Asia-pacific Journal of Teacher Education, May 1, 2012
Recent research focusing on professional experience has shifted towards understanding preservice ... more Recent research focusing on professional experience has shifted towards understanding preservice teachers' learning. The aim of this study was to gain insight into the learning of preservice Physical and Health Education teachers throughout three progressively designed professional experiences. Ten volunteering first-year preservice teachers, who were enrolled in a four year degree, were recruited. A qualitative practitioner inquiry approach was employed,
Using Showtime&am... more Using Showtime's The L Word as a case study, we argue that lesbian sexuality and lesbian lifestyles are produced alongside broader discourses of cosmopolitan consumer citizenship. The lesbian characters in this program are first and foremost constructed through their investments in certain neo-liberal consumer and lifestyle practices that limit the possibility of what lesbian subjectivities and/or lesbian politics can or cannot become. We offer an alternative strategy of reading lesbians in image-based media and popular culture that attends to the ways in which lesbian subjectivities are produced in a climate of neo-liberal consumer and lifestyle practices that have shifted the ways in which sexual citizens are produced. Our aim is to provide a critical framework that can be applied to other lesbian-themed television texts and to a range of other image-based visual media including film, commercial advertising, and new media.
Using the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney 2002 Gay Games as a case study, in this article I analys... more Using the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney 2002 Gay Games as a case study, in this article I analyse sexual citizenship through the lens of global cosmopolitanism. I begin by arguing that at these Games an idealised sexual citizen was produced through neoliberal discourses of freedom, rights, choice and cosmopolitanism. At events of this kind, these individualising practices function as new and important forms of ‘political’ action. I then argue that the idealised cosmopolitan sexual citizen is presumed to be a white, western citizen-subject who has access to ‘difference’ through urban living, global travel and through personal investments in the project of global queer world-making. Finally, I illustrate how becoming a cosmopolitan sexual citizen involves a set of consumptive practices that fetishise and Other non-white bodies and lives. At large global gay and lesbian events like the Gay Games, local histories and bodies are mediated as sites of consumption that affirm sexual citizens’ status as global cosmopolitan citizens and define the parameters of an imagined queer world.
This thesis takes the Sydney 2002 Gay Games: Under New Skies '02, as a case study into the produc... more This thesis takes the Sydney 2002 Gay Games: Under New Skies '02, as a case study into the production of global queer citizenship. In the existing body of work around the Gay Games they are analysed as an international gay and lesbian sporting event (
Analyzing the HPV awareness and Gardasil® vaccine campaigns for the United States (US), we argue ... more Analyzing the HPV awareness and Gardasil® vaccine campaigns for the United States (US), we argue that the campaigns reflect “the new public health” model that positions individuals as neoliberal citizens responsible for managing their health and maximizing public health opportunities. The campaigns, directed primarily at girls and young women and their mothers, also mobilized neoliberal discourses of risk, choice, and self-management alongside postfeminist political rhetoric that values empowerment, freedom, choice, and rights. Postfeminist tropes were co-opted by Merck's marketing imperatives in order to produce girls and young women as an agentic, niche market of health consumers. We then foreground a low-budget counter-narrative alternative media campaign produced by young women and disseminated through YouTube. This campaign demonstrates the role of new media in producing alternative perspectives on agentic female citizenship and disrupts Merck's campaign imperatives.
