Jennifer Robert
Biographic Data
| ID | 76132 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Robert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Robert |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6852-2137 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How the Hell Did You Wind Up in Australia?’ or You Teach What You Know
On Thanksgiving in 2024, while sharing a meal with fellow expats in Brisbane, I reflect on my unexpected journey to Australia and my role in the International Studies program at UTS. This personal narrative explores how my own experiences of cultural adaptation—navigating new customs, language quirks, and everyday challenges—mirror those of the students I teach. This reflection celebrates 30 years of International Studies at UTS, expressing grati…
Mental health and labour productivity
Montreal's Main Drag
This article examines four works by Michel Tremblay - one of Quebec's most prominent gay authors and, more recently, a chronicler of Montreal's urban landscape - to consider the intersectionality between Montreal's queer and immigrant communities. This intersection can be mapped onto a quite literal geographic crossing, that of Boulevard Saint-Laurent (focus of Montreal's rich immigrant history) and Rue Sainte-Catherine (long a hub of sexual acti…
Does Distance Education in the Developing Context Need More Research? Building Practice into Theory (Volume Two)
This book focuses on distance education research, a dire need in the field, especially in Africa and other developing contexts. 'Distance education' in this book has been used as an umbrella term for any form of education in which there is a separation between the teacher and the learner, which necessitates the use of media. The authors from a range of African countries and international experts who have had a stint of their career in developing …
Escaping the everyday
Although designed to mitigate the normalising role that advertising can have on alcohol consumption, France’s Loi Évin (1991) has unwittingly channelled advertisers into reinforcing the link between their products and escapist pursuits. Where contemporary concerns about alcohol consumption in France have themselves been influenced by global trends in public health and alcohol studies, they revolve around the adoption of perceived ‘foreign’ drinki…
Meeting the Sober Self, Recognizing the Drinking Self
Temporary sobriety initiatives (TSIs), popular month-long campaigns in which people abstain from alcohol to raise money for charity, aim to change participants’ relationship with alcohol. Identifying the structural and practical mechanisms of TSIs that facilitate the desired changes is an important element in understanding their popularity and purported effectiveness as public health campaigns. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 15 Australian …
Professional staff contributions to student retention and success in higher education
Student attrition remains a persistent problem within the Australian higher education sector. Contributing factors include financial, reputational and quality issues, which can pose significant risks for a university's sustainability. Institutional culture is fundamental to decisions student make about withdrawing or remaining in higher education. Therefore, student retention requires a sustained, deeply embedded commitment from all parts of the …
A Nouveau Roman de la route
Québécois novelist Marc Séguin’s La foi du braconnier (2009) is a road novel, an iconic American genre centred on the youthful quest for purpose and permissible rebellion against societal norms, reminiscent of Franco-American Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Far from being just another imitator of this genre-defining novel, Séguin’s tale of a Québécois-Mohawk poacher who decides to drive a route that spells out FUCK YOU on the North American continent…
On Moving and (Inter) Disciplinarity
Our aim in this introduction is to position all the articles that comprise this special issue of the Australian Journal of French Studies within a framework of mobility while highlighting how they each, individually, test and move (beyond) certain frames. We are also writing in response to the annual conference of the Australian\nSociety for French Studies, which we co-convened in 2015 and at which the articles included here were presented. As we…
Temporary sobriety initiatives
At the same time as the Australian media was focusing attention on problems stemming from youthful binge drinking and was decrying a problematic national drinking culture, voluntary (and often philanthropic) campaigns oriented around temporarily giving up alcohol emerged. Although these temporary sobriety initiatives (TSI) originally positioned themselves as a solution to the problems being discussed, their popular appeal proved to be their align…
Temporary sobriety initiatives as public pedagogy
Philanthropic temporary sobriety initiatives such as Dry July, FebFast and Ocsober have become increasingly popular in Australia and have begun to spread to other locations both for their fundraising potential and as a grassroots public health measure to promote more responsible attitudes to alcohol consumption. This article presents findings from a series of in-depth, post-campaign interviews with FebFast 2014 participants and staff about how th…
Pa/enser bien le corps
Introduction
This special issue of Portal contains papers that investigate the ways in which food and food cultures have created but have also disrupted links between different parts of the Fancophone world and between Francophone culture and other societies. Long considered a cornerstone of what is “French”, food and food culture in French speaking societies outside of France (and outside of many of the major centres of French cuisine within France) have bee…
You Eat What You Are
Shanghai-born Québécoise Ying Chen focuses her 2006 novel, Le Mangeur, on the ethics of nurturing, locating this key term at the etymological nexus of filiation and nourishment, two recurrent themes in her oeuvre. This instalment in her series of novels about an ambiguously defined female narrator revolves around what proves to be a morbid but still nurturing link between father and daughter. Through the act of the narrator’s becoming food via dy…
Oppositional symbolic values of language display, or the case of “English” drinking in France
This article examines the linguistic manifestations of the tension between notions of a healthy national drinking culture and the increasing homogenisation of problematic drinking practices in an era of globalised marketing and media influence. Taking the proliferation of English in France when it comes not only to alcohol advertising, but also public health discourses and mass media commentary as its object, this paper discerns patterns of and m…
