David Mccallum
Biographic Data
| ID | 205263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Mccallum |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccallum |
| SIGNATURE | MCCALLUM D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8247-6608 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences
This reference work offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of ideas, concepts and policies within the human sciences
The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences
An Integrated Theatre Production for School Nutrition Promotion Program
In the context of stubbornly high childhood obesity rates, health promotion activities in schools provide a potential avenue to improve children's nutritional behaviours. Theatre production has a rich history as a health behaviour promotion strategy but lacks sound, outcome-based evaluation. This study evaluated the effect of an integrated, two-part, place-based theatre performance program with 212 students in five schools in a regional urban and…
Criminalizing Children: Welfare and the State in Australia
Incarceration of children is rising rapidly throughout of Australia, with indigenous children most at risk of imprisonment. Indigenous and non-indigenous children have been subject to detention in both welfare and justice systems in Australian states and territories since colonization. Countless governments and human rights enquiries have attempted to address the problem of the increasing criminalization of children, with little success. David Mc…
Categories of race: Technologies of knowing and governing Australian aborigines
This article documents the first decades of the work of the Aboriginal Protection Board in Victoria, Australia in the mid-nineteenth century, as it oversees the establishment of mission stations to gather up Aboriginal peoples and provide protection from settler violence. It augments existing accounts of white settler governance of Aboriginal peoples by examining the social and historical conditions for the emergence of separations and distinctio…
Cultivating intention (as we enter the fray): The practice of embodying presence, awareness, and purpose as action researchers
Unstable categories: Children in welfare and justice
SynopsisThis article provides historical evidence of attempts in late nineteenth-century Victoria to establish two sets of institutions for children designated as ‘neglected’ and ‘criminal’, seeking to mark out lines of separation between the neglected, orphans and children in need of protection on the one hand, and children who have been convicted of an offence on the other. The evidence shows that the actual workings of these institutions and t…
Criminal neglect: Tracing the category of the Aboriginal 'neglected child
There were times in Australian history when the singular, awesome power of ‘the Crown’ was wielded over colonial subjects of the British Empire, including citizen settlers occupying new lands and subject populations whose territories were claimed on behalf of the sovereign. This article presupposes that many consequences of invasion under eighteenth century conventions of conquest and rule are still evident in present-day Australian liberal forms…
Bio-child: Human sciences and governing through freedom
This article provides an account of the rise of a bio-politics of governing families and children in Australia and its relations with liberal political reason. Drawing on Foucault's lectures on Security, Territory, Population it maps out the ways in which forms of liberal governing seek to define the nature and scope of norms and freedoms in a population through the practices of the human sciences. Bio-politics is shown to introduce new ways of c…
Lemon and Milk’: Liberal Political Tensions in Child Governance
Child protection is reported to be in a state of crisis. Regular media commentary on escalating rates of child abuse, continual reports of deaths of clients in child protection services, and the use of the army and police in Northern Territory Indigenous communities, all seem to point to an upsurge in the harming of children in Australia. This article reviews some Australian and international research that has been important in shaping the proble…
Money, Discipline, and Liberal Political Reason
The Currency of Freedom
Liberal Forms of Governing Australian Indigenous Peoples
This article considers three different historical events from the point of view of their connections to aspects of the history of liberal political reason: the actions of the British in New South Wales in the early nineteenth century in their claim to sovereignty over Indigenous lands; the establishment of Aboriginal missions and subsequent removal of Aboriginal children in the early twentieth century; and the Northern Territory Emergency Respons…
Punishing Welfare: Genealogies of Child Abuse
Official statistics on child protection in Australia suggest that child abuse is at crisis levels, providing a context for the most recent legislative and regulatory changes in child protection in Victoria; these promote community-managed services, voluntary care agreements, informal legal processes and fast-tracking of child intervention. This article sets out the rudiments of a genealogical account of the category of child abuse, placing the pr…
Psy-knowledge, history and the sociology of law: The case of juvenile justice
This article examines the application of the psy-sciences to the conduct of juvenile justice in Victoria in the period 1940—80, in order to reassess assumptions in contemporary sociology of law concerning psy-knowledge and judicial administration, welfare and justice, and their relations to liberal or conservative political mandates. It seeks to understand the implications of shifts in the production of knowledge of the child in the justice syste…
