Robyn Mayes
Biographic Data
| ID | 282360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robyn Mayes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Mayes |
| SIGNATURE | MAYES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8661-3638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 278 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Gender inequality in clinician-scientist research careers: Evidence from a large Australian hospital network
This article addresses the lack of empirical evidence about how gender dynamics shape clinical research careers within health service environments. Informed by a feminist organisational theoretical perspective, this paper advances evidence-based understandings of systemic gender inequalities. The research generates knowledge of the extent to which core dimensions of clinician research activity in a large Australian hospital network varied by gend…
Contesting academic expertise: Industry-focused funding regimes
Government/Public funding is central to the organisation and structure of universities, and therefore the status of experts and expertise within universities. This paper critically assesses how academic expertise is contested in and through the Australian Government’s National Priorities Industry Linkage Fund (NPILF), as part of the Job-ready Graduate Package. The NPILF distributes public funding for higher education based on industry-aligned act…
Who intersects with whom’: Competing rationalities in governing the contested interface between industrial mining and ASGM in Gorontalo Province, Indonesia
This paper investigates the contested interface between industrial mining and ASGM at the EIA and community consultation phase through two case studies in Gorontalo Province, Indonesia. • The paper problematizes ‘who intersects with whom’, a question raised by ASGM and industrial mining actors. • This paper argues that governing the interface involves the exercise of power/knowledge of multiple actors through the promotion of competing rationalit…
Relational frames of care: Constructing care work in the gig economy
There has been a steady rise in platform-based care work around the world where private care -workers and care-seekers are matched by digital intermediary platforms for ‘care work gigs’. Care platforms position themselves as distinct from the typical transactional work arrangements in the gig economy, yet employ similar algorithmic features and functions to organise care work. Employing ethics-of-care as an interpretive lens, this article illustr…
Caring in the Gig Economy: A Relational Perspective of Decent Work
The rapidly expanding gig economy has been criticized for creating precarious and indecent working conditions. These critiques draw on decent work debates centred on employment classification, regulation and platform fairness, with less focus on the interactions between workers, platforms and clients, which are central to the experience of platform-mediated work. This article adopts a worker-centric relational perspective to explore decent work i…
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour
This paper offers an exploration of women’s experiences of engaging in digitally mediated care work. Data for this article is drawn from qualitative interviews conducted with 15 young women in Australia to explore their experiences of securing care work through a digital platform. Importantly, we focus on both online and offline dimensions of securing work, thus contributing to the extant literature which has tended to focus on the online aspects…
Justice Claims of Sri Lankan Spa Workers Seeking a Professional Identity
Globally, spas are recognised as a part of the wellness sector; however, the business focus and employment conditions of spas vary between and within countries based on social, economic, legal and cultural circumstances. Focusing on the distinctive nature of spas in the local context of Sri Lanka, this briefing paper explores the stigmatisation of masseuses’ work at spas caused by the conflation of sex work with spa work. Drawing on empirical dat…
Critical minerals: Rethinking extractivism
Acceleration in political support for critical minerals industry development is linked to securing resource supply chains essential to low carbon futures. This commentary reviews the Australian critical minerals agenda, scrutinising urgency claims engulfing the ‘rush’ to extract critical minerals. First, we define critical minerals and examine their ‘criticality’ in relation to decarbonisation and geopolitical motivations. The idea that the emerg…
Mobilising subterranean geopolitics: The spectre of spontaneous combustion and post mining imaginaries
The finch in the coal mine: Interrogating the environmental politics of extinction narratives
The black-throated finch is an endangered species whose highest quality remaining habitat directly overlaps with the site of the controversial Adani Carmichael coal mine in Central Queensland, Australia. The image of this finch has been widely used by anti-Adani protest groups as a powerful symbol for the destructive nature of greenfield coal mining. Drawing on extinction studies literature, we problematise the use of the black-throated finch as …
An agenda for Australian rural sociology: Troubling the white middle-class farming woman
