Melbourne Journal of Politics articles from January 1 1997

Melbourne Journal of Politics archives from January 1 1997

FEMINISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND IDENTITY POLITICS: AN INTERVIEW WITH JANE FLAX.(Interview)
January 1, 1997... MJP: Where did you do your undergraduate study and your dissertation:? Jane Flax: I did my undergraduate study at Berkeley, I graduated in 1969. Then I went to Yale and did my graduate work. I got my PhD in 1974 Both degrees were in...

TRAVELLING WITH LINGIS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALPHONSO LINGIS.(Interview)
January 1, 1997... Introduction Alphonso Lingis is currently professor of philosophy at Penn State University. Lingis was born of Lithuanian emigrant parents, he studied in Belgium and continues to travel extensively throughout the world. His early...

RESEARCH AND ITS DISCONTENTS.
January 1, 1997... N.B: I have sought to use the standard format for `scientific' papers in order to demonstrate the difficulties of doing social `science'. Objective: To determine whether the new self-conscious `gay' groups in Southeast Asia (and by...

PREFACING RESEARCH ON THE GLOBAL GAY.(response to article by Dennis Altman in this issue, p. 41)
January 1, 1997... Dennis Altman's paper "Research and its Discontents" aims to raise methodological issues that would accompany any investigation into the modalities of homosexuality in Southeast Asia. The central empirical question it raises is the extent to...

COMMENT ON "RESEARCH AND ITS DISCONTENTS".(response to article by Dennis Altman in this issue, p. 41)
January 1, 1997... This short piece exploring the development of versions of homosexualities in Southeast Asia throws light on a number of key issues about research both into this issue and into research more generally in the region. A central point coming out of...

ONTOLOGY AGAINST PERFORMATIVITY.
January 1, 1997... Contemporary feminist debates over the meanings of gender lead time and again to a certain sense of trouble, as if the indeterminacy of gender might eventually culminate in the failure of feminism. Perhaps trouble need not carry such a negative...

SOWS ON HEAT AND DISORIENTED BOARS - STRAIGHT SEX FROM BALI TO MELBOURNE.
January 1, 1997... Sexual relationships between Balinese and tourists (turis) who visit Bali are common practice. Andrew Duff-Cooper posits that "non-locals on holiday enhance their time with sex".(1) Both the tourist and the local seek out the exotic in one...

ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITIES, ALTERNATIVES TO COMMUNITY(*).
January 1, 1997... Introduction: An Offering... And All the Angels of Heaven Besides A little tree stands in the meadow and many more nice little trees besides. A little leaf freezes in the frosty wind and many more lonely little leaves besides....

DRESSING UP A SELF: FASHION AND KRISTEVA'S "SUBJECT IN PROCESS".(Julia Kristeva)
January 1, 1997... Ways of thinking about people who dress fashionably usually start from assumptions about the symbolic content of the clothing in question or the agency of the person who wears it - often locating a lack of either. The feminist response to...

ECONOMIC RATIONALISM, THE CHURCHES AND THE POLITICS OF WELFARE.
January 1, 1997... For over a decade, economic rationalist ideas have been dominant in Australian society. Economic rationalists seek to undo the post-war Keynesian consensus on state intervention in the economy, a centralized arbitration system and high...

A day with Julia Kristeva: arts, ethics, philosophy, politics.
January 1, 1997... A day with Julia Kristeva: arts, ethics, philosophy, politics Tuesday July 9, 1996 Artspace, Woolloomooloo Presented by the Women's Research Centre at Macquarie University and the University of Western Sydney, Nepean, a day with Julia...

Dead Right
January 1, 1997... David Frum, Dead Right, (New York, Basic Books, 1995) For those wishing to understand the recent policy shifts undertaken during the American presidential campaign by the Republican nominee, Senator Bob Dole, David Frum's Dead Right is a...

Health policy: An introduction to process and power
January 1, 1997... Gill Walt, Health policy: An introduction to process arm power, (London, Zed Books, 1994) Perhaps the most surprising thing about this book, on first glance, is the lack of mention of the dominance of the medical profession. Neither the...

The People's Party - Victorian Labor and the Radical Tradition 1875-1914
January 1, 1997... Frank Bongiorno, The People's Party - Victorian Labor and the Radical Tradition 1875-1914, (Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1996) Early this year the Labor Party suffered two heavy electoral defeats in the Victorian State and Federal...

Something that happens to other people
January 1, 1997... Susan Feldman, Barbara Kamler & Ilana Snyder (eds) Something that happens to other people (Sydney, Random House Australia Pty Ltd, 1996) The cover describes this book as a collection of eight short stories about women's lived experience of...

Poverty Law and Social Change: The Story of Fitzroy Legal Service
January 1, 1997... John Chesterman, Poverty Law and Social Change: The Story of Fitzroy Legal Service, (Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1996) John Chesterman asks how broad social change [could] be brought about by pursuing the legal entitlements of...