perspectives

Unterricht und Unterrichtsqualität lassen sich von unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln aus betrachten. Diese Blickwinkel werden anhand unterscheidbarer Konzeptionen bzw. Forschungstraditionen (allgemeine Didaktik, Schul- und Unterrichtsklimaforschung, Lehr- Lernforschung, Schulqualitätsforschung) im Überblick skizziert. Dieser Übersicht schließt sich eine knappe Behandlung methodischer Fragen der Unterrichtsforschung an. Perspektiven der Forschung und deren möglicher Anwendungsbezug werden entlang aktueller Untersuchungen im Rahmen eines Schwerpunktprogramms der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) behandelt. (ZPID

Employment and Mental Illness

It is a surprising in some ways that the interaction between employment and mental health or illness has not been subject to greater scrutiny, considering the amount of time the average person spends at work in his lifetime and the risks to mental health that the working environment provides. Probably the stigma of mental illness from the point of view of the employee, and the financial concerns about liability from the point of view of the employer, link together to hinder the exploration of the topic. Nevertheless, contemporary views of health promotion (WHO, 1986) and the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH, 2011) recognise the impact of employment on health and mental health and various strategies like Health Promoting Workplaces suggest ways of ameliorating the risks and improving employee health overall. It is however necessary to consider a wide definition of employee health to encompass (a) the health of individuals who perform work for a living, (b) the average forty year period of the life span in which employees are in the work environment, (c) the traditional concerns of work related injury but is not restricted to this, and (d) the health promotion aims of quality of life or state of optimum health and striving to reach one's potential. This chapter explores employment and mental illness with this definition of employee health in mind. The main discussion areas are: employment and its link to the burden of mental illness, risks within contemporary employment, and social relationships in the workplace. The key points that will be made are that employment must be considered in the genesis and treatment strategies of mental illness, and that dialogue about mental illness will need to play a greater part in the employer-employee master narrative