In reflecting on the last two decades of publications by Australian rural studies scholars in three major disciplinary journals, this article argues that the field of Australian rural sociology has failed to address racial inequality and class difference. While we note a burgeoning of feminist rural research challenging the historical emphasis on the white male farmer, this too has tended to occlude class and race, as is demonstrated in our analy…
The impact of disruptive innovation on creative workers: The case of photographers
The actual and potential impacts of technological disruption on established organisations and industries have received considerable attention. Yet, impacts on individual workers and professional groups, including in the creative sector that is at the forefront of disruption, remain under-examined. This study draws on in-depth interviews with professional photographers to explore how the convergence of technological innovations, digital media and …
Means of Control in the Organization of Digitally Intermediated Care Work
Digital platforms that facilitate care work are new entrants to the intermediary marketplace and they are growing in number in response to rising demand for care services. This study examines, through the lens of labour process theory, the means of control utilized by digital platforms operating in Australia which organize and direct disability and aged care. The analysis of terms and conditions and website content reveals four means of control t…
How professional photographers engage with and resist digital platform work
While there is emerging research on the motivations of workers who engage with specific digital platforms, scant attention has been afforded to the contours of the digital economy as they affect workers in occupational or professional contexts. Drawing on interviews with 51 Australian photographers, the authors examined the extent to which, and why, photographers engage with or resist digital platform work. The photographic profession is an ideal…
Mums with cameras: Technological change, entrepreneurship and motherhood
This article examines the discursive framing of motherhood and entrepreneurship in the context of the Australian photography industry. Drawing on interviews with both male and female professional photographers, we analyse framings of ‘the mumtographer’ and ‘mums with cameras’. Moving beyond the emphasis in the extant literature on mother business owners in general, our analysis delineates an industry‐specific articulation of the mumpreneur and ex…
Mobility, temporality, and social reproduction: Everyday rhythms of the ‘Fifo family’ in the Australian Mining Sector
The substantial use of Fly-in-Fly out (FIFO) work in the Australian mining sector involves a repeated cycle in which workers (mostly men) leave their homes to undertake a pre-determined number of consecutive days of work on (often remote) mine sites where they are also accommodated. They then spend a pre-determined number of days at home. This article examines how FIFO workers’ rhythms of physical absence and presence in family life shape the eve…
The Management of Wicked Problems in Health and Social Care
Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander people have experienced significant marginalization as a result of the British invasion of Australia and the manner of continued colonization. Despite numerous government programs and policies designed to remediate what is referred to as Indigenous disadvantage, Australia’s First peoples continue to experience disproportionately negative life outcomes relative to non-Indigenous Australians in areas suc…
Transnational Labour Migration and the place of Reproductive Labour: Trailing Wives and Community Support in Boddington
This article addresses the need for critical attention to families and place in the labour migration literature. Through examination of the experiences of trailing wives, it highlights the interconnected roles of state regulation, industry practice and destination communities in the gendering of transnational labour migration. Specifically, we attend to the experiences of trailing wives accompanying partners who migrated to Boddington in rural We…
Narrations and practices of mobility and immobility in the maintenance of gender dualisms
This paper analyses the role of practices and representations of mobility in supporting particular kinds of gender orders. While scholarship has shown the various ways women are materially and symbolically ‘fixed’ in place, less attention has been paid to how discourses and practices of mobility interface with systems of gender differentiation more broadly. This work is based on a robust empirical base of 55 interviews, 90 h of participant observ…
Freedom, part-time pirates, and poo police: Regulating the heterotopic space of the recreational boat
At all levels of governance from international convention to local policy, the regulation of pollution from boats and ships has been steeped in conflict and subject to resistance. Recreational boaters, in particular, are often highly resistant to attempts to regulate their boating activity, particularly on environmental grounds. Such ongoing resistance poses a significant policy compliance challenge. This paper seeks to shed light on this complex…
Encountering education in the rural: Migrant Women's Perspectives
