School of Social and Political Sciences: Recent submissions
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'Country', 'community' and 'growth town': Three spatio-temporal snapshots of Warlpiri experiences of home
Published 2017-01-01The last 100 years have seen Warlpiri people experience drastic changes in ways of being in the world, from a hunting and gathering past, followed by violent frontier days and ensuing institutionalized sedentization in ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Alien Agendas: A Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories Across Western States
Published 2019-01-07Conspiracy theories have been a topic of interest among academic and non-academic literature for decades. As of recently, the political implications of public conspiracism has begun to be taken seriously. Political science ...Open AccessThesis -
The Facebook Formula: An experimental study into which electioneering strategies used over Facebook are most effective at influencing the Australian youth vote.
Published 2019-01-07Facebook is rapidly changing Australia’s political media landscape. Young voters’ growing reliance on Facebook for the consumption of political news has corresponded with politicians’ increasingly prudent use of social ...Open AccessThesis -
Cocaine crackdowns and criminal violence
Published 2019-01-07In the last decade, Colombia has seen improvement in the levels of violence and the stability of the state as a result of targeting illicit narcotics traffickers. In the same period, Mexico has seen an increase in violence ...Open AccessThesis -
Addressing the Impacts of Red Meat Consumption: Lessons from Australia’s Tobacco Control Regime
Published 2019-01-07In spite of the negative impacts red meat consumption is having on public health and the environment, the issue is largely absent from environmental politics literature. This thesis will address this gap by considering ...Open AccessThesis