Anna Yeatman
Biographic Data
| ID | 288665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Yeatman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Yeatman |
| SIGNATURE | YEATMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Reflections on contemporary challenges and possibilities for democracy and education
This paper is one of two which bring together leading educational researchers to consider some of the key challenges facing democracy and education during the twenty-first century, including rising social and economic inequality, political instability, and the existential threats of global pandemics and climate change. In this paper, key educational scholar–activists respond to the challenges and possibilities for democracy and education, with co…
Feminism and the Politics of Difference
Taking ‘a rightful place in our own country’: Indigenous self‐determination and the Australian people: A symposium
The papers in this symposium are further iterations of most of the papers that were presented to a symposium on 21st February 2018. This symposium was a joint initiative of the Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University and Nura Gili Indigenous Programs, UNSW Sydney. Along with Heidi Norman (UTS), we were the convenors of this event. The title of the symposium—taking ‘a rightful place in our own country’—comes from the Uluru Statement fro…
Receiving the final report of the referendum council: A challenge in public law
The Final Report of the Referendum Council , which includes the Uluru Statement from the Heart , is a formal claim on the Australian people and its governing institutions. The claim is for a new conception of the unity of the Australian people so that for the first time historically it includes the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first sovereign nations of Australia. This is the significance of the recommendation that a First…
Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene
The recent 10,000 year history of climatic stability on Earth that enabled the rise of agriculture and domestication, the growth of cities, numerous technological revolutions, and the emergence of modernity is now over. We accept that in the latest phase of this era, modernity is unmaking the stability that enabled its emergence. Over the 21st century severe and numerous weather disasters, scarcity of key resources, major changes in environments,…
Atwo-person conception of freedom: The significance of Jessica Benjamin's idea of intersubjectivity
Jessica Benjamin offers a two-person, relational account of freedom understood in terms of intersubjectivity. She sees the conditions of possibility of this account as arising out of the historical process of challenge to the established patriarchal one-person account of freedom that is led by the feminist insistence on the feminine/maternal other as a subject in her own right. Where the patriarchal conception of freedom operates in terms of one …
Postmodern Revisionings of the Political
Ian Hunter's Civil Philosophy
Ian Hunter's normative commitment is to civil philosophy. His sustained critique of metaphysical philosophy is to be understood in the context of his proposition that civil and moral philosophy are at war. Since civil philosophy is the only guarantor of social peace, the stakes are high
Feminism and the Technological Age
Feminism advocates for the inclusion of women within the modern economy, but this has implicated feminism in a hyper-capitalist and instrumental mode of organising social life. Feminism has helped to legitimise the ubiquitous reach of this regime into all areas of social life, even parenting. Feminism can learn from Heidegger's proposition that in questioning modern technology we may open up a way of coming into a free relationship with it—to be …
Personalising Public Services: Understanding the personalization narrative – By Catherine Needham
Perspectives on the Capacity of the Australian Public Service and Effective Policy Development and Implementation: Perspectives on the Capacity of the Australian Public Service
It is a long held tradition of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) to invite speakers to address the Fellow's Colloquium as part of the annual symposium, with an aim to spark discussion and debate on a controversial and contemporary topic. In 2010 the debate was focused on the question of whether there had been a degradation of the professional capacity of the Australian Public Service (APS) with regard to effective policy deve…
Postmodern Epistemological Politics and Social Science
Murray River Country: An Ecological Dialogue with Traditional Owners by Jessica K. Weir
Individualization and the Delivery of Welfare Services: Contestation and Complexity
The conception of welfare services has changed to consider the more specialized needs of individual users or consumers. This book examines the contradictions and complexities of contemporary individua
The Subject of Citizenship
Considerations of citizenship of whatever kind demand an idea of citizenship. There cannot be an idea of citizenship without an account of the subject of citizenship. This paper argues that the subject of citizenship is “the individual” considered as an integrated unit of organic and subjective life. It is this idea of the individual that is the referent for the idea of self-preservation in early modern civil philosophy. It is difficult to apprec…
The idea of the constitutional state and global society
It is a commonplace observation that historically established modes of state formation are inadequately adapted to global social scale (see for example Kettl 2000; and for a theoretically sophisticated treatment of this issue Sassen 2000), although as we shall see this observation underestimates the dynamic by which this adaptation is currently occurring. Many commentators seem to conclude from the current lack of fit between the established type…
Social policy, freedom and individuality
