Daphne Habibis
Biographic Data
| ID | 128668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daphne Habibis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daphne |
| FAMILY NAME | Habibis |
| SIGNATURE | HABIBIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5491-2089 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A framework for the future of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing in Australia
Sustaining housing through planned maintenance in remote Central Australia
Once housing is constructed, its sustainability depends on the efficacy of property maintenance. In remote Indigenous communities in Australia, responsive or reactive approaches to property maintenance dominate over planned and preventive attention, leaving housing in various states of disrepair. By documenting an approach that is succeeding in this wider context, this article shows the commonplace situation of poorly maintained social housing is…
It is time for healthy living priorities to be integrated into Indigenous housing policy and practice: A reply to ‘Aboriginal social housing in remote Australia: crowded, unrepaired and raising the ri…
It is time for healthy living priorities to be integrated into Indigenous housing policy and practice: a reply to 'Aboriginal social housing in remote Australia: crowded, unrepaired and raising the risk of infectious diseases' by Paul Memmott et al
Widening the gap: White ignorance, race relations and the consequences for Aboriginal people in Australia
White ignorance has a critical impact on race relations and is implicated in the maintenance of Aboriginal disadvantage. Addressing this ignorance is a largely overlooked capacity‐building opportunity within Australia's non‐Aboriginal population. It warrants consideration as a key component of strategies targeting Aboriginal disadvantage. Despite the established links between race relations and Aboriginal well‐being, Aboriginal perspectives on no…
White people have no face: Aboriginal perspectives on White culture and the costs of neoliberalism
Australia has a significant Aboriginal population but while much is known about how White people view Aboriginal culture, Aboriginal perspectives on White culture are not well known. Drawing on survey (N = 474) and in-depth interviews (N = 43) we aim to reposition the normativity of White culture by asking a diverse group of Aboriginal people what they think of White Australian values and behaviours. Regardless of social position, as a subaltern …
Housing policy in remote Indigenous communities: How politics obstructs good policy
When it comes to issues of housing policy, remote Indigenous housing often presents the extreme case. The failures of housing policy are most acute in remote Indigenous Australia, but despite the need to learn from the policy mistakes of the past, there has been little detailed analysis of the policy history. Through documentary and empirical analysis, we show that policies have either failed to be adapted to cultural and geographic contexts or, …
Governing pluralistic liberal democratic societies and metis knowledge: The problem of Indigenous unemployment
High rates of unemployment among Indigenous Australians in comparison to non-Indigenous Australians have been rendered a public policy problem by successive Australian governments. The solutions are often coercive forms of neoliberal governance. However, where Indigenous people are driven by different motivations, ideas and aspirations in relation to work, Indigenous employment policies face the issue of epistemological dissonance. This article a…
Housing First programs in congregate-site facilities: Can one size fit all
The ‘Pathways to Housing’ Program (PHP) is an internationally recognized reference point for solutions to chronic homelessness espousing principles of ‘Housing First’. In Australian capital cities, the introduction of Housing First has mostly taken the form of congregate-site housing, unlike the scatter-site housing that has been closely associated with PHP in the United States. This has raised questions about whether the translation of the PHP m…
The Neoliberal State, Recognition and Indigenous Rights
The impact of neoliberal governance on indigenous peoples in liberal settler states may be both enabling and constraining. This book is distinctive in drawing comparisons between three such states-Australia, Canada and New Zealand. In a series of empirically grounded, interpretive micro-studies, it draws out a shared policy coherence, but also exposes idiosyncrasies in the
Repositioning the Racial Gaze: Aboriginal Perspectives on Race, Race Relations and Governance
In Australia, public debate about recognition of the nation’s First Australians through constitutional change has highlighted the complexity and sensitivities surrounding Indigenous/state relations at even the most basic level of legal rights. But the unevenness of race relations has meant Aboriginal perspectives on race relations are not well known. This is an obstacle for reconciliation which, by definition, must be a reciprocal process. It is …
Kindness in Australia: An Empirical Critique of Moral Decline Sociology
A new sociological agenda is emerging that interrogates how morality can be established in the absence of the moral certainties of the past but there is a shortage of empirical work on this topic. This article establishes a theoretical framework for the empirical analysis of everyday morality drawing on the work of theorists including Ahmed, Bauman and Taylor. It uses the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes to assess the state and shape of cont…
Separate worlds: A discourse analysis of mainstream and Aboriginal populist media accounts of the Northern Territory Emergency Response in 2007