The significance of the school in the history of public health has been recognised to an extent i... more The significance of the school in the history of public health has been recognised to an extent in histories of public health (e.g. Armstrong, 1993; Bashford, 2004) and of schooling (e.g. Kirk, 1998; Gard & Pluim, 2014). While the treatment remains sparse, especially for Australia, Armstrong’s (1993) classification of the school as a “public health space” is instructive, arguing, for example that at the beginning of the twentieth century children in schools became the principal target for pedagogies of personal hygiene. McCalman (2009, 30) has argued that the (late nineteenth-century) establishment of compulsory schooling was a “dramatic and pervasive” intervention in public health partly because of the schools’ enforcement of personal cleanliness. Gard and Pluim (2014, 5) have described the history of the relationship between (US) schools and public health since the turn of the twentieth century as one in which the institution of the school was increasingly “assumed by others to be an instrument of public health policy”. This paper reports the findings of an investigation into the enlistment of Australian public elementary schools in the promotion of public health in the first three decades of the twentieth century, through the activities of the newly-established Medical branch of the New South Wales Department of Public Instruction. From the early 1900s the Australian state governments established Medical Branches within their Departments of Public Instruction, headed by medical doctors who specialised in public health. The NSW Branch, the subject of this paper, ran large-scale screening programs and disseminated educational information about hygiene, communicable diseases and physical “defects”. Additionally, the medical officers, who conducted regular visits to schools, claimed that their work aimed to develop the “moral” and “physical” health of children. Their work, therefore, would result not only in improved physiological health of the children within their immediate reach, but also in the future “betterment of the race”, through the promotion of “more intelligent parenthood”. The management of childhood contagions and hygiene became a central tenet of both good parenting and good schooling. The successes of nineteenth and twentieth-century public health projects in the reduction of communicable disease are undeniable, but in this paper we are more interested in the self-representation of the work of early medical inspectors that went beyond simple, material assessments of disease control and the like, and the underpinnings of these representations in early twentieth-century theories of race, gender and class. In common with the scholars mentioned above and others (e.g. Anderson, 2003), we examine some of the broader projects embedded in the work of school inspection, particularly the cultural and social construction of health, morality and normality and of the professional fields that would create and maintain them. We are also interested in the strategies and technologies employed by the Medical Branch—the whole-cohort testing and measurement of children, the gathering and reporting of statistics, the public relations campaigns. Finally, we consider the work of the Medical Branch as an instance of the implication of the “school-as-clinic” in shaping and regulation of the twentieth century family. Anderson, W. (2003). The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia. New York: basic Books. Armstrong, D. (1993). Public health spaces and the fabrication of identity. Sociology, 27 (3): 393-410. Bashford, A. (2004). Imperial hygiene: A critical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health . New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Gard, M. & Pluim, C. (2014). Schools and Public health: Past, Present, Future. Lanham: Lexington Books. Kirk, D. (1998). Schooling bodies: School practice and public discourse, 1880-1950 . London: Leicester University Press. McCalman, J. (2009). Silent witnesses: Child health and well-being in England and Australia and the health transition 1870-1940. Health Sociology Review , 18:. 25-35.
Mediating Sexual Citizenship considers how the neoliberal imperatives of adaptation, improvement ... more Mediating Sexual Citizenship considers how the neoliberal imperatives of adaptation, improvement and transformation that inform the shifting artistic and industrial landscape of television are increasingly indexed to performed disruptions in the norms of sexuality and gender. Drawing on examples from a range of television genres (quality drama, reality television, talk shows, sitcoms) and outlets (network, cable, subscription video on demand), the analysis in this book demonstrates how, as one of the most dominant cultural technologies, television plays a critical role in the production, maintenance and potential reconfiguring of the social organisation of embodiment, be it within gender identities, kinship structures or the categorisation of sexual desire. It suggests that, in order to understand televisions role in producing gendered and sexual citizenship, we must pay critical attention to the significant shifts in how television is produced, broadcast and consumed
Asia-pacific Journal of Teacher Education, May 1, 2012
Recent research focusing on professional experience has shifted towards understanding preservice ... more Recent research focusing on professional experience has shifted towards understanding preservice teachers' learning. The aim of this study was to gain insight into the learning of preservice Physical and Health Education teachers throughout three progressively designed professional experiences. Ten volunteering first-year preservice teachers, who were enrolled in a four year degree, were recruited. A qualitative practitioner inquiry approach was employed,
Using Showtime&am... more Using Showtime's The L Word as a case study, we argue that lesbian sexuality and lesbian lifestyles are produced alongside broader discourses of cosmopolitan consumer citizenship. The lesbian characters in this program are first and foremost constructed through their investments in certain neo-liberal consumer and lifestyle practices that limit the possibility of what lesbian subjectivities and/or lesbian politics can or cannot become. We offer an alternative strategy of reading lesbians in image-based media and popular culture that attends to the ways in which lesbian subjectivities are produced in a climate of neo-liberal consumer and lifestyle practices that have shifted the ways in which sexual citizens are produced. Our aim is to provide a critical framework that can be applied to other lesbian-themed television texts and to a range of other image-based visual media including film, commercial advertising, and new media.
