Hilary Yerbury
Biographic Data
| ID | 256757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilary Yerbury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilary |
| FAMILY NAME | Yerbury |
| SIGNATURE | YERBURY H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1525-3268 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introducing 'New Cosmopolitanisms
In May 2023, the editorial board of Cosmopolitan Civil Societies hosted an online conference on 'New Conceptualisations of Cosmopolitanism'. Discussions were rich and varied, across two days and several panels. The event was an experiment for the journal. This Special Issue is the result. There are ten papers in this Special Issue, falling into three broad fields of debate: four on themes of cosmopolitics, ethnonationalism and the national state;…
I’m in the center of a vortex”: Mapping the affective experiences of trolling victims
This study investigates how the landscape of affect in trolling is constituted from the perspective of victims. It is based on a series of semi-structured interviews conducted in 2018 and 2019 with people who had experienced trolling on Chinese social media and were willing to talk about it. All participants described trolling incidents as beginning from something seemingly inconsequential. By the end of their descriptions, however, a messy, unco…
Are we talking the same language? Contestable discourses between university staff accommodating students with disability
This study challenges the claim that in a university, a discourse of containment is predominant in the relationships that exist around students with disability and their requests for accommodations. It explores the work knowledges of those involved with the implementation of the processes of granting learning accommodations: the disability services staff and the academic staff liaison officers. Innovative analytical techniques were applied to int…
An Exploration of the Metaphors and Images Used to Describe Leadership in Two Different Cultural Contexts
This paper is developed from qualitative data exploring the metaphors used to describe women’s leadership in differing cultural contexts. Metaphors are a useful communication tool, allowing us to understand an idea or concept through some other phenomenon. Understandably, studies of metaphor tend to focus on metaphors deriving from the English language and from Western cultures. Our everyday language literature abounds with metaphors that evoke i…
Disability citizenship and digital capital: The case of engagement with a social enterprise telco
This paper uses as its base a key initiative involving a not-for-profit organisation (NPO), government start-up funding and a social enterprise which evolved through three phases. The purpose of the initiative was the development of a smart phone technology platform for people with disability. The paper’s purpose is to answer questions about the ways in which the mobile technology, seen here as assistive technologies, supported the development of…
The Institutionalisation of the Public Intellectual
As the way academics work becomes increasingly specified and regulated, the role of the public intellectual, as championed by Burawoy and exemplified by Jakubowicz, is changing. Engagement with the professions and industry is being proposed as a requirement for a research-active academic. Prescriptions for the way this might happen have the potential to remove the sense of responsibility inherent in Burawoy's notion of the public intellectual and…
The Voices of Local NGOs in Climate Change Issues: Examples from Climate Vulnerable Nations
The contributions of small local non-government organisations (NGOs) in countries at risk from climate change to knowledge creation and action on climate change are rarely considered. This study sought to remedy this by focusing on NGOs in member countries of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF). Analysing data from Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), NGO websites and email correspondence with NGO staff through a knowledge brokeri…
A Case Study of the Socialization of Human Rights Language and Norms in Maldives: Process, Impact and Challenges
The introduction of the language and social values expounded through the discourse of human rights, within the domestic societal and political structures of countries where they were previously alien or unknown, presents a fascinating set of dynamics highly relevant and valuable for furthering human rights advocacy. This article maps out the emergence of human rights discourse in Maldives - a small country with a history of human rights violation…
Looking Back and Looking Forward
Re-valuing Women's Knowledge
Women's knowledge has often been seen as 'a whole set of knowledges that have been disqualified as inadequate to their task or insufficiently elaborated: naive knowledges, located low down on the hierarchy, beneath the required level of cognition or scientificity.' (Foucault 1980, p. 82). In this description, scientific knowledges are seen to be hierarchically more important, with traditional knowledges ranged beneath them. In this hierarchy, wom…
Re-Visiting Key Themes
within the reach of many who would otherwise be unable to read them.Grassroots community engagement is a theme in two of the papers.Cunningham and Wearing have analysed how consensus decision-making works in an ecovillage.Edwards, Burridge and Yerbury explored how small grassroots organisations engage in the measurement and reporting of social impact.Two of the papers take an intersectional approach.Adami introduces the notion of intersectional d…
Translating Public Policy: Enhancing the Applicability of Social Impact Techniques for Grassroots Community Groups
