Peter Allmark
Biographic Data
| ID | 243680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Allmark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Allmark |
| SIGNATURE | ALLMARK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edith Cowan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6910-6511 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Barca Nostra
The relic of the Mediterranean’s deadliest shipwreck, in which around 1000 migrants perished at sea in 2015, was resurrected as an art installation displayed at the 58th Venice Art Biennale titled Barca Nostra (Our Boat), by artist Christoph Büchel in 2019. The shipwreck was placed on a wharf near a café at the festival without an accompanying descriptive text. It was considered disrespectful, as it is a display of a site of tragic Black deaths f…
Mesothelioma caused by asbestos in UK public buildings
People, Place and Policy is an online journal providing a forum for academic debate around issues of urban policy, social and economic regeneration, housing and the labour market. Articles deal with the situations and experiences of people and places struggling to negotiate the opportunities, constraints and risks within contemporary society
Doing the Nutbush
The Nutbush dance is unique to Australia.It is danced to the Ike and Tina Turner track Nutbush City Limits released in 1973.It is a line dance.Anybody can join the line.This article explores the history and reception of the Nutbush.The Nutbush seems have been developed around 1975 in Sydney as a part of modernizing the physical education and creative arts curricula for state primary and secondary schools.The Nutbush is relatively simple and is da…
The Nutbush Dance Reframed
This article supplements our earlier article on the Nutbush dance, ‘Doing the Nutbush’. After that was published, there was a media frenzy which resulted in many comments on The Guardian site and on the ABC Facebook site. We also received a number of emails. All these contributions have helped fine-tune the history of the dance that we have been examining. Two key things became clear. Around 1970 there was a push in state education departments ac…
Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Intimate Relationships
Technology-facilitated abuse (TFA) is a significant, harmful phenomenon and emerging trend in intimate partner violence. TFA encompasses a range of behaviours and is facilitated in online spaces (on social media and networking platforms) and through the misuse of everyday technology (e.g. mobile phone misuse, surveillance apps, spyware, surveillance via video cameras and so on). The body of work on TFA in intimate relationships is emerging, and s…
State-sponsored stigma and discrimination
The COVID-19 Pandemic has critically affected migrant workers' social wellbeing in host countries. In Hong Kong, migrant workers who work in domestic sectors are facing stricter rules that may be considered discriminatory, such as the Hong Kong government's claim that migrants are at 'high risk' for infection, because of their habit of 'mingling' with other migrant workers. The official messaging positions migrant workers as 'virus carriers', thi…
Bodies in flux, cultural studies and the current critical climate
In 2019, we, (a very small and passionate group of Western Australian Cultural Studies academics), put forward a bid to host the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) annual conference in Perth (Boorloo) for 2020.A special mention to Rob Cover for this initiative. 1 The last time the CSAA conference was held in Perth, on Whadjuk Noongar Country, was in 2004.So, it would be sixteen years between the Perth Cultural Studies conferences.…
CSAA 30 th anniversary and Continuum
A note from the editors introducing the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA)'s 30th anniversary special issue
Continuum and the legacy of Brian Shoesmith and Tom O’Regan
This special issue is dedicated to the memory and work of Brian Shoesmith and Tom O’Regan, the founding editors of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, who sadly passed away within months of each other in 2020. At the time of his passing, Brian Shoesmith was Adjunct Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Edith Cowan University (ECU), Perth, Australia, where he is credited with developing the media department where he had worked f…
Integrating physical activity into the treatment of depression in adults
Around 246 million people globally suffer from depression. Physical activity (PA) can reduce the risk of depression by 30% and is recognised as an effective treatment for mild-to-moderate depression (MMD). However, a high proportion of patients with MMD are currently inactive and the implementation of PA as an adherent treatment for MMD is not well understood. This study contributes to a growing body of research exploring how to support people wh…
Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong
This article focuses on contemporary smartphone culture and activism performed by female Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. There are around 330.000 migrant workers in Hong Kong, and wherein 150.000 originated from Indonesia. Most of the Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong work in the domestic sectors: housemaid, babysitter, and career. They are obliged to live with their employer and start working from five mornings until late…
