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The maternal subject in contemporary popular discourses of Correction: Reading Amanda Brown’s Prison Doctor Memoirs Open
This paper adds to the limited research on representations of incarcerated mothers by analysing Amanda Brown’s best-selling memoirs, The Prison Doctor (2019) and The Prison Doctor: Women Inside (2020). These works detail her experience wor…
Continuity or Change? Disability Policy and the Rudd Government Open
This article reports on shifts and continuities in policy relating to disabled people and the administrative apparatus of federal disability policy under the Rudd government (2007–10). It begins with a brief historical overview of disabili…
The three Ds of welfare reform: disability, disgust and deservingness Open
Public policy discourses on disability frequently reference emotions such as shame or pity to describe the lived experience of disabled people. While sociological research within the emotional realm is re-emerging as a growing area of inte…
Visualising legitimacy: An analysis of medicinal cannabis images in Australian news Open
This paper reports on a visual framing analysis of Australian online news media images of medicinal cannabis (MC) from 2014 to 2021. It reports on two themes - people and place, and plant and place. The first theme reveals that images of M…
The young Australian feminine property investor: class, whiteness and heterosexuality Open
The financialisation of housing is associated with the emergence of new investor subjectivities but, to date, little has been said about how these subject positions are gendered. In contrast, this paper brings a feminist lens to the topic …
View article: Affective design and memetic qualities: Generating affect and political engagement through bushfire TikToks
Affective design and memetic qualities: Generating affect and political engagement through bushfire TikToks Open
This article explores the affective dimensions of social media platform TikTok, and its potential as a novel form of political participation among young people. It draws on data from a sample of 24 TikToks focused on the 2019/20 Australian…
Editorial introduction: geography and collective memories through art Open
‘Art’ and ‘memory’ are prominent areas of inquiry in geographical research. Artistic and memory work often overlap in our studies through practices and processes aimed at bringing people together in experimental, affective, and collective …
An agenda for Australian rural sociology: Troubling the white middle-class farming woman Open
In reflecting on the last two decades of publications by Australian rural studies scholars in three major disciplinary journals, this article argues that the field of Australian rural sociology has failed to address racial inequality and c…
Farm Women: Driving Tractors and Negotiating Gender Open
This paper uses data from focus groups with eighty women involved in the Australian sugar industry, and draws on feminist post-structural theory to explore the construction of gendered identities in on-farm physical work. The key focus is …
Fleshy citizenship: representations of breastfeeding politicians in the Australian media Open
This paper takes up Chris Beasley and Carol Bacchi notion of “fleshy citizenship” to examine media texts of two instances in which Australian politicians breastfed in parliament. We identify the predominance of trivialising and sexualising…
Rural masculinities Open
This chapter identifies key themes in the literature on rural masculinities. We demonstrate that rural masculinities are enacted in relation to constructions of the rural—a context which is dynamic, uneven and temporal—as well as in relati…
The emergence of the marketing professional in schools Open
The marketisation of schools has emerged as a defining feature of the education landscape. While the role of principals and lead teachers in carrying out marketing work was investigated in the late 1990s, there has been scant evidence of h…
View article: Beach body work: Australian women’s experiences
Beach body work: Australian women’s experiences Open
This article examines Australian women’s complex relationship with the beach through a focus on affect and on what bodies do. Interviews with ten participants of diverse backgrounds and of different ages reveal that women understand the be…
Troubling representations of Black masculinity in the documentary film Raising Bertie Open
In this paper we undertake a critical reading of the documentary Raising Bertie (2016). Directed by Margaret Byrne, the film tells the story of three poor, young Black American males living in Bertie County. In the paratextual material ass…
Introduction: beyond stock photographs – imagining, experiencing, and researching rural education Open
Editorial introductions to special issues have a number of generic features. They typically include a review of the literature, for example, and a discussion of areas requiring additional research. As we discussed these generic dimensions …
Critical geographies of education: an introduction Open
This special issue contributes to scholarship on critical geographies of education (Kraftl, 2013a) along with research that has emerged as a result of the spatial turn in educational studies (Gulson & Symes, 2007; Helfenbein & Taylor, 2009…
Queering rurality: reading<i>The Miseducation of Cameron Post</i>geographically Open
This paper contributes to research on geographies of queer rural youth through an analysis of an award-winning young adult novel, The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Danforth (2012a. The Miseducation of Cameron Post. New York: Harper Colli…
Henri Lefebvre and education Open
Feminists have a long history of engaging and recalibrating theory to further the project of gender justice, even in instances when original conceptualizations have marginalized or overlooked the centrality of gender to inequitable social …
Educational epistemologies and methods in a more-than-human world Open
This Special Issue asks what can be done in terrains of education and educational research beyond the fantasy of human control. This question presents a repertoire of complex issues. Many of us, ourselves as guest editors included, will no…
Configurations of Gender, Class and Rurality in Resource Affected Rural Australia Open
This chapter attends to the criticisms that have been levelled at the literature on rurality, change and class by examining the influence of gender in changing class compositions and identities in the rural and exploring differences within…
Transformations of Class and Gender in the Globalized Countryside: An Introduction Open
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book addresses how regimes of gender and class intersect, change and ramify in the context of rurality. Martin Phillips who c…
Visual Research Methods in Educational Research Open
This chapter seeks to problematise some of our assumptions about visual methods and their role in \nrelation to participatory design and ethics in educational research. We make use of abductive \nreasoning (Peirce, 1878; 1903) to explore t…