This paper explores migrant women’s encounters with formal and informal education in what can be termed new immigration rural destinations. We ask to what extent educational opportunities are realized in these new destinations. We show that education aspirations may be jeopardized because of the desire to achieve economic goals and thus require remedial action. Specifically, we refer to qualitative data collected in rural (and remote) Boddington …
Introduction: Beyond Stock Photographs - Imagining, Experiencing, and Researching Rural Education
Editorial introductions to special issues have a number of generic features. They typically include a review of the literature, for example, and a discussion of areas requiring additional research. As we discussed these generic dimensions in preparing to write this paper, we agreed that they should be rightly bypassed in this instance as they have been comprehensively addressed in recent articles published elsewhere (e.g. Pini & Bhopal, 2017; Pin…
Out of place (Gwalia): Occasional essays on Australian regional communities and built environments in transition
Though one would scarcely know it either from the title or the description on the cover, Out of Place (Gwalia): Occasional Essays on Australian Regional Communities and Built Environments in Transi
A social licence to operate: Corporate Social Responsibility, Local Communities and the Constitution of Global Production Networks
This article contributes to the theorization of the role of informal regulation (undertaken by leading firms) in the ongoing organization of global production networks. It does so through a qualitative case study of BHP Billiton's Ravensthorpe Nickel Operation (RNO) in the rural Shire of Ravensthorpe in Western Australia. This less tangible, and to date under-researched, dimension of global production networks is foregrounded through a focus on t…
The civic virtue of developmentalism: On the mining industry's political licence to develop Western Australia
This paper examines the social licence to operate (SLO) of Western Australia's (WA's) mining industry in the context of the state's ‘developmentalist’ agenda. We draw on the findings of a multi-disciplinary body of new research on the risks and challenges posed by WA's mining industry for environmental, social and economic sustainability. We synthesise the findings of this work against the backdrop of the broader debates on corporate social respo…
The emotional geography of a mine closure: A study of the Ravensthorpe nickel mine in Western Australia
This paper engages with the literature on emotional geographies to report on a case study of the emotions surrounding the closure of a nickel mine in the shire of Ravensthorpe in the south-west of Western Australia in January 2009. Two themes from the affect-infused narratives of pre- and post-mine community members are outlined. The first, which challenges constructions of the closure as a purely industrial and economic concern, focuses on the i…
Means of Control in the Organization of Digitally Intermediated Care Work
Digital platforms that facilitate care work are new entrants to the intermediary marketplace and they are growing in number in response to rising demand for care services. This study examines, through the lens of labour process theory, the means of control utilized by digital platforms operating in Australia which organize and direct disability and aged care. The analysis of terms and conditions and website content reveals four means of control t…
The 'Feminine Revolution in Mining: A Critique
This paper presents an analysis of media reports of Australian women in mine management. It argues that a dominant storyline in the texts is one of gender change; in fact, a 'feminine revolution' is said to have occurred in the mining industry and corporate Australia more generally. Despite this celebratory and transformative discourse the female mine managers interviewed in the media texts seek to distance themselves from women/female identity/f…
Caring in the Gig Economy: A Relational Perspective of Decent Work
The rapidly expanding gig economy has been criticized for creating precarious and indecent working conditions. These critiques draw on decent work debates centred on employment classification, regulation and platform fairness, with less focus on the interactions between workers, platforms and clients, which are central to the experience of platform-mediated work. This article adopts a worker-centric relational perspective to explore decent work i…
The mining boom and Western Australia’s changing landscape: Towards sustainability or business as usual
The practices and public reputation of mining have been changing over time. In the past, mining operations frequently stood accused of being socially and environmentally disruptive, whereas mining today invests heavily in ‘socially responsible’ and ‘sustainable’ business practices. Changes such as these can be witnessed internationally as well as in places like Western Australia (WA), where the mining sector has matured into an economic pillar of…
Scary” heterosexualities in a rural Australian mining town
Mobility, temporality, and social reproduction: Everyday rhythms of the ‘Fifo family’ in the Australian Mining Sector
