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Woldeyes. This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, p... more Woldeyes. This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, provided that the author and journal are properly cited and no fee is charged, in accordance with our Creative Commons Licence.

Angelaki, 2022

Abstract Bearing witness is complex, and haunted by the past and the present. It takes place thro... more Abstract Bearing witness is complex, and haunted by the past and the present. It takes place through and within a web of power relations attested by truth telling. This essay suggests that ghosts have the capacity to bear witness beyond the human in the disoriented world of the ganzfeld, presented here in the imbricated histories of Christmas Island. Ghosts offer non-human agency to the living. Their testimonies are reclamations of the world. We argue that spectral witnessing involves notions of calling to account, unblinking attention to what is, becoming aware of other realities that are present and the echoes of others (human and non-human) absent through their disappearance and excision from history or exclusion to the margins of society. These others include people seeking asylum, indentured labourers and their descendants, artists, and the living world.

Global Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage, 2017

The focus of this chapter is on the institutional and state responses and reactions to issues of ... more The focus of this chapter is on the institutional and state responses and reactions to issues of same-sex marriage and analytics of the relationship between state, civil society institutions, and international humanitarian organizations in two neighboring countries in Southeast Asia: Singapore and Indonesia. Each country has specific colonial histories, ethnic, religious, social, and cultural conditions and explicitly shows the negotiations of the social-cultural boundaries formed around non-normative genders and sexualities, particularly after the institutionalization of same-sex marriage.

Activating Cultural and Social Change, 2021

He earned his PhD from the College of Arts of the University of Western Sydney in 2011 and his MA... more He earned his PhD from the College of Arts of the University of Western Sydney in 2011 and his MA from the Graduate School of Comparative Social and Cultural Studies of Kyushu University in 2005. Both empirically and theoretically, he investigates the ways in which the Japanese family is being reconstructed in the process of contemporary globalization through the experience of Asian modernity. His recent research interests include the transformation of the perception of the contemporary Japanese family by taking into consideration modern issues related to family disputes about shared parenting in the separated family after divorce. Publications include the 2014 article "Japanese women marriage migrants: situating self between ethnicity and femininity in Australia" in Asia and

International education journal, 2018

This article tackles specific issues that arise in teaching human rights in a Western academic in... more This article tackles specific issues that arise in teaching human rights in a Western academic institution. As critical human rights scholars, we are concerned with a pedagogy of human rights that gives respect to cultural diversity and the cross-cultural applicability of concepts and social issues in ways that are not antithetical to the purpose of human rights itself. In the Australian context where we are located both as human rights educators and immigrants, our approach depends on giving critical attention to questions of colonialism and its aftermath; to how contemporary human rights are understood across diverse cultures and subjectivities; and how to enable decolonizing methodologies to ensure an ethical exchange and negotiation of human rights learning and teaching in a higher education context. This approach is significant since contemporary Australia is an immigrant nation, a settler colonial society that is located in the South and yet problematically dominated by ontolo...

Activating Human Rights and Peace, 2016

... Authors. Bee Chen Goh, School of Law & Justice (L&JDep) Robert (Baden... more ... Authors. Bee Chen Goh, School of Law & Justice (L&JDep) Robert (Baden) Offord, School of Arts & Social Sciences (SASSDep) Robert George (Rob) Garbutt, School of Arts & Social Sciences (SASSDep). Peer-Reviewed. ERA Review Only. Share. COinS. Follow. ...

Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 2019

In response to Australian policies that impose punitive barriers to resettlement on many people s... more In response to Australian policies that impose punitive barriers to resettlement on many people seeking asylum, a range of civil society groups have initiated acts of welcome and inclusion, including some within universities. Denied permanent protection even when found to be a refugee, people who arrived from 13 August 2012 are forced to remain in limbo and many are effectively excluded from accessing higher education. A collective of people seeking asylum, academics, students and community members in Perth, Western Australia, has responded by working together on higher education projects that seek to open up the university to people seeking asylum. In this article, members of the collective critically reflect on these projects and their involvement. Its key aim is to demonstrate the importance of lived experience and collaboration in developing and enabling higher education possibilities for refugees and asylum seekers.

