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Young people and environmental affordances in urban sustainable development: insights into transport and green and public space in seven cities
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020)Background Cities are at the fore of sustainability challenges of the twenty-first century, and many, particularly in Asia and Africa, are predominantly youthful spaces. Understanding young people’s experiences in urban ... -
“It’s about the most needy children”: A Foucauldian analysis of school social workers’ responses to need in post-earthquake Canterbury
(2020)INTRODUCTION: After the 2011 Canterbury earthquake, the provision of school social work was extended into a larger number of schools in the greater Christchurch region to support discussions of their practice priorities ... -
Defence Diplomacy: Battling for the Heart of the Pacific
(2020)As the Pacific region has become more strategically contested, regional powers have intensified their use of defence diplomacy. As a result, the number and scale of military Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief ... -
Was 2016 a Realigning Election in Taiwan?
(University of California Press, 2020)<jats:p>The January 2016 presidential and legislative elections in Taiwan produced a dramatic and unprecedented victory for the Democratic Progressive Party over its long-time rival, the Kuomintang. The party had never had ... -
Safety in Numbers: Taiwan in a post-Trump World
(Taiwan Studies Programme, University of Nottingham, 2020)It is important to be reminded that US-Taiwan relations is built on the foundation of an American law – the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 (TRA). This is a unique law as it defines the United States’ multifaceted comm ... -
Integrated social protection, inequity and COVID-19: rethinking Pacific community responses in Aotearoa
(Informa UK Limited, 2021)COVID-19 has forced us to think critically about alternative global and local response strategies to the unprecedented devastation. Some of the most infected groups are Pacific communities and this has raised concern about ... -
Bilateral relations in the Western Balkans as a challenge for EU accession
(2021)Although the European Union pledges to ‘maintain [and reaffirm] the credible enlargement perspective for the Western Balkans,’ (European Commission, 2018), some of the new requirements which it demands the Western Balkan ... -
A pacifist ethos for the Responsibility to Protect: detaching prevention from intervention
(2017)The Responsibility to Protect (R2P), as a project intended to avert or end mass atrocities, incorporates both preventative and interventionist dimensions. This article begins with an overview of the place of prevention ... -
Ethnic media and multi-dimensional identity: Pacific audiences’ connections with Māori media
(2020)This study explores issues of identity, hybridity and media in an Aotearoa/New Zealand context by analysing Pacific audiences’ affinity for and use of Indigenous Māori media. It makes the case for broadening ethnic ... -
Why Humanitarianism Needs a Pacifist Ethos
(2020)Debates concerning the relationship between humanitarianism and the use of force are by no means a new phenomenon, yet humanitarian rationales for waging war have become more and more commonplace over recent decades. The ... -
On Tenuous Grounds
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Ethics of scholarship
(Informa UK Limited, 2017)I would like to express a preference for an ethics of scholarship that at least partially silences the conservative, constraining voices of convention and allows for a flourishing of creativity and honesty in scholarly ... -
Peace without perfection: The intersections of realist and pacifist thought
(SAGE Publications, 2017)In an attempt to destabilise and reconfigure this conventional spectrum of views on the morality of war, this paper will propose that the realist view ‘that it is wrong or impossible to think morally about war’ potentially ... -
Anarchy, pacifism and realism: building a path to a non-violent international law
(Informa UK Limited, 2017)In anarcho-pacifist thought it is argued that a consistent pacifism could only accord with anarchism, as the establishment and enforcement of any sovereign legal order necessitates the use of violence that is anathema to ... -
A sustainable campus: The Sydney Declaration on interspecies sustainability
(2016)Under the remit of an expanded definition of sustainability – one that acknowledges animal agriculture as a key carbon intensive industry, and one that includes interspecies ethics as an integral part of social justice ... -
The Cow Project: Analytical and Representational Dilemmas of Dairy Farmers’ Conceptions of Cruelty and Kindness
(University of Wollongong Library, 2019)This paper explores different conceptions of cruelty and kindness as they relate to the Australian dairy industry. Findings are drawn from the Dairy Farming Wellbeing Project: 2017- 18, which we affectionately call The ... -
‘Journalism Alongside’: A reflection on teaching journalism through community-engagement
(2020)This paper reflects on a service-learning public journalism project in which postgraduate journalism students have explored ways to engage with and report alongside diverse communities. The project’s aim has been to ... -
The politics of artisanal and small-scale mining in Mongolia
(Informa UK Limited, 2016)Large-scale mining has become the cornerstone of Mongolia’s development and poverty reduction narrative. Building on political economy insights, this paper explores the politics of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in ... -
Neoliberal reform, contestation and relations of power in mining: Observations from Guinea and Mongolia
(Elsevier BV, 2019)© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Drawing on contributions from heterodox international political economy, this paper uses the notions of structural power and modes of governance to analyze the conditions that help explain emerging ...