The substantial use of Fly-in-Fly out (FIFO) work in the Australian mining sector involves a repeated cycle in which workers (mostly men) leave their homes to undertake a pre-determined number of consecutive days of work on (often remote) mine sites where they are also accommodated. They then spend a pre-determined number of days at home. This article examines how FIFO workers’ rhythms of physical absence and presence in family life shape the eve…
Organizational rhetoric in the prospectuses of elite private schools: Unpacking strategies of persuasion
The way in which private schools use rhetoric in their communications offers important insights into how these organizational sites persuade audiences and leverage marketplace advantage in the context of contemporary educational platforms. Through systemic analysis of rhetorical strategies employed in 65 ‘elite’ school prospectuses in Australia, this paper contributes to understandings of the ways schools’ communications draw on broader cultural …
Class Contestations and Australia's Resource Boom: The Emergence of the 'Cashed-up Bogan
This article examines the figure of the 'Cashed-up Bogan' or 'Cub' in Australian media from 2006 to 2009. It explains that 'Bogan', like that of 'Chav' in Britain, is a widely engaged negative descriptor for the white working-class poor. In contrast, 'Cubs' have economic capital. This capital, and the Cub's emergence, is linked to Australia's resource boom of recent decades when the need for skilled labour allowed for a highly demarcated segment …
Gender, emotions and fly‐in fly‐out work
This paper explores the emotional life of fly‐in fly‐out (FIFO) workers and their families, through an analysis of more than 500 postings made on an online chat forum for mining families. Building on literature on fly‐in fly‐out workers and understandings of emotions as socially constructed, analysis shows how posters to the forum, typically women whose male partners are FIFO workers, construct gendered emotional identities for their partners (so…
Doing cultural work: Local postcard production and place identity in a rural shire
The finch in the coal mine: Interrogating the environmental politics of extinction narratives
The black-throated finch is an endangered species whose highest quality remaining habitat directly overlaps with the site of the controversial Adani Carmichael coal mine in Central Queensland, Australia. The image of this finch has been widely used by anti-Adani protest groups as a powerful symbol for the destructive nature of greenfield coal mining. Drawing on extinction studies literature, we problematise the use of the black-throated finch as …
A social licence to operate: Corporate Social Responsibility, Local Communities and the Constitution of Global Production Networks
This article contributes to the theorization of the role of informal regulation (undertaken by leading firms) in the ongoing organization of global production networks. It does so through a qualitative case study of BHP Billiton's Ravensthorpe Nickel Operation (RNO) in the rural Shire of Ravensthorpe in Western Australia. This less tangible, and to date under-researched, dimension of global production networks is foregrounded through a focus on t…
Our' Community: Corporate Social Responsibility, Neoliberalisation, and Mining Industry Community Engagement in Rural Australia
This paper addresses contemporary neoliberal mobilisations of community undertaken by private corporations. It does so by examining the ways in which the mining industry, empowered through the legitimising framework of corporate social responsibility, is increasingly and profoundly involved in shaping the meaning, practice, and experience of 'local community'. We draw on a substantial Australian case study, consisting of interviews and document a…
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour
This paper offers an exploration of women’s experiences of engaging in digitally mediated care work. Data for this article is drawn from qualitative interviews conducted with 15 young women in Australia to explore their experiences of securing care work through a digital platform. Importantly, we focus on both online and offline dimensions of securing work, thus contributing to the extant literature which has tended to focus on the online aspects…
How professional photographers engage with and resist digital platform work
While there is emerging research on the motivations of workers who engage with specific digital platforms, scant attention has been afforded to the contours of the digital economy as they affect workers in occupational or professional contexts. Drawing on interviews with 51 Australian photographers, the authors examined the extent to which, and why, photographers engage with or resist digital platform work. The photographic profession is an ideal…
Narrations and practices of mobility and immobility in the maintenance of gender dualisms
This paper analyses the role of practices and representations of mobility in supporting particular kinds of gender orders. While scholarship has shown the various ways women are materially and symbolically ‘fixed’ in place, less attention has been paid to how discourses and practices of mobility interface with systems of gender differentiation more broadly. This work is based on a robust empirical base of 55 interviews, 90 h of participant observ…
Mums with cameras: Technological change, entrepreneurship and motherhood
