Greg Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greg Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greg |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3095-111X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Revisiting Resistance through Rituals 50 years on
This article introduces the special issue of Crime Media Culture that considers the legacy and currency of Resistance through Rituals (RTR) since its publication in 1976. While RTR and the wider work of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) influenced a succession of research studies on youth culture and subculture, as well as paving some of the way for what has come to be called cultural criminology (which provided a foundation for…
Cybercrime
Cybercrime refers to the commission or facilitation of criminal acts in cyberspace using information and communications technologies across various networks and servers. Cyberspace has created increased and new opportunities to commit traditional offenses and has enabled the emergence of new types of crime that are wholly dependent on cybertechnologies. The transnational nature of much cybercrime poses problems for law enforcement agencies, and, …
The Intersections of Covid-19, HIV, and Race/Ethnicity: Machine Learning Methods to Identify and Model Risk Factors for Severe Covid-19 in a Large U.S. National Dataset
Supporting evidence-based decision-making: Capacity Building through Research
Lack of data inhibits informed decision-making and is a critical challenge in developing countries, many of which are under-resourced in financial, technical and institutional capacity to collect and analyse the required data. This limits the countries’ ability to achieve development goals and keeps them dependent on the provision of external resources. Development initiatives often treat capacity building and research as two separate tracks of d…
Protest, policing and law during Covid-19: On the legality of mass gatherings in a health crisis
This article considers the legal status of protest rights in Australia during the COVID-19 public health crisis. It discusses jurisprudence of the New South Wales Supreme Court regarding the legality of mass gatherings for the purpose of protest during the COVID pandemic. Balancing protest rights with risks to community safety posed by possible coronavirus transmission at public assemblies, the Court has sometimes allowed and sometimes prohibited…
Exploring legacies of the baby boomers in the twenty-first century
As the baby boomers neared retirement at the turn of the twentieth century, attention focused on what the future might look like for both them and succeeding generations. Public discourse about boomers often depicts them as a selfish and narcissistic generation that have benefitted from the largesse of the modern welfare state yet seem intent on denying those benefits to their children and grandchildren. Millennials have similarly been condemned …
No borders: The Politics of Immigration Control and Resistance
The empirical focus of Natasha King’s book is on groups articulating a ‘no borders’ politics – a refusal of restrictions to freedom of movement – in Athens and Calais. They include ‘The 300’ hunger
Advancing STI priorities in the SDG era: Priorities for action
The Sustainable Development Goals present an opportunity to reimagine and then reconfigure the approach to controlling sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The predilection of STIs for women and for vulnerable populations means that services that ameliorate STIs, by their nature, enhance equity, a key focus of the goals. Given the considerable breadth and depth of the goals, it is important to locate points of convergence between the SDGs and …
Collective Behavior
Early theories of collective behavior tended to regard it as negative, associating it with the rise of fascism and communism in Europe during the 1930s. Crowd behavior was seen as irrational and dangerous because it suppressed individual will, and posed a threat to the democratic political order and established ways of life. Other theories have regarded collective movements as meaningful acts striving to affect positive social change. Hence, coll…
Labor Movements
Labor movements are social movements reflecting the interests of the industrial working class. Trade unions have made up the traditional core of labor movements and political parties have represented working‐class interests, leading most notably to the creation of welfare states across Western liberal democracies during the twentieth century. The relative affluence and security of the postwar period provided a context wherein “new social movement…
Digital Democracy
During the 1980s, hackers expressed concern over informational freedom. In the 1990s, “hacktivists” used hacking techniques to speak out on political matters, targeting governments and corporations that try to censor and restrict access to information. Wikileaks is a hacktivist organization also involved in practicing “counter‐surveillance” designed to disrupt surveillance hierarchies and institutional power symmetries. Like Wikileaks, ordinary c…
Priority gaps and promising areas in maternal health research in low- and middle-income countries: Summary findings of a mapping of 2292 publications between 2000 and 2012
This commentary sums the findings of a series of papers on a study that mapped the global research agenda for maternal health. The mapping reviewed published interventional research across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) from 2000 to 2012, specifically focusing on investigating the topics covered by this research, the methodologies applied, the funding landscape and trends in authorship attribution.The overarching aim underpinning the ma…
Globalization and Health: Developing the journal to advance the field