Mad Men's Deceptive (Critique Of) Creativity
This article analyses Mad Men's relationship to creativity. Considering popular, industry-specific and scholarly understandings, it uses close readings of the show and its narratological techniques to demonstrate how these potentially contradictory concepts and practices of creativity overlap in the show's fourth season. The points at which these understandings collide become sources of tension between characters and are marked by narrative gaps …
Exercising choice
Demand for sanitation in Salvador, Brazil
The use of standard contracts in the English National Health Service
To what extent can we explain time trade-off values from other information about respondents
Conceptualizing Professionalism
The main argument presented here is that economics provides a necessary but not sufficient analysis of professionalism. A sufficient analysis can only be generated by recognizing the sociological significance of professionals, and in particular the institutionalization of a professional ethic. In this way we suggest that economics needs sociology to provide an effective conceptualization of professionalism as a form of organization and as a mode …
Takarazuka
TakaraZuka:Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. jENNIFER ROBERTSON. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998; 278 pp. Reviewed by ALAN TANSMAN Georgetown University A rich and provocative study of the all-female Takarazuka theater revue, this book grapples with complicated connections among theater, gender politics, nationalism, colonialism, and commerce in twentieth-century Japan. Through impressive archival research and fi…
The Employment of Nurses (Book)
Heridity and the Nature of Man
The Contribution of Genetics to Physical Anthropology
Exercising choice
Demand for sanitation in Salvador, Brazil
To what extent can we explain time trade-off values from other information about respondents
Conceptualizing Professionalism
The main argument presented here is that economics provides a necessary but not sufficient analysis of professionalism. A sufficient analysis can only be generated by recognizing the sociological significance of professionals, and in particular the institutionalization of a professional ethic. In this way we suggest that economics needs sociology to provide an effective conceptualization of professionalism as a form of organization and as a mode …
The use of standard contracts in the English National Health Service
Meeting the Sober Self, Recognizing the Drinking Self
Temporary sobriety initiatives (TSIs), popular month-long campaigns in which people abstain from alcohol to raise money for charity, aim to change participants’ relationship with alcohol. Identifying the structural and practical mechanisms of TSIs that facilitate the desired changes is an important element in understanding their popularity and purported effectiveness as public health campaigns. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 15 Australian …
Temporary sobriety initiatives as public pedagogy
Philanthropic temporary sobriety initiatives such as Dry July, FebFast and Ocsober have become increasingly popular in Australia and have begun to spread to other locations both for their fundraising potential and as a grassroots public health measure to promote more responsible attitudes to alcohol consumption. This article presents findings from a series of in-depth, post-campaign interviews with FebFast 2014 participants and staff about how th…
Professional staff contributions to student retention and success in higher education
Student attrition remains a persistent problem within the Australian higher education sector. Contributing factors include financial, reputational and quality issues, which can pose significant risks for a university's sustainability. Institutional culture is fundamental to decisions student make about withdrawing or remaining in higher education. Therefore, student retention requires a sustained, deeply embedded commitment from all parts of the …
Temporary sobriety initiatives
At the same time as the Australian media was focusing attention on problems stemming from youthful binge drinking and was decrying a problematic national drinking culture, voluntary (and often philanthropic) campaigns oriented around temporarily giving up alcohol emerged. Although these temporary sobriety initiatives (TSI) originally positioned themselves as a solution to the problems being discussed, their popular appeal proved to be their align…
Escaping the everyday
Although designed to mitigate the normalising role that advertising can have on alcohol consumption, France’s Loi Évin (1991) has unwittingly channelled advertisers into reinforcing the link between their products and escapist pursuits. Where contemporary concerns about alcohol consumption in France have themselves been influenced by global trends in public health and alcohol studies, they revolve around the adoption of perceived ‘foreign’ drinki…
Variations in the Frequencies of the ABO Blood-Group Genes in Northern England
The Contribution of Genetics to Physical Anthropology
Heridity and the Nature of Man
The Employment of Nurses (Book)
Conceptualizing Professionalism
The main argument presented here is that economics provides a necessary but not sufficient analysis of professionalism. A sufficient analysis can only be generated by recognizing the sociological significance of professionals, and in particular the institutionalization of a professional ethic. In this way we suggest that economics needs sociology to provide an effective conceptualization of professionalism as a form of organization and as a mode …
Takarazuka
TakaraZuka:Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. jENNIFER ROBERTSON. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998; 278 pp. Reviewed by ALAN TANSMAN Georgetown University A rich and provocative study of the all-female Takarazuka theater revue, this book grapples with complicated connections among theater, gender politics, nationalism, colonialism, and commerce in twentieth-century Japan. Through impressive archival research and fi…
To what extent can we explain time trade-off values from other information about respondents
Exercising choice
Demand for sanitation in Salvador, Brazil
The use of standard contracts in the English National Health Service
Mad Men's Deceptive (Critique Of) Creativity
