Articles

Blogger wants to create global cultural diversity blognet

Written by Administrator Thursday, 02 September 2010 09:05

My name is Pedro Oliveira and I am a Portuguese psychologist with a PhD in anthropology completed at Brunel University: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sss/research/centres/cfar/students. I am currently trying to start a network of Bloggers around personal experiences and narratives of cultural diversity. The project is called Chains of Difference and you will find all the information you need in here: http://neuroanthropology.net/2010/06/25/chains-of-difference/. In my blog, you will find a description of my current post-doctoral in anthropology and the project of international bloggers network I am trying to create, called 'chain-blogging'. A summary of it can be found in her.

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ABS Social Trends June 30 report on Population: true grit!

Written by Administrator Saturday, 24 July 2010 14:00

Background document on Population released by ABS
POPULATION GROWTH: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
4102.0 - Australian Social Trends, Jun 2010   rel.  30 June 2010
INTRODUCTION
According to preliminary estimates, Australia's population passed 22 million people by the end of September 2009. The latest one million people were added to the population in less than 2 ½ years, which is one year less than the time taken for the previous million to be added, and almost two years less than the time taken to add the million before that. The recent pace of population growth has resulted in renewed discussion about the role of immigration, and the future size of the population.

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Nikos Papastergiadis – Global flows and hybrid art in the age of siege

Written by Administrator Wednesday, 09 June 2010 07:55

In response to the global refugee crisis, the ‘war on terror’ and rising neo-nationalism, contemporary artists are employing strategies that oppose the border politics of exclusion, challenge the mainstream political discourse, offer alternative perspectives on cultural identity and initiate a new ethical quest for community…

Today, the movement of ideas, capital and people is faster and wilder than at any point in history. Contemporary global flows are multi-directional, leaping across well-worn paths and weaving complex new patterns. In this age of mobility, no culture can exist in isolation. However, as nation-states welcome the advances of capital and new technology, paradoxically, they are fortifying their borders against migrants. Since September 11, the general fear of the unknown has itself become more mobile, and has spawned its own ‘monsters’: terrorists in our midst and refugees on the move
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Petro Georgiou: it's war without blood

Written by Administrator Monday, 07 June 2010 08:23

Petro Georgiou's  speech to Cranala in Melbourne, 14 April 2010, captures his sensibility, insight and passions.

I very much appreciate the opportunity to be here today to discuss principles and refugees. Kate has given me some good advice. She has guided me, gently, away from Machiavelli’s “The Prince” and Max Weber’s ethics of responsibility and ultimate ends.

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Sixty Minutes unwraps population debate as fears grow about finding parking!

Written by Administrator Monday, 26 April 2010 14:00

Sixty Minutes has foregrounded the population debate in a story that starts from trying to find a parking space when Australia has 40 million people. Key comments come from demographer Bernard Salt (who favours more people but has a fear of heights and would not go well living on the top floor of 50 storey buildings), rock muso Damien Leith an immigrant who likes the idea of more young people,  Dick Smith (and his silent co-conspirator Bob Carr) who wants a much smaller population, and Camden's Kate McCulloch who sprang to fame as the leader of the anti-Muslim school faction in Sydney's south west. Yes, you're right, no one who is not White and Anglo got a look in to this debate on Australia's future.... 

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