Florence Chiew
Biographic Data
| ID | 252933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Florence Chiew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Florence |
| FAMILY NAME | Chiew |
| SIGNATURE | CHIEW F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0562-8342 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beautiful even if it’s very sad: Psychologists’ beliefs, attitudes and feelings about death and dying in palliative care
You’re Teaching Me Something About Living: Australian Palliative Care Volunteers’ Evolving Experiences of Grief and Loss
Palliative care volunteers play a crucial role in supporting people who are terminally ill. Previous studies have indicated that a personal experience of grief and bereavement is a motivating factor for wanting to be a palliative care volunteer. Using reflexive thematic analysis as a methodological approach, the aim of this qualitative study was to explore the lived experience of grief and bereavement in a group of 11 Australian volunteers in adu…
Comte's posthumanist social science
Auguste Comte's classical status in sociology and social theory is routinely taken to mean outdated. Coupled with this perception, there has been a pervasive tendency within contemporary discourse to presume a positivism that is largely rationalistic or scientistic and therefore critically and analytically useless. This paper explores how some of Comte's lesser acknowledged perspectives on science, history, 'progress' and what it is to be human m…
Methodological intimacies and the figure of the twins
In mythology twins represent both dualism and entanglement. Saturated with archetypal meaning, the figure of the twins unsettles divisions between nature and culture and - in its various incarnations as the double, doppelganger, shadow, or fetch - it troubles the notion of a unique, bounded self. This article draws on the indivisible intimacy of twins to examine the anxieties of influence and competition that disrupt claims within the ontological…
Impressionable Biologies: An interview with Maurizio Meloni
Florence Chiew interviews Maurizio Meloni on his new book, Impressionable Biologies: From the Archaeology of Plasticity to the Sociology of Epigenetics. The conversation reflects on a number of key themes and arguments in Meloni's work, such as the use of the term 'impressionability' to explore longstanding ideas of the permeable body in constant flux in response to cosmological changes. This notion of the body-porous is one whose history Meloni …
Sensory Substitution: The Plasticity of the Eye/I
A posthuman pedagogy with Rancière and Bateson
In recent years, conversations about posthumanism have been gradually moving into the field of education. This article contributes to the growing efforts to develop a posthumanist theory of education. The theoretical inspiration for the article comes from the writings of Jacques Rancière and Gregory Bateson. In both thinkers, the figure of the liberal humanist subject gives way to a deeper and more provocative sense of inter-subjectivity, indeed,…
Originary Synaesthesia
This paper reflects on Iris van der Tuin's reading of the connections between microagressions and contemporary feminist theory. In particular, I address van der Tuin's discussion of echolocation and mirror-touch synaesthesia as empirical instances of the material, ontological complexity of individuation. For van der Tuin, recent findings in the science of perception rework our understanding of microagressions beyond its routinely atomistic logic …
Posthuman Ethics with Cary Wolfe and Karen Barad: Animal Compassion as Trans-Species Entanglement
Although critiques of humanism are not new, the currency of posthumanist discourse on the nonhuman - the animal, the environment, or the object - suggests rising concerns about humanity's place in the ecological order. This article interrogates Cary Wolfe's posthumanist framework as he approaches the questions of activism and agency in the context of animal ethics and disability politics. By drawing attention to the contradictions in his own comm…
Posthuman Ethics with Cary Wolfe and Karen Barad: Animal Compassion as Trans-Species Entanglement
Although critiques of humanism are not new, the currency of posthumanist discourse on the nonhuman - the animal, the environment, or the object - suggests rising concerns about humanity's place in the ecological order. This article interrogates Cary Wolfe's posthumanist framework as he approaches the questions of activism and agency in the context of animal ethics and disability politics. By drawing attention to the contradictions in his own comm…
Methodological intimacies and the figure of the twins
In mythology twins represent both dualism and entanglement. Saturated with archetypal meaning, the figure of the twins unsettles divisions between nature and culture and - in its various incarnations as the double, doppelganger, shadow, or fetch - it troubles the notion of a unique, bounded self. This article draws on the indivisible intimacy of twins to examine the anxieties of influence and competition that disrupt claims within the ontological…
Impressionable Biologies: An interview with Maurizio Meloni
Florence Chiew interviews Maurizio Meloni on his new book, Impressionable Biologies: From the Archaeology of Plasticity to the Sociology of Epigenetics. The conversation reflects on a number of key themes and arguments in Meloni's work, such as the use of the term 'impressionability' to explore longstanding ideas of the permeable body in constant flux in response to cosmological changes. This notion of the body-porous is one whose history Meloni …
Posthuman Ethics with Cary Wolfe and Karen Barad: Animal Compassion as Trans-Species Entanglement
Although critiques of humanism are not new, the currency of posthumanist discourse on the nonhuman - the animal, the environment, or the object - suggests rising concerns about humanity's place in the ecological order. This article interrogates Cary Wolfe's posthumanist framework as he approaches the questions of activism and agency in the context of animal ethics and disability politics. By drawing attention to the contradictions in his own comm…
A posthuman pedagogy with Rancière and Bateson
In recent years, conversations about posthumanism have been gradually moving into the field of education. This article contributes to the growing efforts to develop a posthumanist theory of education. The theoretical inspiration for the article comes from the writings of Jacques Rancière and Gregory Bateson. In both thinkers, the figure of the liberal humanist subject gives way to a deeper and more provocative sense of inter-subjectivity, indeed,…
Originary Synaesthesia
This paper reflects on Iris van der Tuin's reading of the connections between microagressions and contemporary feminist theory. In particular, I address van der Tuin's discussion of echolocation and mirror-touch synaesthesia as empirical instances of the material, ontological complexity of individuation. For van der Tuin, recent findings in the science of perception rework our understanding of microagressions beyond its routinely atomistic logic …
Sensory Substitution: The Plasticity of the Eye/I
Methodological intimacies and the figure of the twins
In mythology twins represent both dualism and entanglement. Saturated with archetypal meaning, the figure of the twins unsettles divisions between nature and culture and - in its various incarnations as the double, doppelganger, shadow, or fetch - it troubles the notion of a unique, bounded self. This article draws on the indivisible intimacy of twins to examine the anxieties of influence and competition that disrupt claims within the ontological…
Impressionable Biologies: An interview with Maurizio Meloni
Florence Chiew interviews Maurizio Meloni on his new book, Impressionable Biologies: From the Archaeology of Plasticity to the Sociology of Epigenetics. The conversation reflects on a number of key themes and arguments in Meloni's work, such as the use of the term 'impressionability' to explore longstanding ideas of the permeable body in constant flux in response to cosmological changes. This notion of the body-porous is one whose history Meloni …
You’re Teaching Me Something About Living: Australian Palliative Care Volunteers’ Evolving Experiences of Grief and Loss
Palliative care volunteers play a crucial role in supporting people who are terminally ill. Previous studies have indicated that a personal experience of grief and bereavement is a motivating factor for wanting to be a palliative care volunteer. Using reflexive thematic analysis as a methodological approach, the aim of this qualitative study was to explore the lived experience of grief and bereavement in a group of 11 Australian volunteers in adu…
Comte's posthumanist social science
Auguste Comte's classical status in sociology and social theory is routinely taken to mean outdated. Coupled with this perception, there has been a pervasive tendency within contemporary discourse to presume a positivism that is largely rationalistic or scientistic and therefore critically and analytically useless. This paper explores how some of Comte's lesser acknowledged perspectives on science, history, 'progress' and what it is to be human m…
Beautiful even if it’s very sad: Psychologists’ beliefs, attitudes and feelings about death and dying in palliative care
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (3 works) · Social science (3 works)