Founded in 2005, Globalization and Health was the first open access global health journal. The journal has since expanded the field, and its influence, with the number of downloaded papers rising 17-fold, to over 4 million. Its ground-breaking papers, leading authors -including a Nobel Prize winner- and an impact factor of 2.25 place it among the top global health journals in the world. To mark the ten years since the journal's founding, we, memb…
Exploring fatal facts: Current issues in coronial law, policy and practice
Death investigation and coronial practices have undergone significant social, political and legal scrutiny in recent years. A wave of coronial reform has occurred across jurisdictions, including in the United Kingdom (UK), Australia, Canada and New Zealand, with a concomitant focus on the adequacy of death investigation law and policy. Taking key coronial developments in the UK and Australia as its starting point, this paper explores a legal juri…
Introduction: Frontiers in Coronial Justice – ushering in a new era of coronial research
This Special Issue, Frontiers in Coronial Justice, reflects on the future of death investigation studies in the coronial context.Where the uptake of the death studies movement in the social sciences more broadly has expanded the interdisciplinary study of death, comparatively little attention has focused on the work of coroners or their death investigation practices.Important, but albeit ad hoc, contributions from the disciplines of medicine, law…
Understanding Social Movements
This book offers a new and fresh approach to understanding social movements. It provides interdisciplinary perspectives on social and cultural protest and contentious politics. It considers major theories and concepts, which are presented in an accessible and engaging format. Historical and contemporary case studies and examples from a variety of different countries are provided throughout, including the American civil rights movement, Greenpeace…
Eldercare work, migrant care workers, affective care and subjective proximity
Central to understanding how this labour force issue is experienced by both caregivers and the elderly is the notion of subjective proximity and how emotional and moral trajectories serve to mediate the connection between the eldercare worker and workplace, the Filipino migrant eldercare relationship with employers, agencies and institutions; and, the transnational nature of this mobility and social and actual citizenship
Stop the boats! Moral panic in Australia over asylum seekers
This article analyses the social reaction to asylum seekers in Australia through the lens of moral panic theory. It argues that the most recent campaigns to deter ‘boat people’ from arriving in Australia have all the hallmarks of a classic moral panic, which have been successful because they resonate with deep-rooted anxieties about Australia's national identity and way of life, relating, among other things, to fear of Asian ‘invasion’ and concer…
Reverse innovation in global health systems: Towards global innovation flow
The global flow of knowledge, skills, and ideas has been a defining feature of human progress. Different regions and peoples have contributed to and, indeed, led innovation development at various times in human history. From Africa to Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, the current body of knowledge on these diverse contributions to human science and medicine is expanding [1]. For example, written a thousand years ago in the Middle East, th…
Pompano and the Short March to Curial Fairness
Greg Martin discusses the High Court's endorsement of the judicial use of criminal intelligence in the control of criminal organisations
Discolouring Democracy? Policing, Sensitive Evidence, and Contentious Deaths in the United Kingdom
This article examines recent United Kingdom government proposals for secret inquests, which, it is argued, are part of a general push for secrecy discernible across common law jurisdictions, and which include developments such as increased recourse to sensitive evidence in forensic settings and the normalization of intelligence‐led policing. While the push for secrecy is justified by national security claims, the article shows that in cases of co…
Global health funding and economic development
The impact of increased national wealth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), on public health is widely understood, however an equally important but less well-acclaimed relationship exists between improvements in health and the growth of an economy. Communicable diseases such as HIV, TB, Malaria and the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are impacting many of the world's poorest and most vulnerable populations, and depressing economic de…
Closing down Open Justice in the United Kingdom
This Brief examines moves by the UK government to expand secrecy in UK law via proposals to provide for 'closed material procedures' ('CMPs') in coronial and civil proceedings. These proposals are contained in the Justice and Security Green Paper ('the Green Paper'), which was released in October 2011. Importantly, recent coronial reform in the UK has emerged amid a post-9/11 landscape of counter-terrorism and national security considerations, wh…
Tackling ‘Anti-Social Behaviour’ in Britain and New South Wales—a Preliminary Comparative Account
This article offers a preliminary comparative account and evaluation of approaches to anti-social behaviour in New South Wales (NSW) in light of experiences under the more established British system. Specifically, it compares the British regime of ‘Anti-Social Behaviour Orders’ or ASBOs with the scheme of ‘Youth Conduct Orders’ in NSW. While the UK system is largely punitive, the NSW scheme seeks to integrate justice and welfare considerations, a…
Showcasing security: The politics of policing space at the 2007 Sydney Apec meeting