Using the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney 2002 Gay Games as a case study, in this article I analys... more Using the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney 2002 Gay Games as a case study, in this article I analyse sexual citizenship through the lens of global cosmopolitanism. I begin by arguing that at these Games an idealised sexual citizen was produced through neoliberal discourses of freedom, rights, choice and cosmopolitanism. At events of this kind, these individualising practices function as new and important forms of ‘political’ action. I then argue that the idealised cosmopolitan sexual citizen is presumed to be a white, western citizen-subject who has access to ‘difference’ through urban living, global travel and through personal investments in the project of global queer world-making. Finally, I illustrate how becoming a cosmopolitan sexual citizen involves a set of consumptive practices that fetishise and Other non-white bodies and lives. At large global gay and lesbian events like the Gay Games, local histories and bodies are mediated as sites of consumption that affirm sexual citizens’ status as global cosmopolitan citizens and define the parameters of an imagined queer world.
This thesis takes the Sydney 2002 Gay Games: Under New Skies '02, as a case study into the produc... more This thesis takes the Sydney 2002 Gay Games: Under New Skies '02, as a case study into the production of global queer citizenship. In the existing body of work around the Gay Games they are analysed as an international gay and lesbian sporting event (
Analyzing the HPV awareness and Gardasil® vaccine campaigns for the United States (US), we argue ... more Analyzing the HPV awareness and Gardasil® vaccine campaigns for the United States (US), we argue that the campaigns reflect “the new public health” model that positions individuals as neoliberal citizens responsible for managing their health and maximizing public health opportunities. The campaigns, directed primarily at girls and young women and their mothers, also mobilized neoliberal discourses of risk, choice, and self-management alongside postfeminist political rhetoric that values empowerment, freedom, choice, and rights. Postfeminist tropes were co-opted by Merck's marketing imperatives in order to produce girls and young women as an agentic, niche market of health consumers. We then foreground a low-budget counter-narrative alternative media campaign produced by young women and disseminated through YouTube. This campaign demonstrates the role of new media in producing alternative perspectives on agentic female citizenship and disrupts Merck's campaign imperatives.
The significance of the school in the history of public health has been recognised to an extent i... more The significance of the school in the history of public health has been recognised to an extent in histories of public health (e.g. Armstrong, 1993; Bashford, 2004) and of schooling (e.g. Kirk, 1998; Gard & Pluim, 2014). While the treatment remains sparse, especially for Australia, Armstrong’s (1993) classification of the school as a “public health space” is instructive, arguing, for example that at the beginning of the twentieth century children in schools became the principal target for pedagogies of personal hygiene. McCalman (2009, 30) has argued that the (late nineteenth-century) establishment of compulsory schooling was a “dramatic and pervasive” intervention in public health partly because of the schools’ enforcement of personal cleanliness. Gard and Pluim (2014, 5) have described the history of the relationship between (US) schools and public health since the turn of the twentieth century as one in which the institution of the school was increasingly “assumed by others to be an instrument of public health policy”. This paper reports the findings of an investigation into the enlistment of Australian public elementary schools in the promotion of public health in the first three decades of the twentieth century, through the activities of the newly-established Medical branch of the New South Wales Department of Public Instruction. From the early 1900s the Australian state governments established Medical Branches within their Departments of Public Instruction, headed by medical doctors who specialised in public health. The NSW Branch, the subject of this paper, ran large-scale screening programs and disseminated educational information about hygiene, communicable diseases and physical “defects”. Additionally, the medical officers, who conducted regular visits to schools, claimed that their work aimed to develop the “moral” and “physical” health of children. Their work, therefore, would result not only in improved physiological health of the children within their immediate reach, but also in the future “betterment of the race”, through the promotion of “more intelligent parenthood”. The management of childhood contagions and hygiene became a central tenet of both good parenting and good schooling. The successes of nineteenth and twentieth-century public health projects in the reduction of communicable disease are undeniable, but in this paper we are more interested in the self-representation of the work of early medical inspectors that went beyond simple, material assessments of disease control and the like, and the underpinnings of these representations in early twentieth-century theories of race, gender and class. In common with the scholars mentioned above and others (e.g. Anderson, 2003), we examine some of the broader projects embedded in the work of school inspection, particularly the cultural and social construction of health, morality and normality and of the professional fields that would create and maintain them. We are also interested in the strategies and technologies employed by the Medical Branch—the whole-cohort testing and measurement of children, the gathering and reporting of statistics, the public relations campaigns. Finally, we consider the work of the Medical Branch as an instance of the implication of the “school-as-clinic” in shaping and regulation of the twentieth century family. Anderson, W. (2003). The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia. New York: basic Books. Armstrong, D. (1993). Public health spaces and the fabrication of identity. Sociology, 27 (3): 393-410. Bashford, A. (2004). Imperial hygiene: A critical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health . New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Gard, M. & Pluim, C. (2014). Schools and Public health: Past, Present, Future. Lanham: Lexington Books. Kirk, D. (1998). Schooling bodies: School practice and public discourse, 1880-1950 . London: Leicester University Press. McCalman, J. (2009). Silent witnesses: Child health and well-being in England and Australia and the health transition 1870-1940. Health Sociology Review , 18:. 25-35.