This article examines the discursive framing of motherhood and entrepreneurship in the context of the Australian photography industry. Drawing on interviews with both male and female professional photographers, we analyse framings of ‘the mumtographer’ and ‘mums with cameras’. Moving beyond the emphasis in the extant literature on mother business owners in general, our analysis delineates an industry‐specific articulation of the mumpreneur and ex…
Critical minerals: Rethinking extractivism
Acceleration in political support for critical minerals industry development is linked to securing resource supply chains essential to low carbon futures. This commentary reviews the Australian critical minerals agenda, scrutinising urgency claims engulfing the ‘rush’ to extract critical minerals. First, we define critical minerals and examine their ‘criticality’ in relation to decarbonisation and geopolitical motivations. The idea that the emerg…
An agenda for Australian rural sociology: Troubling the white middle-class farming woman
In reflecting on the last two decades of publications by Australian rural studies scholars in three major disciplinary journals, this article argues that the field of Australian rural sociology has failed to address racial inequality and class difference. While we note a burgeoning of feminist rural research challenging the historical emphasis on the white male farmer, this too has tended to occlude class and race, as is demonstrated in our analy…
Transnational Labour Migration and the place of Reproductive Labour: Trailing Wives and Community Support in Boddington
This article addresses the need for critical attention to families and place in the labour migration literature. Through examination of the experiences of trailing wives, it highlights the interconnected roles of state regulation, industry practice and destination communities in the gendering of transnational labour migration. Specifically, we attend to the experiences of trailing wives accompanying partners who migrated to Boddington in rural We…
Encountering education in the rural: Migrant Women's Perspectives
This paper explores migrant women’s encounters with formal and informal education in what can be termed new immigration rural destinations. We ask to what extent educational opportunities are realized in these new destinations. We show that education aspirations may be jeopardized because of the desire to achieve economic goals and thus require remedial action. Specifically, we refer to qualitative data collected in rural (and remote) Boddington …
Postcards from Somewhere: ‘Marginal’ Cultural Production, Creativity and Community
This paper focuses on a case study of local postcard production in a rural community in Western Australia. Drawing on in-depth interviews with key producers of these postcards, the analysis presented explores perceptions of and contexts for the emergence of this production, in turn examining the notion of ‘creativity’ articulated and privileged by this cultural work. Connections are identified between the making of postcards, the broader historic…
Mobilising subterranean geopolitics: The spectre of spontaneous combustion and post mining imaginaries
Origins of the Anzac Dawn ceremony: Spontaneity and nationhood 1
Three separate claims to originating the dawn service – a core element of the Australian Anzac Day ritual and sense of Australian national identity – circulate persistently in contemporary Australian culture. This article offers a critical comparative analysis of these claims, examining in particular the complex interactions between official and lay narratives as part of regional and state identity politics, conventions establishing validity and …
Localising national identity: Albany's Anzacs
Local representations of the significance of Albany, Western Australia, in the first world war and of the city's part in the birth of Anzac register substantial points of departure from national histories. While both the Anzac mythos and official renderings of Australia's wars are vigorously contested, Albany's reformulation offers a clear example of the ways in which communities actively inflect national narratives to create expressions of diffe…
Origins of the Anzac Dawn ceremony: Spontaneity and nationhood 1
Three separate claims to originating the dawn service – a core element of the Australian Anzac Day ritual and sense of Australian national identity – circulate persistently in contemporary Australian culture. This article offers a critical comparative analysis of these claims, examining in particular the complex interactions between official and lay narratives as part of regional and state identity politics, conventions establishing validity and …
Doing cultural work: Local postcard production and place identity in a rural shire
Postcards from Somewhere: ‘Marginal’ Cultural Production, Creativity and Community
This paper focuses on a case study of local postcard production in a rural community in Western Australia. Drawing on in-depth interviews with key producers of these postcards, the analysis presented explores perceptions of and contexts for the emergence of this production, in turn examining the notion of ‘creativity’ articulated and privileged by this cultural work. Connections are identified between the making of postcards, the broader historic…
The 'Feminine Revolution in Mining: A Critique
