The Australasian review of African studies, Jun 1, 2009
This special edition of the Australasian Review of African Studies on Zimbabwe comes at a time wh... more This special edition of the Australasian Review of African Studies on Zimbabwe comes at a time when we see a new coalition government forging ahead in an attempt to resolve Zimbabwe's ailing economy and failing state, and it will be well into the 100 day plan attempting to re-engage with the west and create renewal for the country. With Morgan Tsvangirai as Prime Minister and Robert Mugabe remaining as President the 'bonding' required to bring government together seems near impossible, let alone bringing the country back from the brink of disaster. They simply cannot fail if they can agree upon the task. This edition of ARAS has brought together a range of authors, perspectives and analyses on the history and politics of Zimbabwe in both local and global contexts.
Pharmaceutical Colonialism is the term used to describe the activities of some of the big pharmac... more Pharmaceutical Colonialism is the term used to describe the activities of some of the big pharmaceutical companies and their contract research organizations (CROs), that involves exploiting the sickness and poverty of citizens of weak and/or developing states. This is enabled because there is a failure or lack of ethical policies and rules within those states that are implemented and designed to protect against unethical clinical drug trials.
... Issue Date: 2006. Publisher: Africa World Press. Citation: Lyons, TJ & Pye, GM, 2006. Afr... more ... Issue Date: 2006. Publisher: Africa World Press. Citation: Lyons, TJ & Pye, GM, 2006. Africa on a global stage: an introduction. In Africa on a Global Stage. New Jersey, USA: Africa World Press, pp. 1-13. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2328/13080. ISBN: 159221388X. ...
Popular Youth Attitudes to Globalisation By Tanya Lyons and Matthew Tilling. Flinders University.... more Popular Youth Attitudes to Globalisation By Tanya Lyons and Matthew Tilling. Flinders University. “Globalisation ... restrictions. To a lesser extent the well informed students also agreed to some restrictions of foreign influences on Australian culture. ...
The Australasian review of African studies, Jun 1, 2017
This 38 th volume of the Australasian Review of African Studies is published at a time when Afric... more This 38 th volume of the Australasian Review of African Studies is published at a time when Africa has once again fallen off the map in terms of Australian foreign policy. Submissions to the Australian Foreign Policy White Paper have closed, and although we are yet to see the final report, a preliminary review of these submissions (from DFAT, 2017), which aim to inform and guide how Australia will engage with the rest of the world in the years ahead, clearly demonstrates a dearth of interest in Africa (although further research on these submissions is required). This is an unsurprising trend since 2008, the heyday of Stephen Smith's and Kevin Rudd's driving force behind Labor's re-engagement with Africa-documented most adequately by Mickler and Lyons (2013). However, this all came to a disappointing end with Tony Abbott's Liberal-Coalition electoral victory in 2013, resulting in the demise of Ausaid, and the effective end of the Australia-Africa Awards, which saw up to 1000 African scholars studying in Australia in 2013, among other Africa policies. Thus, there was a massive change of focus away from Africa and back to our nearer 'more important' regions. As to the Liberal's Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop, and her enjoyment of the spoils of Rudd's obsession-to win a 2 year seat (2013-15) on the United Nations Security Council (which justified his re-engagement with Africa, as it depended on their votes to win, in the first place)-the irony of this has been noted elsewhere (see Bourke, 2014). What is important for AFSAAP here is that
The Australasian review of African studies, Dec 1, 2016
In this issue of ARAS we deal with the important issues of education, emigration, ethnicity, the ... more In this issue of ARAS we deal with the important issues of education, emigration, ethnicity, the perception and representations of, and the challenges and opportunities experienced by African-Australians. In a global collaboration of scholars, the first article explores the involvement of parents in the education of their children in Northern Uganda. Betty Akullu Ezati, Cornelius Ssempala and Peter Ssenkusu from Makerere University, Jody McBrien from the University of South Florida, and Jan Stewart from the University of Winnipeg have all presented their research conducted between 2007 and 2015 in Northern Uganda in their article entitled Parents, Pay Attention! Factors Related to Parental Involvement with Education in Northern Uganda. What is striking about their original research is that the findings have lessons for all involved in the education of children. The fact that Uganda's civil wars, and in particular the impact of the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda, and subsequent insecurity has 'disrupted' many aspects of people's daily lives, is investigated by these authors in terms of the resilience of communities in educating their next generations. Although, they found that parents have reduced their involvement in children's education, the reasons for this are complex, but are integrally linked to the consequences of war, and also post-conflict government policies. Ezati et al use an 'ecological approach' to ask in what ways academic achievement might be enhanced overall, and provide some useful recommendations on how to improve parental involvement in their children's education. Lessons for us all!