Critical commentary about the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) has included the claim that the media presented a simplistic and stereotyped image of Aboriginal communities at the time of its introduction in 2007, but to date there has been no systematic analysis to support this. This study addresses this research gap through a critical discourse analysis of reportage of the NTER in mainstream and Aboriginal populist print media. The f…
Losing my religion: Managing identity in a post-Jehovah's Witness world
What is it like to be socialised into the self-contained Christian fundamentalist world of the Jehovah's Witnesses and to move towards disinheriting that tradition during adolescence? This article considers this question by looking at how a group of young, Australian Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs), who were born into the religion, make the journey from membership to dissent. The interview data suggest that for these young respondents the roots of disa…
Australian Housing Policy, Misrecognition and Indigenous Population Mobility
Policy initiatives in remote Indigenous Australia aim to improve Indigenous health and well-being, and reduce homelessness. But they have raised controversy because they impinge on Indigenous aspirations to remain on homeland communities, require mainstreaming of Indigenous housing and transfer Indigenous land to the state. This paper uses recognition theory to argue that if policies of normalization are imposed on remote living Indigenous people…
How White is Social Work in Australia
How White is social work in Australia? This paper analyses this question, focusing on social work practice and education. In asking the question, the aim is to open space for debate about how the social work profession in Australia should progress practice with Indigenous people and issues. The paper combines Bourdieu's concept of the habitus with "Whiteness" theory to argue that the profession is socially, economically, culturally, and geographi…
Epilogue: The Mental Health Reform Cakewalk: Moving Forwards Backwards
This epilogue reviews the papers presented in this volume, drawing out the main themes and placing them in the context of the issues identified in the Not for Service report published by the Mental Health Council of Australia and the Brain and Mind Research Institute (2005). It uses the analogy of the cakewalk to describe the progress of mental health reform and the way in which progressive policies have been undermined over the reform period. It…
Towards better gatekeeping: Discussion of the findings of a survey of gatekeeping mechanisms in Australian bachelor of social work programs
Gatekeeping in social work education is an issue of vital importance, but is rarely systematically researched and debated. This paper summarises the results of a survey of Australian Bachelor of Social Work programs regarding their gatekeeping mechanisms. The results indicated that priority was given to academic criteria throughout the course, despite recognition of the importance of personal qualities and values. Counselling out for non-academic…
Guarding the gates of the profession: Findings of a survey of gatekeeping mechanisms in Australian Bachelor of Social Work programs
Gatekeeping is concerned with ensuring that social work graduates meet requisite competency standards for beginning practitioners. The issue which is of particular concern to social work educators within academia and in the field, ultimately has important ramifications for clients, yet it is rarely systematically considered. This paper is the first of two reports on the results of a survey of Australian Bachelor of Social Work programs regarding …
The problem of values in Muslim research: The case of Sufism
Millenarianism and Mahdism in Lebanon
The image of the Ayatollah Khomeini is inextricably bound up with the popular conception of Islam today. This view of Islam as a religion of fanaticism and violence ignores the existence of a powerful mystical strand in the form of Sufism in which a philosophy of love is central. Between 1980 and 1981, as part of my doctoral research, I spent six months in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, living with the pupils of a Sufi sheik. This group h…
How White is Social Work in Australia
How White is social work in Australia? This paper analyses this question, focusing on social work practice and education. In asking the question, the aim is to open space for debate about how the social work profession in Australia should progress practice with Indigenous people and issues. The paper combines Bourdieu's concept of the habitus with "Whiteness" theory to argue that the profession is socially, economically, culturally, and geographi…
Kindness in Australia: An Empirical Critique of Moral Decline Sociology
A new sociological agenda is emerging that interrogates how morality can be established in the absence of the moral certainties of the past but there is a shortage of empirical work on this topic. This article establishes a theoretical framework for the empirical analysis of everyday morality drawing on the work of theorists including Ahmed, Bauman and Taylor. It uses the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes to assess the state and shape of cont…
Losing my religion: Managing identity in a post-Jehovah's Witness world
What is it like to be socialised into the self-contained Christian fundamentalist world of the Jehovah's Witnesses and to move towards disinheriting that tradition during adolescence? This article considers this question by looking at how a group of young, Australian Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs), who were born into the religion, make the journey from membership to dissent. The interview data suggest that for these young respondents the roots of disa…