Using the example of the 2007 Sydney APEC meeting, this article develops a critique of the protest policing literature. While it is accepted that international summits such as APEC are exceptional events, which are policed differently, the view that there has been a general democratisation of protest policing across liberal democracies is contested. Since the Battle of Seattle in 1999 and especially since the terror attacks of 2001, the policing …
Stop the boats! Moral panic in Australia over asylum seekers
This article analyses the social reaction to asylum seekers in Australia through the lens of moral panic theory. It argues that the most recent campaigns to deter ‘boat people’ from arriving in Australia have all the hallmarks of a classic moral panic, which have been successful because they resonate with deep-rooted anxieties about Australia's national identity and way of life, relating, among other things, to fear of Asian ‘invasion’ and concer…
Policing, collective action and social movement theory: The case of the Northern Ireland civil rights campaign
In this paper we examine the relationship between social movements and the police through an analysis of the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) which emerged in the late 1960s in Northern Ireland. Following della Porta (1995) and Melucci (1996) we argue that the way in which episodes of collective action are policed can affect profoundly both levels of mobilization and the orientation of social movements. We also submit that the symbolic and representat…
Subculture, style, chavs and consumer capitalism: Towards a critical cultural criminology of youth
This article examines current controversies in youth culture studies and relates them to recent developments in ‘cultural criminology’. On the one hand, post-subcultural theorists argue the concept of ‘subculture’ is redundant and obsolete and should be replaced by less bounded or rigid concepts, such as ‘neo-tribe’, which supposedly better capture the essence of identity formation and lifestyle choices in postmodern consumer culture. On the othe…
Conceptualizing Cultural Politics in Subcultural and Social Movement Studies
In this article it is argued that combining theories of social movements and subcultures provides a way of 'conceptualizing cultural politics'. The focus is on debates that have taken place over the conceptualization of subcultures and social movements as well as the status and viability of cultural politics. Contemporary subcultural theorists are critical of the rigid concepts used by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) but, it i…
Eldercare work, migrant care workers, affective care and subjective proximity
Central to understanding how this labour force issue is experienced by both caregivers and the elderly is the notion of subjective proximity and how emotional and moral trajectories serve to mediate the connection between the eldercare worker and workplace, the Filipino migrant eldercare relationship with employers, agencies and institutions; and, the transnational nature of this mobility and social and actual citizenship
Generational Differences Amongst New Age Travellers
Previous studies of 'New Age' travellers have paid no attention to generational differences within the travellers' scene. This paper looks at these differences to reflect upon the new social movement (NSM) literature. It is argued that NSM theory only analyses those movements with 'post-material' concerns about culture, identity and symbolic challenges. It thus ignores less privileged movements which are concerned with apparently 'traditional' is…
New Age Travellers: Uproarious or Uprooted
Social movements, welfare and social policy: A critical analysis
This article proposes that theories of ‘new’ social movements (NSMs) may illuminate contemporary welfare struggles and inform research into collective action in social policy. NSM theory is relevant because it focuses on social movement cultures, identity politics and symbolic struggles for the recognition of difference. However, it does this to the exclusion of ‘traditional’ issues such as material redistribution and inequality. A critical socia…
Showcasing security: The politics of policing space at the 2007 Sydney Apec meeting
Using the example of the 2007 Sydney APEC meeting, this article develops a critique of the protest policing literature. While it is accepted that international summits such as APEC are exceptional events, which are policed differently, the view that there has been a general democratisation of protest policing across liberal democracies is contested. Since the Battle of Seattle in 1999 and especially since the terror attacks of 2001, the policing …
Exploring legacies of the baby boomers in the twenty-first century
As the baby boomers neared retirement at the turn of the twentieth century, attention focused on what the future might look like for both them and succeeding generations. Public discourse about boomers often depicts them as a selfish and narcissistic generation that have benefitted from the largesse of the modern welfare state yet seem intent on denying those benefits to their children and grandchildren. Millennials have similarly been condemned …
No Worries? Yes Worries: How New South Wales is Creeping towards a Police State
Introduction to ‘Surviving Neoliberalism: The Persistence of Australian Social Movements
This article considers the survival tactics and successes of Australian social movements during the Howard years (1996–2007). It explores how movements might operate in a political environment that is hostile and bereft of opportunities, and where the strategies of government seek to exclude deliberately progressive collective voices. The article examines theories of neoliberalism and neoconservatism and shows how these came together in the Austr…
Protest, policing and law during Covid-19: On the legality of mass gatherings in a health crisis
