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Item Open Access Protection Regimes(Cambridge University Press, 2022) Nettelbeck, A.; Cane, P.; Ford, L.; McMillan, M.The term ‘protection’ in Australia is closely associated with the practices and institutions of assimilation imposed upon Indigenous people through much of the twentieth century. These practices and institutions were backed by laws that granted state governments wide-ranging powers of control over Indigenous lives, purportedly for their own good. The multi-generational impacts of assimilative policies continue to resonate for Indigenous communities today. Yet apart from the legal regime of assimilation that defined Indigenous policy through the mid-twentieth century, protection has a longer and more complex history in Australia, as it does globally. This chapter traces Australia’s history of protection, from its nineteenth-century origins as a program designed to build Indigenous people’s status as British subjects, to its twentieth-century expressions as a legally-empowered system of state guardianship. While the history of protection is one of legal authority, it is also a history of Indigenous political action.Item Open Access From Humanitarianism to Humane Governance: Aboriginal Slavery and White Australia(Manchester University Press, 2022) Nettelbeck, A.; Damousi, J.; Burnard, T.; Lester, A.Humanitarianism and violence have traditionally been understood as polarised states, one serving as a mitigating response to the other. It is only recently that scholars have begun to align the two terms to consider how state-directed humanitarian interventions can be imbricated with conditions of violence. Similarly, recent work on humanitarianism’s imperial underpinnings has drawn out the ways that its appeals to values of universal humanity have been interwoven with the cultural, political or military violence of colonial state-building. This chapter builds on these themes to consider how humanitarian orientations in British imperial policy adapted to evolving expressions of colonial violence over the course of the nineteenth century as the key period of almost unbridled global expansion. Around the British world, the nineteenth century was notable for the range of humanitarian policy initiatives that were triggered by calls to protect those left most at risk of colonial violence or exploitation. But while the long-term objective of humanitarian policy was to check abuses and misuses of colonial power, the process of generating a culture of humane rule was often directly entangled with the enlistment and justification of violence.Item Open Access Psychedelic therapy for body dysmorphic disorder(Akademiai Kiado Zrt., 2022) Johnson, S.; Letheby, C.In this opinion piece we propose the investigation of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). BDD is a psychiatric disorder characterised by appearance-based preoccupations and accompanying compulsions. While safe and effective treatments for BDD exist, non-response and relapse rates remain high. Therefore, there is a need to investigate promising new treatment options for this highly debilitating condition. Preliminary evidence suggests safety, feasibility, and potential efficacy of psychedelic treatments in disorders that share similar psychopathological mechanisms with BDD. Drawing on this evidence, as well as on relevant qualitative reports and theoretical proposals, we argue that it would be worthwhile to conduct a phase 2a study aimed at assessing the safety and feasibility of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in BDD. We also offer some suggestions for how future research ought to proceed.Item Open Access Mobile Game Design and Ergonomics: a necessary combination(AHFE International, 2023) Machado De Andrade, W.; International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE) (20 Jul 2023 - 24 Jul 2023 : San Francisco, California, USA)Games for mobile phones constitute a fast-growing industry, with technologies and business models that explore their portability and facilitated access. The human factors on mobile playing did not follow such a development. With devices using touchscreens to control the game, usability ignored the ergonomics of holding and interacting with handheld narratives in opposition to video game console controllers. This article studies mobile gaming ergonomics to understand how playing with a handheld device changes body alignment, pondering whether game design can lead to or avoid postural injuries in the long term. While console and desktop computer gaming are likely to occur in controlled settings, mobile gaming can happen in varied places and situations. Some games demand players to hold their devices with a single hand, making it difficult to distribute the weight and adjust the grip. Playing while standing up may cause arm and wrist fatigue while gamers try to