Travel, sexuality and female Indonesian domestic migrant workers in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong Indonesian migrant domestic workers (IMDWs) face strict working conditions and are vulnerable to human rights abuses and exploitation. Nevertheless, travelling abroad has provided the opportunity for somewhat greater freedom, agency and the opportunity to express a more fluid sexual identity, than in their home country where there has been a push to a more conservative moral heterosexual agenda. This article examines a group of lesbi…
Into the groove
This article examines nightclubbing in Perth in the 1980s. The specific focus is on the ways ethnicity and race related to which nightclub people went to, and the kinds of music played in the nightclubs. The article is based on interviews. The article focuses on three specific clubs, Hannibal’s, where the Italo-Australians and other southern Europeans went, Palladium, where Italo-Australians mixed with white Australians, and Jules, where Anglo-In…
Print media as a migrant advocacy tool
Hong Kong is listed as one of the most popular countries for Indonesian migrant workers. In 2012, more than 160,000 Indonesian migrant domestic workers (IMDWs) live in Hong Kong, and more than 90% of them are women. Hong Kong is the premium destination for IMDWs because of its moderately higher salaries, good laws and regulations, and its ambience of independence. The IMDWs can also access multiple media platforms, ranging from print media to the…
Reasons for missed appointments with a hepatitis C outreach clinic
And the beat goes on
Continuum has been at the forefront of Cultural Studies for 30 years. Continuum had its beginnings in Perth, Western Australia and many of the early supporters were part of the dynamic 1980s Perth
Walking, sustainability and health
Not only is it tacitly understood that walking is good for health and well-being but there is also now robust evidence to support this link. There is also growing evidence that regular short walks can be a protective factor for a range of long-term health conditions. Walking in the countryside can bring additional benefits, but access to the countryside brings complexities, especially for people with poorer material resources and from different e…
The Social Relations of a Health Walk Group
It is already well established that regular walks are conducive to health and well-being. This article considers the production of social relations of regular, organized weekly group walks for older people. It is based on an ethnographic study of a Walking for Health group in a rural area of the United Kingdom. Different types of social relations are identified arising from the walk experience. The social relations generated are seen to be shaped…
Building Realist Program Theory for Large Complex and Messy Interventions
Program theory, that is, the specific idea about how a program causes the intended or observed outcomes, should be the central aspect of any realist evaluation or synthesis. The methods used for explicating or building initial rough program theories (IRPTs) in realist research are varied and arguably often underreported. In addition, preexisting psychological and sociological theories, at a higher level of abstraction, could be used to a greater …
Financial capability, health and disability
This paper examines financial capability from the perspective of the Capability Approach to welfare and justice. It argues that the Approach shows current conceptions of financial capability to be flawed in that they focus on it as a personal quality in isolation from the socioeconomic environment. Using the Capability Approach as applied to disability the paper argues that financial capability is best viewed as a 'conversion factor' rather than …
An argument against the focus on Community Resilience in Public Health
Public Health professionals working with deprived neighbourhoods would be better to focus on what neighbourhoods have or could develop as social capital for living well, rather than on the vague and tangential notion of community resilience
Assessing the health benefits of advice services
Poverty is positively associated with poor health; thus, some healthcare commissioners in the UK have pioneered the introduction of advice services in health service locations. Previous systematic reviews have found little direct evidence for a causal relationship between the provision of advice and physical health and limited evidence for mental health improvement. This paper reports a study using a broader range of types of research evidence to…
Can the quality of social research on ethnicity be improved through the introduction of guidance? Findings from a research commissioning pilot exercise
As the volume of UK social research addressing ethnicity grows, so too do concerns regarding the ethical and scientific rigour of this research domain and its potential to do more harm than good. The establishment of standards and principles and the introduction of guidance documents at critical points within the research cycle might be one way to enhance the quality of such research. This article reports the findings from the piloting of a guida…