This article considers the legal status of protest rights in Australia during the COVID-19 public health crisis. It discusses jurisprudence of the New South Wales Supreme Court regarding the legality of mass gatherings for the purpose of protest during the COVID pandemic. Balancing protest rights with risks to community safety posed by possible coronavirus transmission at public assemblies, the Court has sometimes allowed and sometimes prohibited…
Closing down Open Justice in the United Kingdom
This Brief examines moves by the UK government to expand secrecy in UK law via proposals to provide for 'closed material procedures' ('CMPs') in coronial and civil proceedings. These proposals are contained in the Justice and Security Green Paper ('the Green Paper'), which was released in October 2011. Importantly, recent coronial reform in the UK has emerged amid a post-9/11 landscape of counter-terrorism and national security considerations, wh…
Police attitudes in assigning responsibility for wife abuse
Police attitudes in assigning responsibility for wife abuse
Generational Differences Amongst New Age Travellers
Previous studies of 'New Age' travellers have paid no attention to generational differences within the travellers' scene. This paper looks at these differences to reflect upon the new social movement (NSM) literature. It is argued that NSM theory only analyses those movements with 'post-material' concerns about culture, identity and symbolic challenges. It thus ignores less privileged movements which are concerned with apparently 'traditional' is…
Policing, collective action and social movement theory: The case of the Northern Ireland civil rights campaign
In this paper we examine the relationship between social movements and the police through an analysis of the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) which emerged in the late 1960s in Northern Ireland. Following della Porta (1995) and Melucci (1996) we argue that the way in which episodes of collective action are policed can affect profoundly both levels of mobilization and the orientation of social movements. We also submit that the symbolic and representat…
Social movements, welfare and social policy: A critical analysis
This article proposes that theories of ‘new’ social movements (NSMs) may illuminate contemporary welfare struggles and inform research into collective action in social policy. NSM theory is relevant because it focuses on social movement cultures, identity politics and symbolic struggles for the recognition of difference. However, it does this to the exclusion of ‘traditional’ issues such as material redistribution and inequality. A critical socia…
Conceptualizing Cultural Politics in Subcultural and Social Movement Studies
In this article it is argued that combining theories of social movements and subcultures provides a way of 'conceptualizing cultural politics'. The focus is on debates that have taken place over the conceptualization of subcultures and social movements as well as the status and viability of cultural politics. Contemporary subcultural theorists are critical of the rigid concepts used by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) but, it i…
New Age Travellers: Uproarious or Uprooted
Globalization and Health
This debut editorial of Globalization and Health introduces the journal, briefly delineating its goals and objectives and outlines its scope of subject matter. 'Open Access' publishing is expected to become an increasingly important format for peer reviewed academic journals and that Globalization and Health is 'Open Access' is appropriate. The rationale behind starting a journal dedicated to globalization and health is three fold: Firstly: Globa…
Balancing intellectual monopoly privileges and the need for essential medicines
This issue of Globalization and Health presents a paper by Kerry and Lee that considers the TRIPS agreement and the recent policy debate regarding the protection of public health interest, particularly as they pertain to the Doha Declaration. In this editorial, we consider the debate, the conclusions thereof, and identify five questions that should be considered by key stakeholders in ongoing discussions
The bioscience revolution & the biological weapons threat: Levers & interventions
In December 2008, the US Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, released a report, World At Risk. The Report points to the fact that, not only is the use of a weapon of mass destruction in a terrorist attack before the end of 2013, more likely than not, but also to the fact that terrorists are more likely to be able to obtain and use biological weapons than nuclear. This paper examines the recomme…
Enhancing global control of alcohol to reduce unsafe sex and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa carries a massive dual burden of HIV and alcohol disease, and these pandemics are inextricably linked. Physiological and behavioural research indicates that alcohol independently affects decision-making concerning sex, and skills for negotiating condoms and their correct use. More than 20 studies in Africa have reported higher occurrence of HIV among people with problem drinking; a finding strongly consistent across studies and…
Subculture, style, chavs and consumer capitalism: Towards a critical cultural criminology of youth
This article examines current controversies in youth culture studies and relates them to recent developments in ‘cultural criminology’. On the one hand, post-subcultural theorists argue the concept of ‘subculture’ is redundant and obsolete and should be replaced by less bounded or rigid concepts, such as ‘neo-tribe’, which supposedly better capture the essence of identity formation and lifestyle choices in postmodern consumer culture. On the othe…
No Worries? Yes Worries: How New South Wales is Creeping towards a Police State
Introduction to ‘Surviving Neoliberalism: The Persistence of Australian Social Movements