achieve better visualization. In addition, small onscreen content can also prompt neck stretching, altering the body’s axis. Even though the current literature reveals some concerns regarding video games and ergonomics, they commonly focus on the players but not on the game content. Thinking about the latter, is it possible to plan the game to reduce the risk of injuries when playing with a handheld device? As a first step toward a potential answer, the research investigates (1) the body risks when holding a smartphone; and (2) some distinct game features from other mobile operations that can aggravate potential injuries. The conclusions suggest some approaches to game design to reduce the risks in the long term, also attempting to make part of further discussions on ergonomics to make mobile gaming safer for the body.Item Metadata only Home Alone: Solitary Pleasures(Dr Georgina Downey, 2017) Downey, G.Item Metadata only À la mode In Hunters Hill(Blackmail Press, 2021) Speedy, K.; Carter, M.Item Open Access Majumbu ('Old Harry') and the Spencer-Cahill bark painting collection(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2023) Tacon, P.; Taylor, L.; May, S.; Goldhahn, J.; Jalandoni, A.; Ressel, A.; Mangiru, K.From 1912, British anthropologist W. Baldwin Spencer and buffalo-shooter Paddy Cahill collected 163 bark paintings made by artists who also painted in rock shelters in western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Spencer made detailed notes about the bark paintings, secret/sacred objects, and other material culture he collected and some rock art, as well as genealogies and other details of the Aboriginal people he encountered but did not record the names of the artists. In general, the names and life stories of the individuals who made most Aboriginal archaeological artefacts or ethnographic objects and paintings now in museums across the world are not known. We have recently begun to address this for western Arnhem Land contact period art and in this paper focus on an elder, Majumbu (‘Old Harry’), who made numerous rock paintings as well as at least eight of the Spencer-Cahill bark paintings. We use his work to begin a new interpretation of the importance of the Spencer-Cahill Collection in relation to land-based religion and show that knowing the names of the artists behind the collection, as well as related rock paintings, puts their work and the entire collection in new meaningful contexts.Item Restricted Style and substance: McCarthy versus Mountford and the emergence of an archaeology of rock art 1948–1960(ANU Press, 2022) Clarke, A.; May, S.; Frederick, U.K.; Johnston, I.G.; Tacon, P.S.C.; May, S.; Frederick, U.K.; McDonald, J.The Australian rock art research community is no stranger to epic battles between individuals with differing viewpoints on rock art. These disputes are not a new phenomenon, as this paper outlines. It is rare, however, for these arguments to reflect major shifts in the nature of rock art research and, more broadly, archaeological research. In this paper we present the story of two individuals – Frederick ‘Fred’ McCarthy and Charles ‘Monty’ Mountford – whose rock art research and ongoing debates and disputes over methodologies and interpretive frameworks represent a foundational turning point in the history of Australian rock art research. Spanning the 1940s to the 1960s, their documentation of rock art during the 1948 American–Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land and their subsequent arguments reflect both antiquarianism and innovation (Figure 2.1). Importantly, these debates reflect an attempt to introduce scholarly standards and recognisable archaeological methods into rock art research in Australia as well as early struggles to link the evidence from archaeological excavations and recordings of rock art.Item Metadata only Djimongurr (c. 1910-1969)(National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, 2022) Gumbuwa Maralngurra, J.; May, S.; Goldhahn, J.; Nolan, M.Item Open Access Picturing Nayombolmi: The most prolific known rock art artist in the world(Australian Rock Art Research Association, 2022) Goldhahn, J.; May, S.; Tacon, P.This article presents a broad overview of the life and artworks of Badmardi Aboriginal artist Nayombolmi (c. 1895–1967) from today’s Kakadu National Park, the Northern Territory in Australia. The article pictures his life through oral history, photographs and some of his many artworks in the form of rock paintings, beeswax figures and bark paintings. It touches on how Nayombolmi and his father used rock art as an educational medium in the intergenerational transmission of traditional lore and law. Nayombolmi made close to 800 rock art figures, justly earning him the epithet ‘the most prolific known rock art artist in the world’.Item Metadata only Karrikadjurren : Art, Community, and Identity in Western Arnhem Land(Routledge, 2022) MAY, S.K.Presenting a story of art and artists in Gunbalanya, western Arnhem Land between the years 2001 and 2005, this book explores the artistic community surrounding the primary place of art creation and sale in the region, Injalak Arts, an art centre established in the remote Aboriginal community of Gunbalanya. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches including archaeological analysis and material culture studies, anthropology, historical research, oral histories, and reflexive ethnography, the social context of art creation is explored. May argues that Injalak Arts as a place activates and draws together particular social groupings to form a sense of identity and community. It is the nature of this community, or "Karrikadjurren" in the local dialect, that is the primary focus of this book, with the artworks painted during this period providing unique insights into art, identity, community, and innovation. This book will be of most interest to those working in or studying archaeology, material culture studies, museum studies, anthropology, sociology, Aboriginal studies, art history, Australian studies, rock art, and development studies. More specifically, this book will appeal to scholars with an interest in the archaeology or anthropology of art, ethnoarchaeology, and the nature and politics of community archaeology.Item Open Access Introduction(ANU Press, 2022) Tacon, P.S.C.; May, S.; Frederick, U.K.; McDonald, J.; Blyth, M.; Tacon, P.S.C.; May, S.; Frederick, U.K.; McDonald, J.Item Open Access Histories of Australian Rock Art Research(ANU Press, 2022) Tacon, P.S.C.; May, S.; Frederick, U.K.; McDonald, J.Item Metadata only Crime and Justice in Australia(Hawkins Press, 1997) Mukherjee, S.K.; Graycar, A.Published with the Australian Institute of Criminology.This book gives a comprehensive picture of crime and the criminal justice system in Australia in the mid-1990s.Item Metadata only How Australians Live: Social Policy in Theory and Practice(Macmillan Australia, 1989)Item Metadata only How Australians Live: Social Policy in Theory and Practice(Macmillan Education, 1993) Graycar, A.; Jamrozik, A.The new edition of this title brings the examination of the theory and practice of the welfare state in Australia up to date with documentation of changes since the first edition in 1989.Item Open Access Meet your meat! How Australian livestock producers are using Instagram to promote 'happy meat'(University of Illinois Press, 2022) Buddle, E.A.; Contois, E.; Kish, Z.Item Open Access Anne-Louise Willoughby, Nora Heysen: A Portrait(German Association for Australian Studies. Gesellschaft für Australienstudien, 2020) Body, R.Item Metadata only Paddy Compass Namadbara and Baldwin Spencer: an artist's recollection of the first commissioned Aboriginal bark paintings in Oenpelli, 1912(Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 2022) Goldhahn, J.; Taylor, L.; Tacon, P.S.C.; May, S.; Maralngurra, G.This paper discusses the commencement of an Aboriginal art market focused on the production of bark paintings in Australia. It centres around Baldwin Spencer’s visit to Oenpelli, today known as Gunbalanya, in 1912. During his visit, Spencer commissioned the first collection of Aboriginal bark paintings from western Arnhem Land. This paper explores how this was perceived from an Indigenous perspective through an interview conducted more than 50 years ago with one of the artists who painted for Spencer, Paddy Compass Namadbara (c. 1891/92–1978), the first artist known to have contributed to the Spencer/Cahill Collection. The interview, conducted by Lance Bennett in 1967 and presented here for the first time in English, provides evidence for how Spencer and Patrick Cahill influenced the commissioned bark paintings by Namadbara and other artists. This new information is significant for understanding the early interactive shaping of what has become an important art market in the region.Item Open Access Developing a Reflexive, Anticipatory, and Deliberative Approach to Unanticipated Discoveries: Ethical Lessons from iBlastoids(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2021) Ankeny, R.; Munsie, M.; Leach, J.In this paper, we explore the recent creation of “iBlastoids,” which are 3-D structures that resemble early human embryos prior to implantation which formed via self-organization of reprogrammed adult skin cells. We explore some of the ethical, philosophical, social, and regulatory issues related to this research, with focus particularly on what it means to “anticipate” research outcomes when using novel methods or when serendipitous discoveries are made. We defend the need for reflexive, anticipatory, and deliberative ethical and conceptual work by researchers working in emerging and contentious research domains, in collaboration with interdisciplinary scholars, as well as regulators, funders, and publics.