Publications
Migrant Labour and Their “Capitalist Compatriots”: Towards a History of Ethnic Capitalism
Author/editor: Piperglou, Andonis
Year published: 2021
The relationship between migration and Australian capitalism has long been a topic of robust scholarly debate in sociology and economics. Researchers in those fields have highlighted how migration has left an indelible imprint on Australian capitalism. By contrast, Australian migration histories…
Social networks and digital organisation: Far right parties atthe 2019 Australian federal election
Author/editor: McSwiney, Jordan
Year published: 2021
This paper analyses the social media networks and content of fourAustralian parties, assessing their relationship to the far right atthe time of the 2019 Australian federal election. Using socialnetwork analysis, I map their relationship to a broader network offar-right actors in Australia on…
‘Dirty Dagoes’ Respond: a transnational history of a racial slur
Author/editor: Piperglou, Andonis
Year published: 2021
During the early twentieth century in the United States and Australia, Italian and Greek migrants, along with other people from the Mediterranean region, were often labelled as ‘dirty dagoes’. The term ‘dago’ was a derogatory and prejudicial racial slur that situated Italian and Greek migrants as…
Subversive control via punitive means?: The role of stigma and profit in Australia's cashless debit card policy
Author/editor: Stevens, Kristen
Year published: 2020
The cashless debit card is Australia's recent and most punitive form of income management; a social-security focused social policy approach to behaviour change. Evidence suggests the policy is a harmful social experiment which does not reduce the social harms or dysfunction it set out to perform.…
A systematic review of the relationship between religion and attitudes toward transgender and gender-variant people
Author/editor: Campbell, Marianne, Hinton, Jordan D. X. & Anderson, Joel R.
Year published: 2019
ABSTRACT Background: Prejudice against transgender people is widespread, yet in spite of the prevalence of this negativity relatively little is known about the antecedents and predictors of these attitudes. One factor that is commonly related to prejudice is religion, and this is especially true…
Afropolitan Projects: Music, Representation, and the Politics of Belonging in Australia
Author/editor: Bonnie B. McConnell
Year published: 2019
ABSTRACT Drawing on ethnographic research in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra (2016–2017), this article examines the way musicians articulate positive African-Australian identities in the face of political and media discourse that emphasizes African difference and criminality. I use the concept…
Out of the Depths: Understanding Post-War Jewish refugee migration through the First Holocaust Songbook
Author/editor: Boucher, Anna & Toltz, Joseph
Year published: 2019
Abstract: In the concentration camps and ghettos of Nazi-occupied Europe, Jews wrote songs to maintain a sense of dignity in the face of relentless dehumanisation, pass the time, and satirise the enemy. Mostly written in Yiddish, these songs often drew upon extant Jewish folk tunes but added new…
Religiosity, Integration and Sport: Muslim Women Playing Australian Rules Football
Author/editor: Cheng, Jennifer E.
Year published: 2019
ABSTRACT This article explores the phenomenon of practising Muslim women playing Australian Rules football (Aussie Rules). While Western liberal-democratic governments have considered Islamic religiosity to be contrary to Western liberal-democratic values and therefore detrimental to…
Respecting Toleration
Author/editor: Balint, Peter
Year published: 2019
The question of toleration matters more than ever. The politics of the twenty-first century is replete with both the successes and, all too often, the failures of toleration. Yet a growing number of thinkers and practitioners have argued against toleration. Some believe that liberal democracies are…
At Home and Not at Home: African Popular Music and Diasporic Heritage in Australia
Author/editor: McConnell, Bonnie B.
Year published: 2018