This article considers the survival tactics and successes of Australian social movements during the Howard years (1996–2007). It explores how movements might operate in a political environment that is hostile and bereft of opportunities, and where the strategies of government seek to exclude deliberately progressive collective voices. The article examines theories of neoliberalism and neoconservatism and shows how these came together in the Austr…
Class Still Matters: A Report from Three Studies
Tackling ‘Anti-Social Behaviour’ in Britain and New South Wales—a Preliminary Comparative Account
This article offers a preliminary comparative account and evaluation of approaches to anti-social behaviour in New South Wales (NSW) in light of experiences under the more established British system. Specifically, it compares the British regime of ‘Anti-Social Behaviour Orders’ or ASBOs with the scheme of ‘Youth Conduct Orders’ in NSW. While the UK system is largely punitive, the NSW scheme seeks to integrate justice and welfare considerations, a…
Showcasing security: The politics of policing space at the 2007 Sydney Apec meeting
Using the example of the 2007 Sydney APEC meeting, this article develops a critique of the protest policing literature. While it is accepted that international summits such as APEC are exceptional events, which are policed differently, the view that there has been a general democratisation of protest policing across liberal democracies is contested. Since the Battle of Seattle in 1999 and especially since the terror attacks of 2001, the policing …
Global health funding and economic development
The impact of increased national wealth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), on public health is widely understood, however an equally important but less well-acclaimed relationship exists between improvements in health and the growth of an economy. Communicable diseases such as HIV, TB, Malaria and the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are impacting many of the world's poorest and most vulnerable populations, and depressing economic de…
Closing down Open Justice in the United Kingdom
This Brief examines moves by the UK government to expand secrecy in UK law via proposals to provide for 'closed material procedures' ('CMPs') in coronial and civil proceedings. These proposals are contained in the Justice and Security Green Paper ('the Green Paper'), which was released in October 2011. Importantly, recent coronial reform in the UK has emerged amid a post-9/11 landscape of counter-terrorism and national security considerations, wh…
Reverse innovation in global health systems: Towards global innovation flow
The global flow of knowledge, skills, and ideas has been a defining feature of human progress. Different regions and peoples have contributed to and, indeed, led innovation development at various times in human history. From Africa to Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, the current body of knowledge on these diverse contributions to human science and medicine is expanding [1]. For example, written a thousand years ago in the Middle East, th…
Pompano and the Short March to Curial Fairness
Greg Martin discusses the High Court's endorsement of the judicial use of criminal intelligence in the control of criminal organisations
Discolouring Democracy? Policing, Sensitive Evidence, and Contentious Deaths in the United Kingdom
This article examines recent United Kingdom government proposals for secret inquests, which, it is argued, are part of a general push for secrecy discernible across common law jurisdictions, and which include developments such as increased recourse to sensitive evidence in forensic settings and the normalization of intelligence‐led policing. While the push for secrecy is justified by national security claims, the article shows that in cases of co…
Understanding Social Movements
This book offers a new and fresh approach to understanding social movements. It provides interdisciplinary perspectives on social and cultural protest and contentious politics. It considers major theories and concepts, which are presented in an accessible and engaging format. Historical and contemporary case studies and examples from a variety of different countries are provided throughout, including the American civil rights movement, Greenpeace…
Eldercare work, migrant care workers, affective care and subjective proximity
Central to understanding how this labour force issue is experienced by both caregivers and the elderly is the notion of subjective proximity and how emotional and moral trajectories serve to mediate the connection between the eldercare worker and workplace, the Filipino migrant eldercare relationship with employers, agencies and institutions; and, the transnational nature of this mobility and social and actual citizenship
Stop the boats! Moral panic in Australia over asylum seekers
This article analyses the social reaction to asylum seekers in Australia through the lens of moral panic theory. It argues that the most recent campaigns to deter ‘boat people’ from arriving in Australia have all the hallmarks of a classic moral panic, which have been successful because they resonate with deep-rooted anxieties about Australia's national identity and way of life, relating, among other things, to fear of Asian ‘invasion’ and concer…
Globalization and Health: Developing the journal to advance the field
Founded in 2005, Globalization and Health was the first open access global health journal. The journal has since expanded the field, and its influence, with the number of downloaded papers rising 17-fold, to over 4 million. Its ground-breaking papers, leading authors -including a Nobel Prize winner- and an impact factor of 2.25 place it among the top global health journals in the world. To mark the ten years since the journal's founding, we, memb…
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