Guarding the gates of the profession: Findings of a survey of gatekeeping mechanisms in Australian Bachelor of Social Work programs
Gatekeeping is concerned with ensuring that social work graduates meet requisite competency standards for beginning practitioners. The issue which is of particular concern to social work educators within academia and in the field, ultimately has important ramifications for clients, yet it is rarely systematically considered. This paper is the first of two reports on the results of a survey of Australian Bachelor of Social Work programs regarding …
Separate worlds: A discourse analysis of mainstream and Aboriginal populist media accounts of the Northern Territory Emergency Response in 2007
Critical commentary about the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) has included the claim that the media presented a simplistic and stereotyped image of Aboriginal communities at the time of its introduction in 2007, but to date there has been no systematic analysis to support this. This study addresses this research gap through a critical discourse analysis of reportage of the NTER in mainstream and Aboriginal populist print media. The f…
The Neoliberal State, Recognition and Indigenous Rights
The impact of neoliberal governance on indigenous peoples in liberal settler states may be both enabling and constraining. This book is distinctive in drawing comparisons between three such states-Australia, Canada and New Zealand. In a series of empirically grounded, interpretive micro-studies, it draws out a shared policy coherence, but also exposes idiosyncrasies in the
Housing policy in remote Indigenous communities: How politics obstructs good policy
When it comes to issues of housing policy, remote Indigenous housing often presents the extreme case. The failures of housing policy are most acute in remote Indigenous Australia, but despite the need to learn from the policy mistakes of the past, there has been little detailed analysis of the policy history. Through documentary and empirical analysis, we show that policies have either failed to be adapted to cultural and geographic contexts or, …
Housing First programs in congregate-site facilities: Can one size fit all
The ‘Pathways to Housing’ Program (PHP) is an internationally recognized reference point for solutions to chronic homelessness espousing principles of ‘Housing First’. In Australian capital cities, the introduction of Housing First has mostly taken the form of congregate-site housing, unlike the scatter-site housing that has been closely associated with PHP in the United States. This has raised questions about whether the translation of the PHP m…
Repositioning the Racial Gaze: Aboriginal Perspectives on Race, Race Relations and Governance
In Australia, public debate about recognition of the nation’s First Australians through constitutional change has highlighted the complexity and sensitivities surrounding Indigenous/state relations at even the most basic level of legal rights. But the unevenness of race relations has meant Aboriginal perspectives on race relations are not well known. This is an obstacle for reconciliation which, by definition, must be a reciprocal process. It is …
Governing pluralistic liberal democratic societies and metis knowledge: The problem of Indigenous unemployment
High rates of unemployment among Indigenous Australians in comparison to non-Indigenous Australians have been rendered a public policy problem by successive Australian governments. The solutions are often coercive forms of neoliberal governance. However, where Indigenous people are driven by different motivations, ideas and aspirations in relation to work, Indigenous employment policies face the issue of epistemological dissonance. This article a…
Widening the gap: White ignorance, race relations and the consequences for Aboriginal people in Australia
White ignorance has a critical impact on race relations and is implicated in the maintenance of Aboriginal disadvantage. Addressing this ignorance is a largely overlooked capacity‐building opportunity within Australia's non‐Aboriginal population. It warrants consideration as a key component of strategies targeting Aboriginal disadvantage. Despite the established links between race relations and Aboriginal well‐being, Aboriginal perspectives on no…
White people have no face: Aboriginal perspectives on White culture and the costs of neoliberalism
Australia has a significant Aboriginal population but while much is known about how White people view Aboriginal culture, Aboriginal perspectives on White culture are not well known. Drawing on survey (N = 474) and in-depth interviews (N = 43) we aim to reposition the normativity of White culture by asking a diverse group of Aboriginal people what they think of White Australian values and behaviours. Regardless of social position, as a subaltern …
Australian Housing Policy, Misrecognition and Indigenous Population Mobility
Policy initiatives in remote Indigenous Australia aim to improve Indigenous health and well-being, and reduce homelessness. But they have raised controversy because they impinge on Indigenous aspirations to remain on homeland communities, require mainstreaming of Indigenous housing and transfer Indigenous land to the state. This paper uses recognition theory to argue that if policies of normalization are imposed on remote living Indigenous people…
Epilogue: The Mental Health Reform Cakewalk: Moving Forwards Backwards
This epilogue reviews the papers presented in this volume, drawing out the main themes and placing them in the context of the issues identified in the Not for Service report published by the Mental Health Council of Australia and the Brain and Mind Research Institute (2005). It uses the analogy of the cakewalk to describe the progress of mental health reform and the way in which progressive policies have been undermined over the reform period. It…