Contemporary social policy lacks an account of the ends it serves. The reason for this is a laissez‐faire policy regime where property right overwhelms the right of each individual to be a self‐determining person. Laissez‐faire policy creates a scarcity of public resources where a universalistic social policy cannot be afforded. A narrowly targeted social policy designed for the poor prevails: it is one where the poor are subject to state coercio…
Looking After Children: A case of individualised service delivery
This is a discussion of the debate in the literature on the new Looking After Children system of managing out of home care for children. This is an important program initiative in results‐oriented government that takes an individualised approach to children in care. The literature generally falls into the two categories of either relatively uncritical advocacy of LAC or its wholesale critique. These two camps pass as ships in the night and echo p…
Right, the state and the conception of the person
The contemporary world‐historical epoch involves both the universal extension of the state type of organization of society, and the development of a universal idea of the person in the discourse of human rights. The status of the person requires positive constitution, and such constitution requires an idea of the state that informs the actual working of states. The idea of the state cannot be developed unless the natural right conception of the b…
Global ethics, Australian citizenship and the ‘boat people’– a symposium
Our era is marked by profound conflict between two different conceptions of citizenship, and we can be certain that this conflict will increase. The first of these belongs to the Westphalian interstate order, and it is an exclusion-ary nationalist conception of citizenship; the second belongs to a post-Westphalian interstate order, and it is oriented in terms of a cosmopolitan ethic of human rights. I will argue here that the first conception for…
Globality, State and Society 1
Globality, State and Society
Globality denotes the development of society on a universal scale. Society is no longer contained by the nation state and social solidarity in the Durkheimian sense becomes global rather than national. This development intensifies the ethical challenge of modernity: the development of a cosmopolitan conception of the human subject. This paper asks what this ethical challenge demands both of us as individual citizens and of the states to which we …
The new contractualism and individualized personhood
Ramia’s central point of criticism of my work on the new contractualism has it that I reject social protection and the importance of social protection in providing a restraint on the destructive effects of liberal market princi-ples. He has constructed a straw person. I never designed my work on the new contractualism to make such an argument. Nor can it be argued that my work in this area unwittingly proposes that social protection is unne-cessa…
Justice & Identity: Antipodean Practices
Contracting Out and Public Values: A Symposium
The three papers that constitute this symposium were first commissioned for a workshop entitled Citizenship and Contractualism held in October 2000. The theme of that workshop centred on the contractualisation of the relationship between service deliverers and their clients. These three papers did not fit that theme. They are concerned more with the general use of contracting out as a tool of contemporary governance. I have used the title contrac…
The Concept of Public Management and the Australian State in the 1980s
The adoption of the discourse of management by Australian public services in the 1980s can be seen as a cultural revolution. Results‐oriented management, subordinated to economic considerations, is the dominant approach. The upper levels of the public services have been remodelled in the form of a technically‐oriented elite recruited on merit, defined in terms of higher education credentials, drawing a technical intelligentsia, or “new class”, in…
Corporate Managerialism and the Shift From the Welfare to the Competition State
(1993). CORPORATE MANAGERIALISM AND THE SHIFT FROM THE WELFARE TO THE COMPETITION STATE. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 3-9
Reflections on contemporary challenges and possibilities for democracy and education
This paper is one of two which bring together leading educational researchers to consider some of the key challenges facing democracy and education during the twenty-first century, including rising social and economic inequality, political instability, and the existential threats of global pandemics and climate change. In this paper, key educational scholar–activists respond to the challenges and possibilities for democracy and education, with co…
Who is the Subject of Human Rights
What is distinctive about human rights, when compared with the rights claims associated with modern citizenship, animals, or nonbiological units of conscious being (artificial intelligence)? It is suggested that each of these discourses constitutes the subject of rights differently. This article concentrates on both philosophical and psychological means of registering the unique individuality of the subject of human rights. Because human rights i…
The Reform of Public Management: An Overview
Perspectives on the Capacity of the Australian Public Service and Effective Policy Development and Implementation: Perspectives on the Capacity of the Australian Public Service
It is a long held tradition of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) to invite speakers to address the Fellow's Colloquium as part of the annual symposium, with an aim to spark discussion and debate on a controversial and contemporary topic. In 2010 the debate was focused on the question of whether there had been a degradation of the professional capacity of the Australian Public Service (APS) with regard to effective policy deve…
Trends and Opportunities in the Public Sector: A Critical Assessment
