Honni Van Rijswijk
Biographic Data
| ID | 1354562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Honni Van Rijswijk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Honni |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Rijswijk |
| SIGNATURE | VAN RIJSWIJK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9180-0078 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Drover’s Wife, the Legend of Molly Johnson
Henry Lawson’s short story, “The Drover’s Wife,” has animated Australian nationalism since its publication in 1892. The story is much-loved, and has been perceived as representing a voice from the margins, the enduring archetype of the Australian frontier bush woman, a figure who is simultaneously vulnerable and stoic. This archetype organises other tropes in Lawson’s story, symptomatic of the national imaginary of the internal frontier–the unrel…
The horror of corporate harms
There has been a great deal written about Purdue and the opioid epidemic in multiple disciplines, including dismay about the failure of the criminal legal system to adequately conceptualize and respond to Purdue’s responsibility for causing the epidemic. Rather than lingering on the failure of the criminal legal system, we read Purdue’s responsibility as and through horror. The harms caused by Purdue do not fit into criminal legal categories as t…
Final Fatal Girls - Horror and the Legal Subject
In mainstream culture, the horror genre is frequently looked down upon as trivial, shlocky and nasty - horror films are seen as being cheap to make, made for a younger, mass audience, and horror films tend to dwell on society's taboos, phobias and anxieties. Horror can also be a conservative genre - racist, misogynistic and queer phobic - enforcing rules that lead to horrible endings for characters that are non-white, queer or who are women. Howe…
A case study of state-corporate crime
The concept of state-corporate crime has emerged in criminological discourse to explain the nexus of political and economic decision-making by states and corporations, and the ways this cooperation can have socially injurious impacts (Michalowski, R. J., & Kramer, R. C. [2006]. The critique of power. In R. J. Michalowski & R. C. Kramer (Eds.), State-corporate crime. New Brunswick: Rutgers, p. 15). This ‘cooperation’ can include corporations engag…
Negotiating 'Evil'
‘Don’t be evil’ was part of Google’s corporate code of conduct since 2000; however, it was quietly removed in April or May 2018 and subsequently replaced with ‘do the right thing’. Questions were raised both internally and externally to the organisation regarding the substantive meaning of this imperative. Some have highlighted the company’s original intentions in creating the code of conduct, while others have used the motto as a basis for criti…
Re-defining Gendered Harm and Institutions under Colonialism
Law's imaginary and logics are notoriously limited in their ways of thinking through and adjudicating sexual violence. The #MeToo movement is in large part a public, extra-legal response to the inadequacies of liberal law in responding to sexual violence. #MeToo has purportedly interrogated liberal institutions and the operation of gender within them. In particular, #MeToo has shown that gendered harm is a normalised part of the operation of libe…
Across Islands and Oceans
Towards a Literary Jurisprudence of Harm
The figure of the “abused Aboriginal child” haunts the Australian legal imaginary in ways that are both poignant and dangerous. This article examines the role this figure has played in assertions of Australian law's violent jurisdictions, in the past and in the present. I examine the narratives that support law's claims to authority and jurisdiction over Aboriginal communities, arguing that practices of representation—narrative, figuration, and w…
Archiving The Northern Territory Intervention in Law and in the Literary Counter-Imaginary
This article focuses on a figure archived in contemporary Australian law, a figure who is central to the state's control of Aboriginal people. This figure, like her counterparts in earlier historical periods, is to be found in legislation and in case law, and in law's supplementary genres, including welfare and indigenous policy, and Parliamentary second-reading speeches. This figure is the ‘abused Aboriginal child’, and she has been significant …
Justice in the gutter
Trauma studies has had a long relationship with legal studies. Shoshana Felman argues that ‘trauma – individual as well as social – is the basic underlying reality of the law’ (2002: 172). The law has made available certain forms for the representation and adjudication of traumatic experience. Among others, testimony and the trial are legal forms that offer the potential for justice for traumatic events, at the same time that they delimit the way…
What Kept You So Long?”
School bullying has been recognized only relatively recently by policy-makers, media and the courts as a serious and widespread social problem. But despite this recent notice, there has been no evidence that techniques adopted to stop bullying have led to anything more than modest success, implying that we need to do more work to unpack and theorize the nature of bullying. In this article, we consider a recent vampire narrative as a story about b…
Neighbourly Injuries
Towards a Feminist Aesthetic of Justice
(2012). Towards a Feminist Aesthetic of Justice: Sarah Kane’s Blasted as Theorisation of the Representation of Sexual Violence in International Law. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 107-124
Memory, Imagination, Justice
Towards a Literary Jurisprudence of Harm
The figure of the “abused Aboriginal child” haunts the Australian legal imaginary in ways that are both poignant and dangerous. This article examines the role this figure has played in assertions of Australian law's violent jurisdictions, in the past and in the present. I examine the narratives that support law's claims to authority and jurisdiction over Aboriginal communities, arguing that practices of representation—narrative, figuration, and w…
Re-defining Gendered Harm and Institutions under Colonialism
Law's imaginary and logics are notoriously limited in their ways of thinking through and adjudicating sexual violence. The #MeToo movement is in large part a public, extra-legal response to the inadequacies of liberal law in responding to sexual violence. #MeToo has purportedly interrogated liberal institutions and the operation of gender within them. In particular, #MeToo has shown that gendered harm is a normalised part of the operation of libe…
Archiving The Northern Territory Intervention in Law and in the Literary Counter-Imaginary
This article focuses on a figure archived in contemporary Australian law, a figure who is central to the state's control of Aboriginal people. This figure, like her counterparts in earlier historical periods, is to be found in legislation and in case law, and in law's supplementary genres, including welfare and indigenous policy, and Parliamentary second-reading speeches. This figure is the ‘abused Aboriginal child’, and she has been significant …
What Kept You So Long?”