This paper reports on an exploratory action research study designed to understand how grassroots community organisations engage in the measurement and reporting of social impact and how they demonstrate their social impact to local government funders. Our findings suggest that the relationships between small non-profit organisations, the communities they serve or represent and their funders are increasingly driven from the top down formalised pra…
Cohesion and Conflict in Contemporary Living
An Interdisciplinary Journal is concerned with developing a better understanding of social change and cultural cohesion in cosmopolitan
I-Witnessing; Reflections on Cosmopolitanism in Kigali
Starting from the classic view of cosmopolitanism, this paper uses personal experiences gained during a six-week stay in Rwanda with a family affected by the genocide to explore the disjuncts which emerge in trying to understand the concept. In this process of exploration, it considers conceptions of the guest, the stranger and what Geertz terms the 'cosmopolite'. Taking a reflexive position, it explores what it means to be a witness to events in…
Scaling Up Connections: Everyday Cosmopolitanism, Complexity Theory & Social Capital
One of the key questions of contemporary society is how to foster and develop social interactions which will lead to a strong and inclusive society, one which accounts for the diversity inherent in local communities, whether that diversity be based on differences in interest or diversity in language and culture. The purpose of this paper is to examine three concepts which are used in the exploration of social interactions to suggest ways in which…
Understanding Community: Thoughts and Experiences of Young People
This ethnographic study of members of Generation X and Generation Y seeks to explore the ways they understand and experience community. Their comments and stories were gathered through interviews collected towards the end of 2006 and the early part of 2007. These provide richly textured evidence of their need to belong, to maintain everyday relationships and to collaborate with others at the same time as they commodify relationships or share info…
Inclusion, Identity and the Capacity to Act
Introduction to vol.3 no.2
Digital Ethnographies
This issue of the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Journal takes as its theme 'Digital Ethnographies'. This theme presents many challenges -challenges of interpretation, as well as application. The first is the almost customary challenge of acknowledging the dual meaning of ethnography as a research methodology and a product or outcome of a research process. The second is the consideration of the ways ethnographic data can be used in contemporary sch…
Scaling Up Connections: Everyday Cosmopolitanism, Complexity Theory & Social Capital
One of the key questions of contemporary society is how to foster and develop social interactions which will lead to a strong and inclusive society, one which accounts for the diversity inherent in local communities, whether that diversity be based on differences in interest or diversity in language and culture. The purpose of this paper is to examine three concepts which are used in the exploration of social interactions to suggest ways in which…
Inclusion, Identity and the Capacity to Act
Introduction to vol.3 no.2
Digital Ethnographies
This issue of the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Journal takes as its theme 'Digital Ethnographies'. This theme presents many challenges -challenges of interpretation, as well as application. The first is the almost customary challenge of acknowledging the dual meaning of ethnography as a research methodology and a product or outcome of a research process. The second is the consideration of the ways ethnographic data can be used in contemporary sch…
Understanding Community: Thoughts and Experiences of Young People
This ethnographic study of members of Generation X and Generation Y seeks to explore the ways they understand and experience community. Their comments and stories were gathered through interviews collected towards the end of 2006 and the early part of 2007. These provide richly textured evidence of their need to belong, to maintain everyday relationships and to collaborate with others at the same time as they commodify relationships or share info…
I-Witnessing; Reflections on Cosmopolitanism in Kigali
Starting from the classic view of cosmopolitanism, this paper uses personal experiences gained during a six-week stay in Rwanda with a family affected by the genocide to explore the disjuncts which emerge in trying to understand the concept. In this process of exploration, it considers conceptions of the guest, the stranger and what Geertz terms the 'cosmopolite'. Taking a reflexive position, it explores what it means to be a witness to events in…
Scaling Up Connections: Everyday Cosmopolitanism, Complexity Theory & Social Capital
One of the key questions of contemporary society is how to foster and develop social interactions which will lead to a strong and inclusive society, one which accounts for the diversity inherent in local communities, whether that diversity be based on differences in interest or diversity in language and culture. The purpose of this paper is to examine three concepts which are used in the exploration of social interactions to suggest ways in which…
Cohesion and Conflict in Contemporary Living
An Interdisciplinary Journal is concerned with developing a better understanding of social change and cultural cohesion in cosmopolitan
Re-valuing Women's Knowledge