Coercive Normalization and Family Policing: The Limits of the ‘Psy-Complex’ in Australian Penal Systems
Much contemporary social and historical research on problem children and families focuses on the different kinds of power deployed in a complex of legal and non-legal settings. This article reviews socio-legal studies in Europe, Australia and the UK, and additional archival evidence in Victoria, Australia, in relation to a shift towards positivist and ‘welfarist’ approaches to the problem of child criminality and family regulation from the turn o…
Has Welfarist Criminology Failed? Juvenile Justice and the Human Sciences in Victoria
In the present context of ‘get tough on crime ’ and ‘back to criminal justice ’ campaigns that continue to dominate political agendas throughout Australia, critics point to the inadequacy of ‘welfarist ’ or reformist criminological and sociological theories that have informed interventions in the past, and reinforce the need for ‘retributive justice ’ models of penal policy. This paper examines historical evidence on the role of the human science…
Informal powers and the removal of Aboriginal children: Consequences for health and social order
Merging' the Aboriginal population: Welfare, justice, power and the separation of Aboriginal children in Victoria
This paper sets out some of the parameters of social intervention in the family in Australia around the turn of the 20th century in ways which permit interventions in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations to be broadly compared and contrasted. It focuses on forms of intervention underpinned by the kind of liberal political reasoning that allowed administrators to intervene on the basis of assessments of the capacity of families to govern them…
Law and Governance in Australian Aboriginal Communities: Liberal and Neo-liberal Political Reason
This paper examines Aboriginal governance in Australia in the 1890s, at a time when the mission station was the main instrument used to manage certain categories of Aboriginal person. The paper compares these arrangements with aspects of current practices of the Howard conservative government that deploys techniques such as ‘Shared Responsibility Agreements’ in order to govern Aboriginal communities. These forms of governance are compared and con…
Personality and Dangerousness: Genealogies of Antisocial Personality Disorder
Personality and Dangerousness traces the history of the category of antisocial personality disorder, showing its emergence to be linked to particular kinds of governing, rather than simply to advances in the human sciences or as a means of social control. The book examines key legal and institutional developments in Australia, the UK and the US and also parallel developments within psychiatry and psychological medicine. Applying a social theoreti…
Conduct Disorder: The Achievement of a Diagnosis1
This paper explores the historical shapings behind the diagnosis of conduct disorders. We take as our point of purchase oppositional ways of knowing the subject of conduct disorder—as either pathologically motivated or as the victim of a repressive mandate to control disorderly conduct. We take our cue from Foucault's suggestion that the pursuit of singular motivations behind a phenomenon is not the most fruitful means of understanding its histor…
Personality and Dangerousness: Genealogies of Antisocial Personality Disorder
In the aftermath of the Port Arthur shootings, Dunblane or the schoolyard killings in America, communities try to come to terms with private and public trauma and there is a need to understand what kind of person can commit such terrible acts. The problem of how to understand dangerousness often centres on the role of the mental health and criminal justice systems and it is from the intersection of these two institutions that the categorisation o…
Personality and dangerousness: Genealogies of Antisocial Personality Disorder
The Myth-or-Reality of Attention-Deficit Disorder: A Genealogical Approach
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Australian Research Council for this project. Notes The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Australian Research Council for this project
The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences
This reference work offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of ideas, concepts and policies within the human sciences
Law and Governance in Australian Aboriginal Communities: Liberal and Neo-liberal Political Reason
This paper examines Aboriginal governance in Australia in the 1890s, at a time when the mission station was the main instrument used to manage certain categories of Aboriginal person. The paper compares these arrangements with aspects of current practices of the Howard conservative government that deploys techniques such as ‘Shared Responsibility Agreements’ in order to govern Aboriginal communities. These forms of governance are compared and con…
The Myth-or-Reality of Attention-Deficit Disorder: A Genealogical Approach
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Australian Research Council for this project. Notes The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Australian Research Council for this project
Coercive Normalization and Family Policing: The Limits of the ‘Psy-Complex’ in Australian Penal Systems
Much contemporary social and historical research on problem children and families focuses on the different kinds of power deployed in a complex of legal and non-legal settings. This article reviews socio-legal studies in Europe, Australia and the UK, and additional archival evidence in Victoria, Australia, in relation to a shift towards positivist and ‘welfarist’ approaches to the problem of child criminality and family regulation from the turn o…
