L Cox
Biographic Data
| ID | 12983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Cox |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Cox |
| SIGNATURE | COX L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9301-2016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Putting food on the table’
Media discourses shape social values and public policy. Initial and ongoing colonisation in Australia results in disproportionately greater food insecurity experienced by First Nations peoples, negatively impacting health and wellbeing. This paper introduces that history and considers representations of food insecurity for First Nations communities in major Australian print and online news sources, reflecting on policy and practice implications. …
Transnationalism and the Karen wrist‐tying ceremony
When settling, people often use cultural schema from their original homeland to build familiarity in unfamiliar surrounds. This paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the first author in Brisbane, with the Karen community from Burma, during which participant observation and interview methods were used. We present an ethnographic account of the Brisbane Karen wrist‐tying ceremony. The ceremony acts as an insight into the challenges for…
Digital Storytelling as a Social Work Tool
This paper reflects on the wider potential of digital narratives as a useful tool for social work practitioners. Despite the multiple points of connection between narrative approaches and social work, the influence of narratives on practice remains limited. A case study of a digital storytelling (DST) process employed in a research project with a small group of lone mothers from refugee backgrounds is used to trigger discussion of broader applica…
Blood in our hearts or blood on our hands? The viscosity, vitality and validity of Aboriginal ‘blood talk
Blood metaphors abound in everyday social discourse among both Aboriginal and nonAboriginal people. However, ‘Aboriginal blood talk’, more specifically, is located within a contradictory and contested space in terms of the meanings and values that can be attributed to it by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. In the colonial context, blood talk operated as a tool of oppression for Aboriginal people via blood quantum discourses, yet today, Abori…
Everyday resilience
This article offers a critical exploration of the concept of resilience, which is largely conceptualized in the literature as an extraordinary atypical personal ability to revert or 'bounce back' to a point of equilibrium despite significant adversity. While resilience has been explored in a range of contexts, there is little recognition of resilience as a social process arising from mundane practices of everyday life and situated in person-envir…
Queensland Aborigines, Multiple Realities and the Social Sources of Suffering Part 2 Suicide, Spirits and Symbolism
This is the second part of a paper that explores a range of magico‐religious experiences such as immaterial voices and visions, in terms of local cultural, moral and socio‐political circumstances in an Aboriginal town in rural Queensland. This part of the paper explores the political and cultural symbolism and meaning of suicide. It charts the saliency of suicide amongst two groups of kin and cohorts and the social meaningfulness and problematic …
Queensland Aborigines, Multiple Realities and the Social Sources of Suffering
This two part paper considers the experience of a range of magico‐religious experiences (such as visions and voices) and spirit beliefs in a rural Aboriginal town. The papers challenge the tendency of institutionalised psychiatry to medicalise the experiences and critiques the way in which its individualistic practice is intensified in the face of an incomprehensible Aboriginal ‘other’ to become part of the power imbalance that characterises the …
Paint on their lips
This article describes structured responses to young Indigenous people whose paint-sniffing in Brisbane attracts public attention. It gives an emic account of the sniffers' responses to these processes and argues that paint-sniffing expresses their alienated and marginalized social status and is part of an encoded revolt against White cultural authority and its imposed norms. Foucault's view of freedom as the capacity to act and question the take…
Knowledge Attitudes and Sexual Practices of Medical Students towards HIV/Aids
Introduction The centrality of behaviour change in combating HIV has been recognized since the beginning of the epidemic. One of the most widespread approaches to behaviour change used in the battle against HIV/AIDS has been information, education and communication (IEC) campaigns focused on raising awareness about the virus and the syndrome, avoiding behaviours associated with increased risk, and providing behavioural strategies for the caregive…
Everyday resilience
This article offers a critical exploration of the concept of resilience, which is largely conceptualized in the literature as an extraordinary atypical personal ability to revert or 'bounce back' to a point of equilibrium despite significant adversity. While resilience has been explored in a range of contexts, there is little recognition of resilience as a social process arising from mundane practices of everyday life and situated in person-envir…
Digital Storytelling as a Social Work Tool
This paper reflects on the wider potential of digital narratives as a useful tool for social work practitioners. Despite the multiple points of connection between narrative approaches and social work, the influence of narratives on practice remains limited. A case study of a digital storytelling (DST) process employed in a research project with a small group of lone mothers from refugee backgrounds is used to trigger discussion of broader applica…