This paper presents an analysis of media reports of Australian women in mine management. It argues that a dominant storyline in the texts is one of gender change; in fact, a 'feminine revolution' is said to have occurred in the mining industry and corporate Australia more generally. Despite this celebratory and transformative discourse the female mine managers interviewed in the media texts seek to distance themselves from women/female identity/f…
The emotional geography of a mine closure: A study of the Ravensthorpe nickel mine in Western Australia
This paper engages with the literature on emotional geographies to report on a case study of the emotions surrounding the closure of a nickel mine in the shire of Ravensthorpe in the south-west of Western Australia in January 2009. Two themes from the affect-infused narratives of pre- and post-mine community members are outlined. The first, which challenges constructions of the closure as a purely industrial and economic concern, focuses on the i…
The Mining Boom and Western Australia's Changing Landscape: Towards Sustainability or Business as Usual
The practices and public reputation of mining have been changing over time.In the past, mining operations frequently stood accused of being socially and environmentally disruptive, whereas mining today invests heavily in 'socially responsible' and 'sustainable' business practices.Changes such as these can be witnessed internationally as well as in places like Western Australia (WA), where the mining sector has matured into an economic pillar of t…
Gender, emotions and fly‐in fly‐out work
This paper explores the emotional life of fly‐in fly‐out (FIFO) workers and their families, through an analysis of more than 500 postings made on an online chat forum for mining families. Building on literature on fly‐in fly‐out workers and understandings of emotions as socially constructed, analysis shows how posters to the forum, typically women whose male partners are FIFO workers, construct gendered emotional identities for their partners (so…
Organizational rhetoric in the prospectuses of elite private schools: Unpacking strategies of persuasion
The way in which private schools use rhetoric in their communications offers important insights into how these organizational sites persuade audiences and leverage marketplace advantage in the context of contemporary educational platforms. Through systemic analysis of rhetorical strategies employed in 65 ‘elite’ school prospectuses in Australia, this paper contributes to understandings of the ways schools’ communications draw on broader cultural …
Class Contestations and Australia's Resource Boom: The Emergence of the 'Cashed-up Bogan
This article examines the figure of the 'Cashed-up Bogan' or 'Cub' in Australian media from 2006 to 2009. It explains that 'Bogan', like that of 'Chav' in Britain, is a widely engaged negative descriptor for the white working-class poor. In contrast, 'Cubs' have economic capital. This capital, and the Cub's emergence, is linked to Australia's resource boom of recent decades when the need for skilled labour allowed for a highly demarcated segment …
Corporate social responsibility and the parameters of dialogue with vulnerable others
This article presents a case study of corporate dialogue with vulnerable others. Dialogue with marginalized external groups is increasingly presented in the business literature as the key to making corporate social responsibility possible in particular through corporate learning. Corporate public communications at the same time promote community engagement as a core aspect of corporate social responsibility. This article examines the possibilitie…
The mining boom and Western Australia’s changing landscape: Towards sustainability or business as usual
The practices and public reputation of mining have been changing over time. In the past, mining operations frequently stood accused of being socially and environmentally disruptive, whereas mining today invests heavily in ‘socially responsible’ and ‘sustainable’ business practices. Changes such as these can be witnessed internationally as well as in places like Western Australia (WA), where the mining sector has matured into an economic pillar of…
Scary” heterosexualities in a rural Australian mining town
The civic virtue of developmentalism: On the mining industry's political licence to develop Western Australia
This paper examines the social licence to operate (SLO) of Western Australia's (WA's) mining industry in the context of the state's ‘developmentalist’ agenda. We draw on the findings of a multi-disciplinary body of new research on the risks and challenges posed by WA's mining industry for environmental, social and economic sustainability. We synthesise the findings of this work against the backdrop of the broader debates on corporate social respo…
Our' Community: Corporate Social Responsibility, Neoliberalisation, and Mining Industry Community Engagement in Rural Australia
This paper addresses contemporary neoliberal mobilisations of community undertaken by private corporations. It does so by examining the ways in which the mining industry, empowered through the legitimising framework of corporate social responsibility, is increasingly and profoundly involved in shaping the meaning, practice, and experience of 'local community'. We draw on a substantial Australian case study, consisting of interviews and document a…