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016

Australia has had a long, and at times tumultuous, relationship with our nearest neighbour, Papua... more Australia has had a long, and at times tumultuous, relationship with our nearest neighbour, Papua New Guinea. This relationship took a twist in late 2012, with the re-opening of the off-shore processing centre on Manus Island, and again in February 2014, when Iranian asylum seeker Reza Berati was murdered by locals during a violent disturbance at the centre. The latest test of the strength and endurance of the relationship between PNG and Australia came in April 2016, when the PNG Supreme Court ruled that the detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island breached the right to personal liberty in the PNG constitution. This article provides much-needed insight into the human rights situation in PNG, and makes recommendations regarding the prospect of resettling refugees in that country.

Continuum, 2012

This paper reflects on the conceptual framework of the CSAA 2010 conference, which was focused on... more This paper reflects on the conceptual framework of the CSAA 2010 conference, which was focused on the theme of ‘a scholarly affair.’ The argument posed is that cultural studies scholars have an ongoing concern for the difficulties, complexities, challenges, limitations as well as critical, creative and clarifying possibilities bound up in the very institutional and everyday contexts of knowledge and

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Cultural Studies Review, 2019

Angelaki, 2017

This essay explores our nuclear entanglement through culture and the environment. It does so thro... more This essay explores our nuclear entanglement through culture and the environment. It does so through a quilted self-reflexive narrative. The narrator is positioned as a critical human rights activist, and follows the subjective, imaginative and suicidal implications of the nuclear in their life. A key argument is that we are living within the confines of the nuclear algorithm, which has wrought irreversible changes to the psychological, social, and ethical life of Homo sapiens within the Anthropocene. The essay calls attention to the tools of conviviality and love required for co-existence and co-survival beyond our nuclear entanglement.

Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy

This book is timely and important. After a decade or more of Asian studies texts that explain wha... more This book is timely and important. After a decade or more of Asian studies texts that explain what Asia is or is not, and which frame their analyses on the interface between sameness and di fference, this work attempts to engage in understanding contemporary Asian societies and cultures by exploring the enmeshment of Asian cultural politics with the global. David Birch, Tony Schirato and Sanjay Srivastava position the book at the outset with an interrogation of the idea of Asia. Rather than asking what Asia is, they dr~w on recent cultural studies perspectives that ask instead what Asia means. In this way, the authors pursue a critical communication investigative stance, analysing the mechanics of how 'Asia' is articulated, represented, performed, resisted, invoked, advertised, negotiated, illustrated and constructed through the confluence of a number of features. The book is thus concerned with what .Asia' means in the wake of modernity, postmodernity and postcoloniality, seeking to understand Asia through new discussions that consider the ongoing impact of the colonial project and globalisation in a nuanced way. The book's theoretical nourishment derives from a fresh calibration of Edward Said's Orientalism. The overwhelming theme of the impact of colonialism and its aftermath is discussed through the imagining and construction of'Asia' in contemporary media and in the cultural, social and political expressions of identity an.d belonging. What sharpens the analysis is the focus on the interpenetrating and intertwining problematics of gender and sexuality, religion, modernity, globalisation, the public sphere, ethnicity, diaspora and the information age. An odd and notable omission in the book, however, is the absence of any substantial discussion of human rights, which is salient given their global currency as a moral map through the last 54 years, and which have produced a fault-line of discourses concerning cultural values in Asia. Asia: Cultural Politics in the Global Age does offer a much-needed reflection on the way in which Asian studies has been impacted by cultural studies methodology. The book provides valuable tools for understanding the efficacy of cultural literacy. for example -·a specific strength brought by Tony Schirato's expertise in this area. The examination of diaspora and an Asia without borders brings to the foreground a notion of the postmodern moment as character-ised by the local and global being awash with otherness. Overall, this book will be a very useful text for students of media and cultural studies. It provides a coherent, well laid-out

Join My Mailing List. Baden Offord. Southern Cross University. Associate Professor, School of Art... more Join My Mailing List. Baden Offord. Southern Cross University. Associate Professor, School of Arts & Social Sciences; Contact Information. ... Bookmark. Conference Publications «Previous Next». Freedom of/from culture. Baden Offord, Southern Cross University. Suggested Citation ...