The public sector should be designed to work on behalf of government. Government, in turn, should be designed to work on behalf of a citizen community both to pursue its collective interests and to defend the citizen community against harmful effects of private market activities. At this time, the integrity of the public sector/government has been eroded because the established forms of regulation of the market are outmoded. This has permitted tr…
Interpreting Contemporary Contractualism
Women's citizenship claims, labour market policy and globalisation
Policy and research frameworks concerned with both analysing and advancing women's position in the labour market are still oriented to the assumption that the jurisdictional unit of production relations is the nation‐state. Historically all citizenship claims have been predicated on the jurisdictional integrity and sovereignty of the nation‐state. However, contemporary patterns of globalisation (flows of capital, labour and policy making networks…
Reconstructing Public Bureaucracies: The Residualisation of Equity and Access
In a recent intervention within the debate about the managerialist reconstitution of Australian public bureaucracies, the Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Finance, Michael Keating (1989, p.124), sums up what he calls the raison dêtre of the reforms “as changing the focus more to ‘management for results’”. He proposes that the aim in this has been “to focus management attention on the purposes of programs and the cost‐effective achievem…
Feminism and the Technological Age
Feminism advocates for the inclusion of women within the modern economy, but this has implicated feminism in a hyper-capitalist and instrumental mode of organising social life. Feminism has helped to legitimise the ubiquitous reach of this regime into all areas of social life, even parenting. Feminism can learn from Heidegger's proposition that in questioning modern technology we may open up a way of coming into a free relationship with it—to be …
Global ethics, Australian citizenship and the ‘boat people’– a symposium
Our era is marked by profound conflict between two different conceptions of citizenship, and we can be certain that this conflict will increase. The first of these belongs to the Westphalian interstate order, and it is an exclusion-ary nationalist conception of citizenship; the second belongs to a post-Westphalian interstate order, and it is oriented in terms of a cosmopolitan ethic of human rights. I will argue here that the first conception for…
Atwo-person conception of freedom: The significance of Jessica Benjamin's idea of intersubjectivity
Jessica Benjamin offers a two-person, relational account of freedom understood in terms of intersubjectivity. She sees the conditions of possibility of this account as arising out of the historical process of challenge to the established patriarchal one-person account of freedom that is led by the feminist insistence on the feminine/maternal other as a subject in her own right. Where the patriarchal conception of freedom operates in terms of one …
Social policy, freedom and individuality
Contemporary social policy lacks an account of the ends it serves. The reason for this is a laissez‐faire policy regime where property right overwhelms the right of each individual to be a self‐determining person. Laissez‐faire policy creates a scarcity of public resources where a universalistic social policy cannot be afforded. A narrowly targeted social policy designed for the poor prevails: it is one where the poor are subject to state coercio…
The Subject of Citizenship
Considerations of citizenship of whatever kind demand an idea of citizenship. There cannot be an idea of citizenship without an account of the subject of citizenship. This paper argues that the subject of citizenship is “the individual” considered as an integrated unit of organic and subjective life. It is this idea of the individual that is the referent for the idea of self-preservation in early modern civil philosophy. It is difficult to apprec…
Looking After Children: A case of individualised service delivery
This is a discussion of the debate in the literature on the new Looking After Children system of managing out of home care for children. This is an important program initiative in results‐oriented government that takes an individualised approach to children in care. The literature generally falls into the two categories of either relatively uncritical advocacy of LAC or its wholesale critique. These two camps pass as ships in the night and echo p…
The new contractualism and individualized personhood
Ramia’s central point of criticism of my work on the new contractualism has it that I reject social protection and the importance of social protection in providing a restraint on the destructive effects of liberal market princi-ples. He has constructed a straw person. I never designed my work on the new contractualism to make such an argument. Nor can it be argued that my work in this area unwittingly proposes that social protection is unne-cessa…
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex
The epistemological politics of postmodern feminist theorizing
Recent developments in democratic theory
Recent developments in democratic theory
A rejoinder
The Concept of Public Management and the Australian State in the 1980s
The adoption of the discourse of management by Australian public services in the 1980s can be seen as a cultural revolution. Results‐oriented management, subordinated to economic considerations, is the dominant approach. The upper levels of the public services have been remodelled in the form of a technically‐oriented elite recruited on merit, defined in terms of higher education credentials, drawing a technical intelligentsia, or “new class”, in…
Reconstructing Public Bureaucracies: The Residualisation of Equity and Access