The Australasian review of African studies, Jun 1, 2014
This article explores the application and viability of a participatory development model through ... more This article explores the application and viability of a participatory development model through an examination of the barriers to community ownership apparent within the Namwera and Chiponde Afforestation Project (NCAP); a community-initiated forestry project developed in response to wood-fuel scarcity in the Mangochi District of Southern Malawi. Despite its participatory design, project stakeholders continued to express aspirations for increased material sponsorship, which project facilitators considered to be incompatible with the guiding principle of the participant driven development model-ownership. Conflicting views concerning sponsorship illustrate the degree to which the regional development context, defined by satisfying immediate needs, challenges community ownership of the NCAP. To that end, as a case the NCAP embodies both the possibilities and the constraints faced by these types of initiatives and the development model that underpins them.
The Australasian review of African studies, Dec 1, 2009
Africa inland the World Tanya Lyons-ARAS Editor Flinders. University Back in 2000 Gavin Kitching ... more Africa inland the World Tanya Lyons-ARAS Editor Flinders. University Back in 2000 Gavin Kitching sparked a major debate about giving up African Studies, in these very pages of ARAS, 1 which soon spread to online journals from the USA, and eventually made its way to the mainstream media in Australia. 2 His main argument was that African studies had become depressing, because the leaders he had supported during anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggles had become the tyrants, keeping their countries and peoples subjugated and in poverty. His departure from the field of African studies flowed on the tide of Australian academics moving toward more mainstream fields of study including Asian studies, keeping job prospects open rather than closed. A rational choice in the face of an irrational Africa! Since then, there has been a dearth of African studies and research in Australia. However, with the demise of the Howard years and a shift in international strategy from the Rudd Labor Government, a focus on Africa has been acknowledged as 'necessary' for a number of reasons, but mostly because of big business opportunities in the mining sector, and the possibility of securing support from African nations for Australia to get a seat on the UN Security Council. Indeed the Minister for Foreign Affairs has only just recently on 21 October 2009, called an "Inquiry into Australia's Relationship with the Countries of Africa," and given organizations (such as AFSAAP) and individuals until 11 December 2009 to make a submission. 3 However, while this remains a fairly short. and narrow focus in Canberra and in the boardrooms of the multinational miners, it is interesting that at least this Parliamentary Committee is planning to "consider both the current situation and opportunities for the future." 4 Senator Michael Forshaw, the Chair of this committee stated that, "The last major Committee inquiry into Australia's relationship with Southern Africa was back in 1996. It is timely that the Committee now
Pharmaceutical Colonialism is the term used to describe the activities of some of the big pharmac... more Pharmaceutical Colonialism is the term used to describe the activities of some of the big pharmaceutical companies and their contract research organizations (CROs), that involves exploiting the sickness and poverty of citizens of weak and/or developing states. This is enabled because there is a failure or lack of ethical policies and rules within those states that are implemented and designed to protect against unethical clinical drug trials.
The Australasian review of African studies, Jun 1, 2009
This special edition of the Australasian Review of African Studies on Zimbabwe comes at a time wh... more This special edition of the Australasian Review of African Studies on Zimbabwe comes at a time when we see a new coalition government forging ahead in an attempt to resolve Zimbabwe's ailing economy and failing state, and it will be well into the 100 day plan attempting to re-engage with the west and create renewal for the country. With Morgan Tsvangirai as Prime Minister and Robert Mugabe remaining as President the 'bonding' required to bring government together seems near impossible, let alone bringing the country back from the brink of disaster. They simply cannot fail if they can agree upon the task. This edition of ARAS has brought together a range of authors, perspectives and analyses on the history and politics of Zimbabwe in both local and global contexts.
Pharmaceutical Colonialism is the term used to describe the activities of some of the big pharmac... more Pharmaceutical Colonialism is the term used to describe the activities of some of the big pharmaceutical companies and their contract research organizations (CROs), that involves exploiting the sickness and poverty of citizens of weak and/or developing states. This is enabled because there is a failure or lack of ethical policies and rules within those states that are implemented and designed to protect against unethical clinical drug trials.
... Issue Date: 2006. Publisher: Africa World Press. Citation: Lyons, TJ & Pye, GM, 2006. Afr... more ... Issue Date: 2006. Publisher: Africa World Press. Citation: Lyons, TJ & Pye, GM, 2006. Africa on a global stage: an introduction. In Africa on a Global Stage. New Jersey, USA: Africa World Press, pp. 1-13. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2328/13080. ISBN: 159221388X. ...
Popular Youth Attitudes to Globalisation By Tanya Lyons and Matthew Tilling. Flinders University.... more Popular Youth Attitudes to Globalisation By Tanya Lyons and Matthew Tilling. Flinders University. “Globalisation ... restrictions. To a lesser extent the well informed students also agreed to some restrictions of foreign influences on Australian culture. ...
