http://hdl.handle.net/2123/765 2013-05-19T07:13:33Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9064 Title: Why are luxury car sales growing at record rates — in a recession? Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-05-03T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9063 Title: The Commodification of Patient Opinion: the Digital Patient Experience Economy in the Age of Big Data Authors: Lupton, Deborah Abstract: As part of the digital health phenomenon, a plethora of interactive digital platforms have been established in recent years to elicit lay people’s experiences of illness and healthcare. The function of these platforms, as expressed on the main pages of their websites, is to provide the tools and forums whereby patients and caregivers, and in some cases medical practitioners, can share their experiences with others, benefit from the support and knowledge of other contributors and contribute to large aggregated data archives as part of developing better medical treatments and services and conducting medical research. However what may not always be readily apparent to the users of these platforms are the growing commercial uses by many of the platforms’ owners of the archives of the data they contribute. This article examines this phenomenon of what I term ‘the digital patient experience economy’. In so doing I discuss such aspects as prosumption, the phenomena of big data and metric assemblages, the discourse and ethic of sharing and the commercialisation of affective labour via such platforms. I argue that via these online platforms patients’ opinions and experiences may be expressed in more diverse and accessible forums than ever before, but simultaneously they have become exploited in novel ways. 2013-05-04T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9061 Title: Exploding the debt threshold myth Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-04-26T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9059 Title: "The rich don't always win" - but they usually do Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9058 Title: The squeezed middle: the title says it all Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-04-10T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9042 Title: Inequality, greed, and the demise of our better natures Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-04-20T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9022 Title: 'The best thing for the baby': mothers' concepts and experiences related to promoting their infants' health and development Authors: Lupton, Deborah Abstract: Mothers and pregnant women in contemporary western societies are at the centre of a web of expert and lay discourses concerning the ways they should promote and protect the health and development of their foetuses and infants. This article reports the findings from an Australian study involving interviews with 60 mothers. The findings explore in detail four topics discussed in the interviews related to pregnancy and caring for young infants: disciplining the pregnant body; promoting infants’ health; immunisation; and promoting infants’ development. It is concluded that the mothers were highly aware of their responsibilities in protecting their foetuses and infants from harm and promoting their health and development. They conceptualised the infant body as highly vulnerable and requiring protection from contamination. They therefore generally supported the idea of vaccination as a way of protecting their babies’ immature immune systems, but were also often ambivalent about it. The mothers were aware of the judgemental attitudes of others, including other mothers, towards their caring efforts and attempted to conform to the ideal of the ‘good mother’. The emotional dimensions of caring for infants and protecting their health are discussed in relation to the voluntary participation of mothers in conforming to societal expectations. 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9021 Title: Fat Politics: Collected Writings Authors: Lupton, Deborah Abstract: This publication is a collection of short articles published by sociologist Deborah Lupton on her blog and The Conversation website dealing with topics relating to the politics of body weight. The articles include discussion of obesity and fat politics, fat activism, the Health at Every Size movement, fat stigma and discrimination, motherhood and children’s body weight, the use of disgust in anti-obesity campaigns and pro-ana websites. 2013-04-08T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9018 Title: Government exists to serve the people, not the privileged Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-04-04T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9010 Title: How inequality corrupts society Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-03-29T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9006 Title: How inequality is killing the dinosaurs Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-03-08T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9005 Title: The great Cyprus bank robbery Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-03-24T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8956 Title: Britain comes clean on slave fortunes Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-02-27T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8937 Title: The world order is changing, but not how you think Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-02-13T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8927 Title: The problem isn’t growth; the problem is inequality Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-02-10T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8912 Title: What's wrong with the "right to work"? Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-01-28T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8899 Title: To save Social Security, raise the minimum wage Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-01-22T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8867 Title: The debt ceiling gives the president enormous power – He should use it Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-01-12T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8866 Title: Who won in the fiscal cliff deal? Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-01-02T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8853 Title: On corporate taxes, Britain follows U.S. lead Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-12-28T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8852 Title: There is no American left Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-12-27T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8851 Title: Government keeps us rich Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-12-30T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8849 Title: The way to "save" Medicare is to expand it Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-12-29T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8848 Title: Gun ownership is a hobby, not a right Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8847 Title: Public companies should serve the public Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8811 Title: Entitlements are fundamental Human Rights, not political poker chips to be bargained away Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-12-05T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8802 Title: Conditionality, Recognition and Indigenous Housing Policy in Australia Authors: Habibis, Daphne; Memmott, Paul; Phillips, Rhonda; Moran, Mark Abstract: This paper draws on ideas of recognition and the intercultural as a way of examining the impact of welfare conditionality on Indigenous housing policy in Australia. The increased application of welfare conditionality has occurred in tandem with „mainstreaming‟ of housing management and provision, and regulation of Indigenous Community Organisations. (ICOs). These developments raise policy and practice questions about the effectiveness of such approaches in achieving desired housing outcomes because of questions about their alignment with Indigenous norms and values. The paper argues that the embedded nature of individuals in their social and cultural locations requires the development of policy paradigms that are adapted to these realities. The idea of a recognition space extends the idea of conditionality to one involving moral relationships of duty and care between the individual, Indigenous formal and informal governance structures and the state and its agents. This can be used to build a framework for the development of flexible and adaptive housing policies that are culturally respectful and address the differences in housing values between tenants and housing agencies. 2012-12-03T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8798 Title: Strange but true: Taxmageddon will help level the playing field for small businesses Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-11-28T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8794 Title: Beyond the 'affect heuristic': the emotion-risk assemblage Authors: Lupton, Deborah Abstract: Little sociological research, with the notable exception of that on edgework, has focused directly on the emotional dimensions of risk rationalities. This space has largely been occupied by cognitive psychological approaches, particularly the ‘affect heuristic’ model. In this model, emotion is singled out as separate from and often in opposition to cognition. Emotional responses to risk are positioned as irrational and potentially misleading because they are viewed as emerging from the body and not from the mind. In this paper I argue that the theorising of the emotional dimensions of risk must recognise their fluid, dynamic and often contradictory and ambivalent nature. I take a relativist approach to both risk and emotion, and contend that emotion configures risk and risk configures emotion, and that aspects such as embodiment and location in space and place are important in these configurations. I propose the concept of the ‘emotion-risk assemblage’ as a way of acknowledging the contingent, constantly changing and inextricable aspects of the emotion and risk relationship. This concept avoids the attempt to position emotion as either rational or irrational, contending instead that it may better be viewed as one form of thinking. 2012-11-27T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8792 Title: Children of a dying race: the development story and governing through race Authors: McCallum, David Abstract: Late 19th century interest in new ideas about governing children, combined with the category of race as a core element of state formation, led to new interventions around children’s rights and limits to children’s life trajectories. This paper surveys public representations of early 20th century understandings of the ‘Aboriginal problem’ and notions of a ‘dying race’, and argues that this intellectual production underpins bio-political powers over the management and even continuance of the life of the child. 2012-11-26T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8791 Title: Can Theory Disempower? Making Space for Agency in Theories of Indigenous Issues Authors: Petray, Theresa Abstract: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are often presented by the media and academics as marginalised, dispossessed, and downtrodden. Historical narratives and statistics are used to strengthen this position. While this historical and ongoing reality must be acknowledged in order for meaningful reconciliation to occur, it must not come at the expense of Indigenous agency. Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people exercise considerable control over their own circumstances. Activists and other advocates for Aboriginal rights exercise agency “as resistance”, demanding changes to current structures. Other people engage in agency “as project”, adopting different tactics to achieve their goals. These tactics are often productive – creating Aboriginal services, for example – but agency is sometimes expressed in more 'repugnant' ways, such as crime or riots, such as the event following the Palm Island death in custody in 2004. This paper argues that a sociology of Indigenous issues must incorporate agency to ensure that our theories do not deny Aboriginal people a voice. Aboriginal people have the ability to make changes and resist norms, and this should not be ignored in favour of structural causes of dysfunction. Drawing on the work of social movement theory, supplemented by Giddens, Ortner, Cowlishaw, and Scott, I explore the “two faces” of agency and suggest that research which privileges agency should be a key feature in a sociology of Indigenous issues. 