In a recent intervention within the debate about the managerialist reconstitution of Australian public bureaucracies, the Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Finance, Michael Keating (1989, p.124), sums up what he calls the raison dêtre of the reforms “as changing the focus more to ‘management for results’”. He proposes that the aim in this has been “to focus management attention on the purposes of programs and the cost‐effective achievem…
The epistemological politics of postmodern feminist theorizing
Women's citizenship claims, labour market policy and globalisation
Policy and research frameworks concerned with both analysing and advancing women's position in the labour market are still oriented to the assumption that the jurisdictional unit of production relations is the nation‐state. Historically all citizenship claims have been predicated on the jurisdictional integrity and sovereignty of the nation‐state. However, contemporary patterns of globalisation (flows of capital, labour and policy making networks…
Critical Theory in Political Practice.Stephen Leonard
Corporate Managerialism and the Shift From the Welfare to the Competition State
(1993). CORPORATE MANAGERIALISM AND THE SHIFT FROM THE WELFARE TO THE COMPETITION STATE. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 3-9
Regulating Womanhood: Historical Essays on Marriage, Motherhood and Sexuality.Carol Smart
The Reform of Public Management: An Overview
"The "Nations Within: Aboriginal-State Relations in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand
This is a study of the history and current state of aboriginal politics in Canada drawing comparisons with New Zealand and the United States. By exploring similar terrains of the evolving relationship of the peoples with the state, common patterns are revealed. The work includes analysis of the impact of social structures and societal constraints as they define the parameters and restrict the options of the participants in the scripting of this p…
Justice and Identity: Antipodean Practices
Traditional concepts of justice are challenged in this collection of essays exploring biculturalism and difference. The ways we approach questions of sovereignty, governance and democracy are fully debated.
Justice and Sovereign Self
Traditional concepts of justice are challenged in this collection of essays exploring biculturalism and difference. The ways we approach questions of sovereignty, governance and democracy are fully debated.
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex
A Case for Universalistic Nationalism
Interpreting Contemporary Contractualism
Books
Freedom Bound I: Documents on Women in Colonial Australia. Edited by Patricia Grimshaw, Susan Janson and Marian Quartly. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995. Pp. xi + 193. $22.95 paper. Freedom Bound II: Documents on Women in Modern Australia. Edited by Marilyn Lake and Katie Holmes. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995. Pp. xii + 208. $22.95 paper. A Woman's Constitution? Gender and History in the Australian Commonwealth, Edited by Helen Irving. Hale & Iremonger…
Trends and Opportunities in the Public Sector: A Critical Assessment
The public sector should be designed to work on behalf of government. Government, in turn, should be designed to work on behalf of a citizen community both to pursue its collective interests and to defend the citizen community against harmful effects of private market activities. At this time, the integrity of the public sector/government has been eroded because the established forms of regulation of the market are outmoded. This has permitted tr…
Who is the Subject of Human Rights
What is distinctive about human rights, when compared with the rights claims associated with modern citizenship, animals, or nonbiological units of conscious being (artificial intelligence)? It is suggested that each of these discourses constitutes the subject of rights differently. This article concentrates on both philosophical and psychological means of registering the unique individuality of the subject of human rights. Because human rights i…
Justice & Identity: Antipodean Practices
Contracting Out and Public Values: A Symposium
The three papers that constitute this symposium were first commissioned for a workshop entitled Citizenship and Contractualism held in October 2000. The theme of that workshop centred on the contractualisation of the relationship between service deliverers and their clients. These three papers did not fit that theme. They are concerned more with the general use of contracting out as a tool of contemporary governance. I have used the title contrac…
The new contractualism and individualized personhood
Ramia’s central point of criticism of my work on the new contractualism has it that I reject social protection and the importance of social protection in providing a restraint on the destructive effects of liberal market princi-ples. He has constructed a straw person. I never designed my work on the new contractualism to make such an argument. Nor can it be argued that my work in this area unwittingly proposes that social protection is unne-cessa…
Global ethics, Australian citizenship and the ‘boat people’– a symposium
Our era is marked by profound conflict between two different conceptions of citizenship, and we can be certain that this conflict will increase. The first of these belongs to the Westphalian interstate order, and it is an exclusion-ary nationalist conception of citizenship; the second belongs to a post-Westphalian interstate order, and it is oriented in terms of a cosmopolitan ethic of human rights. I will argue here that the first conception for…
Globality, State and Society 1
Globality, State and Society
Globality denotes the development of society on a universal scale. Society is no longer contained by the nation state and social solidarity in the Durkheimian sense becomes global rather than national. This development intensifies the ethical challenge of modernity: the development of a cosmopolitan conception of the human subject. This paper asks what this ethical challenge demands both of us as individual citizens and of the states to which we …
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