Join My Mailing List. Baden Offord. Southern Cross University. Associate Professor, School of Art... more Join My Mailing List. Baden Offord. Southern Cross University. Associate Professor, School of Arts & Social Sciences; Contact Information. ... Conference Publications «Previous Next». Creativity, place and growth. Baden Offord, Southern Cross University. Suggested Citation. ...

Since the 1973 Aquarius festival in Nimbin, The Rainbow Region has been home and host to a range ... more Since the 1973 Aquarius festival in Nimbin, The Rainbow Region has been home and host to a range of cultures, traditions and lifestyles. This diversity presents an ongoing challenge for natives and new settlers in understanding their place within its social and natural ...

Pacific and American Studies, 2012

Australian Studies, 2007

Join My Mailing List. Baden Offord. Southern Cross University. ... RSS Feed. Print this page. Boo... more Join My Mailing List. Baden Offord. Southern Cross University. ... RSS Feed. Print this page. Bookmark. Journal articles «Previous Next». Teaching Australia: investigating the ethics of cultural encounters. Baden Offord, Southern Cross University Robert Kostevc. Suggested Citation. ...

Forum Centre For Citizenship and Human Rights, 1998

Join My Mailing List. Baden Offord. Southern Cross University. Associate Professor, School of Art... more Join My Mailing List. Baden Offord. Southern Cross University. Associate Professor, School of Arts & Social Sciences; Contact Information. ... Bookmark. Journal articles «Previous Next». Australia/Asia Citizenship. Baden Offord, Southern Cross University. Suggested Citation. ...

Woldeyes. This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, p... more Woldeyes. This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, provided that the author and journal are properly cited and no fee is charged, in accordance with our Creative Commons Licence.

Angelaki, 2022

Abstract Bearing witness is complex, and haunted by the past and the present. It takes place thro... more Abstract Bearing witness is complex, and haunted by the past and the present. It takes place through and within a web of power relations attested by truth telling. This essay suggests that ghosts have the capacity to bear witness beyond the human in the disoriented world of the ganzfeld, presented here in the imbricated histories of Christmas Island. Ghosts offer non-human agency to the living. Their testimonies are reclamations of the world. We argue that spectral witnessing involves notions of calling to account, unblinking attention to what is, becoming aware of other realities that are present and the echoes of others (human and non-human) absent through their disappearance and excision from history or exclusion to the margins of society. These others include people seeking asylum, indentured labourers and their descendants, artists, and the living world.

Global Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage, 2017

The focus of this chapter is on the institutional and state responses and reactions to issues of ... more The focus of this chapter is on the institutional and state responses and reactions to issues of same-sex marriage and analytics of the relationship between state, civil society institutions, and international humanitarian organizations in two neighboring countries in Southeast Asia: Singapore and Indonesia. Each country has specific colonial histories, ethnic, religious, social, and cultural conditions and explicitly shows the negotiations of the social-cultural boundaries formed around non-normative genders and sexualities, particularly after the institutionalization of same-sex marriage.

