Read this review of Sara Ahmed's latest book in the Counterpower edition of borderlands e-journal.
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Diversity has become a pervasive feature of university policy statements in Australia, the United Kingdom and other nations. But what does diversity do and how does it perform in terms of addressing inequality in a university?
Read this review of Sara Ahmed's latest book in the Counterpower edition of borderlands e-journal. Click here to read the full review. After viewing archival footage of Australian soldiers working in overseas war zones, I am apparently offered a cold beer to celebrate. Strange. What are we celebrating?
Read this opinion article in The Jakarta Post: General Cosgrove, beer and the ANZAC Day This paper explores the production and reproduction of a sacred-soliciting built environment in the Western Australian port town of Fremantle, drawing attention to temple iconography produced in the first century of European settlement and its preservation and reproduction at the hands of local and national heritage movements since the 1970s. I show how Fremantle’s High Street solicits a sense of the sacred in its visitors, operating in a similar fashion to temple complexes such as Sukuh in Java. If you can't access this article via the hyperlink below, you can view the article by clicking here.
The reference for this article is: Kerr, T ( 2012). ‘Reproducing temples in Fremantle.’ International Journal of Heritage Studies 18 (1) 629-645. A consortium of property developers set out to occupy 345 hectares of sea bed near Fremantle Port by claiming that their project, North Port Quay, would demonstrate that the community of Western Australia could ‘lead the world in sustainable development’. However, this legitimization strategy collapsed by late 2009 after the consortium’s proposed urbanism clashed with pre-existing imagining of Fremantle and environmental sustainability in a discourse of public concerns about the project. This paper describes attempts by the consortium to claim the environmental high ground and their discursive failure in public encounters in Fremantle.
This paper provides insight into how community imagining affects the negotiation of green urbanism. Click here to read the full article. The reference is: Kerr, T. (2011). ‘Negotiating green urbanism in imagined communities’ in the 10th Global Conference on Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship. Oxford, United Kingdom. A young Australian volunteer living in a Jakarta slum works diligently for an Indonesian NGO, faking a revolving loans scheme. A hard-drinking journalist attempts a rescue amid corrupt officials, compliant aid workers and obfuscation by Australian authorities. The pollution and poverty of Jakarta harbour love and respect despite the murder, mayhem and massacres of a receding New Order.
I wrote this novel while commuting, via a cafe, to the editorial office of The Jakarta Post in 1997. Thanks to Maskimedia it can be read on Kindle via Amazon: Playing the poor man. The novel explores whiteness and its exotic other without any theoretical support. Let me know if such an ignorant exploration works. Written for the Creative Margins conference, this paper described the creativity manifested in the conceptual systems of people engaged in public discussion of the environmental and social appropriateness of a property development concept known as North Port Quay in Fremantle, Western Australia.
Click here to read the complete paper. The reference is: Kerr, T (2009) ‘Negotiating green built environment at the margins’ in Creative Margins: the Tenth Annual Humanities Postgraduate Research Conference. Perth, Australia. The context through which green buildings are created is changing rapidly. It is no longer sufficient for green buildings to be functional while mitigating climate change and other ecological threats; they must now also account for the threat of a deep, lasting recession emanating from the world's largest economy.
Read the full article in FuturArc: NOT WASTING THIS RECESSION This paper provides an analysis of sustainability discourses in the building industry and the ecological modernist storyline of 'green building'. It describes the application of Maarten Hajer’s discourse analysis methods to representations by industry professionals and academics at a series of conferences on sustainable built environments held in Australia, Singapore and Vietnam. The research findings describe how policies are produced and legitimized through nationally-contextualised sustainability discourses; and the findings indicate constraints in the production of policies for mitigating global ecological threats from industrialization.
Click here to read the full article. This is the reference: Kerr, T (2008) ‘Sustainability discourse, place and the green building’ in Engaging place(s)/engaging culture(s): the Ninth Annual Humanities Postgraduate Research Conference. Perth, Australia |
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