Professional Boundaries
This article explores the professional boundaries guidance for social workers. It presents research findings from the formal literature, from agency codes of practice, from telephone interviews with regulatory and professional bodies and from an exercise using 'snowballing techniques' in which informants responded to brief scenarios illustrating boundary dilemmas. The findings suggest that formal research plays little part in the guidance that in…
Ethical Issues in the Use of In-Depth Interviews
This paper reports a literature review on the topic of ethical issues in in-depth interviews. The review returned three types of article: general discussion, issues in particular studies, and studies of interview-based research ethics. Whilst many of the issues discussed in these articles are generic to research ethics, such as confidentiality, they often had particular manifestations in this type of research. For example, privacy was a significa…
Building Realist Program Theory for Large Complex and Messy Interventions
Program theory, that is, the specific idea about how a program causes the intended or observed outcomes, should be the central aspect of any realist evaluation or synthesis. The methods used for explicating or building initial rough program theories (IRPTs) in realist research are varied and arguably often underreported. In addition, preexisting psychological and sociological theories, at a higher level of abstraction, could be used to a greater …
Walking, sustainability and health
Not only is it tacitly understood that walking is good for health and well-being but there is also now robust evidence to support this link. There is also growing evidence that regular short walks can be a protective factor for a range of long-term health conditions. Walking in the countryside can bring additional benefits, but access to the countryside brings complexities, especially for people with poorer material resources and from different e…
Professional Boundaries
This article explores the professional boundaries guidance for social workers. It presents research findings from the formal literature, from agency codes of practice, from telephone interviews with regulatory and professional bodies and from an exercise using 'snowballing techniques' in which informants responded to brief scenarios illustrating boundary dilemmas. The findings suggest that formal research plays little part in the guidance that in…
The Social Relations of a Health Walk Group
It is already well established that regular walks are conducive to health and well-being. This article considers the production of social relations of regular, organized weekly group walks for older people. It is based on an ethnographic study of a Walking for Health group in a rural area of the United Kingdom. Different types of social relations are identified arising from the walk experience. The social relations generated are seen to be shaped…
Travel, sexuality and female Indonesian domestic migrant workers in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong Indonesian migrant domestic workers (IMDWs) face strict working conditions and are vulnerable to human rights abuses and exploitation. Nevertheless, travelling abroad has provided the opportunity for somewhat greater freedom, agency and the opportunity to express a more fluid sexual identity, than in their home country where there has been a push to a more conservative moral heterosexual agenda. This article examines a group of lesbi…
Can the quality of social research on ethnicity be improved through the introduction of guidance? Findings from a research commissioning pilot exercise
As the volume of UK social research addressing ethnicity grows, so too do concerns regarding the ethical and scientific rigour of this research domain and its potential to do more harm than good. The establishment of standards and principles and the introduction of guidance documents at critical points within the research cycle might be one way to enhance the quality of such research. This article reports the findings from the piloting of a guida…
State-sponsored stigma and discrimination
The COVID-19 Pandemic has critically affected migrant workers' social wellbeing in host countries. In Hong Kong, migrant workers who work in domestic sectors are facing stricter rules that may be considered discriminatory, such as the Hong Kong government's claim that migrants are at 'high risk' for infection, because of their habit of 'mingling' with other migrant workers. The official messaging positions migrant workers as 'virus carriers', thi…
Into the groove
This article examines nightclubbing in Perth in the 1980s. The specific focus is on the ways ethnicity and race related to which nightclub people went to, and the kinds of music played in the nightclubs. The article is based on interviews. The article focuses on three specific clubs, Hannibal’s, where the Italo-Australians and other southern Europeans went, Palladium, where Italo-Australians mixed with white Australians, and Jules, where Anglo-In…
Framing Plaza de Mayo