Women's knowledge has often been seen as 'a whole set of knowledges that have been disqualified as inadequate to their task or insufficiently elaborated: naive knowledges, located low down on the hierarchy, beneath the required level of cognition or scientificity.' (Foucault 1980, p. 82). In this description, scientific knowledges are seen to be hierarchically more important, with traditional knowledges ranged beneath them. In this hierarchy, wom…
Re-Visiting Key Themes
within the reach of many who would otherwise be unable to read them.Grassroots community engagement is a theme in two of the papers.Cunningham and Wearing have analysed how consensus decision-making works in an ecovillage.Edwards, Burridge and Yerbury explored how small grassroots organisations engage in the measurement and reporting of social impact.Two of the papers take an intersectional approach.Adami introduces the notion of intersectional d…
Translating Public Policy: Enhancing the Applicability of Social Impact Techniques for Grassroots Community Groups
This paper reports on an exploratory action research study designed to understand how grassroots community organisations engage in the measurement and reporting of social impact and how they demonstrate their social impact to local government funders. Our findings suggest that the relationships between small non-profit organisations, the communities they serve or represent and their funders are increasingly driven from the top down formalised pra…
A Case Study of the Socialization of Human Rights Language and Norms in Maldives: Process, Impact and Challenges
The introduction of the language and social values expounded through the discourse of human rights, within the domestic societal and political structures of countries where they were previously alien or unknown, presents a fascinating set of dynamics highly relevant and valuable for furthering human rights advocacy. This article maps out the emergence of human rights discourse in Maldives - a small country with a history of human rights violation…
Looking Back and Looking Forward
The Institutionalisation of the Public Intellectual
As the way academics work becomes increasingly specified and regulated, the role of the public intellectual, as championed by Burawoy and exemplified by Jakubowicz, is changing. Engagement with the professions and industry is being proposed as a requirement for a research-active academic. Prescriptions for the way this might happen have the potential to remove the sense of responsibility inherent in Burawoy's notion of the public intellectual and…
The Voices of Local NGOs in Climate Change Issues: Examples from Climate Vulnerable Nations
The contributions of small local non-government organisations (NGOs) in countries at risk from climate change to knowledge creation and action on climate change are rarely considered. This study sought to remedy this by focusing on NGOs in member countries of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF). Analysing data from Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), NGO websites and email correspondence with NGO staff through a knowledge brokeri…
Disability citizenship and digital capital: The case of engagement with a social enterprise telco
This paper uses as its base a key initiative involving a not-for-profit organisation (NPO), government start-up funding and a social enterprise which evolved through three phases. The purpose of the initiative was the development of a smart phone technology platform for people with disability. The paper’s purpose is to answer questions about the ways in which the mobile technology, seen here as assistive technologies, supported the development of…
An Exploration of the Metaphors and Images Used to Describe Leadership in Two Different Cultural Contexts
This paper is developed from qualitative data exploring the metaphors used to describe women’s leadership in differing cultural contexts. Metaphors are a useful communication tool, allowing us to understand an idea or concept through some other phenomenon. Understandably, studies of metaphor tend to focus on metaphors deriving from the English language and from Western cultures. Our everyday language literature abounds with metaphors that evoke i…
I’m in the center of a vortex”: Mapping the affective experiences of trolling victims
This study investigates how the landscape of affect in trolling is constituted from the perspective of victims. It is based on a series of semi-structured interviews conducted in 2018 and 2019 with people who had experienced trolling on Chinese social media and were willing to talk about it. All participants described trolling incidents as beginning from something seemingly inconsequential. By the end of their descriptions, however, a messy, unco…
Are we talking the same language? Contestable discourses between university staff accommodating students with disability
This study challenges the claim that in a university, a discourse of containment is predominant in the relationships that exist around students with disability and their requests for accommodations. It explores the work knowledges of those involved with the implementation of the processes of granting learning accommodations: the disability services staff and the academic staff liaison officers. Innovative analytical techniques were applied to int…
Introducing 'New Cosmopolitanisms
In May 2023, the editorial board of Cosmopolitan Civil Societies hosted an online conference on 'New Conceptualisations of Cosmopolitanism'. Discussions were rich and varied, across two days and several panels. The event was an experiment for the journal. This Special Issue is the result. There are ten papers in this Special Issue, falling into three broad fields of debate: four on themes of cosmopolitics, ethnonationalism and the national state;…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)