The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences
Criminal neglect: Tracing the category of the Aboriginal 'neglected child
There were times in Australian history when the singular, awesome power of ‘the Crown’ was wielded over colonial subjects of the British Empire, including citizen settlers occupying new lands and subject populations whose territories were claimed on behalf of the sovereign. This article presupposes that many consequences of invasion under eighteenth century conventions of conquest and rule are still evident in present-day Australian liberal forms…
Merging' the Aboriginal population: Welfare, justice, power and the separation of Aboriginal children in Victoria
This paper sets out some of the parameters of social intervention in the family in Australia around the turn of the 20th century in ways which permit interventions in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations to be broadly compared and contrasted. It focuses on forms of intervention underpinned by the kind of liberal political reasoning that allowed administrators to intervene on the basis of assessments of the capacity of families to govern them…
Liberal Forms of Governing Australian Indigenous Peoples
This article considers three different historical events from the point of view of their connections to aspects of the history of liberal political reason: the actions of the British in New South Wales in the early nineteenth century in their claim to sovereignty over Indigenous lands; the establishment of Aboriginal missions and subsequent removal of Aboriginal children in the early twentieth century; and the Northern Territory Emergency Respons…
Informal powers and the removal of Aboriginal children: Consequences for health and social order
The Theory of Social Differences in Early Twentieth Century Education in Victoria
This paper examines the beginnings of State involvement in secondary education in Victoria in the early twentieth century and describes the emergence of a body of theory about educational differences which accompanied this important expansion in State activity. It shows that publicly-funded secondary schooling was supported as part of a national effort for increased industrial and social efficiency, and further, as a means towards realizing a bro…
Effective Risk Communication: The Role and Responsibility of Government and Nongovernment Organizations
The Determinants of Trust and Credibility in Environmental Risk Communication: An Empirical Study
This study examines a key component of environmental risk communication; trust and credibility. The study was conducted in two parts. In the first part, six hypotheses regarding the perceptions and determinants of trust and credibility were tested against survey data. The hypotheses were supported by the data. The most important hypothesis was that perceptions of trust and credibility are dependent on three factors: perceptions of knowledge and e…
Promoting Electronic Scholarly Publishing in Canada: Initiatives at Industry Canada
As part of its internationally acclaimed SchoolNet project, Industry Canada is supporting major initiatives in the area of electronic scholarly publishing. This paper provides a brief introduction to Industry Canada’s activities related to universities, academics, and students, and describes SchoolNet’s efforts to promote electronic publishing of scholarly information in Canada
History of the human sciences special feature: Introduction
The Myth-or-Reality of Attention-Deficit Disorder: A Genealogical Approach
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Australian Research Council for this project. Notes The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Australian Research Council for this project
Personality and Dangerousness: Genealogies of Antisocial Personality Disorder
In the aftermath of the Port Arthur shootings, Dunblane or the schoolyard killings in America, communities try to come to terms with private and public trauma and there is a need to understand what kind of person can commit such terrible acts. The problem of how to understand dangerousness often centres on the role of the mental health and criminal justice systems and it is from the intersection of these two institutions that the categorisation o…
Personality and dangerousness: Genealogies of Antisocial Personality Disorder
Personality and Dangerousness: Genealogies of Antisocial Personality Disorder
Personality and Dangerousness traces the history of the category of antisocial personality disorder, showing its emergence to be linked to particular kinds of governing, rather than simply to advances in the human sciences or as a means of social control. The book examines key legal and institutional developments in Australia, the UK and the US and also parallel developments within psychiatry and psychological medicine. Applying a social theoreti…
Conduct Disorder: The Achievement of a Diagnosis1
This paper explores the historical shapings behind the diagnosis of conduct disorders. We take as our point of purchase oppositional ways of knowing the subject of conduct disorder—as either pathologically motivated or as the victim of a repressive mandate to control disorderly conduct. We take our cue from Foucault's suggestion that the pursuit of singular motivations behind a phenomenon is not the most fruitful means of understanding its histor…
Law and Governance in Australian Aboriginal Communities: Liberal and Neo-liberal Political Reason
This paper examines Aboriginal governance in Australia in the 1890s, at a time when the mission station was the main instrument used to manage certain categories of Aboriginal person. The paper compares these arrangements with aspects of current practices of the Howard conservative government that deploys techniques such as ‘Shared Responsibility Agreements’ in order to govern Aboriginal communities. These forms of governance are compared and con…
