Within contemporary feminism, common approaches to feminising the economy involve adding a sphere or sector attributing monetary value women's unpaid labour. Each of these is interested in creating an accurate representation real 'whole' economy. But representations are same lineage as mainstream economic conceptions; remains bounded entity that can be known by enumerating its parts. The 'adding on' and 'counting in' strategies employed feminists complete picture what needed produce social...

Writing is the foundation of academic practice, yet writing seldom explicitly taught. As a result many beginning (and experienced) academics struggle with and difficult emotions, particularly self-doubt, that stirs up. Yet it need not be like this. In this paper, strategies are discussed for attending to emotions writing, developing know-how stronger sense identity as writer. It argued addressing all three aspects writing—emotions, identity—helps demystify process helps novices on their...

Conventional approaches to development in areas that are experiencing economic decline invariably focus on business growth through interventions such as incentives, infrastructure and job readiness training. This paper reports a pilot project aimed at developing an alternative approach community the context of Latrobe Valley, Victoria, resource region has experienced downsizing privatisation its major employer, state-owned power industry. The was shaped by poststructuralist concern with...

Asset-based community development or and citizen-led (ABCD) is being used in a range of contexts. Some researchers have been quick to dismiss ABCD as part the neoliberal project an approach that perpetuates unequal power relations. This article uses diffracted analysis explore possibilities associated with well challenges. It focuses on application Philippines, Ethiopia South Africa, finds can reverse internalized powerlessness, strengthen opportunities for collective endeavours help build...

Given the current environmental crisis and prevalence of social justice concerns, there is no doubt that we need a different approach to how food produced, consumed distributed. While both academic popular accounts system often focus on violences exclusions created by export-oriented, high-input, industrial agriculture, many communities, practitioners academics what can has been done create support alternative initiatives. Food sovereignty movements in Majority Minority worlds, community...

In a world beset by the problems of climate change and growing socioeconomic inequality, industrial manufacturing has been implicated as key driver. this article we take seriously Roepke's call for geographic research to intervene in obvious ask can contribute different pathways forward? We reflect on how studies have shifted from positioning matter fact (with an emphasis exposing exploitative operations capitalist restructuring) concern (especially advanced economies experiencing apparent...

1. Details of clinical, radiological, biochemical and histological investigations a case metaphysial dysostosis are presented. 2. The patient was boy seven years, showed widespread lesions (involving long bones limbs, small hands feet, pelvis, clavicles, ribs) characterised by retardation growth ossification with masses partly calcified tissue in the metaphyses. 3. No clinical or evidence renal osteodystrophy found described. 4. Metaphysial is discussed relation to other chondrodystrophies.

Research is increasingly recognised as a generative and performative practice that contributes to shaping the world we come live in. Thus part of research "process" involves being explicit about worlds want our contribute reflecting on how concepts use might help or inhibit this agenda. This paper based commitment strengthening contributions grassroots renewable energy initiatives make climate changing world. However, detect potential these initiatives, familiar scale markets have be recast....

Across the globe, groups are experimenting with initiatives to create alternatives dominant food system. What role might research play in helping strengthen and multiply these initiatives? In this paper we discuss two projects Australia Philippines which have cultivated hybrid collectives of academic researchers, lay researchers various non-human others intention enacting community economies. We feature three critical interactions "hybrid collective method": gathering, brings together those...

For many of us, our relationship with clothing is a difficult affair. Andrew Brooks’ book complicates this by adding to the list concerns we might have. Perhaps are concerned...

Abstract There is widespread agreement that current climate change scenarios mean we have to how live on this planet. Yet our understandings of social and behavioural seem insufficient for the task at hand. In paper explore Bruno Latour's notion "learning be affected", argue idea bodily learning seems well-suited thinking about people can moved act in response human nonhuman world all around us. We also research prompt sharpen form embodied when it conducted a performative collective mode...

(1996). Throwing a Dishcloth into the Works: Troubling Theories of Domestic Labor. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 24-44.

Decision makers frequently use separate participatory activities to involve marginalised groups. This approach can generate valuable insights, but it has limitations. We discuss the benefits and limits through two examples involving young people, outline how be modified, thereby building citizens who are responsive other perspectives.

With continuing pressure to publish or perish, interventions such as writing groups are increasingly part of the academic landscape. In this paper, we discuss our group's experiment with collaborative writing, which came unstuck simmering concerns led a mutiny within group. The provided insights into tensions that inevitably present in and exercises but seldom written about. We explore these via autoethnography, drawing on published literature writing. revealed three key dynamics....

Abstract The term 'community' has re‐entered policy debates in recent times connection with new views on economic management and increasing concern about spatial disparities Australian society. In this paper we review current research communities interventions into community transformation as a way of outlining possible agenda.