The Australasian review of African studies, Jun 1, 2017
This 38 th volume of the Australasian Review of African Studies is published at a time when Afric... more This 38 th volume of the Australasian Review of African Studies is published at a time when Africa has once again fallen off the map in terms of Australian foreign policy. Submissions to the Australian Foreign Policy White Paper have closed, and although we are yet to see the final report, a preliminary review of these submissions (from DFAT, 2017), which aim to inform and guide how Australia will engage with the rest of the world in the years ahead, clearly demonstrates a dearth of interest in Africa (although further research on these submissions is required). This is an unsurprising trend since 2008, the heyday of Stephen Smith's and Kevin Rudd's driving force behind Labor's re-engagement with Africa-documented most adequately by Mickler and Lyons (2013). However, this all came to a disappointing end with Tony Abbott's Liberal-Coalition electoral victory in 2013, resulting in the demise of Ausaid, and the effective end of the Australia-Africa Awards, which saw up to 1000 African scholars studying in Australia in 2013, among other Africa policies. Thus, there was a massive change of focus away from Africa and back to our nearer 'more important' regions. As to the Liberal's Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop, and her enjoyment of the spoils of Rudd's obsession-to win a 2 year seat (2013-15) on the United Nations Security Council (which justified his re-engagement with Africa, as it depended on their votes to win, in the first place)-the irony of this has been noted elsewhere (see Bourke, 2014). What is important for AFSAAP here is that
The Australasian review of African studies, Dec 1, 2016
In this issue of ARAS we deal with the important issues of education, emigration, ethnicity, the ... more In this issue of ARAS we deal with the important issues of education, emigration, ethnicity, the perception and representations of, and the challenges and opportunities experienced by African-Australians. In a global collaboration of scholars, the first article explores the involvement of parents in the education of their children in Northern Uganda. Betty Akullu Ezati, Cornelius Ssempala and Peter Ssenkusu from Makerere University, Jody McBrien from the University of South Florida, and Jan Stewart from the University of Winnipeg have all presented their research conducted between 2007 and 2015 in Northern Uganda in their article entitled Parents, Pay Attention! Factors Related to Parental Involvement with Education in Northern Uganda. What is striking about their original research is that the findings have lessons for all involved in the education of children. The fact that Uganda's civil wars, and in particular the impact of the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda, and subsequent insecurity has 'disrupted' many aspects of people's daily lives, is investigated by these authors in terms of the resilience of communities in educating their next generations. Although, they found that parents have reduced their involvement in children's education, the reasons for this are complex, but are integrally linked to the consequences of war, and also post-conflict government policies. Ezati et al use an 'ecological approach' to ask in what ways academic achievement might be enhanced overall, and provide some useful recommendations on how to improve parental involvement in their children's education. Lessons for us all!
The Australasian review of African studies, Jun 1, 2014
This article explores the application and viability of a participatory development model through ... more This article explores the application and viability of a participatory development model through an examination of the barriers to community ownership apparent within the Namwera and Chiponde Afforestation Project (NCAP); a community-initiated forestry project developed in response to wood-fuel scarcity in the Mangochi District of Southern Malawi. Despite its participatory design, project stakeholders continued to express aspirations for increased material sponsorship, which project facilitators considered to be incompatible with the guiding principle of the participant driven development model-ownership. Conflicting views concerning sponsorship illustrate the degree to which the regional development context, defined by satisfying immediate needs, challenges community ownership of the NCAP. To that end, as a case the NCAP embodies both the possibilities and the constraints faced by these types of initiatives and the development model that underpins them.
The Australasian review of African studies, Dec 1, 2009
Africa inland the World Tanya Lyons-ARAS Editor Flinders. University Back in 2000 Gavin Kitching ... more Africa inland the World Tanya Lyons-ARAS Editor Flinders. University Back in 2000 Gavin Kitching sparked a major debate about giving up African Studies, in these very pages of ARAS, 1 which soon spread to online journals from the USA, and eventually made its way to the mainstream media in Australia. 2 His main argument was that African studies had become depressing, because the leaders he had supported during anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggles had become the tyrants, keeping their countries and peoples subjugated and in poverty. His departure from the field of African studies flowed on the tide of Australian academics moving toward more mainstream fields of study including Asian studies, keeping job prospects open rather than closed. A rational choice in the face of an irrational Africa! Since then, there has been a dearth of African studies and research in Australia. However, with the demise of the Howard years and a shift in international strategy from the Rudd Labor Government, a focus on Africa has been acknowledged as 'necessary' for a number of reasons, but mostly because of big business opportunities in the mining sector, and the possibility of securing support from African nations for Australia to get a seat on the UN Security Council. Indeed the Minister for Foreign Affairs has only just recently on 21 October 2009, called an "Inquiry into Australia's Relationship with the Countries of Africa," and given organizations (such as AFSAAP) and individuals until 11 December 2009 to make a submission. 3 However, while this remains a fairly short. and narrow focus in Canberra and in the boardrooms of the multinational miners, it is interesting that at least this Parliamentary Committee is planning to "consider both the current situation and opportunities for the future." 4 Senator Michael Forshaw, the Chair of this committee stated that, "The last major Committee inquiry into Australia's relationship with Southern Africa was back in 1996. It is timely that the Committee now
Pharmaceutical Colonialism is the term used to describe the activities of some of the big pharmac... more Pharmaceutical Colonialism is the term used to describe the activities of some of the big pharmaceutical companies and their contract research organizations (CROs), that involves exploiting the sickness and poverty of citizens of weak and/or developing states. This is enabled because there is a failure or lack of ethical policies and rules within those states that are implemented and designed to protect against unethical clinical drug trials.
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