Sustaining housing through planned maintenance in remote Central Australia
Once housing is constructed, its sustainability depends on the efficacy of property maintenance. In remote Indigenous communities in Australia, responsive or reactive approaches to property maintenance dominate over planned and preventive attention, leaving housing in various states of disrepair. By documenting an approach that is succeeding in this wider context, this article shows the commonplace situation of poorly maintained social housing is…
Towards better gatekeeping: Discussion of the findings of a survey of gatekeeping mechanisms in Australian bachelor of social work programs
Gatekeeping in social work education is an issue of vital importance, but is rarely systematically researched and debated. This paper summarises the results of a survey of Australian Bachelor of Social Work programs regarding their gatekeeping mechanisms. The results indicated that priority was given to academic criteria throughout the course, despite recognition of the importance of personal qualities and values. Counselling out for non-academic…
Millenarianism and Mahdism in Lebanon
The image of the Ayatollah Khomeini is inextricably bound up with the popular conception of Islam today. This view of Islam as a religion of fanaticism and violence ignores the existence of a powerful mystical strand in the form of Sufism in which a philosophy of love is central. Between 1980 and 1981, as part of my doctoral research, I spent six months in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, living with the pupils of a Sufi sheik. This group h…
Millenarianism and Mahdism in Lebanon
The image of the Ayatollah Khomeini is inextricably bound up with the popular conception of Islam today. This view of Islam as a religion of fanaticism and violence ignores the existence of a powerful mystical strand in the form of Sufism in which a philosophy of love is central. Between 1980 and 1981, as part of my doctoral research, I spent six months in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, living with the pupils of a Sufi sheik. This group h…
The problem of values in Muslim research: The case of Sufism
Guarding the gates of the profession: Findings of a survey of gatekeeping mechanisms in Australian Bachelor of Social Work programs
Gatekeeping is concerned with ensuring that social work graduates meet requisite competency standards for beginning practitioners. The issue which is of particular concern to social work educators within academia and in the field, ultimately has important ramifications for clients, yet it is rarely systematically considered. This paper is the first of two reports on the results of a survey of Australian Bachelor of Social Work programs regarding …
Towards better gatekeeping: Discussion of the findings of a survey of gatekeeping mechanisms in Australian bachelor of social work programs
Gatekeeping in social work education is an issue of vital importance, but is rarely systematically researched and debated. This paper summarises the results of a survey of Australian Bachelor of Social Work programs regarding their gatekeeping mechanisms. The results indicated that priority was given to academic criteria throughout the course, despite recognition of the importance of personal qualities and values. Counselling out for non-academic…
Epilogue: The Mental Health Reform Cakewalk: Moving Forwards Backwards
This epilogue reviews the papers presented in this volume, drawing out the main themes and placing them in the context of the issues identified in the Not for Service report published by the Mental Health Council of Australia and the Brain and Mind Research Institute (2005). It uses the analogy of the cakewalk to describe the progress of mental health reform and the way in which progressive policies have been undermined over the reform period. It…
How White is Social Work in Australia
How White is social work in Australia? This paper analyses this question, focusing on social work practice and education. In asking the question, the aim is to open space for debate about how the social work profession in Australia should progress practice with Indigenous people and issues. The paper combines Bourdieu's concept of the habitus with "Whiteness" theory to argue that the profession is socially, economically, culturally, and geographi…
Australian Housing Policy, Misrecognition and Indigenous Population Mobility
Policy initiatives in remote Indigenous Australia aim to improve Indigenous health and well-being, and reduce homelessness. But they have raised controversy because they impinge on Indigenous aspirations to remain on homeland communities, require mainstreaming of Indigenous housing and transfer Indigenous land to the state. This paper uses recognition theory to argue that if policies of normalization are imposed on remote living Indigenous people…
Separate worlds: A discourse analysis of mainstream and Aboriginal populist media accounts of the Northern Territory Emergency Response in 2007
Critical commentary about the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) has included the claim that the media presented a simplistic and stereotyped image of Aboriginal communities at the time of its introduction in 2007, but to date there has been no systematic analysis to support this. This study addresses this research gap through a critical discourse analysis of reportage of the NTER in mainstream and Aboriginal populist print media. The f…
Losing my religion: Managing identity in a post-Jehovah's Witness world