Plaza de Mayo is the main square in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Its name commemorates the May Revolution of 1810, which instigated the process towards Argentina's independence from Spanish colonial rule. Notably, independence, defiance and calls for liberty have been and are key features of the square. As an urban public space it is central to the cultural memory of the city, ‘containing important symbolic elements of government, religion, and finan…
Masculinity in Crisis
A review of Barbara Creed, Phallic Panic: Film, Horror and the Primal Uncanny (Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2005
An Aristotelian Account of Autonomy
Framing Plaza de Mayo
Plaza de Mayo is the main square in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Its name commemorates the May Revolution of 1810, which instigated the process towards Argentina's independence from Spanish colonial rule. Notably, independence, defiance and calls for liberty have been and are key features of the square. As an urban public space it is central to the cultural memory of the city, ‘containing important symbolic elements of government, religion, and finan…
Ethical Issues in the Use of In-Depth Interviews
This paper reports a literature review on the topic of ethical issues in in-depth interviews. The review returned three types of article: general discussion, issues in particular studies, and studies of interview-based research ethics. Whilst many of the issues discussed in these articles are generic to research ethics, such as confidentiality, they often had particular manifestations in this type of research. For example, privacy was a significa…
Sublime spaces
Professional Boundaries
This article explores the professional boundaries guidance for social workers. It presents research findings from the formal literature, from agency codes of practice, from telephone interviews with regulatory and professional bodies and from an exercise using 'snowballing techniques' in which informants responded to brief scenarios illustrating boundary dilemmas. The findings suggest that formal research plays little part in the guidance that in…
Can the quality of social research on ethnicity be improved through the introduction of guidance? Findings from a research commissioning pilot exercise
As the volume of UK social research addressing ethnicity grows, so too do concerns regarding the ethical and scientific rigour of this research domain and its potential to do more harm than good. The establishment of standards and principles and the introduction of guidance documents at critical points within the research cycle might be one way to enhance the quality of such research. This article reports the findings from the piloting of a guida…
Assessing the health benefits of advice services
Poverty is positively associated with poor health; thus, some healthcare commissioners in the UK have pioneered the introduction of advice services in health service locations. Previous systematic reviews have found little direct evidence for a causal relationship between the provision of advice and physical health and limited evidence for mental health improvement. This paper reports a study using a broader range of types of research evidence to…
An argument against the focus on Community Resilience in Public Health
Public Health professionals working with deprived neighbourhoods would be better to focus on what neighbourhoods have or could develop as social capital for living well, rather than on the vague and tangential notion of community resilience
Financial capability, health and disability
This paper examines financial capability from the perspective of the Capability Approach to welfare and justice. It argues that the Approach shows current conceptions of financial capability to be flawed in that they focus on it as a personal quality in isolation from the socioeconomic environment. Using the Capability Approach as applied to disability the paper argues that financial capability is best viewed as a 'conversion factor' rather than …
Reasons for missed appointments with a hepatitis C outreach clinic
And the beat goes on
Continuum has been at the forefront of Cultural Studies for 30 years. Continuum had its beginnings in Perth, Western Australia and many of the early supporters were part of the dynamic 1980s Perth
Walking, sustainability and health
Not only is it tacitly understood that walking is good for health and well-being but there is also now robust evidence to support this link. There is also growing evidence that regular short walks can be a protective factor for a range of long-term health conditions. Walking in the countryside can bring additional benefits, but access to the countryside brings complexities, especially for people with poorer material resources and from different e…
The Social Relations of a Health Walk Group
It is already well established that regular walks are conducive to health and well-being. This article considers the production of social relations of regular, organized weekly group walks for older people. It is based on an ethnographic study of a Walking for Health group in a rural area of the United Kingdom. Different types of social relations are identified arising from the walk experience. The social relations generated are seen to be shaped…
Building Realist Program Theory for Large Complex and Messy Interventions
