James Arvanitakis
Biographic Data
| ID | 283527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Arvanitakis |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Arvanitakis |
| SIGNATURE | ARVANITAKIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7413-0110 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Refreshing critical pedagogy and citizenship education through the lens of justice and complexity pedagogy
Maximal citizenship educators are committed to advancing an approach to citizenship learning with the following staple features: learner-centred; experiential; problem- and action-oriented; racialised, classed and gendered analysis of power; and strengthening the public sphere and democracy. This type of approach to education shares many similarities with the principles of critical pedagogy. However, there have been valid arguments that Frankfurt…
Publishing and Mediatization - A podcast from a Workshop in Norrköping June 2017 [With a written introduction by James Meese]
No abstract available
Bellamy's Rage and Beer's Conscience: Towards a Pirate Methodology
Over the last decade piracy has emerged as a growing field of research covering a wide range of different phenomena, from fashion counterfeits and media piracy, through to 17th century buccaneers and present-day pirates off the coast of Somalia. In many cases piracy can be a metaphor or an analytical perspective to understand conflicts and social change. This article relates this fascination with piracy as a practice and a metaphor to academia an…
Property, Place and Piracy
Property, Place and Piracy
Commons, Piracy and the Crisis of Property
This article takes the politicisation of copyright and file sharing as a starting point to discuss the concept of the commons and the construction of property. Empirically, the article draws on a series of interviews with Pirate Party members in Sweden, Australia, Germany, the UK and USA; placed in the theoretical framework of the commons. We argue that piracy, as an act and an ideology, interrogates common understandings of property as something…
Transracial Adoption, White Cosmopolitanism and the Fantasy of the Global Family
This article takes at its point of the departure the practice of transracial adoption of children and adults. During the colonial period, it was not only non-white native children or adults who were adopted by white colonisers and settlers; the opposite also occurred. The existence of these ‘inverted’ transracial adoptions is well-documented in literary and autobiographical texts and historical documents, as well as in art and visual culture. At …
Redefining the political moment
On 16 February 2003, more than half a million people gathered in Sydney, Australia, as part of a global anti-war protest aimed at stopping the impending invasion of Iraq by the then US Administration. It is difficult to estimate how many millions marched on the coordinated protest, but it was by far the largest mobilization of a generation. Walking and chanting on the streets of Sydney that day, it seemed that a political moment was upon us. In a…
The miner and the activist: An Australian parable for our carbon constrained world
This paper reviews the meaning of carbon by applying five broad questions to this controversial substance: what is land; what is property; what is ownership; what is value; and what are property rights? By exploring each of these questions, we aim to show that a multidimensional and complex understanding is required for effective policy discussions to confront the challenge of global warming. We engage the perspective of a miner and an environmen…
Solidarity, community and the political economy of hurt
This paper considers whether as anti-racist activists we can form a community of solidarity. Critiquing the issue of 'whiteness', I consider whether such a community reflects or actually confronts the structures of a political economy of whiteness. Using both academic literature and narrative research I reflect on my own experiences of racism and hurt. These emotional and important issues are then intertwined within the political economy of white…
Staging Maralinga and looking for community (or why we must desire community before we can find it)
The concept of ‘community’ is often presented as a way of overcoming exclusion and this dominates many community cultural development projects including those drawing on the tradition of ‘applied theatre’. Drawing on personal experience of staging an applied theatre project, Maralinga, which details the exposure of veterans to nuclear fallout, this paper problematises the concept of community based on some ‘natural’ affiliation or recognition. It…
The Commons: Opening and Enclosing Non-commodified Space
This paper begins with a simple question—‘how can you steal something that no one owns’? Though a simple question, the answer is complicated, for the stealing of ‘things’ owned by no one explains an important aspect of capitalism’s insatiable appetite. Historically the conditions for industrialisation and market economies were created by capital through the colonisation of common lands and common modes of production—things that are shared but not…
Transracial Adoption, White Cosmopolitanism and the Fantasy of the Global Family
This article takes at its point of the departure the practice of transracial adoption of children and adults. During the colonial period, it was not only non-white native children or adults who were adopted by white colonisers and settlers; the opposite also occurred. The existence of these ‘inverted’ transracial adoptions is well-documented in literary and autobiographical texts and historical documents, as well as in art and visual culture. At …
Refreshing critical pedagogy and citizenship education through the lens of justice and complexity pedagogy
Maximal citizenship educators are committed to advancing an approach to citizenship learning with the following staple features: learner-centred; experiential; problem- and action-oriented; racialised, classed and gendered analysis of power; and strengthening the public sphere and democracy. This type of approach to education shares many similarities with the principles of critical pedagogy. However, there have been valid arguments that Frankfurt…