What is it like to be socialised into the self-contained Christian fundamentalist world of the Jehovah's Witnesses and to move towards disinheriting that tradition during adolescence? This article considers this question by looking at how a group of young, Australian Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs), who were born into the religion, make the journey from membership to dissent. The interview data suggest that for these young respondents the roots of disa…
Repositioning the Racial Gaze: Aboriginal Perspectives on Race, Race Relations and Governance
In Australia, public debate about recognition of the nation’s First Australians through constitutional change has highlighted the complexity and sensitivities surrounding Indigenous/state relations at even the most basic level of legal rights. But the unevenness of race relations has meant Aboriginal perspectives on race relations are not well known. This is an obstacle for reconciliation which, by definition, must be a reciprocal process. It is …
Kindness in Australia: An Empirical Critique of Moral Decline Sociology
A new sociological agenda is emerging that interrogates how morality can be established in the absence of the moral certainties of the past but there is a shortage of empirical work on this topic. This article establishes a theoretical framework for the empirical analysis of everyday morality drawing on the work of theorists including Ahmed, Bauman and Taylor. It uses the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes to assess the state and shape of cont…
Housing First programs in congregate-site facilities: Can one size fit all
The ‘Pathways to Housing’ Program (PHP) is an internationally recognized reference point for solutions to chronic homelessness espousing principles of ‘Housing First’. In Australian capital cities, the introduction of Housing First has mostly taken the form of congregate-site housing, unlike the scatter-site housing that has been closely associated with PHP in the United States. This has raised questions about whether the translation of the PHP m…
The Neoliberal State, Recognition and Indigenous Rights
The impact of neoliberal governance on indigenous peoples in liberal settler states may be both enabling and constraining. This book is distinctive in drawing comparisons between three such states-Australia, Canada and New Zealand. In a series of empirically grounded, interpretive micro-studies, it draws out a shared policy coherence, but also exposes idiosyncrasies in the
Housing policy in remote Indigenous communities: How politics obstructs good policy
When it comes to issues of housing policy, remote Indigenous housing often presents the extreme case. The failures of housing policy are most acute in remote Indigenous Australia, but despite the need to learn from the policy mistakes of the past, there has been little detailed analysis of the policy history. Through documentary and empirical analysis, we show that policies have either failed to be adapted to cultural and geographic contexts or, …
Governing pluralistic liberal democratic societies and metis knowledge: The problem of Indigenous unemployment
High rates of unemployment among Indigenous Australians in comparison to non-Indigenous Australians have been rendered a public policy problem by successive Australian governments. The solutions are often coercive forms of neoliberal governance. However, where Indigenous people are driven by different motivations, ideas and aspirations in relation to work, Indigenous employment policies face the issue of epistemological dissonance. This article a…
Widening the gap: White ignorance, race relations and the consequences for Aboriginal people in Australia
White ignorance has a critical impact on race relations and is implicated in the maintenance of Aboriginal disadvantage. Addressing this ignorance is a largely overlooked capacity‐building opportunity within Australia's non‐Aboriginal population. It warrants consideration as a key component of strategies targeting Aboriginal disadvantage. Despite the established links between race relations and Aboriginal well‐being, Aboriginal perspectives on no…
White people have no face: Aboriginal perspectives on White culture and the costs of neoliberalism
Australia has a significant Aboriginal population but while much is known about how White people view Aboriginal culture, Aboriginal perspectives on White culture are not well known. Drawing on survey (N = 474) and in-depth interviews (N = 43) we aim to reposition the normativity of White culture by asking a diverse group of Aboriginal people what they think of White Australian values and behaviours. Regardless of social position, as a subaltern …
It is time for healthy living priorities to be integrated into Indigenous housing policy and practice: A reply to ‘Aboriginal social housing in remote Australia: crowded, unrepaired and raising the ri…
It is time for healthy living priorities to be integrated into Indigenous housing policy and practice: a reply to 'Aboriginal social housing in remote Australia: crowded, unrepaired and raising the risk of infectious diseases' by Paul Memmott et al
Sustaining housing through planned maintenance in remote Central Australia
Once housing is constructed, its sustainability depends on the efficacy of property maintenance. In remote Indigenous communities in Australia, responsive or reactive approaches to property maintenance dominate over planned and preventive attention, leaving housing in various states of disrepair. By documenting an approach that is succeeding in this wider context, this article shows the commonplace situation of poorly maintained social housing is…
A framework for the future of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing in Australia
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Indigenous (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)