School bullying has been recognized only relatively recently by policy-makers, media and the courts as a serious and widespread social problem. But despite this recent notice, there has been no evidence that techniques adopted to stop bullying have led to anything more than modest success, implying that we need to do more work to unpack and theorize the nature of bullying. In this article, we consider a recent vampire narrative as a story about b…
Memory, Imagination, Justice
Justice in the gutter
Trauma studies has had a long relationship with legal studies. Shoshana Felman argues that ‘trauma – individual as well as social – is the basic underlying reality of the law’ (2002: 172). The law has made available certain forms for the representation and adjudication of traumatic experience. Among others, testimony and the trial are legal forms that offer the potential for justice for traumatic events, at the same time that they delimit the way…
What Kept You So Long?”
School bullying has been recognized only relatively recently by policy-makers, media and the courts as a serious and widespread social problem. But despite this recent notice, there has been no evidence that techniques adopted to stop bullying have led to anything more than modest success, implying that we need to do more work to unpack and theorize the nature of bullying. In this article, we consider a recent vampire narrative as a story about b…
Neighbourly Injuries
Towards a Feminist Aesthetic of Justice
(2012). Towards a Feminist Aesthetic of Justice: Sarah Kane’s Blasted as Theorisation of the Representation of Sexual Violence in International Law. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 107-124
Archiving The Northern Territory Intervention in Law and in the Literary Counter-Imaginary
This article focuses on a figure archived in contemporary Australian law, a figure who is central to the state's control of Aboriginal people. This figure, like her counterparts in earlier historical periods, is to be found in legislation and in case law, and in law's supplementary genres, including welfare and indigenous policy, and Parliamentary second-reading speeches. This figure is the ‘abused Aboriginal child’, and she has been significant …
Towards a Literary Jurisprudence of Harm
The figure of the “abused Aboriginal child” haunts the Australian legal imaginary in ways that are both poignant and dangerous. This article examines the role this figure has played in assertions of Australian law's violent jurisdictions, in the past and in the present. I examine the narratives that support law's claims to authority and jurisdiction over Aboriginal communities, arguing that practices of representation—narrative, figuration, and w…
Across Islands and Oceans
Negotiating 'Evil'
‘Don’t be evil’ was part of Google’s corporate code of conduct since 2000; however, it was quietly removed in April or May 2018 and subsequently replaced with ‘do the right thing’. Questions were raised both internally and externally to the organisation regarding the substantive meaning of this imperative. Some have highlighted the company’s original intentions in creating the code of conduct, while others have used the motto as a basis for criti…
Re-defining Gendered Harm and Institutions under Colonialism
Law's imaginary and logics are notoriously limited in their ways of thinking through and adjudicating sexual violence. The #MeToo movement is in large part a public, extra-legal response to the inadequacies of liberal law in responding to sexual violence. #MeToo has purportedly interrogated liberal institutions and the operation of gender within them. In particular, #MeToo has shown that gendered harm is a normalised part of the operation of libe…
A case study of state-corporate crime
The concept of state-corporate crime has emerged in criminological discourse to explain the nexus of political and economic decision-making by states and corporations, and the ways this cooperation can have socially injurious impacts (Michalowski, R. J., & Kramer, R. C. [2006]. The critique of power. In R. J. Michalowski & R. C. Kramer (Eds.), State-corporate crime. New Brunswick: Rutgers, p. 15). This ‘cooperation’ can include corporations engag…
The Drover’s Wife, the Legend of Molly Johnson
Henry Lawson’s short story, “The Drover’s Wife,” has animated Australian nationalism since its publication in 1892. The story is much-loved, and has been perceived as representing a voice from the margins, the enduring archetype of the Australian frontier bush woman, a figure who is simultaneously vulnerable and stoic. This archetype organises other tropes in Lawson’s story, symptomatic of the national imaginary of the internal frontier–the unrel…
The horror of corporate harms
There has been a great deal written about Purdue and the opioid epidemic in multiple disciplines, including dismay about the failure of the criminal legal system to adequately conceptualize and respond to Purdue’s responsibility for causing the epidemic. Rather than lingering on the failure of the criminal legal system, we read Purdue’s responsibility as and through horror. The harms caused by Purdue do not fit into criminal legal categories as t…
Final Fatal Girls - Horror and the Legal Subject
In mainstream culture, the horror genre is frequently looked down upon as trivial, shlocky and nasty - horror films are seen as being cheap to make, made for a younger, mass audience, and horror films tend to dwell on society's taboos, phobias and anxieties. Horror can also be a conservative genre - racist, misogynistic and queer phobic - enforcing rules that lead to horrible endings for characters that are non-white, queer or who are women. Howe…
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