This article analyses Mad Men's relationship to creativity. Considering popular, industry-specific and scholarly understandings, it uses close readings of the show and its narratological techniques to demonstrate how these potentially contradictory concepts and practices of creativity overlap in the show's fourth season. The points at which these understandings collide become sources of tension between characters and are marked by narrative gaps …
Introduction
This special issue of Portal contains papers that investigate the ways in which food and food cultures have created but have also disrupted links between different parts of the Fancophone world and between Francophone culture and other societies. Long considered a cornerstone of what is “French”, food and food culture in French speaking societies outside of France (and outside of many of the major centres of French cuisine within France) have bee…
You Eat What You Are
Shanghai-born Québécoise Ying Chen focuses her 2006 novel, Le Mangeur, on the ethics of nurturing, locating this key term at the etymological nexus of filiation and nourishment, two recurrent themes in her oeuvre. This instalment in her series of novels about an ambiguously defined female narrator revolves around what proves to be a morbid but still nurturing link between father and daughter. Through the act of the narrator’s becoming food via dy…
Oppositional symbolic values of language display, or the case of “English” drinking in France
This article examines the linguistic manifestations of the tension between notions of a healthy national drinking culture and the increasing homogenisation of problematic drinking practices in an era of globalised marketing and media influence. Taking the proliferation of English in France when it comes not only to alcohol advertising, but also public health discourses and mass media commentary as its object, this paper discerns patterns of and m…
Pa/enser bien le corps
Temporary sobriety initiatives
At the same time as the Australian media was focusing attention on problems stemming from youthful binge drinking and was decrying a problematic national drinking culture, voluntary (and often philanthropic) campaigns oriented around temporarily giving up alcohol emerged. Although these temporary sobriety initiatives (TSI) originally positioned themselves as a solution to the problems being discussed, their popular appeal proved to be their align…
Temporary sobriety initiatives as public pedagogy
Philanthropic temporary sobriety initiatives such as Dry July, FebFast and Ocsober have become increasingly popular in Australia and have begun to spread to other locations both for their fundraising potential and as a grassroots public health measure to promote more responsible attitudes to alcohol consumption. This article presents findings from a series of in-depth, post-campaign interviews with FebFast 2014 participants and staff about how th…
A Nouveau Roman de la route
Québécois novelist Marc Séguin’s La foi du braconnier (2009) is a road novel, an iconic American genre centred on the youthful quest for purpose and permissible rebellion against societal norms, reminiscent of Franco-American Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Far from being just another imitator of this genre-defining novel, Séguin’s tale of a Québécois-Mohawk poacher who decides to drive a route that spells out FUCK YOU on the North American continent…
On Moving and (Inter) Disciplinarity
Our aim in this introduction is to position all the articles that comprise this special issue of the Australian Journal of French Studies within a framework of mobility while highlighting how they each, individually, test and move (beyond) certain frames. We are also writing in response to the annual conference of the Australian\nSociety for French Studies, which we co-convened in 2015 and at which the articles included here were presented. As we…
Escaping the everyday
Although designed to mitigate the normalising role that advertising can have on alcohol consumption, France’s Loi Évin (1991) has unwittingly channelled advertisers into reinforcing the link between their products and escapist pursuits. Where contemporary concerns about alcohol consumption in France have themselves been influenced by global trends in public health and alcohol studies, they revolve around the adoption of perceived ‘foreign’ drinki…
Meeting the Sober Self, Recognizing the Drinking Self
Temporary sobriety initiatives (TSIs), popular month-long campaigns in which people abstain from alcohol to raise money for charity, aim to change participants’ relationship with alcohol. Identifying the structural and practical mechanisms of TSIs that facilitate the desired changes is an important element in understanding their popularity and purported effectiveness as public health campaigns. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 15 Australian …
Professional staff contributions to student retention and success in higher education
Student attrition remains a persistent problem within the Australian higher education sector. Contributing factors include financial, reputational and quality issues, which can pose significant risks for a university's sustainability. Institutional culture is fundamental to decisions student make about withdrawing or remaining in higher education. Therefore, student retention requires a sustained, deeply embedded commitment from all parts of the …
Does Distance Education in the Developing Context Need More Research? Building Practice into Theory (Volume Two)
This book focuses on distance education research, a dire need in the field, especially in Africa and other developing contexts. 'Distance education' in this book has been used as an umbrella term for any form of education in which there is a separation between the teacher and the learner, which necessitates the use of media. The authors from a range of African countries and international experts who have had a stint of their career in developing …
How the Hell Did You Wind Up in Australia?’ or You Teach What You Know
On Thanksgiving in 2024, while sharing a meal with fellow expats in Brisbane, I reflect on my unexpected journey to Australia and my role in the International Studies program at UTS. This personal narrative explores how my own experiences of cultural adaptation—navigating new customs, language quirks, and everyday challenges—mirror those of the students I teach. This reflection celebrates 30 years of International Studies at UTS, expressing grati…
Mental health and labour productivity
Sociology (17 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Political science (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works)