Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by publication year
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Cinéma Vérité? Australian Film, Young Lebanese-Australian Men, and the Performance of Identity
Published 2009-01-01Australian popular media has stereotyped young Lebanese-Australian men as ‘violent misogynists’; subsequently, young Lebanese-Australian men have been criminalised as the deviant ethnic ‘other’. Recently, however, a number ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Awakening the latent entrepreneur or fulfilling society’s responsibility: Individualisation of funding for support services for people with disability
Published 2009-01-01The push towards the individualisation of funding for support services for people with disability has been seen by many governments and disability rights advocacy groups as the obvious next step in recognition of rights ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Sorting Out Autism Spectrum Disorders: Evidence-Based Medicine and the Complexities of the Clinical Encounter
Published 2009-01-01Clinical decisions regarding the diagnosis and treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) are commonly based upon heterogeneous evidence and ‘expert opinion’. To date, research examining how paediatricians are using (or ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
A Generational Approach to Modelling Youth’s Engagement in Politics
Published 2009-01-01Youth in contemporary Anglo-Saxon democracies are less engaged in politics than their adult counterparts. To explain why, this study adopts a generational approach to modelling youth’s engagement in politics. Contemporary ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Do neo-liberal ideologies disadvantage those with mental illness within the Australian mental health care system?
Published 2009-01-01Within current academic literature pertaining to the social policy of mental health, there is a general acknowledgement that the mental health system utilised in Australia is inadequate. The history of the mental health ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Complementary Protection in Australia: Filling the Gap in the Protection of Asylum Seekers
Published 2009-07-21There is currently a gaping hole in the effective protection of asylum seekers in Australia. The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (hereinafter, the “Refugee Convention”) is the cornerstone document in ...Open AccessOther -
Sexual and Gender Rights and the United Nations Human Rights Framework: Towards a Resolution of the Debate?
Published 2009-08-03The UN Declaration on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, adopted on the 18th of December 2008, marked a milestone in UN history, formally placing the concerns of sexual and gender minorities on the General Assembly’s ...Open AccessOther -
“How cavemen did social media”: A comparative case study of social movement organisations using Twitter to mobilise on climate change
Published 2010-01-01In the face of widespread public disillusionment with traditional politics the internet is emerging as a popular tool for increasing public participation in social and political activism. Little research has been performed, ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Changing spaces, changing faces: The shifting behaviour, performativity and identification of gay and lesbian individuals between different social spaces
Published 2010-01-01This study seeks to uncover how different spaces influence the behaviour of gay and lesbian individuals. Due to the heteronormative structure which exists in many social spaces, it is important to consider how these ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Deliberation and the Norm of Participation
Published 2010-01-01Participation is a term that by its own nature reflects the desire to be a part of something that is greater than the individual experience. In modern societies, the desire to socialise is most often positioned within the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Neoliberalism as an Organising Principle for Society: Is There Really No Alernative?
Published 2010-01-01Neoliberalism is the dominant economic ideology in the world today. However, the Global Financial Crisis has undermined the logic of the neoliberal project. This research study will investigate the role of the Transnational ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Media Discourse and the “Truths” of Gender, Culture and Violence
Published 2010-01-01Indigenous Family Violence (IFV) became the subject of a highly politicised and mediatised debate during 2006 – 2007, culminating in the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act. This thesis investigates how the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Where there’s smoke, there’s more smoke: The social settings and friendship interactions that encourage young adults to smoke cigarettes
Published 2010-01-01Despite widespread public health campaigns in Western countries people continue to smoke cigarettes and more worryingly, young people continue to take up the habit. In this thesis it is argued that cigarette smoking practices ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The disintermediation of the furniture supply chain: Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs at the global-local nexus
Published 2010-01-01In the contemporary world-economy Chinese firms have significantly improved their positions within global supply chains. One way this has been achieved is through the disintermediation of supply chains, i.e. their evolution ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
FIGHTING FOR YOUR RITES: A STUDY OF RITUAL DYNAMICS IN JUDO
Published 2010-01-01Although rituals have been analysed across several perspectives, existing discussions offer limited interpretations of ritual behaviour. Rituals are commonly framed as conservative, static and homogenous processes that ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Adopting the RTI Act as a mechanism to fight corruption to promote effective aid delivery in India
Published 2011-01-06The Right to Information Act was enacted in 2005 in India in response to citizens’ demand for access to information and keenness to stem corruption in the public sphere. Freedom of information is a recognised fundamental ...Open AccessOther -
Refugee and Asylum Seeker Rights
Published 2011-12-09I will approach my analysis through the lens of new social movement theory and evaluate the role of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS) at the University of Sydney in this context, asking: How can CPACS ...Open Access -
To what extent does the securitisation of asylum seekers contribute to Australia’s failure to meet its relevant international human rights obligations?
Published 2011-12-09Open AccessArticle -
Targeting women as agents of (climate) change: a human rights based approach
Published 2012-01-20Open AccessArticle -
How can UNICEF Australia strenghten the use of images in fundraising and media campaigns to advance children's rights?
Published 2012-03-30This paper seeks to understand the key considerations for NGO's in using images effectively in fundraising and media campaignsOpen AccessArticle