Activating Cultural and Social Change, 2021

He earned his PhD from the College of Arts of the University of Western Sydney in 2011 and his MA... more He earned his PhD from the College of Arts of the University of Western Sydney in 2011 and his MA from the Graduate School of Comparative Social and Cultural Studies of Kyushu University in 2005. Both empirically and theoretically, he investigates the ways in which the Japanese family is being reconstructed in the process of contemporary globalization through the experience of Asian modernity. His recent research interests include the transformation of the perception of the contemporary Japanese family by taking into consideration modern issues related to family disputes about shared parenting in the separated family after divorce. Publications include the 2014 article "Japanese women marriage migrants: situating self between ethnicity and femininity in Australia" in Asia and

International education journal, 2018

This article tackles specific issues that arise in teaching human rights in a Western academic in... more This article tackles specific issues that arise in teaching human rights in a Western academic institution. As critical human rights scholars, we are concerned with a pedagogy of human rights that gives respect to cultural diversity and the cross-cultural applicability of concepts and social issues in ways that are not antithetical to the purpose of human rights itself. In the Australian context where we are located both as human rights educators and immigrants, our approach depends on giving critical attention to questions of colonialism and its aftermath; to how contemporary human rights are understood across diverse cultures and subjectivities; and how to enable decolonizing methodologies to ensure an ethical exchange and negotiation of human rights learning and teaching in a higher education context. This approach is significant since contemporary Australia is an immigrant nation, a settler colonial society that is located in the South and yet problematically dominated by ontolo...

Activating Human Rights and Peace, 2016

... Authors. Bee Chen Goh, School of Law & Justice (L&JDep) Robert (Baden... more ... Authors. Bee Chen Goh, School of Law & Justice (L&JDep) Robert (Baden) Offord, School of Arts & Social Sciences (SASSDep) Robert George (Rob) Garbutt, School of Arts & Social Sciences (SASSDep). Peer-Reviewed. ERA Review Only. Share. COinS. Follow. ...

Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 2019

In response to Australian policies that impose punitive barriers to resettlement on many people s... more In response to Australian policies that impose punitive barriers to resettlement on many people seeking asylum, a range of civil society groups have initiated acts of welcome and inclusion, including some within universities. Denied permanent protection even when found to be a refugee, people who arrived from 13 August 2012 are forced to remain in limbo and many are effectively excluded from accessing higher education. A collective of people seeking asylum, academics, students and community members in Perth, Western Australia, has responded by working together on higher education projects that seek to open up the university to people seeking asylum. In this article, members of the collective critically reflect on these projects and their involvement. Its key aim is to demonstrate the importance of lived experience and collaboration in developing and enabling higher education possibilities for refugees and asylum seekers.

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016

Australia has had a long, and at times tumultuous, relationship with our nearest neighbour, Papua... more Australia has had a long, and at times tumultuous, relationship with our nearest neighbour, Papua New Guinea. This relationship took a twist in late 2012, with the re-opening of the off-shore processing centre on Manus Island, and again in February 2014, when Iranian asylum seeker Reza Berati was murdered by locals during a violent disturbance at the centre. The latest test of the strength and endurance of the relationship between PNG and Australia came in April 2016, when the PNG Supreme Court ruled that the detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island breached the right to personal liberty in the PNG constitution. This article provides much-needed insight into the human rights situation in PNG, and makes recommendations regarding the prospect of resettling refugees in that country.

Continuum, 2012

This paper reflects on the conceptual framework of the CSAA 2010 conference, which was focused on... more This paper reflects on the conceptual framework of the CSAA 2010 conference, which was focused on the theme of ‘a scholarly affair.’ The argument posed is that cultural studies scholars have an ongoing concern for the difficulties, complexities, challenges, limitations as well as critical, creative and clarifying possibilities bound up in the very institutional and everyday contexts of knowledge and

Skip to main content: ...

Cultural Studies Review, 2019

Angelaki, 2017

This essay explores our nuclear entanglement through culture and the environment. It does so thro... more This essay explores our nuclear entanglement through culture and the environment. It does so through a quilted self-reflexive narrative. The narrator is positioned as a critical human rights activist, and follows the subjective, imaginative and suicidal implications of the nuclear in their life. A key argument is that we are living within the confines of the nuclear algorithm, which has wrought irreversible changes to the psychological, social, and ethical life of Homo sapiens within the Anthropocene. The essay calls attention to the tools of conviviality and love required for co-existence and co-survival beyond our nuclear entanglement.

Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy

This book is timely and important. After a decade or more of Asian studies texts that explain wha... more This book is timely and important. After a decade or more of Asian studies texts that explain what Asia is or is not, and which frame their analyses on the interface between sameness and di fference, this work attempts to engage in understanding contemporary Asian societies and cultures by exploring the enmeshment of Asian cultural politics with the global. David Birch, Tony Schirato and Sanjay Srivastava position the book at the outset with an interrogation of the idea of Asia. Rather than asking what Asia is, they dr~w on recent cultural studies perspectives that ask instead what Asia means. In this way, the authors pursue a critical communication investigative stance, analysing the mechanics of how 'Asia' is articulated, represented, performed, resisted, invoked, advertised, negotiated, illustrated and constructed through the confluence of a number of features. The book is thus concerned with what .Asia' means in the wake of modernity, postmodernity and postcoloniality, seeking to understand Asia through new discussions that consider the ongoing impact of the colonial project and globalisation in a nuanced way. The book's theoretical nourishment derives from a fresh calibration of Edward Said's Orientalism. The overwhelming theme of the impact of colonialism and its aftermath is discussed through the imagining and construction of'Asia' in contemporary media and in the cultural, social and political expressions of identity an.d belonging. What sharpens the analysis is the focus on the interpenetrating and intertwining problematics of gender and sexuality, religion, modernity, globalisation, the public sphere, ethnicity, diaspora and the information age. An odd and notable omission in the book, however, is the absence of any substantial discussion of human rights, which is salient given their global currency as a moral map through the last 54 years, and which have produced a fault-line of discourses concerning cultural values in Asia. Asia: Cultural Politics in the Global Age does offer a much-needed reflection on the way in which Asian studies has been impacted by cultural studies methodology. The book provides valuable tools for understanding the efficacy of cultural literacy. for example -·a specific strength brought by Tony Schirato's expertise in this area. The examination of diaspora and an Asia without borders brings to the foreground a notion of the postmodern moment as character-ised by the local and global being awash with otherness. Overall, this book will be a very useful text for students of media and cultural studies. It provides a coherent, well laid-out

Join My Mailing List. Baden Offord. Southern Cross University. Associate Professor, School of Art... more Join My Mailing List. Baden Offord. Southern Cross University. Associate Professor, School of Arts & Social Sciences; Contact Information. ... Bookmark. Conference Publications «Previous Next». Freedom of/from culture. Baden Offord, Southern Cross University. Suggested Citation ...

Join My Mailing List. Baden Offord. Southern Cross University. Associate Professor, School of Art... more Join My Mailing List. Baden Offord. Southern Cross University. Associate Professor, School of Arts & Social Sciences; Contact Information. ... Conference Publications «Previous Next». Creativity, place and growth. Baden Offord, Southern Cross University. Suggested Citation. ...

Since the 1973 Aquarius festival in Nimbin, The Rainbow Region has been home and host to a range ... more Since the 1973 Aquarius festival in Nimbin, The Rainbow Region has been home and host to a range of cultures, traditions and lifestyles. This diversity presents an ongoing challenge for natives and new settlers in understanding their place within its social and natural ...

Pacific and American Studies, 2012

Australian Studies, 2007

Join My Mailing List. Baden Offord. Southern Cross University. ... RSS Feed. Print this page. Boo... more Join My Mailing List. Baden Offord. Southern Cross University. ... RSS Feed. Print this page. Bookmark. Journal articles «Previous Next». Teaching Australia: investigating the ethics of cultural encounters. Baden Offord, Southern Cross University Robert Kostevc. Suggested Citation. ...

Forum Centre For Citizenship and Human Rights, 1998

Join My Mailing List. Baden Offord. Southern Cross University. Associate Professor, School of Art... more Join My Mailing List. Baden Offord. Southern Cross University. Associate Professor, School of Arts & Social Sciences; Contact Information. ... Bookmark. Journal articles «Previous Next». Australia/Asia Citizenship. Baden Offord, Southern Cross University. Suggested Citation. ...