A social licence to operate: Corporate Social Responsibility, Local Communities and the Constitution of Global Production Networks
This article contributes to the theorization of the role of informal regulation (undertaken by leading firms) in the ongoing organization of global production networks. It does so through a qualitative case study of BHP Billiton's Ravensthorpe Nickel Operation (RNO) in the rural Shire of Ravensthorpe in Western Australia. This less tangible, and to date under-researched, dimension of global production networks is foregrounded through a focus on t…
Out of place (Gwalia): Occasional essays on Australian regional communities and built environments in transition
Though one would scarcely know it either from the title or the description on the cover, Out of Place (Gwalia): Occasional Essays on Australian Regional Communities and Built Environments in Transi
Narrations and practices of mobility and immobility in the maintenance of gender dualisms
This paper analyses the role of practices and representations of mobility in supporting particular kinds of gender orders. While scholarship has shown the various ways women are materially and symbolically ‘fixed’ in place, less attention has been paid to how discourses and practices of mobility interface with systems of gender differentiation more broadly. This work is based on a robust empirical base of 55 interviews, 90 h of participant observ…
Freedom, part-time pirates, and poo police: Regulating the heterotopic space of the recreational boat
At all levels of governance from international convention to local policy, the regulation of pollution from boats and ships has been steeped in conflict and subject to resistance. Recreational boaters, in particular, are often highly resistant to attempts to regulate their boating activity, particularly on environmental grounds. Such ongoing resistance poses a significant policy compliance challenge. This paper seeks to shed light on this complex…
Encountering education in the rural: Migrant Women's Perspectives
This paper explores migrant women’s encounters with formal and informal education in what can be termed new immigration rural destinations. We ask to what extent educational opportunities are realized in these new destinations. We show that education aspirations may be jeopardized because of the desire to achieve economic goals and thus require remedial action. Specifically, we refer to qualitative data collected in rural (and remote) Boddington …
Introduction: Beyond Stock Photographs - Imagining, Experiencing, and Researching Rural Education
Editorial introductions to special issues have a number of generic features. They typically include a review of the literature, for example, and a discussion of areas requiring additional research. As we discussed these generic dimensions in preparing to write this paper, we agreed that they should be rightly bypassed in this instance as they have been comprehensively addressed in recent articles published elsewhere (e.g. Pini & Bhopal, 2017; Pin…
The Management of Wicked Problems in Health and Social Care
Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander people have experienced significant marginalization as a result of the British invasion of Australia and the manner of continued colonization. Despite numerous government programs and policies designed to remediate what is referred to as Indigenous disadvantage, Australia’s First peoples continue to experience disproportionately negative life outcomes relative to non-Indigenous Australians in areas suc…
Transnational Labour Migration and the place of Reproductive Labour: Trailing Wives and Community Support in Boddington
This article addresses the need for critical attention to families and place in the labour migration literature. Through examination of the experiences of trailing wives, it highlights the interconnected roles of state regulation, industry practice and destination communities in the gendering of transnational labour migration. Specifically, we attend to the experiences of trailing wives accompanying partners who migrated to Boddington in rural We…
Mobility, temporality, and social reproduction: Everyday rhythms of the ‘Fifo family’ in the Australian Mining Sector
The substantial use of Fly-in-Fly out (FIFO) work in the Australian mining sector involves a repeated cycle in which workers (mostly men) leave their homes to undertake a pre-determined number of consecutive days of work on (often remote) mine sites where they are also accommodated. They then spend a pre-determined number of days at home. This article examines how FIFO workers’ rhythms of physical absence and presence in family life shape the eve…
How professional photographers engage with and resist digital platform work
While there is emerging research on the motivations of workers who engage with specific digital platforms, scant attention has been afforded to the contours of the digital economy as they affect workers in occupational or professional contexts. Drawing on interviews with 51 Australian photographers, the authors examined the extent to which, and why, photographers engage with or resist digital platform work. The photographic profession is an ideal…
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