Rebecca Laforgia
Biographic Data
| ID | 3047634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Laforgia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Laforgia |
| SIGNATURE | LAFORGIA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction: Creating Security Through Image and Text
The objective of this collection is to challenge the ‘imagining’ of security. This call for a critical re-imaging of security is not new. It is a growing area of research and this Intervention collection fits within this tradition. Through the use of the visual there is emphasis on how we can see security as a creative question and one in which hope is a legitimate and purposeful aim
Touching the hope in security: Reflections on the gas-mask display at the Australian War Memorial
This essay begins with a celebration of the concept of hope. The essay then moves into examining the author’s personal doubts in sustaining her own commitment to the idea of hope. The question is asked: how to maintain the attitude that hope is real against the disciplinary imperatives and vocabulary of security as inevitably about conflict? The essay uses the image of gas-masks taken from the World War I exhibition at the Australian War Memorial…
Listening to China’s Multilateral Voice for the First Time: Analysing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank for Soft Power Opportunities and Risks in the Narrative of ‘Lean, Clean and Green’
The creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a seminal event in China’s recent history. The AIIB is the first multinational financial institution instigated by China. The broad opportunity for soft power influence for China is clear. Less clear are the specifics on how or what this soft power opportunity will mean and how it will be delivered. This article examines the core phrase/narrative developed by China to describe the…
Limitlessness in Australian Constitutional Legal Narrative: The memory of Black's Address in the Tasmanian Dam Case
Given that clashes of federalism and the interpretation of powers are often the predominant themes in Australian constitutional culture, an especially intriguing element in the address of Michael Black QC, representing the Tasmanian Wilderness Society, in the High Court Tasmanian Dam case is the idea that there was something evocative and poetic that was said in a constitutional setting. This article does not replicate Black's legal argument dire…
To Watch, to Never Look Away’: The Public's Responsibility for Australia's Offshore Processing of Asylum Seekers
In June, the Australian government celebrated six months without a boat reaching Australian shores from South East Asia. Consequently, demand for people smuggling has decreased, and there has been no loss of life of asylum seekers at sea. According to their stated aims of 'stopping the boats', and disrupting the people smuggling business model, 'Operation Sovereign Borders' and Australia's policy of processing asylum seekers offshore have been a …
The Politics of International Law - Twenty Years Later: A Reply to Martti Koskenniemi
Listening to China’s Multilateral Voice for the First Time: Analysing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank for Soft Power Opportunities and Risks in the Narrative of ‘Lean, Clean and Green’
The creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a seminal event in China’s recent history. The AIIB is the first multinational financial institution instigated by China. The broad opportunity for soft power influence for China is clear. Less clear are the specifics on how or what this soft power opportunity will mean and how it will be delivered. This article examines the core phrase/narrative developed by China to describe the…
To Watch, to Never Look Away’: The Public's Responsibility for Australia's Offshore Processing of Asylum Seekers
In June, the Australian government celebrated six months without a boat reaching Australian shores from South East Asia. Consequently, demand for people smuggling has decreased, and there has been no loss of life of asylum seekers at sea. According to their stated aims of 'stopping the boats', and disrupting the people smuggling business model, 'Operation Sovereign Borders' and Australia's policy of processing asylum seekers offshore have been a …
The Politics of International Law - Twenty Years Later: A Reply to Martti Koskenniemi
To Watch, to Never Look Away’: The Public's Responsibility for Australia's Offshore Processing of Asylum Seekers
In June, the Australian government celebrated six months without a boat reaching Australian shores from South East Asia. Consequently, demand for people smuggling has decreased, and there has been no loss of life of asylum seekers at sea. According to their stated aims of 'stopping the boats', and disrupting the people smuggling business model, 'Operation Sovereign Borders' and Australia's policy of processing asylum seekers offshore have been a …
Limitlessness in Australian Constitutional Legal Narrative: The memory of Black's Address in the Tasmanian Dam Case
Given that clashes of federalism and the interpretation of powers are often the predominant themes in Australian constitutional culture, an especially intriguing element in the address of Michael Black QC, representing the Tasmanian Wilderness Society, in the High Court Tasmanian Dam case is the idea that there was something evocative and poetic that was said in a constitutional setting. This article does not replicate Black's legal argument dire…
Listening to China’s Multilateral Voice for the First Time: Analysing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank for Soft Power Opportunities and Risks in the Narrative of ‘Lean, Clean and Green’
The creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a seminal event in China’s recent history. The AIIB is the first multinational financial institution instigated by China. The broad opportunity for soft power influence for China is clear. Less clear are the specifics on how or what this soft power opportunity will mean and how it will be delivered. This article examines the core phrase/narrative developed by China to describe the…
Introduction: Creating Security Through Image and Text
The objective of this collection is to challenge the ‘imagining’ of security. This call for a critical re-imaging of security is not new. It is a growing area of research and this Intervention collection fits within this tradition. Through the use of the visual there is emphasis on how we can see security as a creative question and one in which hope is a legitimate and purposeful aim
Touching the hope in security: Reflections on the gas-mask display at the Australian War Memorial
This essay begins with a celebration of the concept of hope. The essay then moves into examining the author’s personal doubts in sustaining her own commitment to the idea of hope. The question is asked: how to maintain the attitude that hope is real against the disciplinary imperatives and vocabulary of security as inevitably about conflict? The essay uses the image of gas-masks taken from the World War I exhibition at the Australian War Memorial…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)