2012-11-26T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8790 Title: Aboriginal Professionals: Work, Class, Culture Authors: Lahn, Julie Abstract: This paper considers the growth of Aboriginal professionals. While the predominant focus in Australian scholarship remains contexts of Aboriginal disadvantage, there is a steadily increasing number of Indigenous professionals in Australia among whom many reside in urban locales. The paper suggests that research involving Aboriginal professionals is needed to contribute to understanding occupational aspirations and social mobility as envisaged among Aboriginal people, in addition to providing a more complete picture of Aboriginal engagements with work. The paper also provides some initial reflection on recent public discussions among Indigenous people concerning notions of an emerging Aboriginal ‘middle class’. The variety of perspectives in relation to this idea and their implications within narratives of Aboriginal identity highlight the importance of research that seeks to theorise the place of culture in individual and intergenerational social mobility. 2012-11-26T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8789 Title: Using theory to ‘speak back’ to neoliberal performativity: the Northern Territory Intervention and the inventing of a neoliberal subject as a case in point Authors: Howard-Wagner, Deirdre Abstract: The paper reflects on the Northern Territory Intervention as a neoliberal regime governing the conduct of Australia’s Aboriginal population in the Northern Territory. In doing so, it only provides a critical commentary and is formative in its reflection, rather than providing an in-depth substantiation of the theoretical propositions put forward. It is divided into three parts. First, the paper reflects on the critical scholarship analysing the Northern Territory Intervention as a neoliberal phenomenon, discussing broadly the contributions of such theoretical accounts. Second, it adds to this scholarship, which aims to decolonise the discursive dimensions of neoliberal performativity, by briefly considering performativity in the context of failure and exposing the pernicious effects of neoliberal performativity, as well as engaging Aboriginal voices to invert failure. As such, its role is to continue the discussion about (and make a small contribution to this discussion of) how critical scholars are engaging with the theoretical tools of poststructuralism, postcolonialism, critical whiteness studies and a governmentality approach, for example, to ‘speak back’ to the Northern Territory Intervention as a neoliberal phenomenon. 2012-11-26T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8788 Title: Governing Indigenous Alterity: Towards A Sociology of Australian Indigenous Issues Authors: Watson, Virginia Abstract: In this paper I explore some of the ways in which the notion of liberal governmentality – the idea of governing through freedom – might usefully generate a specifically sociological insight into some of the ways in which Indigenous peoples are currently governed in the Australian context. It will be my argument that although much current research takes the development of Indigenous rights premised on the recognition of Indigenous difference as foundational to liberal governmentality there is a tendency, nonetheless, to continue to regard this mode of governing as continuous with earlier coercive, colonial forms of power. Drawing on some fieldwork I hope to show some of the (small ways) in which rights and freedoms rather than opposing power can in fact be said to be constitutive of new fields of (liberal governmental) power. 2012-11-26T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8787 Title: Want to help small businesses? Bring on Taxmageddon Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-11-23T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8786 Title: Three centuries of Russian development Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-11-20T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8784 Title: After the election, the "R" word: Reparations Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-12-21T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8756 Title: Class warfare in Greece Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-11-08T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8750 Title: The test of a presidency Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-11-06T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8746 Title: Political polling is no longer meaningful Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-10-31T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8745 Title: HOT lanes make my blood boil: Fast tracks for the rich on the rise Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-10-30T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8739 Title: Women’s wages can no longer rescue the American family Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-10-26T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8725 Title: America is even more unequal than it seems Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-10-22T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8723 Title: The Romneys don't make money; Their money makes money Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-10-19T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8693 Title: China at century’s end Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-10-09T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8692 Title: The world’s smallest shipwreck Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-10-08T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8687 Title: Romney versus realonomy: A peek inside the bubble Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-09-28T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8667 Title: New York Times' teacher pay comparisons are way out of line Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-09-17T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8666 Title: Income inequality undermines economic growth Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-09-17T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8664 Title: How to end hard times? Reduce inequality Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-09-13T00:00:00Z