Blood in our hearts or blood on our hands? The viscosity, vitality and validity of Aboriginal ‘blood talk
Blood metaphors abound in everyday social discourse among both Aboriginal and nonAboriginal people. However, ‘Aboriginal blood talk’, more specifically, is located within a contradictory and contested space in terms of the meanings and values that can be attributed to it by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. In the colonial context, blood talk operated as a tool of oppression for Aboriginal people via blood quantum discourses, yet today, Abori…
Paint on their lips
This article describes structured responses to young Indigenous people whose paint-sniffing in Brisbane attracts public attention. It gives an emic account of the sniffers' responses to these processes and argues that paint-sniffing expresses their alienated and marginalized social status and is part of an encoded revolt against White cultural authority and its imposed norms. Foucault's view of freedom as the capacity to act and question the take…
Knowledge Attitudes and Sexual Practices of Medical Students towards HIV/Aids
Introduction The centrality of behaviour change in combating HIV has been recognized since the beginning of the epidemic. One of the most widespread approaches to behaviour change used in the battle against HIV/AIDS has been information, education and communication (IEC) campaigns focused on raising awareness about the virus and the syndrome, avoiding behaviours associated with increased risk, and providing behavioural strategies for the caregive…
Paint on their lips
This article describes structured responses to young Indigenous people whose paint-sniffing in Brisbane attracts public attention. It gives an emic account of the sniffers' responses to these processes and argues that paint-sniffing expresses their alienated and marginalized social status and is part of an encoded revolt against White cultural authority and its imposed norms. Foucault's view of freedom as the capacity to act and question the take…
Queensland Aborigines, Multiple Realities and the Social Sources of Suffering
This two part paper considers the experience of a range of magico‐religious experiences (such as visions and voices) and spirit beliefs in a rural Aboriginal town. The papers challenge the tendency of institutionalised psychiatry to medicalise the experiences and critiques the way in which its individualistic practice is intensified in the face of an incomprehensible Aboriginal ‘other’ to become part of the power imbalance that characterises the …
Queensland Aborigines, Multiple Realities and the Social Sources of Suffering Part 2 Suicide, Spirits and Symbolism
This is the second part of a paper that explores a range of magico‐religious experiences such as immaterial voices and visions, in terms of local cultural, moral and socio‐political circumstances in an Aboriginal town in rural Queensland. This part of the paper explores the political and cultural symbolism and meaning of suicide. It charts the saliency of suicide amongst two groups of kin and cohorts and the social meaningfulness and problematic …
Everyday resilience
This article offers a critical exploration of the concept of resilience, which is largely conceptualized in the literature as an extraordinary atypical personal ability to revert or 'bounce back' to a point of equilibrium despite significant adversity. While resilience has been explored in a range of contexts, there is little recognition of resilience as a social process arising from mundane practices of everyday life and situated in person-envir…
Blood in our hearts or blood on our hands? The viscosity, vitality and validity of Aboriginal ‘blood talk
Blood metaphors abound in everyday social discourse among both Aboriginal and nonAboriginal people. However, ‘Aboriginal blood talk’, more specifically, is located within a contradictory and contested space in terms of the meanings and values that can be attributed to it by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. In the colonial context, blood talk operated as a tool of oppression for Aboriginal people via blood quantum discourses, yet today, Abori…
Digital Storytelling as a Social Work Tool
This paper reflects on the wider potential of digital narratives as a useful tool for social work practitioners. Despite the multiple points of connection between narrative approaches and social work, the influence of narratives on practice remains limited. A case study of a digital storytelling (DST) process employed in a research project with a small group of lone mothers from refugee backgrounds is used to trigger discussion of broader applica…
Transnationalism and the Karen wrist‐tying ceremony
When settling, people often use cultural schema from their original homeland to build familiarity in unfamiliar surrounds. This paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the first author in Brisbane, with the Karen community from Burma, during which participant observation and interview methods were used. We present an ethnographic account of the Brisbane Karen wrist‐tying ceremony. The ceremony acts as an insight into the challenges for…
Putting food on the table’
Media discourses shape social values and public policy. Initial and ongoing colonisation in Australia results in disproportionately greater food insecurity experienced by First Nations peoples, negatively impacting health and wellbeing. This paper introduces that history and considers representations of food insecurity for First Nations communities in major Australian print and online news sources, reflecting on policy and practice implications. …
Gender Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (3 works)