Jai Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jai Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jai |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7400-0164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The relational work of constructing the future
Don Quixote and the Green Army
Australia’s unique history of national environmental youth workfare programs over three decades offers insight into youth work responses to climate change. Drawing upon Bourdieu’s use of ‘hysteresis’ and the ‘Don Quixote Effect’, this paper presents three key findings from research conducted in the wake of the most recent incarnation of these programs, the Australian Government’s Green Army. As the final Green Army projects were being delivered, …
I Guess You Could Call It Plant Racism”
Some scholars have drawn associations between Australian environmentalism and racism. Others have argued that natural resource management policies go beyond the science in justifying policies that have their real foundation in Australian nationalism. Yet applying semiotic analyses to focus upon such associations can risk obscuring efforts to actively loosen the nature–culture binary. Australia has a unique history of three decades of national env…
Cycletopia in the sticks
This paper explores the experiences and perspectives of bicycle advocates in regional areas of New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Globally, cycling presents opportunities for affordable and sustainable transport and healthy lifestyles. Developing a global cycling system depends upon deliberative visions of a better future. Yet, urban cycling advocacy is engaged in a ‘permanent provocation’ with motoring. Regional/rural advocacy contrasts against u…
Cycletopia in the sticks
This paper explores the experiences and perspectives of bicycle advocates in regional areas of New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Globally, cycling presents opportunities for affordable and sustainable transport and healthy lifestyles. Developing a global cycling system depends upon deliberative visions of a better future. Yet, urban cycling advocacy is engaged in a ‘permanent provocation’ with motoring. Regional/rural advocacy contrasts against u…
The relational work of constructing the future
I Guess You Could Call It Plant Racism”
Some scholars have drawn associations between Australian environmentalism and racism. Others have argued that natural resource management policies go beyond the science in justifying policies that have their real foundation in Australian nationalism. Yet applying semiotic analyses to focus upon such associations can risk obscuring efforts to actively loosen the nature–culture binary. Australia has a unique history of three decades of national env…
Cycletopia in the sticks
This paper explores the experiences and perspectives of bicycle advocates in regional areas of New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Globally, cycling presents opportunities for affordable and sustainable transport and healthy lifestyles. Developing a global cycling system depends upon deliberative visions of a better future. Yet, urban cycling advocacy is engaged in a ‘permanent provocation’ with motoring. Regional/rural advocacy contrasts against u…
I Guess You Could Call It Plant Racism”
Some scholars have drawn associations between Australian environmentalism and racism. Others have argued that natural resource management policies go beyond the science in justifying policies that have their real foundation in Australian nationalism. Yet applying semiotic analyses to focus upon such associations can risk obscuring efforts to actively loosen the nature–culture binary. Australia has a unique history of three decades of national env…
Don Quixote and the Green Army
Australia’s unique history of national environmental youth workfare programs over three decades offers insight into youth work responses to climate change. Drawing upon Bourdieu’s use of ‘hysteresis’ and the ‘Don Quixote Effect’, this paper presents three key findings from research conducted in the wake of the most recent incarnation of these programs, the Australian Government’s Green Army. As the final Green Army projects were being delivered, …
The relational work of constructing the future
Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Workfare (2 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (1 work) · Australian History and Society (1 work)