Toula Nicolacopoulos
Biographic Data
| ID | 1683806 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toula Nicolacopoulos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toula |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicolacopoulos |
| SIGNATURE | NICOLACOPOULOS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1057-1176 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Conceptualising and educating for global citizenship
Education for global citizenship is one of many of strategies adopted by higher education institutions. We share the findings of a qualitative study in one Australian university that examined the impact of a university goal to embed global citizenship. We found Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model to be a suitable framework to examine the process of developing global citizens at our institution. Our findings suggest that university strategies at the…
Students positioned as global citizens in Australian and New Zealand universities
Higher education plays a critical role in producing society’s leaders by preparing graduates with the knowledge, capabilities and disposition to appreciate diversity and address social injustice. Many higher education institutions within and beyond Australia have aimed to internationalise their curricula to ensure students achieve capabilities that enable them to contribute to an evolving global knowledge economy. However, the inclusion of global…
The commodity as the universal category
In 'Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat', Lukács analyses the commodity-structure as 'the universal category' that frames society as a whole. Taking seriously the aspiration to follow Marx in going 'to the root of the matter', Lukács examines the ways and extent to which the commodity structure extends into and remoulds society, focusing on living individuals, their needs and relations to things as use values. We propose a readin…
Castoriadis, racist and anti-racist ontologies
Castoriadis explains racism as a mode of hatred of the other and as a feature of the self-institution of heteronomous societies built on ethnocentrism. At the level of the psychical human being he identifies two forms of racist fixation on others: hatred of the other as the flip-side of self-love and as the other side of self-hatred, which he analyses, respectively, as a mode of pseudo-reasoning and as unconscious desire. We argue that attention …
Cave Dwellers or Labyrinth Diggers? Castoriadis and Plato on Philosophy and Politics
Beginning with a consideration of Castoriadis’s elucidation of autonomous thinking, both by way of the contrast he draws with the inherited tradition and in relation to his account of the demands of the political project of autonomy, we compare Plato’s story of the Cave to suggest that Castoriadis overestimates the power of questioning and of creating new social forms. We then argue that Castoriadis and Plato emerge as two extremes: whereas the f…
Indigenous Sovereignty and the Being of the Occupier
A spectre is haunting white Australia, the spectre of Indigenous sovereignty. All the powers of old Australia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: politicians and judges, academics and media proprietors, businesspeople and church leaders
The time(s) of our lives
The time of radical autonomous thinking and social-historical becoming in Castoriadis
This paper examines Castoriadis' concept of time as ontological creation in relation to the activation of the project of autonomy. We argue that since Castoriadis presents as a practitioner of the creation of time as radical autonomous thinking, this is the standpoint from which to assess his claims. Through an examination of Castoriadis' claim that the practice of autonomy depends upon it being activated by a willing singularity who accepts the …
On the other side of xenophobia
The question of Australia's moral responsibilities to onshore asylum seekers is typically framed in terms of the assessment of governments' responsibilities towards competing international humanitarian and national interests. Our paper invites us to rethink the starting assumptions of this approach. We argue for the adoption of a conception of 'unconditional hospitality' as our ethical guide to receiving Australia's onshore asylum seekers. To thi…
From Epistemological Indeterminism to Ontological Integrity
(2004). From Epistemological Indeterminism to Ontological Integrity: Ethnicity and Generational Differences in Collaborative Life-History Writing. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 19, Life Writing and the Generations, pp. 275-285
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On the other side of xenophobia
The question of Australia's moral responsibilities to onshore asylum seekers is typically framed in terms of the assessment of governments' responsibilities towards competing international humanitarian and national interests. Our paper invites us to rethink the starting assumptions of this approach. We argue for the adoption of a conception of 'unconditional hospitality' as our ethical guide to receiving Australia's onshore asylum seekers. To thi…
From Epistemological Indeterminism to Ontological Integrity
(2004). From Epistemological Indeterminism to Ontological Integrity: Ethnicity and Generational Differences in Collaborative Life-History Writing. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 19, Life Writing and the Generations, pp. 275-285
Indigenous Sovereignty and the Being of the Occupier
A spectre is haunting white Australia, the spectre of Indigenous sovereignty. All the powers of old Australia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: politicians and judges, academics and media proprietors, businesspeople and church leaders
The time(s) of our lives
The time of radical autonomous thinking and social-historical becoming in Castoriadis
This paper examines Castoriadis' concept of time as ontological creation in relation to the activation of the project of autonomy. We argue that since Castoriadis presents as a practitioner of the creation of time as radical autonomous thinking, this is the standpoint from which to assess his claims. Through an examination of Castoriadis' claim that the practice of autonomy depends upon it being activated by a willing singularity who accepts the …
Cave Dwellers or Labyrinth Diggers? Castoriadis and Plato on Philosophy and Politics
Beginning with a consideration of Castoriadis’s elucidation of autonomous thinking, both by way of the contrast he draws with the inherited tradition and in relation to his account of the demands of the political project of autonomy, we compare Plato’s story of the Cave to suggest that Castoriadis overestimates the power of questioning and of creating new social forms. We then argue that Castoriadis and Plato emerge as two extremes: whereas the f…
Students positioned as global citizens in Australian and New Zealand universities
Higher education plays a critical role in producing society’s leaders by preparing graduates with the knowledge, capabilities and disposition to appreciate diversity and address social injustice. Many higher education institutions within and beyond Australia have aimed to internationalise their curricula to ensure students achieve capabilities that enable them to contribute to an evolving global knowledge economy. However, the inclusion of global…
The commodity as the universal category
In 'Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat', Lukács analyses the commodity-structure as 'the universal category' that frames society as a whole. Taking seriously the aspiration to follow Marx in going 'to the root of the matter', Lukács examines the ways and extent to which the commodity structure extends into and remoulds society, focusing on living individuals, their needs and relations to things as use values. We propose a readin…
Castoriadis, racist and anti-racist ontologies
Castoriadis explains racism as a mode of hatred of the other and as a feature of the self-institution of heteronomous societies built on ethnocentrism. At the level of the psychical human being he identifies two forms of racist fixation on others: hatred of the other as the flip-side of self-love and as the other side of self-hatred, which he analyses, respectively, as a mode of pseudo-reasoning and as unconscious desire. We argue that attention …
Conceptualising and educating for global citizenship
Education for global citizenship is one of many of strategies adopted by higher education institutions. We share the findings of a qualitative study in one Australian university that examined the impact of a university goal to embed global citizenship. We found Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model to be a suitable framework to examine the process of developing global citizens at our institution. Our findings suggest that university strategies at the…
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