The miner and the activist: An Australian parable for our carbon constrained world
This paper reviews the meaning of carbon by applying five broad questions to this controversial substance: what is land; what is property; what is ownership; what is value; and what are property rights? By exploring each of these questions, we aim to show that a multidimensional and complex understanding is required for effective policy discussions to confront the challenge of global warming. We engage the perspective of a miner and an environmen…
The Commons: Opening and Enclosing Non-commodified Space
This paper begins with a simple question—‘how can you steal something that no one owns’? Though a simple question, the answer is complicated, for the stealing of ‘things’ owned by no one explains an important aspect of capitalism’s insatiable appetite. Historically the conditions for industrialisation and market economies were created by capital through the colonisation of common lands and common modes of production—things that are shared but not…
The Commons: Opening and Enclosing Non-commodified Space
This paper begins with a simple question—‘how can you steal something that no one owns’? Though a simple question, the answer is complicated, for the stealing of ‘things’ owned by no one explains an important aspect of capitalism’s insatiable appetite. Historically the conditions for industrialisation and market economies were created by capital through the colonisation of common lands and common modes of production—things that are shared but not…
Staging Maralinga and looking for community (or why we must desire community before we can find it)
The concept of ‘community’ is often presented as a way of overcoming exclusion and this dominates many community cultural development projects including those drawing on the tradition of ‘applied theatre’. Drawing on personal experience of staging an applied theatre project, Maralinga, which details the exposure of veterans to nuclear fallout, this paper problematises the concept of community based on some ‘natural’ affiliation or recognition. It…
Solidarity, community and the political economy of hurt
This paper considers whether as anti-racist activists we can form a community of solidarity. Critiquing the issue of 'whiteness', I consider whether such a community reflects or actually confronts the structures of a political economy of whiteness. Using both academic literature and narrative research I reflect on my own experiences of racism and hurt. These emotional and important issues are then intertwined within the political economy of white…
The miner and the activist: An Australian parable for our carbon constrained world
This paper reviews the meaning of carbon by applying five broad questions to this controversial substance: what is land; what is property; what is ownership; what is value; and what are property rights? By exploring each of these questions, we aim to show that a multidimensional and complex understanding is required for effective policy discussions to confront the challenge of global warming. We engage the perspective of a miner and an environmen…
Redefining the political moment
On 16 February 2003, more than half a million people gathered in Sydney, Australia, as part of a global anti-war protest aimed at stopping the impending invasion of Iraq by the then US Administration. It is difficult to estimate how many millions marched on the coordinated protest, but it was by far the largest mobilization of a generation. Walking and chanting on the streets of Sydney that day, it seemed that a political moment was upon us. In a…
Transracial Adoption, White Cosmopolitanism and the Fantasy of the Global Family
This article takes at its point of the departure the practice of transracial adoption of children and adults. During the colonial period, it was not only non-white native children or adults who were adopted by white colonisers and settlers; the opposite also occurred. The existence of these ‘inverted’ transracial adoptions is well-documented in literary and autobiographical texts and historical documents, as well as in art and visual culture. At …
Commons, Piracy and the Crisis of Property
This article takes the politicisation of copyright and file sharing as a starting point to discuss the concept of the commons and the construction of property. Empirically, the article draws on a series of interviews with Pirate Party members in Sweden, Australia, Germany, the UK and USA; placed in the theoretical framework of the commons. We argue that piracy, as an act and an ideology, interrogates common understandings of property as something…
Property, Place and Piracy
Property, Place and Piracy
Refreshing critical pedagogy and citizenship education through the lens of justice and complexity pedagogy
Maximal citizenship educators are committed to advancing an approach to citizenship learning with the following staple features: learner-centred; experiential; problem- and action-oriented; racialised, classed and gendered analysis of power; and strengthening the public sphere and democracy. This type of approach to education shares many similarities with the principles of critical pedagogy. However, there have been valid arguments that Frankfurt…
Publishing and Mediatization - A podcast from a Workshop in Norrköping June 2017 [With a written introduction by James Meese]
No abstract available
Bellamy's Rage and Beer's Conscience: Towards a Pirate Methodology
Over the last decade piracy has emerged as a growing field of research covering a wide range of different phenomena, from fashion counterfeits and media piracy, through to 17th century buccaneers and present-day pirates off the coast of Somalia. In many cases piracy can be a metaphor or an analytical perspective to understand conflicts and social change. This article relates this fascination with piracy as a practice and a metaphor to academia an…
Sociology (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Commons (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)