Mediating Sexual Citizenship considers how the neoliberal imperatives of adaptation, improvement ... more Mediating Sexual Citizenship considers how the neoliberal imperatives of adaptation, improvement and transformation that inform the shifting artistic and industrial landscape of television are increasingly indexed to performed disruptions in the norms of sexuality and gender. Drawing on examples from a range of television genres (quality drama, reality television, talk shows, sitcoms) and outlets (network, cable, subscription video on demand), the analysis in this book demonstrates how, as one of the most dominant cultural technologies, television plays a critical role in the production, maintenance and potential reconfiguring of the social organisation of embodiment, be it within gender identities, kinship structures or the categorisation of sexual desire. It suggests that, in order to understand televisions role in producing gendered and sexual citizenship, we must pay critical attention to the significant shifts in how television is produced, broadcast and consumed
This chapter explores how the concept of wellbeing is operationalised in policy and practice, con... more This chapter explores how the concept of wellbeing is operationalised in policy and practice, constituted as health’s more flexible and well-rounded counterpart. Drawing on Foucault’s analytics of govern mentality, we argue that “healthas-wellbeing” is mobilized as a modality of neoliberal government. Taking the Australian Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program as a case study, we explore how discourses of healthy citizenship, HPV and HPV vaccination are produced and consumed through conjoining discourses of health and wellbeing. We analyse the initial televisual and online promotional materials that targeted girls and young women alongside data from a ualitative research study about the school based HPV vaccination program in Australia. We argue that the shift from health to health-as-wellbeing produces and
manages contemporary subjectivities through a range of pedagogies and consumptive practices that position individuals as free-choosing agents and managers-of-the-self. We illustrate how the discourse of health-as-wellbeing is employed to mediate knowledge about HPV and HPV related cancer, and to construct the norms of healthy and gendered citizenship.
People’s sense of themselves—their identities—encompass many elements. These may include, for exa... more People’s sense of themselves—their identities—encompass many elements. These may include, for example, categories of age, race, geography, ethnicity, class, sex, gender and sexuality, all of which shape human subjectivity in profound ways. In Chapter 1 Debra Hayes introduced the idea that, although the categories that help us construct our identities are ‘often taken for granted and unquestioned, they should be understood as conditional and constructed by systems of language and relationships of power’. In this chapter, we focus on how everyday assumptions about sex, gender and sexuality are produced in and through social and cultural norms, including those that organise educational institutions and practices. Readers are invited to critically consider how our sense of self is shaped by the assumption that there are two sexes, two genders and one ‘natural’ way of expressing sexuality. By introducing sociological theories of gender, and examples from varied educational contexts, readers will be asked to analyse the role of education—everything from educational policy to governance, public debates about schooling, schooling cultures and traditions, and teaching practices—in shaping ideas about sex, gender and sexuality.
Queer and Subjugated Knowledges: Generating Subversive Imaginaries makes an invaluable contributi... more Queer and Subjugated Knowledges: Generating Subversive Imaginaries makes an invaluable contribution to gender and sexuality studies, engaging with queer theory to reconceptualize everyday interactions. The scholars in this book respond to J. Halberstam’s call to engage in alternative imaginings to reconceptualize forms of being, the production of knowledge, and envisage a world with different sites for justice and injustice. The recent work of cultural theorist, Judith Halberstam, makes new investments in the notion of the counter-hegemonic, the subversive and the alternative. For Halberstam, the alternative resides in a creative engagement with subjugated histories, an ecstatic investment in the subcultural and a defiant refusal of a dominant model of theory. Working across Rhetoric and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Performance Studies, Television and Media Studies, Animation, Sociology, History, Social Policy, Childhood Studies, Education, and Cultural Geography, this unique interdisciplinary text aimed at academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students provides challenging new frameworks for generating knowledge.
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manages contemporary subjectivities through a range of pedagogies and consumptive practices that position individuals as free-choosing agents and managers-of-the-self. We illustrate how the discourse of health-as-wellbeing is employed to mediate knowledge about HPV and HPV related cancer, and to construct the norms of healthy and gendered citizenship.