Program theory, that is, the specific idea about how a program causes the intended or observed outcomes, should be the central aspect of any realist evaluation or synthesis. The methods used for explicating or building initial rough program theories (IRPTs) in realist research are varied and arguably often underreported. In addition, preexisting psychological and sociological theories, at a higher level of abstraction, could be used to a greater …
Print media as a migrant advocacy tool
Hong Kong is listed as one of the most popular countries for Indonesian migrant workers. In 2012, more than 160,000 Indonesian migrant domestic workers (IMDWs) live in Hong Kong, and more than 90% of them are women. Hong Kong is the premium destination for IMDWs because of its moderately higher salaries, good laws and regulations, and its ambience of independence. The IMDWs can also access multiple media platforms, ranging from print media to the…
Travel, sexuality and female Indonesian domestic migrant workers in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong Indonesian migrant domestic workers (IMDWs) face strict working conditions and are vulnerable to human rights abuses and exploitation. Nevertheless, travelling abroad has provided the opportunity for somewhat greater freedom, agency and the opportunity to express a more fluid sexual identity, than in their home country where there has been a push to a more conservative moral heterosexual agenda. This article examines a group of lesbi…
Into the groove
This article examines nightclubbing in Perth in the 1980s. The specific focus is on the ways ethnicity and race related to which nightclub people went to, and the kinds of music played in the nightclubs. The article is based on interviews. The article focuses on three specific clubs, Hannibal’s, where the Italo-Australians and other southern Europeans went, Palladium, where Italo-Australians mixed with white Australians, and Jules, where Anglo-In…
Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong
This article focuses on contemporary smartphone culture and activism performed by female Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. There are around 330.000 migrant workers in Hong Kong, and wherein 150.000 originated from Indonesia. Most of the Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong work in the domestic sectors: housemaid, babysitter, and career. They are obliged to live with their employer and start working from five mornings until late…
Continuum and the legacy of Brian Shoesmith and Tom O’Regan
This special issue is dedicated to the memory and work of Brian Shoesmith and Tom O’Regan, the founding editors of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, who sadly passed away within months of each other in 2020. At the time of his passing, Brian Shoesmith was Adjunct Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Edith Cowan University (ECU), Perth, Australia, where he is credited with developing the media department where he had worked f…
Integrating physical activity into the treatment of depression in adults
Around 246 million people globally suffer from depression. Physical activity (PA) can reduce the risk of depression by 30% and is recognised as an effective treatment for mild-to-moderate depression (MMD). However, a high proportion of patients with MMD are currently inactive and the implementation of PA as an adherent treatment for MMD is not well understood. This study contributes to a growing body of research exploring how to support people wh…
Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Intimate Relationships
Technology-facilitated abuse (TFA) is a significant, harmful phenomenon and emerging trend in intimate partner violence. TFA encompasses a range of behaviours and is facilitated in online spaces (on social media and networking platforms) and through the misuse of everyday technology (e.g. mobile phone misuse, surveillance apps, spyware, surveillance via video cameras and so on). The body of work on TFA in intimate relationships is emerging, and s…
State-sponsored stigma and discrimination
The COVID-19 Pandemic has critically affected migrant workers' social wellbeing in host countries. In Hong Kong, migrant workers who work in domestic sectors are facing stricter rules that may be considered discriminatory, such as the Hong Kong government's claim that migrants are at 'high risk' for infection, because of their habit of 'mingling' with other migrant workers. The official messaging positions migrant workers as 'virus carriers', thi…
Bodies in flux, cultural studies and the current critical climate
In 2019, we, (a very small and passionate group of Western Australian Cultural Studies academics), put forward a bid to host the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) annual conference in Perth (Boorloo) for 2020.A special mention to Rob Cover for this initiative. 1 The last time the CSAA conference was held in Perth, on Whadjuk Noongar Country, was in 2004.So, it would be sixteen years between the Perth Cultural Studies conferences.…
CSAA 30 th anniversary and Continuum
A note from the editors introducing the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA)'s 30th anniversary special issue
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