Merging' the Aboriginal population: Welfare, justice, power and the separation of Aboriginal children in Victoria
This paper sets out some of the parameters of social intervention in the family in Australia around the turn of the 20th century in ways which permit interventions in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations to be broadly compared and contrasted. It focuses on forms of intervention underpinned by the kind of liberal political reasoning that allowed administrators to intervene on the basis of assessments of the capacity of families to govern them…
Coercive Normalization and Family Policing: The Limits of the ‘Psy-Complex’ in Australian Penal Systems
Much contemporary social and historical research on problem children and families focuses on the different kinds of power deployed in a complex of legal and non-legal settings. This article reviews socio-legal studies in Europe, Australia and the UK, and additional archival evidence in Victoria, Australia, in relation to a shift towards positivist and ‘welfarist’ approaches to the problem of child criminality and family regulation from the turn o…
Has Welfarist Criminology Failed? Juvenile Justice and the Human Sciences in Victoria
In the present context of ‘get tough on crime ’ and ‘back to criminal justice ’ campaigns that continue to dominate political agendas throughout Australia, critics point to the inadequacy of ‘welfarist ’ or reformist criminological and sociological theories that have informed interventions in the past, and reinforce the need for ‘retributive justice ’ models of penal policy. This paper examines historical evidence on the role of the human science…
Informal powers and the removal of Aboriginal children: Consequences for health and social order
Psy-knowledge, history and the sociology of law: The case of juvenile justice
This article examines the application of the psy-sciences to the conduct of juvenile justice in Victoria in the period 1940—80, in order to reassess assumptions in contemporary sociology of law concerning psy-knowledge and judicial administration, welfare and justice, and their relations to liberal or conservative political mandates. It seeks to understand the implications of shifts in the production of knowledge of the child in the justice syste…
Punishing Welfare: Genealogies of Child Abuse
Official statistics on child protection in Australia suggest that child abuse is at crisis levels, providing a context for the most recent legislative and regulatory changes in child protection in Victoria; these promote community-managed services, voluntary care agreements, informal legal processes and fast-tracking of child intervention. This article sets out the rudiments of a genealogical account of the category of child abuse, placing the pr…
Lemon and Milk’: Liberal Political Tensions in Child Governance
Child protection is reported to be in a state of crisis. Regular media commentary on escalating rates of child abuse, continual reports of deaths of clients in child protection services, and the use of the army and police in Northern Territory Indigenous communities, all seem to point to an upsurge in the harming of children in Australia. This article reviews some Australian and international research that has been important in shaping the proble…
Money, Discipline, and Liberal Political Reason
The Currency of Freedom
Liberal Forms of Governing Australian Indigenous Peoples
This article considers three different historical events from the point of view of their connections to aspects of the history of liberal political reason: the actions of the British in New South Wales in the early nineteenth century in their claim to sovereignty over Indigenous lands; the establishment of Aboriginal missions and subsequent removal of Aboriginal children in the early twentieth century; and the Northern Territory Emergency Respons…
Criminal neglect: Tracing the category of the Aboriginal 'neglected child
There were times in Australian history when the singular, awesome power of ‘the Crown’ was wielded over colonial subjects of the British Empire, including citizen settlers occupying new lands and subject populations whose territories were claimed on behalf of the sovereign. This article presupposes that many consequences of invasion under eighteenth century conventions of conquest and rule are still evident in present-day Australian liberal forms…
Bio-child: Human sciences and governing through freedom
This article provides an account of the rise of a bio-politics of governing families and children in Australia and its relations with liberal political reason. Drawing on Foucault's lectures on Security, Territory, Population it maps out the ways in which forms of liberal governing seek to define the nature and scope of norms and freedoms in a population through the practices of the human sciences. Bio-politics is shown to introduce new ways of c…
Cultivating intention (as we enter the fray): The practice of embodying presence, awareness, and purpose as action researchers
Unstable categories: Children in welfare and justice
SynopsisThis article provides historical evidence of attempts in late nineteenth-century Victoria to establish two sets of institutions for children designated as ‘neglected’ and ‘criminal’, seeking to mark out lines of separation between the neglected, orphans and children in need of protection on the one hand, and children who have been convicted of an offence on the other. The evidence shows that the actual workings of these institutions and t…
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Law (19 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (8 works) · Social science (7 works) · Australian History and Society (5 works)